It’s been 15 years since the last real game Mana series, and this one wasn’t even good. The Final Fantasy The legacy of the action RPG spin-off has been marked by more lows than highs, but the highs are still so clearly etched in fans’ memories that it’s hard to believe that the franchise will ...
The Skyrim The modding community is currently embroiled in its own deepfake porn controversy, centered around popular modding site NexusMods and AI voice cloning technology. Ahead of the release of Bethesda’s upcoming space epic starfieldand believing that the game will be something of an Eden for the modding community, those opposed to the use of ...
During Anime Expo, I spoke to Masao Maruyama, the producer of the upcoming Netflix series AstroBoy-inspired anime, Pluto. We spoke about the pressure his studio felt in adapting one of the most critically acclaimed and best-selling manga of the 2000s, as well as his thoughts on how the types of machine learning technologies prophesied in ...
Hollywood writers are currently on strike for a number of reasons, but one of the big challenges is making sure their work is protected from advances in “AI”. And in the middle of it, Disney canceled its new Marvel TV series, Secret invasionthat contains a preamble created by an “AI Provider”. We tried the Hot ...
Tobe Hooper’s stomach-churning 1974 film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a slasher masterpiece of incomparable dazzling beauty. None of that Prosaic sequels quite managed to reproduce its magnetic horror: burning the spectators with an orange sun and throwing them into the orange smoker where the grill is placed, as in the original. But developer Gun ...
The turbulent digital age we find ourselves in has become a modern day horror story professional voice actors and artists witnessing “AI” machine learning technologies are morphing from seemingly harmless fun into capitalist extraction tools that copy and sell their voices and art without permission or compensation. Things have gotten so bad that legendary horror ...
screenshot: Bungie Community Creations You can joke about fingers all you wantbut the reason AI-generated images are perceived as a Danger and not just idle curiosity is its ability to pass as a genuine man-made work of art. At the extreme end of the scale, this is a threat to accurate reportingand on the more ...
picture: ion storm That Shalebridge Cradle in the third Thief The game remains the scariest experience I’ve ever had playing games. For much of the game, it’s this ominous building that you’ll pass by on your way to other locations in the city. You hear rumors about it, hear its name muttered in fear until ...
screenshot: youtube That Grand Theft Auto VI Leaks were big news for all sorts of reasonsbut one of the more interesting talking points was rekindling a discussion about how “bad” a game can look in public. As I said the other daywhile there have been and always will be assholes who say the dumbest shit, ...
