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Emmy-winning voice actor Eric Bauza has died suddenly at age 46 from hypertensive heart disease. His death was announced on the evening of Oct. 25. A notice on his Instagram account read: From the Family of Eric Bauza: Eric Bauza, Emmy Award-winning voice actor and the modern voice of iconic Looney Tunes characters Bugs Bunny...
YouTuber Shirrako has hinted that he received early access to GTA VI, which could put him at odds with Rockstar Games under a strict nondisclosure agreement. The popular YouTuber’s hint set off excitement among fans and raised questions about a possible breach of his nondisclosure agreement with Rockstar Games. Shirrako is known for publishing full...
Famitsu has published its weekly Japanese game sales chart. Tales of Eternia Remastered took the top spot, and Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse placed among the leaders on two platforms. New releases led the chart for October 12 to 18. Tales of Eternia Remastered filled three of the top five places with its Nintendo Switch 2, Switch,...
Enthusiasts have found a way to run some Steam games, including Cyberpunk 2077, on a jailbroken PS5. The project carries risks for your account and your saves. A launcher called Playden for PS5 has appeared for jailbroken consoles. It lets users run Steam games directly on the Sony console, without streaming from a PC. An...
Enthusiasts have found a way to raise matrix computation performance on NVIDIA RTX 20, RTX 30, and RTX 40 graphics cards by nearly a factor of two, which is particularly useful for running local AI models. Older NVIDIA GPUs can run some calculations almost twice as fast thanks to modifications that unlock hidden potential in...
BioWare was developing technology for Mass Effect Universe that would account for decisions from earlier games and let the story continue even after player actions that could derail its usual course. The canceled Mass Effect Universe from BioWare could have featured a choice system capable of creating alternate timelines based on decisions from the original...
Ask 10 Star Trek fans to name the best episodes of The Original Series, and you will probably get 10 different lists. Some fans put the writing first. Others care more about the performances or the science-fiction ideas. And someone will inevitably argue that “The City on the Edge of Forever” belongs at No. 1....
Valve responded to a Steam forum request for external CD-ROM drive support on the Steam Frame within a day, and a related code change appeared on GitHub less than 10 minutes after the company’s reply. Players recently noticed another example of Valve’s customer focus. On the Steam forum, a user asked the company to let...
Players have raised questions for Blizzard Entertainment about animation changes in World of Warcraft: Forever. Some World of Warcraft fans recently sounded the alarm. The author of the YouTube channel Preserve Azeroth compared breast physics in the Classic and WoW: Forever versions of the game. According to the video, the walking, running and dancing animations...
Few consoles can match the Super Nintendo’s library, and Nintendo Classics, part of Nintendo Switch Online, currently offers a healthy selection of 77 of its games. Unfortunately, the console’s best third-party titles are mostly missing. You won’t find Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6, or Street Fighter 2 Turbo on the service. The omission hardly matters,...
