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A developer who goes by cranebeaker has released Co-op Anything, a project that lets players configure an AI agent to turn any single-player game into a co-op game. The result can be played online or in split-screen mode. The code quality of these mods may raise questions, but they work well enough. AI has already...
The Denuvo protection in one of the Kimetsu no Yaiba games lasted about five years. Earlier this year, Denuvo’s lawyers tried to identify the well-known hacker voices38, but he did not give up. He has now returned and announced that he cracked two games from the popular franchise. This time he went after Kimetsu no...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is widely considered one of the best and most influential TV shows ever made. Creator Joss Whedon built a rich mythology of vampires, demons, witches and the bureaucratic organization that fights them. It gave Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and her friends, the Scooby Gang, seven seasons of escalating threats. That...
A modder who goes by LTSharpe26 has released a free performance fix for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered. No official patch has appeared yet, but PC players now have an alternative. Bethesda Game Studios and Virtuos haven’t released patches for last year’s The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered in a long time, so various...
Red Barrels’ horror game Outlast hit some people hard enough that they quit or left the studio in tears. Phillipe Morin recently talked to GamesSpot about the development of the 2013 game. Outlast became a big hit. It was the debut project of Red Barrels, whose team then consisted of just 10 people. The developers...
In 1966, CBS debuted the now-classic television special It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. The kids in the Peanuts gang take part in typical Halloween activities, including trick-or-treating and pumpkin-carving. Linus is the exception. He is busy preparing for the arrival of a mythical being known as the “Great Pumpkin.” Linus explains the legend this...
Players will be able to turn on an authentic-looking sky. A modder who goes by Drelvak has published a new video diary about developing a large-scale mod for the original Diablo. The mod turns Blizzard Entertainment’s classic ARPG into a first-person 3D shooter and offers a different perspective on the game. Controls use WASD and...
Daily newspaper comics tend to follow the calendar. A gag-a-day strip that skips Valentine’s Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas is rare. When a cartoonist has to produce a joke every day, holidays are an easy source of material. A Halloween reread of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes shows how little it bothers with that habit....
Disney and The Pokémon Company are teaming up on a new streaming series. They announced Friday that the stop-motion animated adventure series Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d & Pichu will debut on Disney XD and stream exclusively on Disney Plus in 2027. The announcement is part of a wider push to bring Pokémon to...
There were many moments when the projects could have been shut down. Many players love Bully, sometimes called the “school GTA,” and Red Dead Redemption. According to Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser, both games faced difficulties during development and were at risk of cancellation. He shared his recollections in a recent interview with IGN. Houser...
