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Bruce Wayne, aka Batman (dont tell anybody that secret, okay), is a person just like the rest of us. This means, just like you, he has a birthday, and in honor of his upcoming b-day, WB Games is advertising a big sale onGotham Knights. You know, the game where Batman dies in the first 20 minutes and you dont actually play as him at all. Huh.
If you are wondering: Batman/Bruce Waynes in-universe birthday is officially February 19. Or is it? If you do even a light amount of internet searching, youll quickly discover that there have been a few different dates given for the superheros b-day, including days in April, June, and October. However, in recent years, DC and Warner Bros seem to have settled on February 19 as the real and official birthday of Gothams caped crusader. Bats must be bummed that hes down to one birthday again; he was probably drowning in parties and presents for a while there.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is a city-builder that has a particular focus on how urban planning worked alongside the communist economies of Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Its not for everyone, then, but it certainly has its fans.
Sadly those fans are now the only ones able to play the game, because it is now unable to be purchased after a DMCA takedown reportedly got the game removed from Steams marketplace.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild came out in March 2017, instantly becoming Nintendo Switchs most potent system seller. I mention that because despite how old Nintendos open-world action-adventure game now is, diehard fans of Links latest journey through Hyrule are still figuring out cool and obtuse ways of exploring the games dilapidated kingdom almost six years later.
The nearly six-year-old game features a limitless-feeling open world. You scour the world looking for equipment that wont break and can also use the games impressively in-depth physics engine to pull off some incredible stunts, like reaching an arrow deemed impossible to get to or killing the intimidating Guardians with flashy anime swordplay.
The technology we casually refer to as artificial intelligence is suddenly everywhere. Its used to create art, dialogue and voice, text, even video games! Its nigh impossible to escape as we enter a dystopian future in which generative technology seeks to threaten entire livelihoods (including those of Twitch streamers). But sometimes, despite how fraught the discourse around AI can be, youll discover something kinda cool. So, let me introduce you to MarioGPT, an artificial intelligence tool that creates classic Super Mario Bros. levels via text prompts.
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Last year, AI-generated art finally broke through the mainstreambut not without significant public controversy. The rampant art theft required to build an AIs dataset and the resulting forgeries eventually led to a class action lawsuit against AI generators. Yet that hasnt stopped developers from using the technology to generate images, narrative, music and voice acting for their commercial video games. Some game developers see the technology as the future, but caution against over-selling its benefits and present capabilities.
AI has been making headlines lately for the wrong reasons. Netflix Japan was blasted by professional artists for using AI to make background artwhile leaving the human painter uncredited. Around mid-February, gaming and anime voice actors spoke out about the pirate websites that hosted AI versions of their voices without their consent. AI seems to be everywhere. One procedurally generated game has already sold millions of copies.
Just in time to celebrate its fourth anniversary, Respawn Entertainments popular free-to-play hero shooter Apex Legends has hit a new peak concurrent player count on Steam.
As of today, Apex Legends new peak for the number of people playing simultaneously is a whopping 610,433 players, according to SteamDB. That marks a significant increase over its previous high water mark of 510,000 players, which it hit in August last year. This boost in concurrent players comes shortly after the launch of the battle royales 16th season, which brought a bunch of changes and new gameplay modes players have been fiending for.
