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It's bad enough that we have apps launching our apps. While I tolerate Steam purely as a matter of convenience, every additional layer of software between me and the executable I'm seeking is a distance I'm forced to further stray from God's light. But a launcher launching another launcher? That's a crime against human decency, and no perpetrator is worse than the EA app.
In a surprise moment today, BioWare's upcoming Dragon Age: The Veilguard has popped up as Steam Deck Verified. We don't know what the system requirements, minimum or recommended, are yet. But from that bit of information, at least, we know that Valve has tested it on Proton and says that it works well enough on their little handheld gaming PC.
Of course you'd like to play a game where you're doing motorcycle tricks while shooting bad guys in droves, and also all the people riding the motorcycles are low-poly skeletons and monster mashers with chainsaws and flamethrowers. In what is undeniably one of the best ideas for a genre combo you'll see this year, Motordoom—sorry, Motördoom—calls itself a «freestyle-sports roguelite horde shooter» and that is a pretty exciting concept.
One of the most contentious changes in Overwatch 2 was its shift to a 5v5 format. The loss of a tank hero on each team fundamentally changed how it's played, and debates over whether or not it should go back to 6v6 have gone on since its release. In a new blog post, game director Aaron Keller laid out plans to try 6v6 again, along with other format changes, in a series of experimental modes coming later this year.
Put «Google» and «Reddit» in the same sentence and you're bound to get a cacophony of sighs from those in the online publishing biz. Well, we might now hear more sighs from the average internet user, too, as it looks like Google's the only search engine that can currently scrape Reddit to put new posts in its search results.
The world's most popular YouTuber, Jimmy «MrBeast» Donaldson, says he's «disgusted» by allegations made about the channel's longtime co-host Ava Tyson grooming a teenager online. Donaldson said in a statement that he's commissioned an independent investigation to get to the facts, but has already «seen enough online and taken immediate action to remove Ava from the company, my channel, and any association with MrBeast.»
In what is surely the apex of both Baldur's Gate 3 modding and my news writing career, a creator named Estgamers has developed the foulest fanmade BG3 spell yet: the foul hex of Testicular Torsion (warning: that link may not be work-safe depending on how cool your work is with both the concept of testicular torsion and medical diagrams of it in action).
It seems like there's a new reason to be frustrated at AI almost every day, a reason that bubbles up through the primordial soup of festering unconsciousness and into the light of anger. There's the effect on the economy, job thievery, copyrighted content thievery, and the simple fact that it's just not right that lifeless neural networks should be able to convince anyone they're conscious. And now, there's another reason to be mad at the ethereal AI buggers: they're clogging up server bandwidth without permission.