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EurogamerHoYoverse's Nodusfall might look like Elden Ring, but there's a promising dark fantasy action game here that took me by surprise
Nodusfall, aesthetically at least, is about as far from a typical HoYoverse game as you can get. Gone are the bright colours, cute creatures, and bountiful anime women. In their place, we get all the familiar trappings of dark fantasy: mysterious magics, vicious monsters, and a dingier kind of realism that - and I'm sure we've all thought it - feels a little bit Elden Ring. But from what I played at Gamescom, Nodusfall has the potential to shake off those FromSoftware comparisons and come into its own. Read more
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EurogamerWhat we've been playing - "the rest of the party is, frankly, absolutely feral, so I've been trying to balance that out"
Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, it's a Chris Tapsell (that's me!) triple-bill - a triple-Tap? - as the team's been either quite stretched or rightfully enjoying a few days off here and there to catch up from a hectic Gamescom period, leaving me to do a proper bodge job of filling in. Expect the usual mobile game addiction, late review apology, and a rule-bending wildcard (it's not that wild). Read more
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GameSpotIndie Dev Says “AI” Voice In His Game Was Actually His Wife
Someone playing Refractive Entertainment's recently released action-RPG Luminary for less than an hour accused the team of using AI for the game's only voiced character. The player said the voice "killed it" for them. There was just one problem: It wasn't AI. It was actually the developer's wife doing her first-ever voice acting gig. Refractive Entertainment launched Luminary into Steam Early Access on August 11. It's a resource-gathering action-adventure sandbox with an art style that's giving Fable meets Immorta…
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PC GamerDueling industry surveys show Japanese game devs are embracing AI, while North American ones are still skeptical
Welcome to the Smile Economy 🙂.
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PC GamerThe Last of Us game director apologizes for God of War Laufey criticism, points finger at industry leaders for triple-A stagnation
"I want to apologize to the Laufey team for dragging you all into this uninvited & unnecessary negative attention," he said.
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