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  CultureNews

  Ghost Of Yotei Dev Sucker Punch Hit With Layoffs Despite Shipping Sony’s Best-Selling Game Last Year

  The studio's latest samurai game has sold 5.4 million copies on PS5

  By Kenneth Shepard Published October 26, 2026
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  CultureNews

  Microsoft Gives ‘Voluntary Exit Offer’ To 60,000 Employees, Roughly 25 Percent Of Its Total Workforce

  The cuts come amid a heated AI race

  By Ethan Gach Published October 26, 2026
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  CultureFeature

  Now That The Shoe Is On The Other Foot, Microsoft And Epic Games Suddenly Agree That AI Is Theft [Update: Tim Sweeney Responds]

  Rules for thee, but not for me

  By Lewis Parker Updated October 27, 2026
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  CulturePokemon

  Pokémon Fans, Here’s Your Post-Work Viewing For The Night

  The real shame of theater is that you usually have to be in one city to see it, but not anymore

  By Kenneth Shepard Published October 26, 2026
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  CultureNews

  The Fans Trying To Save Mass Effect Just Paid For A Billboard In Times Square

  The group’s petition to keep BioWare’s series alive just surpassed 200,000 signatures

  By Kenneth Shepard Published October 26, 2026
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  CultureNews

  Final Fantasy And Chrono Trigger Veterans Believe Modern Developers Must Possess Skill To Take An Idea ‘From 0 To 1’ In The Age Of AI

  Yoshinori Kitase and other Square Enix creatives also reflected on the SNES development of the Mana series

  By Alicia Haddick Published October 26, 2026
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  CultureNews

  Steam Client Stuck On ‘Loading User Data’? Yeah, That Happens Sometimes

  There's a workaround, but as usual, waiting it out might be the best policy

  By Rebekah Valentine Published October 26, 2026
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  Opinion

  Phantom Blade Zero Reviews Call It An ‘Incredibly Well Tuned’ Adventure With ‘Brilliant Weapon Design’

  It's currently rated the best action game of 2026

  By Ethan Gach Published October 26, 2026
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  OpinionCommentary

  Epic Boss Tim Sweeney Calls Steam’s AI Declarations ‘Political’ And ‘Abhorrent’

  The CEO describes revealing the use of genAI slop as a forced 'political statement'

  By John Walker Published October 26, 2026
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  CultureNews

  Hackers Begin Dumping Nintendo Switch 2 Games As Expanded Exploit Breaks Console Security

  New exploit allows for game dumps, but will probably be patched soon

  By Alicia Haddick Published October 26, 2026
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  CultureNews

  Mass Effect 5 Director Says One Day Fans May Get Explanations For All Those Cryptic Teasers

  There was a reason Liara was crawling around derelict Reapers

  By Kenneth Shepard Published October 26, 2026
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  CultureNews

  Eric Bauza, The Voice Of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, And Many More Has Died At 46

  The actor’s family said he passed ‘suddenly’

  By Kenneth Shepard Published October 25, 2026
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  Culture

  Google’s Finnish Data Centers Were Already In Trouble Over Deforestation, Then The Wolves Came

  Wildlife have slowly relocated into towns and cities due to environmental collapse, but a controversial data center in Finland suggests this phenomenon can now occur overnight with help from AI

  By Zack Kotzer Published October 25, 2026
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  Culture

  Following Cancelled Concert, Umamusume Fans Give Knott’s Berry Farm Blacksmith Busiest Day Of His Life

  While stricter visa policies scrapped the American concert stop, Pretty Derby die-hards weren’t deterred, hitting the old west and getting horseshoes engraved with their favorite characters

  By Zack Kotzer Published October 25, 2026
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  Culture

  13 Short And Sweet Scary Games To Treat Yourself To Before Halloween

  If you're lagging behind on your annual intake of ghouls and goblins, enjoy this selection of brief creeps, from retro classics to odd indie frights

  By Zack Kotzer Published October 25, 2026
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  CultureNews

  Reddit’s Largest Open Source Community Dumbfounded By AI Ban: ‘I Guess Linux Is No Longer Allowed Here?’

  Moderators of r/opensource have banned projects under a year old, anything 'made by AI,' and, bizarrely, all non-English speakers

  By Lewis Parker Published October 25, 2026
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  Culture

  With A Marvel-Sized Budget, Elden Ring Will Be A24’s Most Expensive Movie To Date

  The trend-setting studio is betting $200 million on Alex Garland’s FromSoftware adaptation, having only seen that kind of box office mojo once with Backrooms

  By Zack Kotzer Published October 25, 2026
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  CultureNews

  Vinland Saga’s Creator Has ‘No Good News’ On Season 3: ‘The Project Is Not Currently In Progress’

  Is MAPPA just too busy working on Chainsaw Man and Jujutsu Kaisen, or is this a sign that a second season of Vinland Saga was a commercial flop?

  By Lewis Parker Published October 25, 2026
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  CultureNews

  The Leaked Mass Effect 5 Trailer Was Enough To Make Fans Go Feral For One Of Its Sexy, Mysterious Squadmates

  We've never had a male Quarian on the team before

  By Kenneth Shepard Published October 25, 2026
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  CultureNews

  Mass Effect: Universe Would Have Allowed Players To ‘Generate’ Timelines That Acknowledged Multiple Choices From The Trilogy

  Now that the leaks are out there, some ex-BioWare devs are chatting about what they were working on before EA canceled the game

  By Kenneth Shepard Published October 24, 2026