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Ash Parrish

Ash Parrish

Former Video Games Reporter

Former Video Games Reporter

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    Ash Parrish
    I ain’t afraid of no Ghost of Yotei.

    Last month during its summer State of Play, Sony said that it would put on a special presentation focused on Ghost of Yotei. Now it’s time. On Thursday July 10th at 5PM ET / 2PM PT on Twitch and YouTube, Playstation will put on a 20-minute deep dive into Sucker Punch Studios’ follow-up to Ghost of Tsushima. Expect more info on gameplay, Atsu, her story, and her bloody quest for vengeance.

    Ash Parrish
    Ash Parrish
    Even AO3 could not withstand the awesome power of horny.

    Archive of our Own went down for a few days over the 4th of July weekend, upsetting the holiday fanfiction reading plans of the site’s millions of users before service was restored. AO3 goes down occasionally for all sorts of issues, but the reason for this outage was special and hilarious.

    According to a post on Reddit, the site went down because someone tried to make 2,147,483,647th bookmark which was beyond the limit that specific database could support. And the bookmarked fic that caused all this: extremely graphic One Direction erotica.

    Ash Parrish
    Ash Parrish
    Update: Romero Games is closing.

    The dominoes from Microsoft’s layoffs continue to fall. Several games have been cancelled or their development halted with other studios, like The Initiative being permanently shuttered. Now Romero Games has announced that due to the layoffs, Microsoft has cancelled funding for its game. Update July 3rd: According to several employees’ posts on LinkedIn, Romero Games is closing outright due to the layoffs.

    In the announcement, Brenda Romero wrote that the unannounced game had been progressing well. “We are incredibly proud of the work being done and the of the talented team behind it,” Romero wrote. “The best we’ve worked with.”

    Ash Parrish
    Ash Parrish
    Verso and Astarion walk into a video game.

    Dead Take, the next game from Tales of Kenzera developer Surgent Studios and the first game published under Palworld’s Pocketpair Publishing company, has revealed two of its stars...and you’ll probably recognize them.

    In a new teaser for the game, video game voice acting it boys Ben Starr (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Final Fantasy XVI) and Neil Newbon (Resident Evil Village, Baldur’s Gate III), will star as two friends who have to work together to escape a hellish Hollywood mansion.

    Ash Parrish
    Ash Parrish
    We totally used gen-AI, but you weren’t supposed to notice.

    11 Bit Studios has taken to social media to explain how gen-AI wound up in its survival base-builder The Alters. According to the company’s explanation, gen-AI was used for placeholder text for a single graphical asset and to translate in-game movies into languages other than English. Fans found out because in some places, bits of the AI-prompt remained in the final text. 11 Bit says it’s working on updating the assets in question.