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Jay Peters

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    Former Kotaku writers are launching a new video game site — and they own it this time

    They’ve started Aftermath, a new website about video games and culture.

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    Kevin Afghani, the new voice of Mario, is also be the voice of Wario in the new WarioWare game.

    He basically said it on X on Saturday, and Polygon reports that Nintendo has confirmed the new Wario casting in the just-launched WarioWare: Move It!.

    I haven’t played Move It! myself, but I thought Afghani did a great job as Mario and Luigi in Super Mario Bros. Wonder.

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    Meta won’t let political advertisers use its new generative AI tools for ads.

    Reuters has the story. Seems like a wise idea ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Meta revealed the tools in October.

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    Jay Peters
    Google is adding a GIF picker to Slides.
    A GIF of the GIF picker in Slides.
    GIF: Google
    Blizzard’s president on the studio’s ‘new era’ under Xbox

    Mike Ybarra is confident about the studio’s future.

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    Google contract workers are voting to unionize.

    The vote count for the Accenture workers, who are contracted by Google to help make content for the company and say they’ve also helped train Bard, will take place at 5PM ET.

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    Jay Peters
    X has reportedly started trying to sell user handles.

    Forbes obtained emails that indicate that X, formerly Twitter, has started to work on a marketplace to buy handles that are no longer in use. Also, “in at least some cases, X/Twitter has emailed solicitations to potential buyers requesting a flat fee of $50,000 to initiate a purchase,” Forbes reports.

    That’s one way to make more money, I guess.

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    Vampire Survivors’ new ‘adventures’ will make the game even more replayable.

    Developer Poncle describes them as “miniature story modes that reset and remix the game’s content,” which sounds to me like they’ll offer some excellent reasons to jump back into one of my favorite games in recent memory.

    The first adventures will arrive with Vampire Survivors’ 1.8 update, which will be released “in a few weeks,” according to the description of a video about the adventures.