New League of Legends champion Hwei is suspiciously similar to one of Dota 2's hardest-to-use heroes

Dark mist, bloody meat hooks, and one, lonely killer — these are the sinister ingredients for Dead by Daylight, Behaviour Interactive's asymmetrical survival horror game.

Dead by Daylight's ghastly universe is slowly spinning open with the brand-new interactive horror game The Casting of Frank Stone, developers Behaviour Interactive and Until Dawn creators Supermassive Games revealed in a trailer at The Game Awards 2023.

A small research group recently examined the performance of 25 AI 'people', using two large language models created by OpenAI, in an online Turing test. None of the AI bots ultimately passed the test, but all the GPT 3.5 ones were so bad that a chatbot from the mid-1960s was nearly twice as successful as passing off as a human. Mostly because real people didn't believe it was really AI.

Throughout many Generations of the iconic series, certain Pokémon achieve evolution through special Evolution Stones. However, the type of Stones and which creatures transcend to new forms has changed over the years of new titles in the franchise. Around 40 different pocket monsters require specific Stones to transform into a Pokémon with better battle stats.

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A new game mode has been featured in the 4.3 leaks ahead of the version’s release later in December. The upcoming patch is expected to continue the content revolving around the region of Fontaine, introduced to Teyvat earlier this year, even if it does not directly explore main campaign quests within the nation of Hydro – Version 4.2 added the last Archon Quests in the region before a pause, and properly concluded the story involving Focalors, Furina, Neuvillette, and many other heroes. As a live-service game, however, HoYoverse’s popular action RPG will continue to receive content moving forward, much of which has already been leaked.

One of my favorite phones released this year is the Nothing Phone 2, as it showed that the company is actually looking to break away from the traditional means of making a phone and delivering something special. Sure, we still haven't seen a true flagship from the company, but it appears that the company is taking Google's approach as a new phone from the company dubbed Nothing Phone 2a has surfaced, and this could be a more affordable version.

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser left the studio in 2020 and founded a new operation in 2021 called Absurd Ventures. It turns out that he's brought some heavyweight former Rockstars with him to the new gig: As noted by French site Begeek (via Stephen Totilo), Rockstar's former vice-president of writing Michael Unsworth joined in October as Absurd Ventures' head of story and creative management, and former writer and producer Lazlow Jones is onboard as executive producer.

Valve boss Gabe Newell is headed to court. A court order filed on November 16 (via Gamesindustry.biz) says Newell is required to testify in person in the ongoing antitrust lawsuit between Wolfire Games and Valve so the plaintiffs in the case can «adequately assess» his credibility.

World of Tanks is not shy of strange collaborations, they’ve paired up with Valkyria Chronicles, Warhammer, Swedish Heavy Metal Band Sabaton, Hot Wheels, and G.I. Joe in the past but nothing as weird as their latest team up.

Valhalla is the resting place of the great heroes of Asgard, an eternal party where the greatest warriors of Asgardian lore spend their afterlives drinking, fighting (just for laughs), and feasting. 

World of Tanks has teamed up with ‘Crazy Gang’ football legend-turned-actor Vinnie Jones for its Holiday Ops 2024 event. Not only will he turn up in the game but Wargaming has released an explosive five-minute-long trailer featuring Jones to celebrate.