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A persisting bug caused one Baldur's Gate 3 player to obliterate their 80-hour Honor Mode playthrough after mistakenly choosing a dialog option.

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In a big move that will positively impact students, ITIs across India are set to integrate 'AI for all' in the circurriculum; a new study suggests AI could harm quality of life; AI powered patch aids speech for voice disorder patients; Woman communicates with deceased mother using AI chatbot- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.

PlayStation has released the new 24.02-09.00.00 update for its DualSense and DualSense Edge controllers to make for a far better overall gaming experience. The aim of the PS5's DualSense controller has been to better immerse players with haptic feedback and dynamic adaptive triggers that respond to the types of weapons being used in-game, such as the drawing of a bowstring or pulling a pistol's trigger.

As artificial intelligence continues to develop and the use of it to replicate voices becomes increasingly common, more video game actors have been expressing their concerns over the technology's use and the negative consequences it could have.

Sony rolled out another beefy PlayStation 5 update today with the main goals of improving the speakers and mic on the DualSense and DualSense Edge controllers and deepening the number of Share Screen viewer interactions.

Shortly before launch, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi confused many fans of the series by explaining that the development team made two versions of each side quest all because of Red XIII. We didn't know why at the time, as we weren't aware of the voice change that Red XIII goes through a little ways into the game itself, first hinted at in Under Junon and then again in Costa del Sol.

A bipartisan effort in the U.S. House of Representatives is pushing to pass a bill that could potentially lead to a ban of the social media app TikTok. The platform, which allows users to post and view short videos, launched back in 2016 and has significantly grown its base of fans since then. As TikTok has seen its popularity soar, however, it's also become the target of increased scrutiny from many.

Baldur's Gate 3 fans have found a rare scene in Act 1 where the player character speaks. This is a remnant of the game from earlier on in its development, where the player character was meant to chime in with dialogue of their own during cutscenes.

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Elden Ring is the gift that just does not stop giving, as every week there's a new discovery, exploit, or item description that has new context due to the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC's latest trailer. Last week, there was the revelation that Walking Mausoleums can be pushed around with a certain spell, but this week's is one hell of a find from a dataminer called Sekiro Dubi, who has reconstructed an alternate intro for the game.

Elden Ring expansion Shadow of the Erdtree may be fast approaching, but that hasn't stopped one dataminer discovering a secret about the very beginning of the base game. YouTuber Sekiro Dubi published a video showcasing their discovery of an entirely different opening to Elden Ring, which was present in an old version of the game and came with a new cutscene featuring Melina and Torrent.

Zach Galifianakis has joined the cast of Hulu's hit comedy Only Murders in the Building.

After seven years of development, indie visual novel game The Hayseed Knight is now available in full for PC on both Steam and Itch.io.

Members of actors' union SAG-AFTRA are likely to go on strike against game companies due to broken down negotiations on AI.

Oppo showcased the prototype of its new smart glasses, the Oppo Air Glass 3 at the Mobile World Congress (MWC). Ever since then, these smart glasses have been creating a lot of buzz due to the advanced features and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI). Significantly, Oppo Air Glass 3 provides a perfect example of how the future of smart devices will likely look like. While leading players such as Meta Platforms have already entered the race of building smart glasses, companies like Apple are also reportedly working to build something similar. However, do note that the Oppo smart glasses have not been launched in the market yet.

Are you a fan of Marilyn Monroe and would like to talk to a very realistic digital version of her? That could now be possible. More than 60 years after her death, Digital Marilyn Monroe - created with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) - made her debut on Friday at the South by Southwest tech conference in Austin, Texas. Appearing via computer screen in a modest black turtleneck sweater and sporting her familiar blonde pixie hairstyle, the iconic actress's digital doppelganger will converse in her familiar breathy voice. She can express emotions, such as smiling in response to a compliment.

Earlier this month, Kay Yu, the lead dev behind Vampire Survivors-esque roguelike phenomenon HoloCure announced a promising new co-op brawler called Holo X Break. Yu has since confirmed that Holo X Break will feature voice acting from at least nine streamers of featured vtubing organization Hololive – all sizable internet celebrities in their own right, with enough subscribers to put them at the top of the whole vtubing industry – but it seems getting them on-board put him through the most embarrassing moment of his life. 

An Elden Ring dataminer has uncovered an alternate start location and unused voice lines that were present in an early version of the game. 

Apple is renowned for its commitment to accessibility, striving to ensure that its products such as the iPhone and iPad are inclusive and user-friendly for everyone. With the upcoming release of the iOS 18 update, Apple may be continuing this tradition by introducing a range of new accessibility features and enhancements. Know what Apple has planned.

While Lego has plenty of products featuring the various iterations of Batman, its latest set based onBatman: The Animated Series might be their best yet. The massive 4,210-piece set will set you back $299.99 when it becomes widely available on April 4. However, members of the free-to-join Lego Insiders program will be able to purchase the set early, starting April 1.

Diablo 4 players aren't impressed with the new endgame dungeon, calling the Gauntlet "pointless" and "uninteresting." 

Dragon's Dogma 2 players are feeling pretty called out by some of the Pawn voice lines in the sequel.

OpenAI's AI chatbot ChatGPT has been gaining immense popularity since its launch in 2022. After ChatGPT was launched, tech companies around the world started building AI chatbots of their own. With an increase in popularity, ChatGPT has gained several new features to improve its responses and user experience. Now, OpenAI has introduced a new Read Aloud feature to ChatGPT. This feature will allow ChatGPT to read its responses aloud to the users. Therefore, now users can listen to the responses instead of reading them. Know more about ChatGPT's Read Aloud feature.

Since making its PTB debut, The Unknown has delighted Dead by Daylight players with its grotesque appearance, horrific voice lines, and interesting mechanics. However, the Killer’s regular ole axe seemed weirdly ordinary for such a monster, and now some players believe that the axe is just the tip of the murderous iceberg.

MultiVersus released back in 2022 as a public beta test, and it immediately proved popular. It was available to play for free for almost a year, but developer Player First Games took the beta down, promising the game would return in a more complete state in 2024. Now, a series of evidence has begun popping up, suggesting some news might be just around the corner.

Having officially announced the sequel was in production last year, developer Spiders has revealed the first proper look at GreedFall II: The Dying World. The follow-up is now confirmed to be a prequel that at least starts three years before the events of the first title, and has you play as a Teer Fradee native who's been snatched away from your homeland by colonists. Check out the trailer above.

In addition to being Rare's first PlayStation game in its incredible 39-year history, Sea of Thieves will require PS5 players to sign up for a Microsoft account to play. Then, progressive players ready to face this brave new world can link their PlayStation and Microsoft accounts (!) in what will undoubtedly be a strange, landmark moment for gamers on both sides of this historical divide.

DreamWorks revealed the first trailer for its upcoming animated movie The Wild Robot on March 5, and it teases a pretty gorgeous movie, full of vibrantly colorful wildlife and vivid, stylized takes on natural settings. And smack in the middle of it is a robot that seems mighty familiar — but familiar in different ways in practically every shot.

The voice and motion capture actor for Red Dead Redemption 2 protagonist Arthur Morgan, Roger Clark, has shared his thoughts on the use of artificial intelligence in the video game acting field, and thinks it's "unavoidable" that AI will replace some actors. 

Helldivers 2 can be a tricky game at the best of times, with soldiers constantly fighting back against hordes of Automatons and Terminids bigger than buses. There are some enemies out there that strike fear into the hearts of Helldivers more than others though, and you'll struggle to find a more hated enemy than the Charger.

In a video game industry that often feels like it’s bloating into a monolithic, unsustainable beast propped up by annual staples and once every generation blockbusters, a small silver lining is that it’s still big enough for games like The Thaumaturge to exist. This mid-size RPG may not match the jaw-dropping scale of a game like Baldur’s Gate 3, but it’s still packed with atmosphere and good ideas that are mostly well executed. Aside from some buggy movement and odd voices, the turn-based combat is full of interesting strategic choices, and its great writing and story manage to punch up tried and true point-and-click clue finding and lore gathering.

It’s fair to say that before Red Dead Redemption 2 came out in 2018, most gamers hadn’t heard of Roger Clark. Six years, 61 million sales, and numerous awards later, the 45-year-old Irish-American actor can afford to be picky with roles. His performance as Arthur Morgan, the protagonist of Rockstar’s Wild West epic, is considered by some as one of the greatest in video game history. But Roger’s overnight stardom came after five grueling years in Rockstar’s New York motion capture studio and a contract that gave him the kind of financial security most jobbing actors only dream of. In truth, Arthur Morgan has remained part of Roger’s life ever since. Indeed, he is set to (kind of) reprise the role by narrating the upcoming audiobook of ‘Red Dead's History,’ an exploration of America’s violent past through the lens of the Red Dead Redemption games written by American history professor Tore Olsson. Olsson, by the way, teaches the world’s first Red Dead American history class at the University of Tennessee.

Apple has finally announced the new M3 MacBook Air with an upgraded processor. The company was initially expected to unveil the new machines by the end of this month at its Spring event. However, the company saw fit to announce the upgrade via press release. The latest release features a plethora of upgrades over the previous version in terms of performance and connectivity.

Hideo Kojima is well known for making games with grand political statement hidden not so subtely within their dialogue and cinematics. As of today, players can also enjoy one of these long, drawn-out narrative stealth games within the comfortable confines of Minecraft textures and flavor text.

Actor Jonathon Bailey was "determined" to continue voicing a beloved Final Fantasy 14 character, even after finding international fame.

Crunchyroll has announced the winners of the 2024 Anime Awards, the annual awards ceremony hosted in Japan to honor and celebrate the best shows, voice actors, animators, musicians, and creators of the past year. On Saturday, Jujutsu Kaisen season 2 took home this year’s top prize for anime of the year.

Last month Google renamed its AI chatbot from Bard to Gemini. The company also announced the Gemini app can be integrated into various Google Workspace apps. However, Gemini did not have access to the Google Calendar app, but things have changed now. With AI-powered assistants available on various Android apps, users can easily perform their daily tasks with simple text and voice prompts. Know how users can create and access events on Google Calendar via Gemini.

You'll soon be able to try Daggerheart, the D&D rival from Critical Role, yourself.

Noise, a prominent Indian smartwatch brand has unveiled its latest offering, the NoiseFit Twist Go. This sleek round-dial smartwatch combines elegance with functionality, catering to individuals seeking a classier aesthetic, the company said in a release.

Not sold on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and/or on the dark magics that make instant noodles work yet? Then good luck with that going forward, as Nissin just released an ad where a Catboy Sephiroth uses his ever-sexy voice to bully Cloud into slurping down on some Donbei Udon noodles — and he complies.

The release date and poster for Netflix's live-action adaptation of Parasyte have just been announced. However, fans are not as excited as initially expected.

Developers Cradle Games and Raw Thrills as well as publisher GameMill Entertainment revealed today that the classic arcade game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants is coming to PC and consoles on April 23, 2024. This expanded version of the arcade beat-em-up marks the first time Wrath of the Mutants is available outside of arcade format.

The actor who played Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars prequels has teased his work on an upcoming project and has surprisingly mentioned Activision. 

Tech companies showcased countless connected gadgets at the world's biggest wireless telecom fair, the four-day Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 in Barcelona, which wraps up on Thursday.

One of the strengths of Helldivers 2 is the communal sense of purpose. Every time a squad successfully completes a mission on a planet, the liberation percentage increases. Although progress toward this communal goal is tracked in real time, you can only see it in-game. The Super Earth Broadcast, a TikTok account with 300,000 followers, has been providing a bridge to the outside world since Feb. 15, keeping players up to date with Galactic War news even when they’re off duty.

Taliesin and Evitel cover the latest news in The Weekly Reset. This week they talk about Hero Talents, Fyr'alath's modified drop rates, a couple of new books that are coming, the story behind the Azerothian Archives, and more...

The actor who plays Peter Parker in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has reflected on the game's ending, teasing that he doesn't think we've seen the last of his character. 

NetherRealm Studios and Warner Bros. Games announced that Mortal Kombat 1 will get a big update next week, adding crossplay functionality and a new DLC guest fighter, Peacemaker.

It would be difficult to pinpoint the moment the smartphone took control of my life. Like Japanese knotweed, it grew surreptitiously in my mental garden, gradually throttling other forms of attention until it had insinuated itself into almost every activity. I check my screen time rarely, but I remember a sense of vague discomfort a few years ago on seeing that it had passed a daily average of six hours. Recently, it stood at more than 11.

At the 2024 D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas, Amazon Games partnered with Black Voices in Gaming to provide sponsorships to underrepresented game devs and entrepreneurs, allowing them to attend the event and connect with some of the biggest names in the business.

After Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love, after Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected), after Jason Reitman’s Men, Women & Children and the Safdie brothers’ Uncut Gems, film fans must be used to the idea of Adam Sandler as a comedian willing to step into dramatic roles. But they still haven’t seen him give a performance like the one he delivers in Netflix’s new science fiction movie Spaceman. His character, Czech astronaut Jakub Procházka, is painfully introverted, emotionally repressed, and above all, quiet. Sandler’s dramatic roles have mostly been about energy — sometimes restless, barely contained, often aggressive energy. Jakub is so muted and compressed, he seems like a trauma victim.

Putting players into the slimy shoes of Vecna, Stranger Things VR is out now on Meta Quest headsets.

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Sons of the Forest 1.0 is here, and it’s launched with a plethora of new features and improvements. However, while the full release is compatible with early-access saves, developer Endnight Games has recommended that some may want to start fresh for the full new experience.

MultiVersus has been gone for quite a while now, with no real hints as to exactly when it'll be coming back. We had an official announcement at the end of 2023 that news would be shared "in the coming months", but we've had radio silence ever since. Daniel Ross, the voice actor for Uncle Shagworthy, Stripe, and Gizmo, also tweeted a rather cryptic smiley face emoji at the start of this month, hinting at incoming news, but our biggest clue has come from Steam.

Mortal Kombat 1 just dropped the first gameplay trailer for the upcoming Peacemaker DLC. You can check it out below.

FromSoftware president and Bloodborne’s director, Hidetaka Miyazaki, has acknowledged the demand for the popular 2015 action-role-playing game to be remade, but hasn’t confirmed if one is ever going to happen. 

FromSoftware boss Hidetaka Miyazaki is "happy" so many people want a Bloodborne remake, but isn't ready to confirm one just yet.

Fans of Solo Leveling were disappointed to learn, shortly after the airing of the series' seventh episode, that there would be a delay in the release of episode 8. The news was first dispensed on the series' official X (Twitter) account on Saturday after episode 7 ended, where it was revealed that the next one would be episode 7.5, titled «How To Get Stronger», which will recap the events of the Solo Leveling anime thus far.

It’s been years since the Borderlands movie was first announced, and for most of that time, it felt like the film might never come out. But now, almost a decade after we first heard about it, we finally have a trailer for Eli Roth’s Borderlands movie. And surprisingly, it actually kind of looks like Borderlands.

During today’s Nintendo Direct, Capcom announced a remastered version of the 2006 handheld Monster Hunter-themed RPG. Originally only on mobile and Nintendo 3DS, the remastered Monster Hunter Stories will now come to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam this summer.

Former 3DS exclusive Monster Hunter Stories is coming to Nintendo Switch in the summer of 2024.

The makers of the Fallout London mod have announced many impressive details about the game, which we'll recap later in this article, but the latest news from the final progress video is that none other than Neil Newbon will lend his voice acting chops to the game.

Suika Game gets doubly adorable soon, as the latest Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase just revealed the fruity matching game will add a multiplayer mode as paid DLC today.

PR and marketing firm Neonhive is becoming a games publisher.

Realistic AI-generated images and voice recordings may be the newest threat to democracy, but they're part of a longstanding family of deceptions. The way to fight so-called deepfakes isn't to develop some rumor-busting form of AI or to train the public to spot fake images. A better tactic would be to encourage a few well-known critical thinking methods — refocusing our attention, reconsidering our sources, and questioning ourselves.

Blizzard has released a lore video about Zoltun Kulle's history in Diablo. Listen to the familiar voice of Steve Blum, who has lent his voice to the mage since Diablo 3.

I'm a deep admirer of the cult strategy game series Mount & Blade, in which you build and control an army across the plains of Europe. Kingmakers, announced earlier today, looks like it'll scratch that particular itch pretty successfully, but I need you to watch the trailer before I tell you anything else about it. 

I don’t think Sigmund Freud was much of a gamer but if he were, Alisa would probably be his favourite game. Freud’s seminal discussion of the Uncanny remains one of the clearest accounts of what makes certain things incredibly creepy to us – and chief amongst his examples is the animated doll. Alisa takes this creepiness and puts it centre stage, taking an intricate love letter to the origins of survival horror and replacing the zombies with dolls. It makes for a timely and appropriate change of focus.

Fallout London features recognizable voices from Baldur's Gate 3 and beyond.

Have you ever been at work and attended meetings throughout the day without getting any actual work done? Such situations lead to a loss of time as well as decreased productivity. However, this problem may well be on its way to being solved and that too very soon. Otter CEO Sam Liang says an AI avatar could soon replace you in meetings and not just that, it would also take questions and handle discussions just like you do.

If you are battling a video game goblin who speaks with a Cockney accent, or asking a gruff Scottish blacksmith to forge a virtual sword, you might be hearing the voice of actor Andy Magee.

Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore more or less nails what it sets out to do. Inspired directly by a pair of infamously bad Zelda games for the Philips CD-i, this fresh interpretation carries much of the same pseudo-bootleg energy that fans have come to love over time. The poorly animated cutscenes, awful voice acting, static environments, repetitive gameplay — all of it is expertly captured here, and that's both a blessing and a curse.

A new World of Warcraft book is available to Pre-Order. World of Warcraft: The Voices Within is a collection of short stories that is being released on November 5, 2024! Pre-order now at Amazon

AI roundup: In recent AI news, S&P Global Market Intelligence President Adam Kansler said that AI will not take our jobs but it may create a demand curve and we have to go a long way to fully understand the technology. On the other hand, Tamil Nadu is embracing the path of technological innovation and has announced an Artificial Intelligence Mission for the development of the state. Know more about what is happening in the world of AI today.