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Another day, another Crimson Desert patch. The devs behind the everything but the kitchen sink RPG, Pearl Abyss, seem deadset on somehow eventually including the sink too, as while this update is a small one, it continues to add yet more features, things to discover, a pet to own, and a good bit more besides.

Apple is readying the subdomain genai.apple.com, according to MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris, but it does not yet lead to a live web page. The genai.apple.com subdomain has been added to Apple's domain name servers. This comes a few weeks ahead of Apple's annual developers conference WWDC, where the company has promised to announce "AI advancements" across its software platforms. Apple's website already has an Apple Intelligence page, so it is unclear what the company's plans are for genai.a...

D'oh.

First VPN has been shut down after being central to a number of online criminal activities.

Cruelty Squad is quite quietly influential. It obviously isn't the first game to opt for visuals that look are debatably an affront to every sense you have and a few you don't, but its surprise level of popularity has bled into the design sensibilities of other indie devs in the years following. Games like Splatter and Dungeons of Blood and Dream certainly feel like they fit into a post-Cruelty Squad world with their ocularly maximalist approach to visuals, and now Grindset T.V. will be joining ...

The AI-generated version of 'Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico' was on display at AIPAD's The Photography show.

Crushed in Time is an adventure game that blends comedy with physics-based puzzles, and it's one of the year's most promising releases

The Konkr Pocket Block will be smaller than the company's previous vertical handhelds.

The crowdfunder's payment processor, Stripe, "can still suspend a campaign that Kickstarter has approved."

Waiting on a hero (named Todd Howard).

NASA has released the photos Psyche took when it did a flyby of Mars.

Bungie fans are battling it out on Destiny 2's Steam page, where unhappy fans are mounting a negative review campaign, and supporters are doing their best to mitigate it.

Now that Amazon's The Boys has ended, it's time to appreciate the much superior comics source material.

Here's what we recommend this week.

Microsoft and AP7 have agreed to a $250 million settlement, ending one of the final legal battles over the acquisition of Activision Blizzard

While I've never really played all that much of The Sims (does maybe four hours of My Sims Kingdom from when I was 11 count?), my partner certainly has, expositing all of the surprisingly deep lore to me from time to time. Yet nothing shocks me more than hearing both the cost of expansions and the contents therewithin. What do you mean you have to hand over legal tender for bloody seasons? I'm supposed to pretend that this simulation of life exists in a post-weather world right up to the point o...

Zeb first appeared in the animated series Star Wars: Rebels and now he's helping Din and Grogu fight Imperial forces.

Birds, as we all know, are dinosaurs. Yet there exists a higher being above birds that answer the question "what if dinosaurs really were birds?": dragons. I can only assume the exact same logic I've laid out here was used during the design process for the board game Wyrmspan, the dragon-oriented follow-up to the bird-focused strategy card game Wingspan. And now, much like Wingspan before it, Wyrmspan too is getting its own video game adaptation.

Like the lord of terror himself, Diablo 2 has a remarkably long tail.

Former Arkane Studios devs Raphael Colantonio and Harvey Smith revealed more about the Thief 4 and Blade Runner pitches that preceded Dishonored

Let me tell you about the time when I used to build worlds.

The Cinemagoal app retransmitted content from major platforms like Netflix and Disney+.

Beast of Reincarnation, the latest game from Pokémon developer Game Freak, was a lot riding on it this summer.

This week's science news.

All roads lead to, and sometimes return to, XCOM. In this case, it's more of a return, as a sequel to Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters was announced this week, replacing its demonic subtitle with an equally gloriously edgy "Deathwatch." This one's apparently a direct sequel to Daemonhunters, now putting you in charge of the Imperium's "most elite alien-hunters," once again taking the form of a turn-based tactical RPG.

Valve’s new Deadlock update reworks the Soul Urn, lowers everyone’s health, and makes pushing into the enemy base a little bit harder.

Roseate spoonbill son or shaly rockbreaker daughter?

It'll be harder to claim the soul urn without a fight, and the midboss spawns at match start.

You haven't seen him when he's upset. And you never will again.

MMO to the polls.

Gothic 1 Remake is now mired in a DRM controversy because physical copies require an online connection and a day-one patch to become playable offline

The lower prices could be aimed at undercutting the competition.

Subnautica 2's story is a deep critique of technology's role in progress and who gets to wield its power

The Mandalorian and Grogu expands the franchise’s obsession with fathers and sons with one of its strangest and most fascinating additions in years.

The next Dead by Daylight Killer is Jason Voorhees, but players are feeling frustrated after sitting waiting for news for over half a day.