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Pokémon Pokopia Players Are Now Building Working In-Game Calculators, as Fans Push Cosy Life Sim's Limits to Begin Rivalling Minecraft Creations

Just a few weeks on from the launch of Pokémon Pokopia, players are already pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the game — including the creation of several working calculators. Pokopia is a cosy life simulation at heart, though its systems also allow for endless creativity — something that’s lead players to quickly discover solutions for clever electronic systems, of the kind…
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MLB The Show 26 Review

When I reviewed MLB The Show 20, I praised it as the best baseball simulation around while dinging it for playing too safe, recycling visuals, and leaning on marginal improvements instead of taking real swings. Six years later, I’m getting deja vu. Despite giving MLB The…
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Crimson Desert Players Think They've Found AI-Generated Art In-Game

Crimson Desert just launched yesterday to a bit of a chaotic and mixed reception from critics. That hasn’t hampered its sales, but those two million players are starting to stumble into some concerning issues in their first day in Pywel, including the presence of what some are saying may be AI-generated art assets. A number of threads have popped up around social media of players questioning the…
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'Apparently Not Good Enough for Investors' — Crimson Desert Publisher Stock Price Plunges Nearly 30% Amid 78 Metacritic Score

Pearl Abyss, publisher and developer of Crimson Desert, has seen its stock price plunge nearly 30% in what is seen as a reaction to review scores. Reviews for the hotly anticipated open-world action game went live yesterday, March 18. On review aggregator Metacritic, Crimson Desert currently has a Metascore of 78 based on 85 critic reviews. But that number is expected to fluctuate as more reviews…
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Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch Understands the Assignment, Right Down to the 4/20 Release Date

Just like the movies it’s drawing from, Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch knows exactly what it is. It’s full of crude humor aimed squarely at fans of the originals—and the demographic that sees itself represented in its stars, myself included—and to that end, Chronic Blunt Punch’s sense of humor breathed life into a lot of my recent demo. Similar to that unabashed sense of humor…
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