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There’s no separating Wayne June from Darkest Dungeon. Like Logan Cunningham’s work as the narrator in Supergiant Games’ Bastion, every narrow victory and heart-wrenching defeat in Red Hook Studios’ dark fantasy dungeon crawler is punctuated by June’s grim, unwaveringly sorrow-filled voice. He passed away in January 2025, and director Chris Bourassa recently confirmed he would never use generative AI to try to resurrect his ghost. “In one of his last emails to me, Wayne gave us permission to train an AI on his voice, something he’d staunchly opposed prior to the end,” Bourassa wrote on the Darkest Dungeon subreddit this…
Hovering over links in AI answers will soon show preview pop-ups. Credit: Google Hovering over links in AI answers will soon show preview pop-ups. Credit: Google While most of the newly announced AI features will roll out soon, Google is still seeking partners to support one of them. Google is seeking publishers that are interested in testing a new form of subscription integration. The company says your favorite websites should appear more prominently in AI search, so it’s trying to make that happen in AI Overviews and AI Mode. This feature will use an API to link a reader’s subscription…
Helldivers 2‘s recent review tally on Steam is currently sitting at Mostly Negative, and the latest wave of negative reviews has also dropped the game’s overall ranking down to Mostly Positive. In an attempt to put the fanbase’s minds at ease, developers Arrowhead put out a post on Steam, Reddit, and Discord to address some recent complaints…which has somehow only managed to upset fans even further. It’s starting to feel like the only time you hear about Helldivers 2 these days is when players are mad about something. The cynics among you might say that’s true for every game, but…
Last year, nearly all Cybertrucks had to be recalled because Tesla used the wrong glue on a steel trim panel that the carmaker said could become detached while driving. Now, yet another embarrassing recall exposes that the electric pickup could see wheels come off certain models due to the use of the wrong grease.In what is the 11th Cybertruck recall so far, alongside concerns that the stainless steel trucks could be rusting, Tesla is recalling its Rear Wheel Drive (RWD) Cybertruck Long Range over faulty brake rotors. In a notice posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Tesla states…
For over 20 years, the studio and publisher behind long-running space MMO EVE Online has been called Crowd Control Protections, which is almost always shortened to CCP in articles and posts online. In recent years, this has caused some confusion and mix-ups with the over 100-year-old Chinese Communist Party, so the company is changing its name as it breaks off from its previous owner, Crimson Desert publisher Pearl Abyss, and enters a new era. In a new interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, the CEO of Fenris Creations (formerly CCP), explained why the company decided to make the change now…
Trump first teased the release in February in a Truth Social post. The Pentagon coordinated the release in partnership with the White House, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, the Energy Department, NASA, and the FBI. Many of the files in this new drop contain documents that are already publicly available. However, some versions of these known documents in the new files contain more pages, or fewer redactions, than previously released versions.More than 60% of Americans believe that the government is concealing information about UAP, according to YouGov, while 40% think UAP are likely alien in origin, according to Gallup.…
It’s finally cool to be an actor in video games. Xbox’s new CEO is treading carefully and carrying a big stick when it comes to exclusivity. The Switch may have just been dealt a deathblow in its race to outsell the PlayStation 2 for the title of most popular game console ever. It’s Kotaku‘s Checkpoint roundup for May 8, 2026, where I am still catching my breath from the avalanche of news that broke overnight in Japan and still thinking about the new Star Fox. We’re just normal men. We’re just innocent men. Clair Obscur shows how views around video…
Engineer Jaakko Karras inspects a next-generation Mars helicopter rotor blade prior to testing it at supersonic speeds in the 25-foot Space Simulator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in November 2025. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Engineer Jaakko Karras inspects a next-generation Mars helicopter rotor blade prior to testing it at supersonic speeds in the 25-foot Space Simulator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in November 2025. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The first series of tests used a three-bladed rotor design that could be flown on missions after SkyFall. A second test campaign used the actual two-bladed design that will fly on SkyFall. These blades are slightly…
I’ve been at Kotaku for three weeks now and have already been hard at work blessing and/or cursing you all with my weird niche interests and opinions. You’ve already heard me ramble about a spelling bee game show and a video game that doesn’t want you to play it. But it has been suggested to me that, on a semi-regular basis, you all might be forced to consider my thoughts on a tiny little video game company that’s just breaking out into the mainstream in a big way. You know. Nintendo! Of the big three console makers, I think it’s…
Philosopher Nick Bostrom recently posted a paper, where he postulated that a small chance of AI annihilating all humans might be worth the risk, because advanced AI might relieve humanity of “its universal death sentence.” That upbeat gamble is quite a leap from his previous dark musings on AI, which made him a doomer godfather. His 2014 book Superintelligence was an early examination of AI’s existential risk. One memorable thought experiment: An AI tasked with making paper clips winds up destroying humanity because all those resource-needy people are an impediment to paper clip production. His more recent book, Deep Utopia,…