Dating apps wouldn’t be half as cursed if your matches couldn’t blatantly lie about their interests or relationship status on their profile—or go on weird red flag rants beside the profile pic of them holding a fish. Such is the more perfect world envisioned by the new Sims 4 Lovestruck expansion, which puts the personality traits of prospective partners on display in the new Cupid’s Corner dating app, adds customizable dates, and a more fleshed out system of attraction where you can decide if your Sim is only into brunettes or has a homewrecking habit.

As a Build/Buy mode enthusiast, I wouldn’t be head over heels for Lovestruck on my own dime, but for the Live Mode folks who love nothing more than stirring up a pot of drama, this expansion has attractive qualities.…

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree’s cinematic trailer dropped exactly a month before the expansion’s release, and the collective response was about what you would expect: “This is rad, but I have no idea what’s going on.” Now, though? Well I have kind of an idea what’s going on after spending 80 hours or so in the DLC, and it’s all about as grim and unsettling as you’d expect.

Spoilers for Shadow of the Erdtree ahead.

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Right off the jump, we now know that the bloody gate of corpses Marika is hanging out around at the beginning of the trailer is the Divine Gate from Promised Consort Radahn’s boss fight at the top of Enir Elim, only when we get there the bodies are calcified and bleached white by the ages⁠—in this primeval moment, …

A recent datamine of Baldur’s Gate 3‘s absurdly huge wealth of voice lines continues to deliver. Not just in helping us uncover dark, dark futures regarding Scratch—it’s also given us a peek behind the curtain at the game’s development.

As spotted by Team_Purple on the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit (thanks Gamesradar), Astarion’s final romance scene has a hilarious dev note—presumably from a writer who knows the fabulous stylings of Neil Newbon a little too well.

Found a hilarious devnote for Astarion’s final romance scene from r/BaldursGate3

“Cinematic context: Turning to the player, taking their hands in his for a moment,” begins the note, followed by: “NodeContext: Slightly horny. (ONLY SLIGHTLY, NEIL)”.…

Need a little help with today’s Wordle? Then scroll on down and take a look at the helpful clue prepared for the August 30 (802) game. Need a lot of help with today’s puzzle? No problem. The answer is waiting for you just below.

Today’s game took me a long time and far too many guesses, and it definitely didn’t help that I’d only found one single yellow by the halfway point. I enjoyed the relief of a close victory, but I do hope I don’t struggle finding the Wordle answer quite so much tomorrow. 

Today’s Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Wednesday, August 30

This word’s a broad term, covering just about anything to do with sound or hearing. A popular TV program might have terrible _____ mixing, making it difficult to hear the speech, an expensive…

After years of taking a hands-off approach to the pro CS:GO scene, Valve has very suddenly announced major changes to the rules governing tournament organizers that it says will help ensure that ability, and not money, determine which teams rise to the top of competitive events.

“Counter-Strike is at its best when teams compete on a level playing field and when ability is the only limit to their success,” Valve wrote. “Over the past few years, we’ve seen professional Counter-Strike drift away from that ideal. The ecosystem has become gradually less open, with access to the highest levels of competition increasingly gated by business relationships.”

A good example of this is the ESL Pro League’s “Louvre Agreement,” which enables “a select group of elite teams to partici…

With the Game Developer Conference in full swing just down the road, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang will be kicking off the company’s own event today, March 21. And you can watch the whole of the Nvidia GTC keynote right here.

The conference will start at 8am PDT (11am EDT | 3pm GMT) and is scheduled to last for a full ninety minutes. The description for what we’re to expect is pretty vague right now, stating that Jen-Hsun will be unveiling “the latest advancements in generative AI, the metaverse, large language models, robotics, cloud computing, and more.”

So expect a lot of talk about the democratisation of computing thanks to ChatGPT, and probably a good chunk of Nvidia patting itself on the back for putting such a focus into this area for so many years?

But what about g…

There’s a certain kind of scam, old as time, that revolves around selling people something that tells them to sell the same thing. That’s not how it’s presented, of course. The pitch is that if only you knew X (my secret knowledge) you would easily have Y (money, young lovers, cars). Perhaps the most egregious contemporary example of this kind of grift is Andrew Tate and his “Hustlers University”, but there are a million of them out there, and the internet has just turned up an example of what the future for this particular hustle looks like.

Take a bow Jake Ward, not only the latest guy who wants to make money by selling you a pipe dream but a pioneering example of an AI scammer. Mr. Ward’s modus operandi is simple. Creating content is hard. So why not just use AI to stea…