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Last week, developer Gary Newman and the Rust development team released an update that randomly assigned a permanent race and gender to all players’ characters.

The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset launch isn’t going very well, with multiple reports of delayed shipments.

In part one of our interview with Zoltan Istvan, he discussed his presidential bid for the 2016 campaign, how technological advancements could pose a risk to jobs, and even the idea of an artificial intelligence running for president one day. You

Zoltan Istvan is the most intriguing presidential candidate you’ve never heard of. While those at the forefront of the 2016 race talk about defeating ISIS, Istvan is taking on beating death itself. Recently, I had a chance to talk to him.

They’re doing our shopping, manufacturing our goods, driving our cars, and now producing our art. A computer has just become The Next Rembrandt.

Blizzard has updated Overwatch character Tracer’s infamous “butt pose” with what might be the perfect response.

In a post to the official Beamdog forums, the developers of Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear have decided to eliminate Minsc’s cringe-inducing slight toward a section of the gaming community.

At 2.6 terabytes of data, the Panama Papers leak easily represents the largest exposure of private communication ever released.

Developer Beamdog made waves over the weekend by shoehorning social commentary into the classic Baldur’s Gate franchise. The exchange between Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear’s creators and their fans has been heated, but there’s more to the story than outrage.

Destiny isn’t the only game pushing out a big update on April 12th — Tom Clancy’s The Division is dropping a lot of new content into the chaos of post-apocalyptic NYC.

There’s a great deal of misinformation surrounding Alison Rapp being removed from her Product Marketing Specialist position at Nintendo of America’s Treehouse localization studio.

In the second video preview for Destiny’s April Update, Bungie walked through some of the new rewards you can earn in The Reef. If you missed the previous video covering new activities coming to Destiny, we’ve covered that, too.

In a post to Medium, a self-identified online prankster detailed how he managed to get the 45-second long “game” Watch Paint Dry released on Steam by way of some clever technical loopholes.

Following extensive discussion in a forum post started by one of its customers, developer Blizzard has decided to remove a victory pose for Tracer, one of the character in their upcoming MOBA-shooter Overwatch, for supposedly being too sexual.

The Australian Federal Court has ruled that PC gaming digital retailer Valve is not exempt from Australian consumer protection laws, despite being a foreign online entity.

Destiny’s next content update will drop on April 12th, increasing the maximum Light level and bringing new challenges to the horde of waiting Guardians.

Respected Japanese magazine Nikkei reported that Nintendo will soon cease production of the Wii U console, a report that Nintendo denies.

In the wake of the tragic Brussels terrorist attacks, Facebook has activated their “Safety Check” feature.

After a spectacular failure in India, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg landed a rare meeting with China’s propaganda czar Liu Yunshan while in Beijing to attend the China Development Forum.

As the first sitting president to visit Cuba in nearly a century, President Barack Obama marked his arrival in Havana with an announcement about Google.

The Division‘s Game Director Ryan Barnard has departed Ubisoft to join Square Enix as the new boss of beleaguered developer Io-Interactive. Tom Clancy’s The Division was a joy to review. Where I went in expecting a ham-fisted franchise cash-in, I was

HITMAN is a strange experiment in incremental content and aggressive monetization. It was billed as a “World of Assassination,” but its world is smaller than any the franchise has ever seen. While I’ve managed to enjoy every prior entry in the series, this one eluded my best efforts.

Tom Clancy’s The Division from Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment is a triumph of online world building, cooperative gameplay, and streamlined MMO design. It’s not just a threat to competitor Destiny, it’s a stark indictment of massively multiplayer games at large.

Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House has confirmed a release date and price point for the PlayStation VR.

The Division is out, and in defiance of all the pre-launch skepticism, has been making a pretty major statement. According to Ubisoft, it’s been pretty good for them as well.

An astonishing video shows a squad of Stanford University’s tiny µTug robots pulling the full weight of a car and driver.

For the first time in gaming history, one console manufacturer is preparing to support playing with consumers on a competing platform. Xbox Live is about to open its arms not just to PC, but also PlayStation 4 cross-platform play.

Oxford University researchers postulate roughly half of all American jobs are at risk of automation, and people are starting to believe it: the same study claims that two-thirds of American adults expect automated replacement of a majority of work currently executed by humans within the next fifty years.

Amputee Dennis Aabo Sørensen has made history as the first person to regain real-time sensation of touch using a bionic fingertip.

Whether you’re frustrated by poor game localization or are just a fan of Japanese gaming in general, Amazon Japan has decided to help you out.

The Fine Bros are exposing kids to the most shocking reaction content they’ve ever attempted. Yes, that’s right: Windows 95.

Here it is, folks. “Yelp for people” app Peeple releases today, allowing smart phone junkies to quantify the human worth of everyone they meet. Oh, joy.

As amazing — and somewhat terrifying — robotic advances lead us toward the replacement of humans in the workforce, a university in Singapore is focusing on humanoids to help care for dementia patients.

Microsoft announced that it has ceased development of the next game in the Fable franchise and will close at least one of its game studios.

At Camp Pendleton, Marines are testing a new, cutting edge form of live-fire training using robotic targets.

Far Cry Primal languishes under the burden of being a first-person shooter without guns, striving for equivalence where it could have been utterly unique.