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Amazon’s Alexa necromancy takes us one step further from God’s light That company with the alleged warehouse safety issues wants to make its robot servant impersonate your dead loved ones. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. As reported byGizmodo, Amazon demonstrated a surprising potential Alexa feature at its re:Mars conference in Las Vegas late last month: a function that would let the digital assistant use audio samples of “less than a minute” in length to synthesize a voice, effectively allowing the smart device to impersonate the original speaker....

Crime caper Sunday Gold is half adventure game, half JRPG, and all style This heist game mixes point-and-click puzzles and turn-based combat in a bold new way. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. My crew of misfits is breaking and entering the headquarters of future London’s resident evil megacorp, and I’m all out of action points. I blew them searching the drawers of this office and picking the lock of a car in the parking garage, so now I’ve got none left to hack the workstation and move our heist forward....

Final Fantasy 14 will give you a personal island garden in the next patch Not a real one, though. I don’t think the game makes that much money. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Final Fantasy 14’s most recent Letter from the Producer has unveiled some details coming in the next update, including a wonderful little surprise that some casual solo content is coming alongside the usual slew of new story quests....

Great moments in PC gaming: Stabbing my cousin in the face in Crusader Kings 3 Scots, booze, and family feuds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Great moments in PC gamingare bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. Developer: ParadoxYear: 2020 Death and betrayal aren’t new concepts in Crusader Kings 3—you probably spent the majority of its predecessor doing much the same—but the random events that can occur make some deaths that extra bit special....

Guardians of the Galaxy/Deus Ex prequel writer is BioWare’s new senior narrative director Mary DeMarle joined the studio this month. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. As spotted on theResetera forums, Eidos-Montréal’s executive narrative director Mary DeMarle has joined BioWare as a senior narrative director. DeMarle was most recently responsible for creating the story and leading the writing team on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, which had such excellent back-and-forth patter between its cast we declared it thenew king of party banter....

Hidden gems you shouldn’t miss before the Steam Summer Sale ends Games from the Steam sale you probably haven’t heard of, but should play. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. With each passing season, the Steam sales become harder to navigate. Countless new games launch on the store every year, and the dispassionate algorithms that rule the storefront grow increasingly unlikely to show you anything but the year’s bestsellers....

In 1998, we wanted to believe The X-Files would make a good videogame We’re rerunning Richard Cobbett’s classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. From 2010 to 2014Richard Cobbettwrote Crapshoot, a column about rolling the dice to bring random games back into the light....