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"We had this problem before in the games we created with CD Projekt": Blood of Dawnwalker CEO defends use of AI voice placeholders to save time
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"We had this problem before in the games we created with CD Projekt": Blood of Dawnwalker CEO defends use of AI voice placeholders to save time

Open world vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker makes use of AI-generated voice acting, Rebel Wolves CEO Konrad Tomaszkiewicz has revealed, but doesn't actually feature it in-game. The devs deployed the soul-regurgitating tech to create placeholder voice performances early in development, in order to tinker with quests and the like without re-recording the associated dialogue. Tomaszkiewicz says this has kept costs down, citing his experience at CD Projekt working on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and

If you need more Shakespeare with your Slay the Spire, check out demon lawyer deckbuilder The Killing Stone
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If you need more Shakespeare with your Slay the Spire, check out demon lawyer deckbuilder The Killing Stone

Slay the Spire 2 may yet prove this year's best deckbuilder, but The Killing Stone is more intriguing. It's also heckin' Elizabethan, if you opt for the "period" dialogue option. The setup, in present-day English: it's the 17th century, and you are a student of the great occultist Mariken Svangård. As is the fashion among occultists, your mentor has just popped her clogs in mysterious circumstances, and you've come to a bizarre mansion in the Antarctic circle to pay respects and meet her

Euro Truck Simulator 2's rumbling into the heart of Turkey with the freshly announced Soul of Anatolia expansion
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Euro Truck Simulator 2's rumbling into the heart of Turkey with the freshly announced Soul of Anatolia expansion

Just as SCS Software step into to make it easier for me to recover from my reckless rig road rage, they've decided to pull the cover off another upcoming addition to Euro Truck Simulator 2's ever-expanding map. This freshly revealed DLC's dubbed Soul of Anatolia, and it'll let you drive on past the Balkans and much further into Turkey than you previously could. Read more