8 d. ago As AI floods our culture, here’s why we must protect human storytelling in games

Buying the Zombies, Run! studio wasn’t part of my plan, but a post-apocalypse game with stories that make people feel seen pulled me in• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereA few days ago, I clicked a button on my phone to send funds to a company in Singapore and so took ownership of the video game I co-created and am lead writer for: Zombies, Run! I am a novelist, I wrote the bestselling, award-winning The Power, which was turned into an Amazon Prime TV series starring Toni Collette. What on earth am I doing buying a games company?Well. First of all. Zombies, Run! is special. It’s special to me – the game started as a Kickstarter and the community that grew up around it has always been incredibly supportive of what we’re doing. And it’s special in what it does. It’s a game to exercise with. You play it on your smartphone – iPhone or Android – and we tell stories from the zombie apocalypse in your headphones to encourage you to go further, faster, or just ...

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9 d. ago A unique app is changing the dating game for disabled and chronically ill people

A unique app is changing the dating game for disabled and chronically ill people

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2 w. ago National Lottery's Set For Life results for Monday, December 1 unveiled

No one matched five balls during the National Lottery's Set For Life game on Monday — but 31 people won £250 each in the game by correctly guessing four numbers and the life ball

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2 w. ago Gwyn Jones: Steve Tandy faces a major question ahead of the Six Nations

S4C pundit Gwyn Jones gives his views on Wales' autumn, with Steve Tandy faced with a problem to solve

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3 w. ago Pundits think Wales have found an enforcer who can hurt people after 'best game in a Wales shirt'

'The fact he's not captain now... he's been given a simple game plan by Steve Tandy - be physical,' said Scotland international Jim Hamilton

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3 w. ago Nigel Owens rips apart pundit's call as he warns game will be destroyed

The legendary Welsh referee has warned against calls to depower the scrum

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3 w. ago Wales 'fighter' had point to prove to Tandy as pundits agree on Welsh enigma

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4 w. ago How generative AI in Arc Raiders started a scrap over the gaming industry’s future

The use of AI in the surprise game-of-the-year contender has sparked a heated cultural and ethical debate, and raised existential questions for artists, writers and voice actors• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereArc Raiders is, by all accounts, a late game-of-the-year contender. Dropped into a multiplayer world overrun with hostile drones and military robots, every human player is at the mercy of the machines – and each other. Can you trust the other raider you’ve spotted on your way back to humanity’s safe haven underground, or will they shoot you and take everything you’ve just scavenged? Perhaps surprisingly, humanity is (mostly) choosing to band together, according to most people I’ve talked to about this game.In a review for Gamespot, Mark Delaney paints a beguiling picture of Arc Raiders’s potential for generating war stories, and highlights its surprisingly hopeful tone as the thing that elevates it above similar multiplayer extraction shooters: ...

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