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A roguelike made with AI-generated assets will soon disappear from Valve's popular PC gaming storefront, all because of the ...

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Nostalgia is big business in video games — pretty much every publisher out there is consistently rereleasing more polished versions of their most beloved games for modern hardware. These remakes and ...