TheGamer's Best Features Of The Week: Cyberpunk 2077 Comeback, Twitch Unionising, And More
It’s been a busy week for games, from a viral AI generator that gives you a Pokemon based on a prompt to Cyberpunk 2077 managing to reclaim its pre-launch hype.
Twitch creators are meanwhile battling huge pay cuts as the platform switched from a 70-30 split to 50-50. And, as per usual, we’ve been writing all about it, so here are some of the best features from the past seven days.
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The Warner Discovery merger has been a mess, to put it lightly. From shelving Batgirl before its release to cancelling shows in their prime and removing all trace of them from the internet, it has been an unpopular catastrophe for fans and creators alike. And Final Space is just another in a long list of shows to get the axe, hurled into the void never to be seen again. Unless you pirate.
Corporations en masse are cancelling shows despite their growing success, like Disney and The Owl House, and HBO Max is gutting shows to save on taxes. As Lead Features Editor Jade King writes, it's a bleak dystopian future that bodes ill for media preservation, and illegal means might be the only ways to access our favourite shows as time goes on.
The internet has been having fun with this little AI Pokemon browser app. If you type a prompt in, you’ll get a ‘mon designed around it, like Yoda or Mona Lisa. But people have been using it, including TheGamer, to see what they would look like as a Pokemon. Features Editor Ben Sledge put some of us into the machine to churn out a few cursed and cutesy creations - there’s Tabletop Editor Joe Parlock as a ground-type seal and Editor-in-Chief, Stacey Henley, as a green blob with orange blobs for hands.
The world seems awful quick
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