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Voldo. He's been in every Soulcalibur game, wiggling and gyrating his way into our hearts. But what's his deal? Voldo stands out next to the grim, stoic guys of fighting games. He's got grace, he's got slippery, slick moves, and more often than not he's covered in fishnets, leather and spikes. Pat traces Voldo's design through history, to post-World War 2 leather culture and up through the early days of wrestling. So, what's up with Voldo? A lot, but we'll walk you through it.#voldo #soulcalibur

Have you ever wondered why there are so many boss battles that involve a big monster that has eyes in the palms of its hands? Brian David Gilbert has wondered that, so he decided to look into it.

With the industry in flux, will Rockstar's big one create more chaos or calm things down? Probably neither.

N++ is an absolutely stellar game. I even like the unconventional name and appreciate developer Metanet Software's continued embrace of the N name first used for its original Flash creation more than two decades ago. But it's also a name that comes with some issues, perhaps best demonstrated by the game's name on Steam being followed by "(NPLUSPLUS)." So what do you do when you're making a multiplayer follow-up and need to come up with a name? "It's always been hard for us to name these things," Metanet's Raigan Burns said when asked about the name of the newly announced N+ Infinity Times Two.

We're months into the AI-caused RAM crisis, and it just seems that AI is just making gaming worse and more expensive. And it doesn't seem like gamers are really getting anything out of the deal.