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Indie Dev Says “AI” Voice In His Game Was Actually His Wife

Indie Dev Says “AI” Voice In His Game Was Actually His Wife https://ift.tt/qjSaZpf Someone playing Refractive Entertainment's recently released action-RPG Luminary for less than an hour accused the team of using AI for the game's only voiced character. The player said the voice "killed it" for them. There was just one problem: It wasn't AI. It was actually the developer's wife doing her first-ever voice acting gig. Refractive Entertainment launched Luminary into Steam Early Access on August 11. It's a resource-gathering action-adventure sandbox with an art style that's giving Fable meets Immortals Fenyx Rising. It's cute-looking and well-received, with a "Mostly Positive" rating out of almost 350 Steam reviews. But for an indie developer who says his game's success lives and dies by its Steam review score, one particular negative review caught the creative director's attention. On September 10, user NyteKnyte  posted a sh...

Madame Web Box Office: How Did The Movie Do In Its First Weekend?

Madame Web Box Office: How Did The Movie Do In Its First Weekend? https://ift.tt/XMSgmIj

The Spider Man spin-off movie Madame Web from Sony Pictures opened on Valentine's Day, and the early box office results were not great. However, the movie is doing slightly better than some expected, bringing in $52 million worldwide for its opening period.

This was an abnormal opening period, as the film opened on Wednesday, February 14, and these numbers cover a six-day period spanning through Monday, February 19 for the Presidents' Day holiday. The movie earned $26 million over six days in the US and, as mentioned, $52 million worldwide over that time span.

The movie was estimated to have cost $80 million to produce (prior to marketing expenses), which means it has not yet broken even. However, Deadline reported that, due to the solid box office results so far, the movie will not "suffer as much as originally feared."

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