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Louis CK's next role, like so many great actors before him, is officially a talking dog. The AV Club reports that the comedian's long-gestating next film has just been titled The Secret Life of Pets, helmed by Despicable Me director Chris Renaud. In the film, CK will play a terrier forced to deal with its master's new pet, a "sloppy mongrel" played by Modern Family's Eric Stonestreet.

Despite the uninspired premise, the movie does boast an impressive roster of talent. Kevin Hart is attached to play a bunny bent on the annihilation of mankind. Joining him are big names like Jenny Slate, Ellie Kemper, and Hannibal Burress. (We're not sure how Universal Pictures pulled it off either.) The Secret Life of Pets will hit theaters on July 8th, 2016.

Bloodborne is a difficult video game, people will tell you. You'll die a lot, they'll say. It may make you want to snap your controller in half, they'll warn you.

Those people aren't necessarily wrong, but Twitch streamer Benjamin "bearzly" Gwin ignores their words. He's made a name for himself with, as he puts it, "challenge runs of Dark Souls using terrible controllers." Last year, Gwin completed Dark Souls with a Rock Band controller, and later managed the same feat with Dark Souls 2. Last month, he even beat the game with the bongos from the GameCube title Donkey Konga.

Naturally, Bloodborne was next on Gwin's hit list.

Gwin's run of "Guitarborne" included the challenging boss battle you see above, the Shadow of Yharnam. The fight is made even more treacherous by the "poor movement/camera controls" afforded by the Rock Band guitar, according to Gwin.

"Choked several times on this one," he added.

Gwin used ConsoleTuner's Titan One USB accessory to allow him to play Bloodborne, a PlayStation 4 game, with an Xbox 360 guitar controller. You can see his crazy button mapping above. One example of the insanity he's putting himself through: Moving right is mapped to the controller's tilt feature, which triggers Star Power in Rock Band games.

If you're curious about vanilla Bloodborne, check out our Let's Play of the game with Danielle Riendeau and Phil Kollar, starting with the first episode below. You can also read our review.

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In an attempt to combat phishing and spamming, Steam today announced a raft of activity restrictions on accounts that do not show purchase activity.

Valve's digital store will no longer provide certain community benefits until a user has spent $5 or added a minimum of $5 to their account. The benefits include sending friend invites, opening a group chat, voting on Greenlight or submitting content on the Steam Workshop. A full list is here.

"We've chosen to limit access to these features as a means of protecting our customers from those who abuse Steam for purposes such as spamming and phishing," offered a Steam update. "Malicious users often operate in the community on accounts which have not spent any money, reducing the individual risk of performing the actions they do.

"One of the best pieces of information we can compare between regular users and malicious users are their spending habits as typically the accounts being used have no investment in their longevity. Due to this being a common scenario we have decided to restrict certain community features until an account has met or exceeded $5 in Steam."

In the summer of 2013, comedian Tig Notaro made a video for her fans. “If you’d like for me to be on your rooftop, your basement, your backyard, living room, garage, in your barn,” she began. “You tell me where I’m going.”

The comedian’s request received more than 1,000 responses, and Knock Knock, It’s Tig Notaro features a few of the best. Or, at least, the ones that inspired a visit from Notaro. But to start things off, the documentary shows a selection of videos from folks who didn’t make the cut: Someone who made a tiny paper puppet “Tig in a blanket.” A guy who says that “the audience would be me and my dog, Patches.” Something called The West Bestern with “a green screen area” in a terrifying basement. A woman who made what appears to be a casserole, and then describes ...

If you’re old enough to remember a time when video games were still principally purchased at retail outlets rather than downloaded from behind the cold remove of a keyboard, you may remember video game instruction manuals, the little paper inserts that so helpfully put all that running from left to right into context. Sometimes, the instruction manuals would include a map of the fictional world featured in the game. Paper, however, is so fragile—an errant wind or stray match can spell the end of it, so many of those charming designs were lost to time.

Neutral Ground has a more permanent alternative. The website has teamed up with illustrator Alex Griendling to produce a series of wooden plaques etched with the world maps from noted video games. First up is a version of the map from The Legend Of Zelda: The Ocarina Of Time, a game from a ...