At both Netflix and WB, the men in suits seem to get as far as “people like video games, and also movies and TV” and then have no idea what to do next, costing games workers their jobs in the process.
My guy, everything you've said was the future over the last decade (remember the phone!) has turned out to be a useless piece of shit! Nobody in their right mind should believe you!
Alan Dye may have left for a more lucrative offer from Meta, but this is absolutely a good thing for Apple, which also benefitted from “losing” Jony Ive.
Report: Microsoft declared “the era of AI agents” in May, but enterprise customers aren’t buying.
Grotesque and surreal 'farming simulation' Horses has been banned from the Epic Games Store on the eve of release, a couple of years after a work-in-progress version of the game was rejected by Valve.
OpenAI is deprioritizing work on advertising as it focuses on improving the quality of ChatGPT, reports The Information.
The search for AI in Fortnite may have been escalated by recent comments made by Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, who posted in a discussion on X that he doesn’t think digital game stores need to flag the use of AI during development, because it will soon become widespread.
The popular listening platform Spotify has dominated the streaming industry for years. But there have been recent calls to boycott the platform over controversies surrounding issues like artist compensation, its CEO and ICE ads. Are listeners finally fed up?
Over the last four years, the company--which has been in serious financial and legal trouble for a very long time--sure has been excited to hitch its cart (and its workers, resources and reputation) to whatever picture of a horse the latest Silicon Valley huckster has forwarded into CEO Yves Guillemot's inbox that week.
The company will be spending a nauseating $620 billion per year on renting data center capacity to power its AI models alone.
In PIRG’s tests using the LLM that once powered ChatGPT, Kumma gave tips for “being a good kisser,” and with persistent but simple prompting even launched into detailed rants explaining sexual kinks and fetishes, like bondage and teacher-student roleplay.
“Studios don’t want to address toxicity against their employees because they see it as confronting the dark sides of their community, which they believe is a core demographic,” said Rachel Kowert, a research psychologist and visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge.
This past year, Apple overhauled its design language across all of its major software platforms with the introduction of Liquid Glass.
If you’ve been around, you might’ve noticed that our relationships with programs have changed.
Dispatch's developer has come out against the use of AI tools in the creative process… Source
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
I remember having a chat with my old barber last year about the Skate trailer.
The first time I saw Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 in action was during a preview demonstration during the 2019 Game Developers Conference.
Nearly four years after the Steam Deck changed the world of portable gaming, Valve is getting ready to release SteamOS-powered hardware designed for the living room TV, or even as a desktop PC gaming replacement.
OpenAI’s video generator Sora 2 is still producing copyright infringing content featuring Nintendo characters and the likeness of real people, despite the company’s attempt to stop users from making such videos.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto threw the first pitch of the Dodgers’ 2025 season in Tokyo, Japan, and he threw the last pitch of the year in Game 7 of the World Series in Toronto, Canada.
Update, November 11: The Information now reports that Apple is delaying the iPhone Air 2 in order to “work on a redesign of the device and make it more appealing to consumers.
Couple weeks ago Cloudflare announced it would be sponsoring some Open Source projects. Throwing money at pet projects of random techbros would hardly be news, but there was a certain vibe behind...
The more strikes a bad actor accrued, the more Meta could charge to run ads, as Meta’s documents showed the company “penalized” scammers by charging higher ad rates. Meanwhile, Meta acknowledged in documents that its systems helped scammers target users most likely to click on their ads.
Every game has its ebbs and flows, but taking an objective approach, it’s virtually impossible for anyone to have watched this game and now argue it was never in doubt. In doubt is what it was for nearly all of it for the Dodgers, and that makes it all the more special.
Unsurprisingly, that cash bonfire isn’t going over well with investors. Meta’s shares slid by more than 11 percent on Thursday, indicating widespread skepticism about the company’s ability to stop bleeding billions of dollars as it races to keep up with the AI industry’s ever-escalating expenditure commitments.
Amazon says that it has reached a point where "it is no longer sustainable to continue supporting the game with new content updates." This follows yesterday's news that Amazon is laying off 14,000 employees, including many game developers like those working on New World: Aeternum.
It took so long to make in part because the devs simply couldn't work on it for a while, both for financial reasons and a general unhappiness with where it was going. Routine did get a re-reveal back in 2022, now with added support from publisher Raw Fury, with a couple of engine changes mixed in somewhere amongst the decade and a bit development period.
Like so many other cowardly and complicit tech CEOs of this age, and the companies they lead, Microsoft’s actions (or in this case, inaction) has done nothing today but remind us of something we already know: we should be spending our time and money elsewhere.
And while I don’t want to judge a pre-launch virtual world too harshly before it launches publicly, it reminded me more of the hollow experiences I’ve had wandering around Meta’s Horizon Worlds or a metaverse fashion show than something immediately fun and engaging like Fortnite.
I truly wonder for those who post transphobic content to their social media, if they’ve actually talked at length to a trans person and heard their stories. If they haven’t they might just learn we’re humans just like you, and we want to live and have the same rights as everyone else without discrimination.
Gorgon's Garden is about a fictitious, dead MMO, and the horrors that await you when you play it again for the first time in years.
These problems reportedly stem from EA's generative AI tool, ReefGPT. It's said that the AI keeps adding incorrect code to projects, which have to be fixed by the developers who don't want to work with the tool in the first place.
Microsoft has announced the first-ever Halo game for PlayStation 5: Halo: Campaign Evolved. It's a notable strategic expansion for what was formerly one of the company's Xbox-exclusive franchises, and another step away for the company from the classic console business model.
AI that’s easier to talk to is an AI you’ll want to talk to more—and potentially pay more to access. If an AI chatbot with a warm, friendly face “earns your trust,” you’re a lot less likely to listen to the AI skeptics that generate what Microsoft calls “a lot of noise around AI.”
Here's what's most key for contextualizing the Atlas browser: this is the same company whose chatbot keeps telling vulnerable children to self-harm, and they do, and now a number of them are dead.
There’s too little investment in the web as a platform, too much focus on routing as much of the web experience as possible through a specific product or service offering, and it’s increasingly tough to even tell one of these Chromium forks apart from the other.
There’s been a lot of doubt about the number of iPhone Air orders being placed by customers, given that delivery times have never slipped between launch and today.
Gotham is more messed up than it’s ever been, and it needs a different type of Batman to save the day. A Batman who’s already shot up the leaderboard as one of my favorite iterations on the character.
Wednesday’s end of free Windows 10 support is an environmental disaster in the making, with as many as 400 million computers that cannot be upgraded to Windows 11 set to be cut off from receiving free security updates.
Apple's second-generation HomePod is now 1,000 days old, with no sign of a refresh or third-generation model on the horizon.
Man, there's already so much e-waste. We don't need people running out to get a HomePod 3 just because it's been a while since there was a new one.
Man, there's already so much e-waste. We don't need people running out to get a HomePod 3 just because it's *been a while* since there was a new one.
“If you’re, like, farming, you’re doing something people really need,” Altman explained. “You’re making them food, you’re keeping them alive. This is real work.” But the farmer would see our modern jobs as “playing a game to fill your time,” and therefore not a “real job.”
Not sure the idiot responsible for Sora knows much about what "people really need".
Not sure the idiot responsible for Sora knows much about what "people really need".
Reports on Reddit and from The Verge’s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, who owns more than one Echo Show, suggest that Amazon has increased the amount of ads it shows on its smart displays' home screens. The Echo Show’s apparent increase in ads is pushing people to stop using or even return their Echo Shows.
You don't say.
You don't [say](https://crashthearcade.com/blog/2025-04-29-dont-buy-echo-show).
At this year’s New York Comic Con, DC Comics president and publisher Jim Lee made a striking announcement: that the company will “not support AI-generated storytelling or artwork.”
Powerhoof's The Drifter took home Game of the Year at the Australian Game Developer Awards 2025, as well as Excellence in Art, Excellence in Narrative, and Excellence in Sound Design.
Musk stated during an xAI stream in February that the company was launching an AI gaming studio, saying: “If you’re interested in joining us and building AI games, please join xAI. We’re announcing it tonight, let’s go.”
Say what you will about Elon Musk, but the guy certainly knows what people absolutely do not want.
Say what you will about Elon Musk, but the guy certainly knows what people absolutely do not want.
Harry Mack x UCHealth Freestyle Medicine Playlist: youtube.
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Tech leadership at seemingly every level appears to suffer from a very particular kind of brain rot that can’t help but have them seeing each other as more deserving of the benefit to the doubt than any of the people they claim to be serving with their products and services.
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
AT Proto is not really decentralized in the same way as ActivityPub. People don't necessarily realize this because if you try to explain to someone how AT Proto works, they immediately go to sleep, but let's try anyway.
Created using WebGL, Messenger is from the Short Hike school of vibes-driven pocket worlds with gentle to-do lists.
Disillusionment with Musk’s activism, strategic pivots, and mass layoffs cause churn.
Becoming a huge piece of shit that nobody wants to work for to own the libs.
Becoming a huge piece of shit that nobody wants to work for to own the libs.
For the past couple of weeks, a community of developers who use the programming language Ruby have been closely following a dramatic change in ownership of some of the most essential tools in its ecosystem with far reaching impacts for the worldwide web.
The decision by Costco to drop Xbox hardware from its stores may feel like a milestone, but the road on which that milestone is located is one we've been travelling for quite some time.
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits.
It's been two days since iOS 26 was released, and Apple's new Liquid Glass design is even more divisive than expected.
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division.
I came to this conclusion sometime during quarantine when I realized that certain websites give me a sense of shelter and rest more than others.