Jank is founded by Jon Hicks, Brendan Caldwell and me, Graham Smith. Between us, we have nearly 60 years experience writing about games, from running magazines like PC Gamer and Official Xbox Magazine to websites like Rock Paper Shotgun and Eurogamer.
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While it does look amazing and has great potential, Star Citizen really does need more time in the oven, which begs the question of whether the oven’s been on for the past 14 years at all.
“Ubisoft remains dedicated to our mission of over-hiring after a mild success, panicking, and executing the seemingly endless mass layoffs that we’ve always been known for.”
It is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid the technolgy's tendrils, in part because companies like Microsoft are insistent that we use it, if only to justify their investment. If the corporation's own developers are struggling to find the benefits of the technology, or questioning whether they should adopt it, then why shouldn't we?
Let's see what dipshits like Tan think about subscription costs for AI slop when $20 is three hours' work. If that job hasn't been replaced with AI already.
The organizational restructuring, which has been in the works for a year, is designed to help the French publisher “reclaim its creative leadership” and “drive a sharp rebound”, following a turbulent few years of disappointing game launches and plummeting stock value, which recently resulted in a minority sale to Tencent.
Twenty-four hours after artists called foul the AI-friendly policy, Comic-Con updated the language on its site. “Material created by Artificial Intelligence (AI) either partially or wholly, is not allowed in the art show,” it now says. AI is now banned at the art show.
Those are just a few ideas off the top of our heads. And they all feel potentially more impactful than using ads as a way to let Xbox players stream copies of games they already purchased.
The idea of someone having to sit through ads to play games they've already paid for is fucking insane.
The drawbacks of our dependence on US tech companies have become more obvious with every passing year, but now there can hardly be any denying that where we can pry ourselves away from them, we should make the effort to do so.
Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp.
Mark Zuckerberg’s huge gamble on the metaverse, which involved renaming the company from Facebook to Meta in 2021, has gone nowhere.
I saw a brilliant comment on the Anthem subreddit, which is awash with fond farewells at the moment, in which someone described the game as the "greatest What If game" there's ever been, and they're right.
Sweeney, like every other tantrum-throwing tech baby irreparably brain-poisoned by a mixture of obscene wealth and an app where people are sometimes a little mean to them, needs to log off.
The simple, disarming intimacy of being understood. Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You is the kind of romance where letting the long fuse of this oddball relationship burn at its own pace is part of the delight.
"Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology," the companies said, in a statement. "These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri coming this year."
The Liberal government has continued to use X despite the controversy.
Truly pathetic. Not sure why I expected anything less.
X has become the Everything App that Elon always wanted, if “everything” means all the tools you need to fuck up someone’s life, in one place.
Elon Musk and anyone at X or xAI directly working on that functionality should be criminally held to account for the consequences of their actions.
The mystery involves a series of spider webs across the map, as well as other symbols that the Red Dead Redemption 2 community believes are pointing to a bigger mystery.
While it's true that Steam numbers don't tell the whole story and that other platforms are important to keep in mind, Arena Reloaded's low numbers do combine with the mixed reviews and controversies to paint a worrying picture for the game's future. Hope that silly hat was worth it.
This is a man drunk on repulsive levels of executive pay and global power, whose brain has been turned to mush by Linkedin and executive self-improvement podcast speak to the point where he writes shit like this down and, instead of recoiling in horror at the first re-read, hitting delete, looking at himself in the mirror and leaving it all behind to go live in the woods decides to publish it for the world to see.
We’ve been living with ChatGPT and its competitors for over three years now. There is no excuse for professional reporters to not understand the basic mechanics of what these systems are and aren’t. When a chatbot generates text, that is not a corporate statement. When you need a corporate statement, you contact the corporation. And when the corporation responds with “Legacy Media Lies,” that’s your story.
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Apple has been subject to a lot of criticism over its AI strategy, especially after it delayed several powerful Siri upgrades earlier this year.
The big earner is Absolute Batman, Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta’s very viral ongoing that sees a blue collar (and pretty big) Bruce Wayne fight crime and reinvented versions of his classic enemies in Gotham.
As welcome as Leon’s return will be, however, it also raises the question of what the game could have been, had Capcom chosen not to invoke fan service and instead gone with an entirely original cast of playable characters.
In a video posted to BlueSky over the weekend, Six One’s Mike Towndrow stated that Sandfall told the IGAs that no gen-AI had been used in the creation of Clair Obscur, only admitting that in fact it had been on the day of the awards.
With the release of Google’s new video generating AI Nano Banana Pro, dorky nerds the world over are using the AI tool to make it look like they’re chummy with loads of cool and famous people — a perfect encapsulation of their desperation to be accepted by the artists they love, and the culture at large.
“Obviously, real competition won’t happen, and consumers won’t benefit, when Apple abuses its position between users and competitors to obstruct honest dealing between them. This is another sad day in the history of relationships between platform makers, developers, and consumers, and we will be raising our complaints with the Japanese Fair Trade Commission.”
Dude knows a thing or two about dishonesty.
Games That Weren’t has preserved and shared a build of the game in its most complete state possible – taken at the point it was cancelled – and it’s believed this version may finally be playable from start to finish.
Merriam-Webster announced that “slop” is its 2025 Word of the Year, reflecting how the term has become shorthand for the flood of low-quality AI-generated content that has spread across social media, search results, and the web at large.
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The horrors of the Oldest House have spilled out into New York City, Jesse is MIA, and Dylan must bash his way through it all to find her in a Devil May Cry-esque manner. Interesting enough a setup, but I am bothered by one thing: Remedy say you don't need to play the first game to play this one.
Remedy Entertainment describes the in-game Manhattan as a “expansive, unfamiliar world as an invading cosmic force reshapes the environment, defiles natural law and distorts gravity, reordering reality into a geophysical nightmare.”
From blockchain to "metaverse" and now to artificial intelligence — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella can't seem to prioritize effectively, and the cracks are starting to shine through.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.