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 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
“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".
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Gold trinkets are emblematic of the Apple Intelligence flop era, right when they need to be channeling peak Steve Jobs one-more-thing energy. It's not too late. And if he gets mad, tell him he's holding it wrong.
While scientists are still trying to figure out why exactly the orcas have it out for boats at sea, some have suggested that it's simply a sign that they're having fun.
To preserve the richness and diversity of the web, we must support alternatives that empower communities, foster independent content, and keep the small web alive; Not proprietary platforms that extract value from it to sell it for a monthly subscription.
Who is Andrew W.K.? Is Andrew W.K. real? Who is the real Andrew W.K.?
It’s a choice in favor of the people who prey on others and who refuse to acknowledge the humanity of those they hate.
As the New York Times reports based on insider sources, Meta has announced internally that it will be splitting its AI division into four separate groups: one focused on research, one on so-called "superintelligence," one on products, and another on infrastructure.
It’s incredible how, nowadays, the natural response to engaging with other people’s “content” online is to look for that sinister angle that must be there to create engagement, conversions, or sales. And I completely understand it, because that’s exactly the level to which we’ve ruined the internet, and it feels like there’s no way back.
Arguably the most striking artwork Struzan created that year, though, doesn’t feature any actors at all. Depicting a human, parka-clad figure framed by an icy landscape, Struzan’s poster for John Carpenter’s The Thing is minimal, surreal, and filled with menace. Its brilliance is all the more surprising given that Struzan managed to paint it in a matter of hours rather than days.
A blog is for the person writing it. It's for the person who built it, who's hosting it, who's spending hours tweaking it until it looks just right (and spending countless more hours redoing the whole thing again and again).
I’m happy to announce you can now buy the unofficial IndieWeb heavy metal shirt or tote bag from CottonBureau.com. The sales of these print-on-demand products ($2 from each shirt and tote) will make their way to a donation to IndieWeb.org’s Open Collective.
I don’t think you get to have it both ways. That is, you don’t get to, as it were, borrow charisma from all the hype and then disavow every failure to live up to it as someone else’s naive mistake for believing the hype.