Bookmarks | 2mo

The Art Of Playing The Damn Video Game

The first time I saw Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 in action was during a preview demonstration during the 2019 Game Developers Conference.
aftermath.site
The first time I saw Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 in action was during a preview demonstration during the 2019 Game Developers Conference.
Bookmarks | 2mo

Steam Deck minus the screen: Valve announces new Steam Machine, Controller hardware

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.
arstechnica.com
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.
Bookmarks | 2mo

OpenAI Can’t Fix Sora’s Copyright Infringement Problem Because It Was Built With Stolen Content

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.
404media.co
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.
Bookmarks | 2mo

The legend of Yoshinobu Yamamoto

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.
truebluela.com
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.
Bookmarks | 2mo

Apple just delayed the iPhone Air 2, report says

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.
9to5mac.com
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.
Notes
| 2mo

Kind of mind-blowing that Microsoft spends any money marketing Cloud Gaming when it runs so badly on everything I’ve tried it on.

Bookmarks | 2mo

Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI

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.
arstechnica.com
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.
Bookmarks | 2mo

Dodgers playoffs: Battling back to win a second straight championship

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.
truebluela.com
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.
Bookmarks | 2mo

Meta Stock Plummets as Investors Horrified at How Much Zuckerberg Is Spending on Misfired AI

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.
futurism.com
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.
Bookmarks | 3mo

Amazon is ending active development on New World

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.
gamedeveloper.com
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.
Bookmarks | 3mo

Yes, after 13 years it really does look like retrofuture survival horror Routine has a release date

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.
rockpapershotgun.com
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.
Notes
| 3mo

14,000 people lost their jobs today because $70 billion in profit wasn't enough. There's something fundamentally wrong with that.

Bookmarks | 3mo

Not Commenting Is Commenting

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.
aftermath.site
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.
Bookmarks | 3mo

Stop Giving Harm a Microphone

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.
afomera.dev
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.
Notes
| 3mo

Nintendo having a character who streams in their game when they themselves have been such pricks about people streaming their games is a bit too on the nose.

Notes
| 3mo

Hard to overstate how crazy Halo on PlayStation is. I remember the days of Killzone constantly being marketed as a "Halo killer". If you told me then that we'd eventually see Halo on other consoles, I'd have never believed you.

Bookmarks | 3mo

EA's AI Game Development Tools Are Apparently So Bad That It's Costing More Money To Fix Their Mistakes

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.
thegamer.com
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.
Bookmarks | 3mo

Microsoft’s Mico heightens the risks of parasocial LLM relationships

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.”
arstechnica.com
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.”
Notes
| 3mo

Crazy to think I owned the only version of the iPhone Air Apple’s ever going to make.

Bookmarks | 3mo

AI Browsers, ad nauseam

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.
tylersticka.com
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.
Notes
| 3mo

I swear I wasn't trying to go for the record of most phones owned in a three-month period, but I think I hit it anyway. I swapped my iPhone 17 Pro for a Pro Max.

Notes
| 3mo

I wish the Pokémon games were smarter. For example, if I have 200+ hours of playtime across other games, maybe I don't need the newest game to explain to me what a Pokémon is or how to catch one?

Notes
| 3mo

I was worried there would be performance issues with ZA like we saw with Scarlet and Violet, but so far, that doesn't seem to be the case. Gameplay is fun, and I really dig the setting. A modern Lumiose City is more my jam than the Hisui region from Arceus.

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