On the plus side, November 19th is just two weeks away so we don't have to wait that long.

BREAKING: Rockstar has delayed Grand Theft Auto VI again, pushing the highly anticipated game from May to November 19, 2026. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

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Square Enix announces more layoffs as part of US and Europe restructuring - “Nearly all areas” of Square Enix’s Western business affected by latest cuts, it tells staff www.videogameschronicle.com/news/square-...

NetEase has pulled funding for more than half a dozen western studios in the past year. This is what I wrote in February 2025.

Valorant PC + Mobile now have 50 million combined monthly active users in China. The PC version officially launched there in 2023, with the mobile version out earlier this year. It's joins LoL as one of the most popular IPs in the country.

US CONSUMER SENTIMENT IS AT CRISIS LEVELS — AMERICANS’ PERCEPTION OF THE ECONOMY HAS FALLEN BELOW THE LOWS SEEN DURING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS.

Cmon now

Google to reduce Play Store fees after settlement with Epic Games

🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."

This has been obvious for a while. But one thing this article doesn't mention is the role that Grok plays as a generative AI tool that can be tagged in conversations. From denying genocides to promoting far right talking points, it's goal is very much to shape thought in a post truth world.

Square Enix shares table for their Multi-platform strategy, in effect since Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake • Future games to launch on PS5/Switch2/Xbox Series and PC Platforms at the same time • FF VII Rebirth is also officially shown for Switch2 & XboxSeries

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/square-...

India will have 500 million gamers this year and total player spending on video games will surpass $1 billion. It's the fastest growing market we track across Asia & MENA! Our latest report includes everything you need to know about India: nikopartners.com/what-you-nee...

Netease shutters another studio, as Bad Brain Studios announces closure later this month www.eurogamer.net/netease-shut...

Here's a public transit model a lot more cities need to know about. It's the #Karlsruhe Stadtbahn. It runs tram-trains, in this metro region in #Germany of 310,000. Outside town, they run as standard commuter trains. Inside town, they operate as trams (streetcars)—no need to change mode. 🧵

While the media often focuses on identity, any election with a socialist / progressive candidate will come down to class and capital accumulation.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

Tech's current model seems to be 1) overpromise to get financing 2) lend to each other 3) burn through unreal amounts of money 4) ruin existing products 5) embed it into as many sectors as possible 6) count on a bailout

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says China "will win" AI race with the United States. - FT

Armed federal agents in black balaclavas climbed into the car of a U.S. citizen they had detained and drove off with his toddler still strapped into her carseat in the back.

Traffic from lower-income customers at McDonald's has dropped by “nearly double digits,” according to the company's CEO.

My take on today’s tariff arguments at the Supreme Court. Short version: LOL slate.com/news-and-pol...

‘KPOP DEMON HUNTERS 2’ is aiming to release in 2029 on Netflix. (Source: Deadline)

Amid horrendously long lines at food banks around the country, the president is willing to let Americans go hungry.

The Palestinian groups’ YouTube channels hosted hours of footage documenting and highlighting alleged Israeli government violations of international law in both Gaza and the West Bank. interc.pt/4oUJNer

Here's what I said back in February on the other site. This was before the EU had announced retaliatory tariffs against the US to fight Trump, which they later withdrew to align with Trump. Despite the growing shift towards a multipolar world, the EU still bends the knee to the old hegemon.

It kind of gives the game away when you go from "Mamdani will destroy NYC, I will be forced to leave, he'll make everyone speak Arabic, he will impose sharia law, he will imprison every billionaire, it will no longer be safe!!!!!" to "Congrats, let me know how I can help"

The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line. 1/

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.

PlayStation Store: Battlefield 6 (#1) and Ghost of Yōtei (#2) were the top downloaded games in October across North America and Europe ➡️ blog.playstation.com/2025/11/05/p... #PS5 #Battlefield6 #GhostofYotei

The director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has ordered a reexamination of a Pokémon patent that revolves around summoning a character and letting it fight, which could affect to Nintendo's ongoing litigation with Pocketpair's Palworld. bit.ly/4hJTZ7c

After three years of requests, Steam Deck finally lets players download games with the screen off. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/after-t...

This election suggests something interesting: the massive local GOP losses says the bad Democratic Party brand is salvageable, *if* the Third Way-style accommodationists are boxed out of leadership. Voters want to fight Trump and will support a pretty wide range of candidates to do it.

thats nuts

Think about how the left told Biden, and then Kamala, that their campaign would 100% lose if they did the exact opposite of what Mamdani's would be. They literally plugged their ears and said shut the fuck up, and then she lost by doing the exact opposite, in every way on every issue, of Mamdani.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Cloud Streaming officially arrives on PlayStation Portal today. PS Plus Premium members can now stream select digital PS5 games in their library, in addition to hundreds of compatible games from the Game Catalog and Classics Catalog: play.st/4hShAmg

Nintendo plans for growth include "acquiring dev companies," pursuing more non-gaming avenues, an... http://gonintendo.com/contents/54629-nintendo-plans-for-growth-include-acquiring-dev-companies-pursuing-more-non-gaming #nintendo

-400 million Nintendo Accounts have been created. 128 million annual playing users -84% of Switch 2 players transitioned from Switch -Preparing more movies in future -950 million downloads on mobile apps lots more info: www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2025/...

Democrat Michelle Wu has been re-elected Mayor of Boston.

It's real.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

As you see Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Stephen Miller all endorse Andrew Cuomo, just remember that Chuck Schumer — leader of the Democratic party — never ended up endorsing Cuomo's opponent (the Democratic nominee)

I hate jumping on a game reviewer, because everything is subjective. But mannnnnn I read this paragraph and went “oh the Japan hate hasn’t left western games media, they just learned how to write it more passive aggressively”

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