Consumers should always have the right to be informed and be able to make their own decisions with that information That being said, with how AI is being integrated into game engines like Unity and Unreal, there will come a point where consumers have to decide where the line is for them personally

Wuthering Waves can hit very hard sometimes...😅😑

Where WInds Meet had some gamers questioning paying for $70 retail games....😆

The problem with Zani's deluxe shin is the default skin is simply too good...😆

Trick is to have content that creates more onboard than bleed out. “More core players are staying & playing the game, but relatively few [new] people come into the game. There's a tightening and contraction, and this presents problems for a game that you're trying to maintain as a live service."

🤣🤣🤣 "A game where you use your fists to teach annoying female friends a lesson when they're around your boyfriend"

"Wingtech, the Chinese parent company of Netherlands-based Nexperia, said on Friday that the Dutch unit was conspiring to create a non-Chinese supply chain and permanently strip it of its control."

New EU rules will reshape how online scams are handled. Banks must refund customers if fraudsters posing as them steal money or run payments without consent. However social platforms must pay banks if reported scams are not taken down

Workers strike on Black Friday at Amazon warehouses in Germany reut.rs/4855MK2

"...The wave of donations followed comments from President Xi Jinping, who urged all-out efforts to reduce casualties and rallied relevant authorities and parties to provide necessary support."

"...Chinese President Xi Jinping called for all-out efforts to reduce casualties, urging relevant authorities and parties to provide necessary support. More than 40 private enterprises have committed over HK$600 million in donations to the rescue effort as of Wednesday"

Interesting development...🤭

Keys of Fury $4.99, this looks fun. 😆 store.steampowered.com/app/1546690/...

G20 declaration adopted unanimously: World leaders defy US boycott to summit in Africa.

Gamer Over...😆

The person behind the viral GTA 6 gameplay “leak” video has admitted it was created using generative AI, amid a growing backlash from fans. https://bit.ly/3LYxAat

"After a review, we believe the voice on the recording is in fact Martin Bally," Campbell's said Wednesday. "The comments were vulgar, offensive and false, and we apologize for the hurt they have caused."

Kudos to Hardware Unboxed for looking into the visual disparity issues in Black Ops 7 when running on AMD and Nvidia GPUs. Particularly enjoyed the idea of using Intel Arc as an arbiter to discern what the game is supposed to look like: youtu.be/Ynb4raivIpM

"...Two National Guard soldiers were shot Wednesday near the White House and their conditions aren’t immediately known, according to two law enforcement officials not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity."

"...The index treats the 151 million workers as individual agents, each tagged with skills, tasks, occupation and location. It maps more than 32,000 skills across 923 occupations in 3,000 counties, then measures where current AI systems can already perform those skills."

The mtx are all just cosmetics, if you don't want it then don't buy it end of story. 🤷

"... China's commerce ministry said on Wednesday that it agreed with the European Union to urge Nexperia's Dutch and Chinese units to resolve their standoff, sidestepping the Dutch government."

Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."

Farmers Say Trump Tariffs Crushing Operations, Forcing Higher Prices Ahead of Holiday Season

I read for every Shenzhou mission launch, a back up launch vehicle is almost simultaneously prep as a rescue vehicle on a different launch pad that can be made mission ready within weeks. This mission proved the contingency works.

Leaked recordings prove Putin is making Trump his puppet inews.co.uk/news/world/l...

Wake up honey, new "security threat" just dropped. It's likely a bluff to signal leverage for talks, otherwise I wonder which US industry will be destroyed next when they execute counter measures if it happens...

The president calls a New York Times reporter “ugly,” the third insult toward a female reporter in recent weeks.

Likely not "officially" a ban but essentially it is as enterprise will undoubtedly follow "suggestions" "The reported ban underscores Beijing's efforts to reduce reliance on U.S. technology, a campaign that has intensified as Washington tightens curbs on exports of advanced semiconductors to China"

"As part of the deal, Embracer retains publishing rights to the Remnant franchise, developed by Gunfire Games, and rights for MMO Fellowship, developed by Chief Rebel and currently in Early Access. The latter will be assigned to Coffee Stain, which is planned to be spun out of Embracer in December."

GTA: San Andreas is one of 13 titles set to leave Netflix soon as its big games reboot continues: mobilegamer.biz/netflix-game...

Islanders and Kingdom Two Crowns developer Coatsink to lay off half its staff due to "challenging co-development market" www.gamesindustry.biz/coatsink-to-...

UPDATE: Valve has provided a statement to Game Developer confirming it reviewed and pre-emptively banned Horses in 2023. The company said some elements of the title's store page caused "concern" and that, following a build review, it told Santa Ragione it would be unable to ship the game on Steam.

SD being acquired by a private-equity firm just a few months ago now looks super fishy, clearly it doesn't seem to include any layoff clause and now it looks more like by design. Studio will likely be restructured as an AI centric development team.

"...As it stands, users can do up to 20 free generations daily, while enterprise users under the integration of the aforementioned API are set to receive 200 free credits, which can be used for generating assets as well."

"...Alibaba has pledged tens of billions of dollars in investment in AI and cloud infrastructure, fueling the development of its own Qwen language models, the Quark AI assistant and ModelScope, an open platform for developers."

The only shocking part about this news is people are shocked about learning that certain actors, state backed or private, are paying human bot farms to shape narratives & speeding propaganda on social media. This is nothing new, the geo location of these types of accounts simply confirmed it. 🤷

Was it something he said?😕 Sarah, who wrote the Banner article about the nashville musk tunnel crew walkout, says it happened right after Boring Company CEO steve Davis did that Audio-only Twitter spaces we posted clips from

I wish DE success but personally I can never go back to this level of grind.

It takes something special to piss off every Canadians in the country. Congrats. 🤣👍 "Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says this year’s G20 turnout and absence from the United States signals that “the center of gravity in the global economy is shifting" & says that "Canada strongly supports this”

SHIFT UP’s Project Spirits to be published by Level Infinite globally Tencent subsidiary Level Infinite will publish Project Spirits, SHIFT UP's upcoming console, PC, and mobile cross-platform game developed on Unreal Engine 5, through a co-development collaboration between SHIFT UP and Tencent…

More details in the article below

Following lawsuit threats from Trump over its coverage, the BBC is now accused of censoring a Dutch historian who called him “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”

China's official news agency Xinhua puts the country's coal peak at "around 2027" and oil peak "around 2026", also referencing the commitment to "gradually reduce" coal consumption that has been missing from recent policy papers.

I don't blame them. Tesla are unsafe fiery death traps all around the world Elon Musk is a racist failure who kills people with cuts to auto safety and whose rockets deliver 10% their promised payload when they aren't prematurely exploding, first

This is near 100% confirmation that Tesla won't get a permit to roll out FSD Supervised in Europe. My hunch is that the Regulator needs Tesla's FSD data, which Tesla has refused to submit even to regulators in California since 2014. I wonder what Tesla has to hide?