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Five new Steam games you probably missed (November 11, 2024)

Five new Steam games…

Best of the best (Image credit: Larian Studios) 2024 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie…
UK police apologise to parliament after admitting a major and controversial policy decision was based on AI making stuff up

UK police apologise to…

The Chief Constable of West Midlands Police in the United Kingdom has apologised to members of parliament after admitting…
Steam has finally got rid of those goddamn clown awards

Steam has finally got…

Steam has announced a big change to its community awards system that means they no longer confer Steam points…
OpenAI employee takes down ChatGPT-coded RuneScape clone following Jagex cease-and-desist

OpenAI employee takes down…

OpenAI employee Rohan Varma has taken down the browser-based, AI-coded RuneScape clone called Elderwood following negative attention from the…
Wrestling the Steam ‘Goliath,’ pulling a Nightdive, and seeing off vulture capital: GOG chats the risks and opportunities of its future as a company without CD Projekt

Wrestling the Steam ‘Goliath,’…

In an industry whose most recent high-profile buyouts cost tens of billions of dollars, the December sale of GOG—for…
Roblox games are escaping Roblox: Creators will soon be able to export standalone apps for PC, console, and mobile

Roblox games are escaping…

Roblox, as we know, is a behemoth. Industry analyst Matthew Ball, now chief strategy officer at Xbox, said in…
Meta is closing 3 VR studios and laying off roughly 10% of Reality Labs as it shifts focus from the metaverse to AI wearables, it’s next sure-fire, can’t-miss idea

Meta is closing 3…

Meta chief technology officer Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said early in 2025 that the metaverse could be a “legendary misadventure”…
OpenAI has bought the URL of what used to be an adult video chat website for more than $15,500,000

OpenAI has bought the…

Head over to chat.com and you’ll notice you’re redirected to chatgpt.com, where you can talk with one of OpenAI’s…
Games Workshop says its senior managers aren’t excited about AI, prohibits its use and laments that it’s ‘included on our phones or laptops whether we like it or not’

Games Workshop says its…

Warhammer company Games Workshop says that it does not allow generative AI in its products, and although some of…
It looks like ‘Windows Intelligence’ might subsume ‘Copilot’ branding, giving yet more evidence that we can’t decide how to market AI

It looks like ‘Windows…

The next generation of chips are here and they’re all decked out with the latest NPUs for copious AI…