Tag: software

Over 48% of unreleased games have a Discord server, and I’m sure this is all fine and normal and I don’t miss forums at all

Over 48% of unreleased…

It is the year 2026. You are in 25 Discord servers. Six of them are for your friends and…
Company that makes generative AI-powered NPCs reports that 95% of players enjoy their generative AI-powered NPCs

Company that makes generative…

Hands up if you’ve ever thought the following: “Sure, Elden Ring is pretty great, but what it really needs…
Bluepoint tech boss suggests Sony’s scared of Valve, not Microsoft, and that’s why it’s pulling back from PC: ‘It would be quite ironic if Valve ultimately ended up winning the console war’

Bluepoint tech boss suggests…

Our six-year stint of feeling very smug about getting pretty much every game on PC (excluding Nintendo, which will…
Meta bought Moltbook, an almost entirely AI-populated social media platform, for we don’t know how much—and we’re not completely sure why yet, either

Meta bought Moltbook, an…

Like many of big tech’s major players, Meta has been interested in AI for some time—the Meta AI app’s…
OpenAI just raised another $8

OpenAI just raised another…

OpenAI’s business model is, at bottom, pretty simple. Sam Altman gets up on a stage somewhere, burbles a few…
French pirates adrift as major torrent site nuked by hacker who accuses it of hoarding user credit cards and DDoSing rivals: ‘6.6 million users. Years of lies

French pirates adrift as…

Bad news for French pirates*: major private torrent tracker YggTorrent was totalled earlier this month. The site, formerly among…
Microsoft announces that Office has two critical security vulnerabilities, and here’s where you can find patches to fix them

Microsoft announces that Office…

When it comes to news about Microsoft Office, it’s probably fair to say that it’s usually about aspects that…
New Steam update adds new ‘customise’ tab your games—letting you finally organise things by release date, or just look at Big Naturals Withers every time you open Baldur’s Gate 3

New Steam update adds…

I’ll be honest with you, I’ve never been the kind of person to get organised—that’s partially because I have…
Hasbro CEO still has ‘so much AI-based’ grist in his own D&D games ‘it would floor you’, but he’s not putting it in MTG cards or D&D books because people ‘just don’t want it’

Hasbro CEO still has…

The CEO of Hasbro (the company that owns Wizards of the Coast, which in itself makes D&D and Magic:…
Brendan Greene says AI content is ruining the internet because it’s ‘a loop, LLMs are scanning this junk, and then that becomes truth… it’s like a race to the middle of sh*t’

Brendan Greene says AI…

The next issue of PC Gamer magazine features an interview with Brendan Greene, perhaps better-known as PlayerUnknown, about his…