Users feared Reddit used generative AI to rewrite user-created content.

Exclusive: Hundreds of film workers join new boycott initiative criticized by Israeli producers’ group as ‘misguided’

Archived: https://archive.is/Gjeix

Game developers are raising money for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency to help people in Palestine.

The fighting game scene is desperate for financing - but that same financing might ultimately bring about its end.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/22015888

Elon Musk thinks Deus Ex is "one of the best games ever". It's not exactly a hot take. But his taste in games also displays an impressive lack of self-awareness. Musk sees himself as an outsider and heroic figure taking on the status quo, despite being the world's richest man, the owner of X, and a sometimes-ally of Donald Trump.

When Musk rails against 'the establishment', it's only when it threatens his vast fortune, his ability to indulge in hate speech, or when he's promoting conspiracies. Indeed, he posted multiple tweets during the Covid-19 lockdowns where he drew connections between essential measures to protect the vulnerable and the plot of Deux Ex, where a man-made pandemic is deployed by the world's richest man to advance a political power play.

Unsurprisingly, Austin Grossman, who wrote Deus Ex alongside Sheldon Pacotti and Chris Todd, is not a fan of Musk's take on the classic cyberpunk immersive sim.

2K said the layoffs were part of an effort to increase "adaptability, collaboration, and creativity" at Firaxis, whatever that means

Archived version: https://archive.is/uYnM1

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/21997073

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/51010150

Even journalism is suffering as conservatives wage war on DEI.

Fighting game players are up in arms following news that RTS a gaming talent agency and owner of the Evo tournament series has been acquired by the Saudi Arabia

Over 60 years ago the first narrative video game designer, Mabel Addis, created the first educational computer game: The Sumerian Game.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/Clr2E

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/44970151

This week, two prominent Republicans, Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky) and Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina), both of whom play influential roles in the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, announced plans to probe into everybody’s favorite digital encyclopedia. In a letter that Comer and Mace sent to the Wikimedia Foundation (which helps run the site), they asked for internal documents that might show evidence of bad actors who had commandeered Wikipedia for their own ends. The letter, dated Aug. 27th, states that the committee is

investigating the efforts of foreign operations and individuals at academic institutions subsidized by U.S. taxpayer dollars to influence U.S. public opinion. We seek your assistance in obtaining documents and communications regarding individuals (or specific accounts) serving as Wikipedia volunteer editors who violated Wikipedia platform policies as well as your own efforts to thwart intentional, organized efforts to inject bias into important and sensitive topics.

Workers on Diablo are the latest arm of Blizzard to unionize, joining the teams behind Overwatch and World of Warcraft before them.

Archived: https://archive.is/ILNiW

ChatGPT taught teen jailbreak so bot could assist in his suicide, lawsuit says.

Personal Note: For people who have suicidal thoughts, please be aware that the number of suicidal thoughts a "normal" person is supposed to have is zero. As someone who struggled with this, get help before it gets worse.

AI makes it easier than ever to slip into the comforting glow of nostalgia.

Archived: https://archive.is/Lv4Xx

A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo

Archived version: https://archive.ph/uE7uA

Personal note: I am anything but a friend of the US' Democratic Party, but the article makes an important point insofar as it shows how the public discourse is dominated by the fascist GOP's talking point, rather than an actual representation of liberal, let alone progressive politics.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34874613

In February 2024, ZA/UM cancelled the standalone Disco Elysium expansion which was then known by its codename X7 and is now known as “Locust City”. At the same time, ZA/UM announced they would make nearly a third of their workforce redundant. I was on that list. As co-creator of Locust City alongside Argo Tuulik, I was approached by GLHF.gg for comment and issued a press statement about joining ZA/UM in 2022, which I likened to “being born into Yugoslavia in the ’90s: you’ve just missed the Party and now all you get is the bloodshed.”

In Spring 2025, Chris Bratt from People Make Games informed me that they would be interested to do a new documentary on ZA/UM and what’s colloquially known as the new Disco Elysium “successors”, part of which would cover the tragic ruin of Locust City. I agreed to give Chris an interview and shared a large amount of evidence of the trail of broken relationships and agonizing workplace conditions behind the project. Our interview was filmed in April 2025 and took around four to five hours to film in its raw form, and we also had many pre- and follow-up calls to establish the course of events. I also detailed how the cancellation of the project and the imminent redundancy was preceded by a nearly 80-page formal Grievance complaint I had filed to the studio’s HR, highlighting a range of systemic issues at the studio which of course, the studio and its Leads and Directors issued a blanket denial of.

When the documentary aired in August 2025 — and you should really watch it on YouTube if you haven’t already, Chris put an enormous amount of work and expense in the making — I was appalled but not surprised to find that ZA/UM had issued a number of false and unsubstantiated allegations against my character under guise of an anonymous corporate statement. I was never shown their statement or their allegations before they were broadcast, and I was not given a chance to respond and refute before the video was published. Therefore I am doing so now.

In short:

• ZA/UM made false allegations about things I never did in order to bring my character into question and distract from their shameful management failures,
• A mistake led to the publication of a statement that I had been placed under an “external HR investigation”, which was never the case, but gave ZA/UM’s claims a false credibility,
• ZA/UM claimed they had found evidence against me in an internal HR investigation and leaked my supposed confidential HR documents to People Make Games, but no such investigation documents existed during my entire employment at ZA/UM nor were they provided to my trade union representative nor myself, which raises questions into the legitimacy of their claims, with the possibility of the investigation being either forged and backdated or dated after my departure and therefore unverified,
• and ZA/UM denied and covered up wrongdoing done by their leadership and management which I’ve previously raised and evidenced against them, attempting to further bring my credibility into question.

The TikToker who fell in love with her psychiatrist made headlines for all the wrong reasons—but more and more, I saw a growing chorus of content creators who were asking people to stop, think, and scroll away.

The app's recent swastika push alert was just the tip of the iceberg.

Archived: https://archive.is/RyzzV

After a confusing few days of moderation, the trans community on Bluesky fears they’re being targeted for posts wishing ill on the anti-trans billionaire.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/46763188

Age verification isn't just for adult websites.

Archived: https://archive.is/o9o44

Is YouTube secretly applying an AI filter to Shorts without telling creators? I recently noticed my videos looked strange and smeary on YouTube compared to Instagram, almost like a cheap deep fake. In this video, I investigate what's going on and why I believe it's a massive problem for everyone on this platform.

After talking with Rick Beato and seeing discussions on Reddit about the same "oil painting" effect on videos from creators like Hank Green, it's clear there is some kind of non-consensual AI upscaling being applied to our content. For me, this is a huge issue that threatens to erode the most important thing a creator has: the trust of their audience.

Night City's urban design highlights the problems, and solutions, real cities deal with around walkability, housing, and mixed-use areas

Archived version: https://archive.is/wngjG

The dichotomy of Hibari as both a progressive trans narrative and an ignorant product of its time showcases Japan's complicated relationship with trans women and other marginalized groups.