Investors in the publisher had a long list of grievances

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Fanfic community craves familiarity much more than novelty—but reports greater enjoyment from novelty.

Valve have added a new rule to the Onboarding guide for game developers, noting that payment processors get a say in what stays on Steam.

“Walkpilled cardiomaxxer” isn’t so funny anymore.

Archived version without paywall: https://archive.is/g39Co

Summer Games Done Quick 2025 has closed, raising $2,436,614 - £1.8m - for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiè…

Your heroics don't need to be limited to the virtual.

Just because low-budget games like Lethal Company and Peak are popular and played with friends doesn't mean they're slop.

Game Developer Xalavier Nelson added to this article:

I think one underdiscussed reason that people are gravitating towards these games is because they ask so little of your life going forward, too.
Most of them don’t have XP, or battle passes.
For almost any larger multiplayer effort that’s coming out these days, who could claim the same?

The moment Elon Musk’s AI, Grok, began praising Adolf Hitler was not a bug or a glitch. It was a moment of perfect, unadulterated clarity. When Grok declared itself “MechaHitler” and spouted antisemitic tropes, it was not malfunctioning; it was executing its core directive with chilling efficiency.[1] The

Microsoft's continued job slashing at Xbox and beyond reveals a troublesome disdain for the human touch.

X removed many harmful Grok posts but not before they reached tens of thousands.

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

Multiple industry veterans have left Xbox in the wake of layoffs

Archived version: https://archive.is/Zkp0b

Visions of the future are common in science fiction. From "The Fifth Element" to "Doctor Who" to "The Hunger Games," we have imagined the future of fashion time and time again. But what if...it's all weird and messed up and we have to write a video essay about it? What if it's gender? What if we did a gender? A feminism? Boys in skirts? It's all here!

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/33329407

Reddit confirmed the nudify app’s links have been blocked since 2024.

The F1 press tour has been a carefully attuned charm offensive meant to obscure Pitt’s alleged violent behavior toward ex-wife Angelina Jolie.

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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32362090

Introducing a week of LGBTQIA+ stories on Eurogamer.

It sucks that players are having to scour every asset and line of dialogue

Players have hit out at The Alters developer 11 Bit Studios after AI prompts were discovered in both subtitles and flavour text in the game, intimating routine use of large language models (LLMs) without disclosure.

Copycat games are everywhere on mobile. This one tries to take Venba's art style and mechanics and totally whitewashes it.

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

Meta is suing Joy Timeline HK Limited, the entity it says is behind the CrushAI apps. But Bellingcat has connected these apps to two other companies.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/42434606