Breaking News: World Cup winning country happy at result. World Cup runner up country unhappy at result. World Cup runner up country also unhappy at officiating. Rerun this episode every four years.
Rob Greensky
@robgreennz.bsky.social
Unsuccessfully walking the line between 'memorable character' and 'forgettable human'. Lead designer on Into the Dead 2: Unleashed and ClusterDuck. Currently working on Our Darkest Days.
Three days after it happened, I get a random notification claiming to be "Breaking news". Hey google, how are you still so bad at this?
I hope a 97% in @simogo.com's excellent Lorelei and the Laser Eyes means I'm almost ready for my own laser eye surgery.
In this weeks episode of "AI maker fails to read the room"...
The Verge@theverge.com · 4w agoMeta turns off the Instagram feature that users make AI deepfakes of public accounts
I don't really understand what it would mean for MS to "spread too thin", but I can imagine many of their studios feeling spread pretty thin once all these layoffs are done.
PC Gamer@pcgamer.com · 4w ago"In order to grow, we made a bunch of bets ... and as we did that, we inherently didn't focus on the core business," Sharma said. "The number one measure of your strategy is what you put your resources behind, and we simply spread ourselves too thin."
Kinda crazy to see these headlines basically back to back. The idea of any game, even a new GTA, being a massive system-seller in this market just feels like wishful thinking to me.
Our nutritional Soylent Green? Also people.
Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com · last mo.Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.
If we can't agree on whether billionaires are a policy failure, can we at least agree that something is awry if there are trillionaires?
I'm curious if anyone can make an argument for new Xbox/PlayStation consoles in the near future other than "They already committed to some of the R&D".
Does it even count as hacking if you can just ask for access and get it?
404 Media@404media.co · 2mo agoThis is what happens when you replace customer service with an AI chatbot: Instagram users getting hacked in the dumbest possible way. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social has more. Read now: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
Summer Games Fest is going to be really interesting this year since there's only one more big game coming out in 2026. I'm kidding of course, but I don't know how much I'm kidding yet.
I'm gonna start promoting LooksJustAboveAvveraging. It's cheaper, easier and you don't need to watch any videos on it because you're probably already doing it.
Things like this are enough to make people briefly think about Linux. And no, my PC did not "need" any of this. The only need here is shareholders need for more subscription revenue.
Something I find interesting about xbox discounting game pass, but removing CoD, is that it's a tacit acknowledgement that the ABK deal was part of the reason for pushing the price up, and acquisitions/mergers pushing up prices is the one thing that anti-trust regulators are supposed to care about.
What this chart says to me is that we shouldn't have to be thinking about a PS6 until the PS5 can get down to US$300. Maybe $350 at a stretch.
Mat Piscatella@matpiscatella.bsky.social · 4mo ago*Cookie Monster singing voice...* "One of these things is not like the others..." Anyways, 6th calendar year for PS5 = 2025. I wonder if the average sales price for a PS5 in its 7th calendar year can beat PS3's 1st year record high.
Even if DLSS 5 didn't look like it was trying to apply 'beauty filters' to videogames, the core premise that games should be aspiring to photorealism needs to be questioned more.
Enjoyed my brief time with Botany Manor - it's not often you get to play as an old British Green(e).
It wasn't enough that the whole AI boom is based on taking everyone's writing without compensation, now a company is claiming the right to imitate real writers just because their work is publicly available.
The Verge@theverge.com · 5mo agoGrammarly is using our identities without permission
MIO is one of those "most screenshots could pass for concept art" kinda games, and I'm really digging it.
I'm clearly not a big fan of any of the big AI companies, but Anthropic just made Trump throw an ALL CAPS tantrum, and for that I salute them.
Seems like a lot of game journalists want to write about what "went wrong" with Highguard, as if the default for games is that they're successful out of the gate and have plenty of runway to iterate towards greatness, and something really uniquely unfortunate must have happened here.
Is it weird that this is happening only after america decided everything should be gambling?
Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew York sues Valve over loot box-driven gambling
"We opted you into AI ads that misrepresent your characters, you should thank us for doing it and if you ask us to stop we might not" is really an amazing summary of big tech at the moment.
IGN@ign.com · 6mo agoNight in the Woods and Tunic publisher Finji says TikTok has been using generative AI to modify its ads and push them to its users without permission, including one ad that was modified to include a racist, sexualized stereotype of one of Finji's characters. https://bit.ly/4kKnB5L
Getting my 4-yearly reminder that curling is rad. A stone can be in motion for over 20s, which I think makes for a super-suspenseful sport.
Obviously the idea of a forced confession is a serious one, but when you send out a manifesto, then livestream your murders and get caught at the scene with the murder weapon, it seems like you've effectively confessed already. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christchu...
Why the Christchurch mosque terrorist is back in court over his life sentence
He is asking the Court of Appeal to let him challenge his convictions late.
nzherald.co.nz