Star Citizen’s Squadron 42 campaign is “feature complete” after 11 years (arstechnica.com)
Game is now in "polish phase," though Cloud Imperium Games has no release date.
Space Wreck is a hardcore, combat-optional, break-the-game RPG that clicks (arstechnica.com)
Been playing this for a couple of hours now and enjoying it so far. Like the article says, it does remind me a lot of the old Fallout games.
Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine (arstechnica.com)
CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 (arstechnica.com)
CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 (arstechnica.com)
Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, emailed employees after news of Microsoft's successful $69 billion acquisition to say that he was "fully committed to helping with the transition" and that he would stay on as CEO through the end of 2023.
Adobe launches new symbol to tag AI-generated content—but will anyone use it? (arstechnica.com)
Lamplighters League is light stealth, heavy pulp style, and XCOM gun battles (arstechnica.com)
There's a lot to dig in this intriguing blend, especially the voice acting.
Lamplighters League is light stealth, heavy pulp style, and XCOM gun battles (arstechnica.com)
Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core looks like a tougher, action-minded co-op dig (arstechnica.com)
Former Ubisoft executives reportedly arrested over sexual harassment allegations (arstechnica.com)
Shit’s finally getting real.
US agency sues Tesla as Black workers report “swastikas, threats, and nooses” (arstechnica.com)
DOJ finally posted that “embarrassing” court doc Google wanted to hide (arstechnica.com)
AI language models can exceed PNG and FLAC in lossless compression, says study (arstechnica.com)
While LLMs have been used for… a lot, it seems like this use might be one where it’s not only reliable but it appears to outperform existing methods of image compression. Being able to cram more data into less space tends to lead to interesting developments, so I will be keeping my eye on this....
$5,000 Google Jamboard dies in 2024—cloud-based apps will stop working, too (arstechnica.com)
Oldest Unity game developer group breaks up over lack of trust in the company (arstechnica.com)
The "first official Unity user group in the world" has announced that it is dissolving after 13 years because "the trust we used to have in the company has been completely eroded." The move comes as many developers are saying they will continue to stay away from the company's products even after last week's partial rollback of...
Oldest Unity game developer group breaks up over lack of trust in the company (arstechnica.com)
Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program ...😑 (arstechnica.com)
No fees for Personal tier or old/current projects, new 2.5% revenue cap, and more.
Opinion: The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art (arstechnica.com)
I’ve generally been against giving AI works copyright, but this article presented what I felt were compelling arguments for why I might be wrong. What do you think?
Wait, is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that? (arstechnica.com)
Confusing, contradictory terms of service clauses leave potential opening for lawsuits.
Report: Unity considering revenue-based fee caps, self-reported install numbers (arstechnica.com)
The recently promised "changes" to Unity's controversial new per-install fee plan for developers could include hard limits based on a company's total revenue and developer self-reporting of installation numbers, according to a new report.
“Most notorious” illegal shadow library sued by textbook publishers [Updated] (arstechnica.com)
Judge issues legal permaban, $500K judgment against serial Destiny 2 cheater (arstechnica.com)
Restraining order also issued due to threats and harassment of Bungie employees.
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
“AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator (arstechnica.com)
Impressions: Starfield’s sheer scale is already giving me vertigo (arstechnica.com)
There's a quote from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. “Space is big,” he writes. “You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to...
