The new data — comprehensive and definitive — should put to rest the countervailing narratives over Musk’s management of the app. Under his stewardship, X’s daily user base has declined from an estimated 140 million users to 121 million, with a widening gap between people who check the app daily vs. monthly. X’s...
It’s certain that of the 120 million that remain, a huge number are bots or spam accounts of some kind. They will be there last “users” to quit the platform. And Elon will be happy to collect ad money to show those bots your ads until the very end.
We have heard you. We apologize for the confusion and angst the runtime fee policy we announced on Tuesday caused. We are listening, talking to our team members, community, customers, and partners, and will be making changes to the policy. We will share an update in a couple of days. Thank you for your honest and critical...
Just when I was giving Bungie credit for taking Destiny 2 armor out of Eververse this season and making it an earned, in-game reward, we now have a situation I’d describe as pretty baffling.
Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC (mfkl.github.io)
Another good lesson about why we should trust only FOSS ecosystems
Epic is giving away 17 games as part of its holiday sale (www.theverge.com)
Epic Games plans to give away 17 free games during its annual holiday sale for the Epic Games Store, the company announced on Wednesday.
Sega wants classic franchise reboots to show ‘edginess and a rebellious mind-set’ (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Great to hear, I’d expect nothing less from a Jet Set Radio remake.
[Design Delve] The Worst Puzzle of All-Time (www.youtube.com)
Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android (techcrunch.com)
Twitter's lost 13% of its daily users and its rebrand has failed (www.bigtechnology.com)
The new data — comprehensive and definitive — should put to rest the countervailing narratives over Musk’s management of the app. Under his stewardship, X’s daily user base has declined from an estimated 140 million users to 121 million, with a widening gap between people who check the app daily vs. monthly. X’s...
Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added (www.gamesradar.com)
[Jauwn] The Epic Games Store is a Landfill for Crypto Shovelware (www.youtube.com)
Epic only realized it had ‘financial problem’ that led to layoffs 10 weeks ago (www.polygon.com)
Let's get personal: How much RGB lighting is enough
If we’re building PCs here, i wanna hear your opinions on (A)RGB LEDs. 5V, 12V, single color, addressable. MFing Lights....
Meta is shutting down three Oculus games without explanation (www.theverge.com)
Game wikis just aren't as popular anymore?
Has anyone else noticed that Wikis for most games just aren’t as complete anymore?...
Unity issue an apology on Twitter for "confusion and angst" over the runtime fee policy. (nitter.net)
We have heard you. We apologize for the confusion and angst the runtime fee policy we announced on Tuesday caused. We are listening, talking to our team members, community, customers, and partners, and will be making changes to the policy. We will share an update in a couple of days. Thank you for your honest and critical...
‘Destiny 2’ Is Now Reselling Old Seasonal Cosmetics For Nine Times The Price (www.forbes.com)
Just when I was giving Bungie credit for taking Destiny 2 armor out of Eververse this season and making it an earned, in-game reward, we now have a situation I’d describe as pretty baffling.
EA confirms The Sims 5 will be free-to-play and co-exist alongside The Sims 4 (www.eurogamer.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/4968815...