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Compulsion Games Is Now Officially An Ex-Xbox Studio
Compulsion Games, the Canadian game developer behind South of Midnight and We Happy Few, has officially parted ways with Microsoft. After Microsoft confirmed that Compulsion was one of five Xbox studios it was divesting of, Compulsion boss Guillaume Provost has now confirmed it’s a done deal. This was hinted at recently when the Steam page…
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Personalized pricing is “abhorrent,” but FTC limits may increase costs, critics say
The US Federal Trade Commission is considering new limits on “personalised pricing,” the practice of using customers’ personal data to set individualised prices based on how much they might be willing to pay. While the FTC lacks authority to ban the practice outright, it says businesses could be found in violation of the FTC Act…
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Nintendo’s War On Switch Emulators Continues With 400 More GitHub Takedowns
Nintendo is doing what Nintendo does: issuing DMCA takedown notices to anyone who illegally offers access to any of the company’s games. That’s exactly what happened earlier this week, as Nintendo wiped out over 400 Switch emulators from GitHub. According to an August 21 TorrentFreak report, the Mario maker sent the proprietary developer platform seven…
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New Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 and 2 PS5 update turns the ports into Modern Warfare 4 ads
A recent PS5 update for the ports of Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2 has reportedly added prominent in-game advertising for the forthcoming Modern Warfare 4. The change has drawn criticism because it places promotion for a newer title inside paid re-releases of much older games, raising concerns about advertising being added…
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“Friendslop” Sounds Like An Insult. What Do Developers Think?
There’s an ongoing divide about the word “friendslop.” The genre descriptor, born of games like Lethal Company, Peak, and many others in recent years, can be used in both positive and negative contexts, which can make it confusing. Personally, I was trying to reserve the “-slop” suffix for things made by generative AI, but the…
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Pentagon says more than 750 US service members wounded in Iran war
The Pentagon said more than 750 U.S. service members have been wounded since the war against Iran began in late February. The department updated its war casualty database this week with another 50 injured service members. When totals from the Operation Epic Fury rubric are combined with updated figures in the “Overseas Operations” category, the…
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Metal Gear Solid 4’s most famous joke gets updated in Master Collection Vol. 2, with Konami even bringing back the original voice actor
Konami has updated a well-known joke in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2, adapting it for modern hardware while retaining its original comedic intent. The change matters because it shows the collection is being actively revised rather than simply porting the 2008 PlayStation 3 release…
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SickKids children’s hospital bandages up careers website after intruder breaks in
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto has confirmed that an intruder accessed its external careers website after exploiting a vulnerability in third-party software also used by other organisations. The hospital said clinical systems and patient information were untouched and patient care continued as normal, but data belonging to current and former staff, job…
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Producer Lauren Neustadter Is Redefining What a Hello Sunshine Show Can Be
Lauren Neustadter, president of film and TV at Reese Witherspoon’s production company Hello Sunshine, has spoken about a hectic summer in which the firm launched the Legally Blonde prequel Elle on Prime Video, premiered Lucky on Apple TV+, and wrapped filming on the fifth and final series of The Morning Show. Speaking to The Hollywood…
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Dark Souls fans got this one right: new Soulslike where you play as a Sif-coded dog with a sword is now and forever “Bark Souls”
A newly revealed Soulslike game has won over fans by casting players as a sword-wielding dog reminiscent of Sif, the beloved wolf boss from Dark Souls, prompting the community to immediately and affectionately dub it “Bark Souls”. The nickname has stuck because it captures both the game’s genre and its main selling point: a canine…