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Xbox Gamers Can Play Co-Op RPG Sunderfolk for a Limited Time
Sunderfolk, a co-operative tactical role-playing game from Secret Door, is free to play on Xbox between 13 and 16 August through Xbox Free Play Days. The limited offer gives players a chance to try a tabletop-inspired game designed to remove the scheduling, rule-learning and bookkeeping barriers often associated with traditional tabletop RPGs. Players select from…
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Amazon Game Studios Divests MMOs ‘Lost Ark,’ ‘Throne and Liberty’ in Strategy Shift
Amazon Game Studios is handing Western publishing and live-operation responsibilities for the MMOs “Lost Ark” and “Throne and Liberty” back to their original developers, Smilegate and NC respectively. The move reflects Amazon’s shift away from further investment in MMOs towards planned AAA games, including “Tomb Raider”, and expansion of its Luna cloud-gaming service. Amazon says…
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Tailscale says deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year’s outages
Tailscale has attributed a series of outages and database-corruption incidents beginning in August 2025 to a rare flaw in SQLite’s write-ahead logging system that had apparently remained undiscovered for 16 years. The issue matters because SQLite stored information for Tailscale’s private mesh networks, so corruption could disrupt its control-plane services and affect users’ connectivity. Tailscale…
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The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy
White House officials are expected to broaden the Trump administration’s new artificial intelligence framework, extending federal pre-release safety testing beyond leading closed AI systems to powerful open models. The change would mark a more expansive approach to AI oversight, driven by concerns about national security risks and increasingly capable models, while raising questions about the…
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Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare
Same stateful trick, now with your own infrastructure
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Amazon will train on Twitch streamers’ content by default, unless they opt out
Twitch will allow Amazon to use streamers’ audio and video content to train generative AI models by default, unless creators actively opt out. The decision has prompted strong criticism because it places the burden on creators to protect recordings of their likenesses and voices, while highlighting the value of Twitch’s large archive of livestream material…
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Halo: Campaign Evolved Sales Estimates Put it at a Nearly 50-50 Split Between Xbox and PS5 Buyers
Halo: Campaign Evolved, the recently released Unreal Engine 5 remake of the campaign half of original Xbox killer app Halo: Combat Evolved, has sold 1.2 million copies across Xbox, PlayStation 5, and Steam, according to estimates from Alinea Analytics.
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Helldivers 2 NPCs Will Hug You Back Now, Even When No One Else Will
Helldivers 2’s massive 7.0 update, Devoid of Liberty, is live now, and it brings some huge changes to the game’s loveable SEAF soldiers. These NPCs are basically the equivalent of UNSC marines in Halo–fun to have around, but not particularly good at their job. Previously in Helldivers 2, SEAF soldiers could be recruited to follow…
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$23.8M in payments going out to Grubhub diners, drivers: FTC
The FTC will be sending 640,038 checks or PayPal deposits to affected app users, amounting to more than $23.8 million.
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Grubhub’s $24M FTC settlement is finally reaching diners and drivers
More than 640,000 Grubhub customers and drivers are due to receive a share of $23.8 million after the US Federal Trade Commission accused the food-delivery company of deceptive practices. The payments mark the practical outcome of a 2024 case alleging that Grubhub overstated potential driver earnings, restricted access to some customer accounts and funds, and…