The Communications Workers of America (CWA), the labour union behind several recent organising efforts at Activision Blizzard development studios, is filing charges directly against Activision CEO Bobby Kotick. Spotted by Kotaku (opens in new tab), the CWA alleges that the company violated the law when it fired two QA testers last February. The fired QA…
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Reliable Fortnite leakers reveal that the upcoming Chapter 2 Season 4 of the battle royale game will feature Attack on Titan content and more. Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 2 will seemingly include a crossover with the wildly popular anime/manga series Attack on Titan. Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 1 featured a wide variety of skins for…
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OpenAI has announced that it’s now letting third-party developers integrate ChatGPT into their apps and services via an API and that doing so will be significantly cheaper than using its existing language models. The company is making Whisper, its AI-powered speech-to-text model, available for use through an API and making some important changes to its…
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The world of cooperative horde shooter Deep Rock Galactic is getting adapted to a new setting: A survivors-style auto-horde-shooter where a single dwarf takes on the buggy hordes all on their own. The trailer (opens in new tab) for Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor dropped today alongside a Steam page and a loose Early Access release…
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Streamer and former member of the OTK network BruceDropEmOff is banned from Twitch shortly after a return from previous indefinite ban. Streamer BruceDropEmOff has been banned from Twitch shortly after returning from an earlier indefinite ban from the streaming platform. The former member of the OTK streamer organization’s departure has led to a downward spiral…
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If you’re more of a movie and TV show watcher than a gamer and you want a TV with deep black levels and better viewing angles, LG’s A2 OLED is on sale at Best Buy starting at $599.99 ($700 off) for a 48-inch model. The main difference between the A2 and LG’s pricier models is…
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February really was the month of extreme Tekken 8 hype. First, we had the Tekken World Tour Finals giving us a better look at the Heat system (opens in new tab) and revealing that Nina Williams would be returning to the roster. Last week saw Kazuya Mishima (opens in new tab) receive a character trailer,…
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After the highly successful release of Sonic Frontiers in November 2022, the Sonic Team boss is switching to a brand-new role at Sega. Sega Sammy Holdings’ latest investors notice reveals Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka is switching to a role at Sega following the success of Sonic Frontiers. Iizuka’s new role at Sega allows him…
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Republicans on a powerful House committee voted to advance a bill on Wednesday that would allow President Joe Biden to ban TikTok from the United States, despite objections from Democrats and civil liberty groups. In a 24-16 vote, the House Foreign Affairs Committee greenlit Rep. Michael McCaul’s (R-TX) Deterring America’s Technological Adversaries Act, or DATA…
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It would be hard to overstate Dark Souls’ influence at this point, spawning not only its own subgenre but altering the sensibilities of a broad array of games outside of the soulslike mould. If you ask me, the results have been mixed—partly, I think, because it’s difficult to define the game’s formula and the source…
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