Rob Greensky

MIO is one of those "most screenshots could pass for concept art" kinda games, and I'm really digging it.

I'm clearly not a big fan of any of the big AI companies, but Anthropic just made Trump throw an ALL CAPS tantrum, and for that I salute them.

Seems like a lot of game journalists want to write about what "went wrong" with Highguard, as if the default for games is that they're successful out of the gate and have plenty of runway to iterate towards greatness, and something really uniquely unfortunate must have happened here.

Is it weird that this is happening only after america decided everything should be gambling?

"We opted you into AI ads that misrepresent your characters, you should thank us for doing it and if you ask us to stop we might not" is really an amazing summary of big tech at the moment.

Hasn't "wellness" always been a vague, hand-wavey term for the general concept of being healthy? Perhaps it had a defined term as far as regulation was concerned, but even then it seems to be defined by what it's not - something proven to offer important medical guidance?

Getting my 4-yearly reminder that curling is rad. A stone can be in motion for over 20s, which I think makes for a super-suspenseful sport.

The future we were afraid of vs the future we should have been afraid of.
c/o @404media.co

@critdistance.bsky.social heads up - several of the links appear to be placeholders.

Why the Christchurch mosque terrorist is back in court over his life sentence He is asking the Court of Appeal to let him challenge his convictions late.

Obviously the idea of a forced confession is a serious one, but when you send out a manifesto, then livestream your murders and get caught at the scene with the murder weapon, it seems like you've effectively confessed already.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christchu...

Perhaps in the not-too-distant future we will look back and wonder how any tech startup (even one that can raise tens of billions of dollars from investors) thought they could ever compete with this.

I really enjoyed my time with South of Midnight. It's hard to identify any particular gameplay idea that hasn't been done before, and maybe a bit tighter, but the vibes are great. Really the best kind of 7/10, and an easy gamepass recommend.

You gotta love it when a judge has the confidence to effectively say "I'm not just telling you that you're wrong, I'm also telling you that you're evil".

Video game company stock prices dip after investors unable to see a difference between a videogame and something that can pretend to be one for a minute.

Like 3DTV before it, this is a nice reminder that something isn't "the future" just because the people making it say so. Consumers still get to decide if they care about something and are willing to pay more for it.

This feels only slightly more thoughtful than "I took a picture of a poem and now my camera is sad".

People are making fun of the copyright irony here, but the real highlight is that they're still implying that ChatGPT is going to create new breakthrough medications in the near future, with enough confidence that they've thought about monetising it.

A Man Bought Meta's AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert Searching for Aliens to Abduct Him After encountering Meta AI, a man's mental health unraveled. As he lost touch with reality, the chatbot continued to affirm his delusions.

Stories like this one seem to be increasingly common, and it's amazing that the response from the AI company seems to be along the lines of "Yeah, but we told him about a helpline when he got suicidal, so that's our job done"

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Trying something new this year - reportedly the highest royalty payments to artists of all the music streaming services.

Every year I like to play a little game called "Spot the mobile game nominees".

So his proof of a conspiracy is basically that his company existed in a competitive market?

Sanzaru made the highest-rated Quest game on metacritic, and that wasn't enough to keep them on. Is anyone still optimistic about the VR gaming market?

Wellington on good evening.

Imagine what might potentially exist if a company pledged to spend $108B creating new media instead of buying stuff that already exists.
They wouldn't of course, because they don't actually have that much money, but still....

Dell seems to be the first to realise we don't actually care about AI PCs "What we've learned over the course of this year, from a consumer perspective, is they're not buying based on AI."

Kudos to Dell for being willing to admit that branding everything with AI didn't help sell more computers.

www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...

6X? Is this the new "But our razor has 5 blades!"?

Sounds a bit like blaming the players for either not better executing on the open-world stuff or not questioning earlier whether it suited the franchise.

Some day we will look back and agree that the real Stranger Thing was Netflix agreeing to fund that show for five (probably increasingly expensive) seasons.

@martian's finished Circuits #809 Re-imagined mainstays like the daily Crossword Puzzle, modern classics like Really Bad Chess and SpellTower, and even a few brand new puzzles.

Start as you mean to go on I guess 😁
#Puzzmo
puzzmo.com/play/circuit...