3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1263+ words) "Really strong" layoff protections are just the tip of the iceberg Two years of tumult later, Blizzard unions finally have a contract, and its terms extend to all unionized units at the company (as opposed to different sets of rights…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (208+ words) Who hasn't at least once looked at their life and said "I feel like a cow trying to play an MMO"? “[EVE Online] is a notoriously hard game, but it doesn't have to be!” Fenris wrote in a tweet after…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (296+ words) 'No generative AI was used in the creation of the artwork' James Pond, a classic fish-based 1990 platformer that spawned (I am not sorry) a few sequels is, decades later, getting not only a surprise new game in the series, but…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (174+ words) 'Even if this was a genre popularised by human artists, it would still look like shit' Why? There are many reasons. Let's go through some! I feel like you can be very gently persuaded that hey, we know things are…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1878+ words) 'When I copy-edit writing I take an extra twenty minutes to double check, then say I had Claude copy edit it as well. Everyone’s really happy with my performance' As more and more dipshit managers mandate (or at least heavily…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (230+ words) OpenAI's Codex Micro is the opposite of why I like custom keyboards on every single level. It is well documented that I have nothing but the utmost respect for tiny customizable keyboards. I have not only built my own — soldering…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (366+ words) In case you were concerned that we didn’t live in the Onion parody version of an actual, functioning universe, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is now leading a Federal Reserve task force dedicated to “productivity and jobs.” Yes, that Asha Sharma....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (210+ words) Spend your summer reconsidering one of our oldest literary traditions “Canon” is a word with many complimentary definitions mostly related to legitimacy: which texts are accepted, what rules are agreed upon. Canon is a fence, ordering the world within from…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago   (483+ words) Firaxis has spent too long listening to the wrong fans, and Civilization is paying the price In a recent interview with Game File, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick spoke a little about the struggles that Civilization VII--an immensely disappointing video game…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (302+ words) Copilot for Xbox is no more On X, the everything app that curiously still does pretty much just one thing, Sharma announced that the Xbox version of Copilot is done for. Sharma has spent her time atop the Xbox pecking…...