Tim Sweeney says it “makes no sense” for stores like Steam to label games that are made using AI, since AI “will be involved in nearly all future production”
“It makes no sense for game stores, where AI will be involved in nearly all future production.”
Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down, replaced by Humam Sakhnini effective April 28; Citron will stay on the board and become a CEO advisor
to help friends talk while playing games—has grown into something far bigger than I ever imagined. I'll be transitioning to a new role as Board Member and Advisor, and continuing ...
AMD unveils the $549 Radeon RX 9070 and $599 Radeon 9070 XT GPUs, featuring 16GB of GDDR6 memory, PCIe 5.0, and FSR 4 support, shipping March 6
FSR 4 will “triple” your FPS in Black Ops 6 Rich Edmonds / XDA Developers : AMD listened — The Radeon RX 9070 XT is the “best 4K GPU” for less than $600 Fahd Temsamani / Club386 : ...
Framework Desktop hands-on: the tiny 4.5-liter gaming desktop looks cool, good frame rates at 1440p thanks to its AMD Ryzen AI Max CPU, expandable I/O, and more
Is this neat thing a new sub-category or a one-off? … Framework's mission is to “fix consumer electronics, one category at a time” …
Framework unveils the Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 300, priced at $1,099 for a pre-built model, and Framework Laptop 12 with a touch screen, price TBA
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The Linux Foundation launches an initiative to fund developing Chromium projects in a “neutral space”, with support from Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Opera
But it's really a “neutral space” for funding and support, corralling together some big names with a stake in the future of Chrome's open source roots, Chromium.
Lenovo unveils the $499 Legion Go S, the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld, weighing 1.6 pounds and ditching the previous gen's detachable gamepads
Lenovo is trying an experiment. In May, it will officially become the very first company outside of Valve to ship a handheld gaming PC …
Intel and AMD forge an x86 ecosystem advisory group to ensure a unified x86 instruction set architecture moving forward, amid competition from Arm and RISC-V
including @Microsoft, @Dell, @Lenovo and @HP—are joining their new advisory group to “shape the future of x86 and foster developer innovation.” https://www.crn.com/... @CRN Mark Ru...
Open-source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx has been removed from GitHub, and its team has reportedly ceased development after Nintendo contacted its creator
GitHub removal comes months after a Nintendo lawsuit took down the Yuzu emulator. — Popular open source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx …
Steam changes its subscriber agreement, removing its forced arbitration policy and allowing gamers to take legal action against its parent company Valve
Steam just removed its forced arbitration policy, opening the door for lawsuits against its parent company, Valve.
Nintendo and The Pokémon Company sue Palworld developer Pocketpair, accusing it of infringing on “multiple patent rights”; Palworld sold 5M+ copies in January
Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair, which makes the game Palworld.
Linux users say Microsoft's August 13 Windows patch leaves dual-boot devices unable to boot into Linux when Secure Boot is enforced; Microsoft hasn't commented
Microsoft said its update wouldn't install on Linux devices. It did anyway. — Last Tuesday, loads of Linux users …
Intel plans to cut 15%+ of its workforce, the majority by the end of 2024, as part of a $10B cost reduction plan and to suspend its dividend starting in Q4 2024
Intel announced that it will lay off 15% of its workforce as part of a broad cost-reduction program.
Intel reports Q2 revenue down 1% YoY to $12.8B, vs. $12.9B estimated, Data Center and AI down 3% YoY to $3B, and gives light Q3 guidance; INTC drops 25%+
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Microsoft partners with IBM to release the MS-DOS 4.0 source code under the MIT license on GitHub
Fond memories of beige machines. — Ah, the PC in the spare room. Back when “going on the computer” was an event, not a daily necessity, I cut my teeth on MS-DOS games.
Microsoft begins rolling out Windows 11 Start menu ads that show app “recommendations” from “a small set of curated developers”; users can disable the ads
Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users.
Tropic Haze, the developer of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu, agrees to pay $2.4M to settle Nintendo's lawsuit, shut down the emulator, and surrender the domain
“Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu will utterly fold and pay $2.4M to settle its lawsuit” — https://www.theverge.com/... @cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family : I'm frustrated by the Yuzo/...
As Palworld hits 8M+ copies sold, The Pokémon Company denies having let “another company” use its IP and plans to “investigate and take appropriate measures”
The Pokemon Company said Thursday it has not granted any permission to “another company,” …
Tencent-owned Riot Games plans to lay off 530 employees globally, or ~11% of its staff, saying Riot had “more than doubled in headcount” over the past few years
The cuts, which amount to about 11% of staff, were announced Monday in a blog post and letter to employees.
Filing and memo: Unity Software plans to lay off ~25% of its workforce, or 1,800 jobs, by the end of March 2024, its largest layoff ever and affecting all teams
Videogame software provider Unity Software (U.N) will target laying off approximately 25% of its workforce, or 1,800 jobs …