Scoop: Sonos' next speakers are called the Era 300 and Era 100. They'll usher in a new generation of hardware designed to showcase spatial audio and Dolby Atmos.
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the news won't stop: Google's ChatGPT rival is official and it's called Bard, an "experimental conversational AI service" — only in closed beta right now, "more widely available to the public in the coming weeks," says CEO Sundar Pichai theverge.com/2023/2/6/23588
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replaying Hollow Knight ahead of the launch of Silksong. it's still extremely good!
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NEW: Microsoft confirmed to me that it *is not* closing down the Xbox 360 Marketplace, despite text on an Xbox support page indicating that would be the case.
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Rolled credits on Hi-Fi Rush. Really wonderful game. The beat-based fighting is genius, and the art and characters make you feel like you’re playing a Saturday morning cartoon. Will almost certainly be one of my top games of the year
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Starting tomorrow I'll be joining at to kickstart their commerce coverage. I only mention it because the state says that I need to warn anyone before unleashing any more of my goblin energy. LET'S GO!
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extremely excited for this game
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Cover Reveal – Resident Evil 4
We played two chapters of the hotly anticipated remake and have much to share in this month's issue. Be sure to also tune into a month of exclusive online features to learn how Capcom reinvented the 2005 classic. bit.ly/3Y7ITxF
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I'm now the commerce editor ! Very excited to get started with new teammates and work fully in the world of gaming and entertainment. I begin Wednesday.
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A Game Boy test cartridge used internally at Nintendo to diagnose problems with the hardware contains a graphics test that consists of ten Raccoon Marios marching around a monolith in a manner resembling a ceremony or ritual.
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Sorry, there will be no UEFN in January. We’re now targeting March.
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Did Twitter's font on the web just change for anyone else? I can't quite put my finger on it but it feels different
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I'm quite excited to try Hi-Fi Rush, it looks great
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New: We counted corrections on 41 of the 77 AI-written stories CNET published that have been the center of controversy. The AI tool is "paused" for now but CNET leadership makes it clear they're moving forward with AI in the newsroom. w/
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big Twitch 2023 changes:
• Sound Bites for viewers to pay for sound alerts
• pre-roll ads will suck less + picture-by-picture
• emotes in stream titles 👍
• new tools to export VODs and clips for vertical TikTok / Twitter videos
details here:
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Previously, you had to push down the right thumbstick to jump in Horizon Worlds, which was bad for a few reasons. Now you just press A, like you might be used to from.... decades of video games
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More details on @washingtonpost layoffs, per memo from Executive Editor Sally Buzbee:
— 20 newsroom positions eliminated
— 30 open positions will not be filled
— WaPo is sunsetting Launcher, its online gaming vertical, and KidsPost, per two sources familiar
Memo below: twitter.com/sarafischer/st…
While PSVR2 lacks brand new games at launch, for I spoke to some devs on how they’re hoping to make their PSVR1 games feel like new - though also because it’s the only way you’ll be able to play them on the new non-backward compatible headset
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We spoke to developers about remaking PSVR 1 games to PSVR 2 due to the lack of backwards compatibility - and many say it gives their titles a new lease of life
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played through Resident Evil 4 last week, it holds up! each room is such a good zombie survival puzzle. I even warmed up to the tank controls after awhile
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Roblox is completing the rollout of its new Creator Hub, a resource that centralizes many of developer tools. It could really help devs, but that helps Roblox, too; Roblox makes money by taking a cut of what devs sell, so catering to them is important.
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SCOOP: Parler's parent-company, Parlement Technologies, has laid off a majority of its staff over the last few weeks. The sudden purge has thrown the future of one of the first alt-social networks into question.
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Pedro Eustache opens up about video game music and becoming the Flute Guy theverge.com/2022/12/13/235 via
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I interviewed Epic Games CEO about his crusade to break Apple’s power over the App Store, and how he is increasingly seeing it as a problem for speech and not just business
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The FTC has released its redacted complaint against Microsoft regarding its Activision Blizzard acquisition. We've added it to our article
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so much news today (and more to come with the game awards!) have this one on loop to keep me going. one of the best songs in any video game, imo
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"There might even be some hidden mysteries for those of an inquiring mindset, but we can neither confirm nor deny the presence of vampires…"
Vampires are coming to Vampire Survivors???
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EXCLUSIVE: 300+ workers at ZeniMax Media, a Microsoft-owner parent company of gaming studios like Bethesda, are voting on unionizing w/ .
Would the biggest U.S. gaming union and a first for MSFT, which says it will stay neutral.
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Many video game industry workers are tired of the status quo, ready to leave behind a culture of sexism, harassment, and mismanagement. This is how the industry is unionizing, compiled into a 54-page zine we've been working on over the past year:
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Story to be updated soon with more: Am hearing that several “critical” infra engineering teams at Twitter have completely resigned. “You cannot run Twitter without this team,” one current engineer tells me of one such group. Also, Twitter has shut off badge access to its offices.
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“It will be extremely hard for Twitter to recover from here, no matter how hardcore the people who remain try to be.”
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Flashing back to the many many many many many many stressful ticket purchases I've gone through, godspeed to you all
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New: One of the world's biggest ad agencies just recommended its brand clients pause ad campaigns on Twitter. Omnicom Media Group sent a memo around today citing the recent chaos on the bird app — 89% of Twitter revenue was from ads last year.
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I have historically really liked Quest headsets. I thought the Quest Pro's hardware was decent in a preview. As a whole platform... I really do not like the Quest Pro.
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Elon Musk surprised Twitter employees today with a surprise all-hands scheduled less than a half hour before it started. It was his first time addressing the company in a meeting.
I obtained a recording and just published the full transcript:
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Pretty huge news from Netflix: it's hosting its first-ever livestreamed event next year, a Chris Rock comedy special.
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A Twitter lawyer sent an alarming message to colleagues this morning, saying that Elon Musk “is willing to take on a huge amount of risk in relation to this company and its users” and is at risk of putting the company in violation of its FTC consent decree
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