Google won’t just admit it’s feeding YouTube creators to its music AI
If you’ve uploaded a song to YouTube, Google almost certainly considers your video fair game for training its Lyria music AI, it just won’t admit it right now. A…
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Microsoft’s consumer marketing chief to leave next year
…Rajesh Jha, former executive vice president of Microsoft’s experiences and devices group, announced in March that he is retiring after more than 35 years at Microsoft. Jha’s departure…
Pokémon Champions is off to a rough start
Like many live-service games before it, Pokémon Champions’ launch has been messy. The free-to-start battle sim, which is out now on the Switch and Switch 2 (and also coming…
Marathon’s second season is a chance for Bungie to turn things around
…Characterizing how you play an online video game as if it’s a toxic relationship is probably an indication that the problem is more with me than the game. But my experience…
The best part of Mina the Hollower is how it randomizes the Zelda formula
…a built-in randomizer. Randomizers shuffle things like items and enemies so that players can experience games they might be very familiar with in a whole new way. Imagine tackling The…
Pragmata is just okay, but it could’ve been great
…Instead, it’s more of a fairly traditional third-person action game. Hugh gets all kinds of futuristic weapons that mostly represent the traditional video game arsenal, including a shotgun and a…
The line between games and movies keeps getting blurrier
…of Tsushima making movie-like experiences into something interactive. (Directors like Hideo Kojima love nothing more than squeezing Hollywood talent into their games.) But a game like First Light represents just how…
Moves of the Diamond Hand is an unfinished, irresistibly weird dice-based RPG
…your final score (win or lose) is translated into experience points. The basic system was introduced in Cosmo D’s last game, Betrayal at Club Low, but in a less flexible and…
Labor and worker’s rights in tech
…All 42 “regular part-time and full-time employees” of the studio, behind games like Psychonauts and Kiln , will be part of the union, Aftermath reports . Double Fine Is Unionizing [ Aftermath ] Emma…
Valve says it’s ready to launch the Steam Machine this summer
…to games that work well streamed to the headset, which the Frame is also capable of. “Like Steam Deck Verified, the Steam Frame Standalone Verified program focuses on the experience customers will…