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Don McGowan is an attorney who knows what he's talking about when it comes to understanding what Microsoft might do following the Trump administration's provocative use of the Halo IP on social media this week. He was a senior attorney at Xbox Game Studios for three years. He was also chief legal officer at The Pokémon Company for a decade - another brand recently abused by the Trump administration. McGowan, currently a partner at KUSK Law and principal at Extreme Grownup Services, has given me an insight i
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The classic Robert Zemeckis film is back in theaters this weekend, and if you can, see the 4DX version. Read more âș
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Among the many humiliations of being American in the current moment is this: Members of the tech right and the conservative ruling class continually fetishize objects of nerd culture while also displaying a willful inability to grasp the very basic messages those objects are sending. While there are certainly worse problems (e.g. white nationalism in [âŠ] Read more âș
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Record: Denmark's justice minister on Thursday said he will no longer push for an EU law requiring the mandatory scanning of electronic messages, including on end-to-end encrypted platforms. Earlier in its European Council presidency, Denmark had brought back a draft law which would have required the scanning, sparking an intense backlash. Known as Chat Control, the measure was intended to crack down... Read more âș
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To many progressives, ICE â Immigration and Customs Enforcement â is synonymous with President Donald Trumpâs brutal and cruel immigration regime. But to hardliners in the Trump administration bent on carrying out mass deportation, ICE has actually been something of a disappointment. So theyâre increasingly turning to another agency that they view as willing to [âŠ] Read more âș
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AWS growth topped 20% as Amazon's AI transformation impacts job roles and corporate operations, signaling a new era of profound economic change. Read more âș
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The backlash to the Trump administration's use of AI Halo imagery to promote political causes - notably the use of force by ICE to detain purportedly illegal immigrants - has spread to include strongly worded responses from the original designers of the Halo game. Read more Read more âș
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The US government's use of AI-generated Halo imagery on social media has absolutely been a power-play to appeal to like-minded American gamers. Read more Read more âș
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Amid reports Amazon has 'gutted' its video games division as part of 14,000 company wide job cuts earlier this week, one former developer has suggested its Lord of the Rings MMO has also been cancelled. Read more Read more âș
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The creator of viral Roblox game Steal A Brainrot is suing a Fortnite doppelgĂ€nger for allegedly copying its "artwork, objects, design, and game elements". Read more Read more âș
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Akira Yamaoka, long-time composer and sound design director for Silent Hill and a number of other games like The Medium and Lollipop Chainsaw, is embarking on his first ever U.S. tour in February 2026. Read more Read more âș
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Iâd argue that there was probably no greater poisoned chalice in games than taking on the job of remaking Final Fantasy 7. Hyped for years before it was announced, its reveal part of the so-called âE3 of dreamsâ, and it is of course a reimagining of one of the most important and beloved role-playing games of all time. Even if it was brilliant, there would inevitably be grousing from some... Read more âș
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President of Xbox game content and studios, Matt Booty, has claimed the company's competition no longer lies with other game studios and console developers, but "everything else". Read more Read more âș
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Following Amazon's decision to cuts 14,000 jobs, a new report has claimed the company is "gutting" its video games division as part of the move. Read more Read more âș
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I imagine the biggest question people who've put hundreds or thousands of hours into Amazon's MMO New World have right now is: are all my efforts about to be wiped? Is the game about to go offline, and close? Read more Read more âș
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