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The US Department of Defense has labelled Chinese megacorp Tencent - a huge player in the global video games industry - as a Chinese military company.
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Meta ends US fact-checking partnerships, sparking an emergency meeting by the International Fact-Checking Network. Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images As part of Meta’s sweeping changes to content moderation announced today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that the company will also be moving its content moderation teams from California to Texas to “help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content,” he wrote on Threads. “We’re going to move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and... Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said moving teams from California to Texas and other states would help address concerns of overcensorship on its platforms. Read more ›
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Research and development is underway to create robots that can hunt for signs of life in the vast oceans that exist under the thick ice shells of bodies like Europa. Read more ›
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Jar of Sparks, the Seattle-based "AAA" studio established by Halo Infinite head of design Jerry Hook back in 2022, has halted work its currently unannounced first title as it searches for a new publishing partner, and that's it's looking to "find all of our team new homes" as a result. Read more Read more ›
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The appetite for AI-derived drivel isn’t as strong as many publishers would have you believe, and demand for quality content is growing. Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg announcea Meta's shift to community notes, replacing fact-checkers and easing content restrictions. Read more ›
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Microsoft OneDrive is a cloud-based online storage service that lets you easily store, share, and backup files and photos. Here's how to get started. Read more ›
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Assassin's Creed Shadows features a rejig of the series' usual controls due to the addition of being able to go prone. Read more Read more ›
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The combined company, which will be called Getty Images, will be worth $3.7 billion, Getty said on Tuesday. Read more ›
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Apple has reportedly ceased production of its expensive £3500 Vision Pro headset, as unsold stock has piled up. Read more Read more ›
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An Xbox controller based on the PlayStation 5's DualSense design has been announced by peripheral company Hyperkin. Read more Read more ›
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Black Myth: Wukong's director has appeared to contradict Microsoft, stating the game's Xbox delay is due to the Series S's memory limitations. This is something that the Xbox maker has previously denied. Read more Read more ›
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2025 will be the Year of Eevee, according to the Pokémon Company. Read more Read more ›
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Cast your eyes across the 2025 video game release schedule and you might notice a bit of a trend. There are triple-A games here. In fact, there are a lot of triple-A video games here. After a desperately barren year for them in 2024 - plenty of good games and surprisingly successful games; very few big, expensive ventures you'd hang your hat on - in 2025, the triple-A blockbuster is... Read more ›
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New year, new Switch 2 leaks. While Nintendo's plans for its Switch successor remain officially under wraps, a patent from the company has surfaced detailing plans to use upscaling technology to cram games with up to 4K textures onto physical game cartridges. Read more Read more ›
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Servers for WWE 2K23 are closing down today, leaving WWE 2K24 as the only game in the long-running series left with online functionality. Read more Read more ›
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Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War cost a staggering $700m (£557m) to develop, a new report has revealed. Read more Read more ›
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Naughty Dog co-founder Andrew Gavin has opened up about why the studio was acquired by Sony back in 2001. Read more Read more ›
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