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Competition and Markets Authority gives tech giant hope after it blocked acquisition of Call of Duty makerThe UK competition watchdog has said it will decide whether to clear or block Microsoft’s $69bn (£54bn) takeover of the video game developer Activ…
World of Warcraft players wrote about a fictional game element, “Glorbo,” on a subreddit for the game, trying to entice an AI bot to write an article about it. It worked:
And it…worked. Zleague auto-published a post titled “World of Warcraft Players Excited For Glorbo’s Introduction.”
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That is…all essentially nonsense. The article was left online for a while but has finally been taken down (here’s a mirror, it’s hilarious). All the authors listed as having bylines on the site are fake. It appears this entire thing is run with close to zero oversight…
Leaving a Ubisoft account inactive for too long “apparently puts it at risk of permanent deletion,” writes PC Gamer, calling the policy “a customer-unfriendly practice.”
A piracy and anti-DRM focused Twitter account, PC_enjoyer, recently shared a scre…
Blizzard Entertainment is bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with the release of Overwatch 2 on Valve’s digital storefront on Aug. 10, Blizzard announced Wednesday. Polygon reports: The Windows PC version of Overwatch 2, like many of Blizzard’s P…
Gandalf is an interactive LLM game where the goal is to get the chatbot to reveal its password. There are eight levels of difficulty, as the chatbot gets increasingly restrictive instructions as to how it will answer. It’s a great teaching tool.
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Listing on Australian government’s classification board website describes Bluey video game as a treasure hunt-style gameFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastI…
Software giant acquiesced after US trade commission expressed concern that Activision Blizzard acquisition would hurt gamersMicrosoft has signed a binding agreement to ensure that the Call of Duty video game franchise remains available on Sony’s PlaySt…
A new article in Game Rant points out that the 2013 game Grand Theft Auto V was “the most successful piece of fictional media ever made, amassing almost 8 billion dollars.” So with a sequel planned, it was a big deal when 50 minutes of authentic pre-re…
The Federal Trade Commission’s request to pause the deal was rejected, clearing the few remaining hurdles for it to go throughA US appeals court on Friday rejected the Federal Trade Commission’s request to pause Microsoft’s $69bn (£53bn) purchase of Ca…
Experts say UK not doing enough to tackle gambling-style features in games on smartphones and consoles How video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spendersComment: I was not prepared for what we came across when treating gaming disordersMor…