Plex says controversial service that emails your anime habits to your mates is opt-in, actually, pointing at a screen where you still have to turn it off

Earlier this week, Plex caused some uproar when its “Discover Together” feature began to surprise users, emailing their friends and media server compatriots with their watch history. The feature seems like a superfluous bell and/or whistle to the rig-your-own Netflix-style streaming service, which allows you to make your own media servers to stream content you…

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Sega admits Creative Assembly’s live service push happened because it was drunk on ‘the favorable winds of the early Covid-19 period,’ says the studio will focus on RTS games from now on

The devs at Creative Assembly have had a rough time of it recently. Back in September, the studio was blindsided by the sudden cancellation of its upcoming live-service shooter Hyenas, barely two weeks after it had concluded an open beta and one month after an appearance at Gamescom. The result was layoffs, uncertainty, and now…

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