Ubisoft CEO says Star Wars Outlaws tanked because people are bored of Star Wars: ‘The brand it belonged to was in a bit of choppy waters’

Ubisoft recently held its annual shareholder’s meeting, an event at which CEO Yves Guillemot has to take questions about the publisher’s successes and failures. One of the latter is perhaps surprising, because Star Wars Outlaws is a pretty decent Star Wars game, and has benefitted from considerable post-launch support—it just didn’t do the numbers. One…

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A mysterious crypto account bought $54,000 worth of bitcoin in 2011 and sold it all for $9.6 billion this week, which means they can now afford one Big Mac a day for 4,971,897 years

I never bought into the bitcoin boom, at least back in the day. In 2011, many would have told you your trousers were on backwards if you dropped over 50 grand on the then-ailing cryptocurrency, and I listened to said trouser-judgers. Crypto was a flop, bitcoin was dead in the water, and many of us…

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OpenAI’s skyrocketing spending could see billions of dollars in silicon headed down the AI mines in the next few years, including 2 million Nvidia chips headed to Texas Stargate facility

OpenAI consumes compute capacity like few have ever done before it. A recent report expects it to gorge itself on datacentre capacity and research between 2025 and 2030—burning cash at a rate of swimming pools per minute by some estimations. The Information reports that OpenAI is chasing fresh investment to allow it to expand its…

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The New Pokémon Theme Park Is Looking Rather Lovely

PokéPark Kanto opens in 2026. The Pokémon Company has shed more light on its upcoming “outdoor Pokémon attraction”, PokéPark Kanto. During today’s Pokémon Presents, Chief Creative Fellow at TPC Junichi Masuda showed off aspects of the park (at least, the concept of it). The aim was to create a world where Pokémon actually exist. The…

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