Retroid Confirms Rapper Soulja Boy “Does Not Have Permission” To Rebrand And Sell Its Handhelds

Rapper is under fire again for rebranding other people’s products. Remember when one-hit-wonder Soulja Boy (real name DeAndre Cortez Way) got caught selling rebranded handhelds? Well, he’s back at it again (actually, this is technically ‘again again’) because he’s now flipping Retroid handhelds via his shady Soulja Game branding. As spotted by Retro Dodo, Soulja…

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After the Saudi-backed EA buyout, OG Sims director says diversity isn’t just ‘critical,’ it’s ‘existential for the business’: ‘Love is love and people are people’

The future of EA has looked, well, uncertain since it got picked up in the biggest leveraged buyout in private equity history. For one thing, it’s now on the hook for $20 billion in debt. For another, the buyout came from a group of investors that included Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Affinity Partners—founded…

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Where to find Rusted Tools in Arc Raiders

Arc Raiders has a boatload of materials for you to loot topside, and while most of them say what they’re used for, Rusted Tools certainly do not. They’re considered a rare recyclable material, and that’s likely what you’ve done if you’ve found some already, and now you’re frantically searching for more upon the grave realisation…

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It looks like a NUC, it smells like a NUC, but this is not a NUC: Asus ditches the Intel naming for new AMD-powered mini PC, but restricts its GPU choice

If you’ve been wanting a mini PC refresh with the latest Nvidia Blackwell tech, Asus’ popular NUC line is back again, except not really, or only kind of, because although the latest mini PC looks a heck of a lot like a NUC, it’s dropped the NUC name, likely given that it’s rocking AMD silicon….

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Bandai Namco, Square Enix And Other Japanese Publishers Aren’t Happy About OpenAI’s Sora 2 Generative AI Tool

“The result of using Japanese content as machine learning data”. Japanese video game giants Bandai Namco and Square Enix have joined other companies such as the Sony-owned Aniplex, Studio Ghibli, Square Enix, Kadokawa and Shueisha in requesting that OpenAI refrain from training its Sora 2 Generative AI model on their content. The announcement was made…

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