Team Ninja Gears Up For Its 30th Anniversary

“We hope to announce and release titles fitting for the occasion”. As we enter 2025, Koei Tecmo’s Team Ninja (known for its work on series like Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive) has acknowledged its 30th anniversary. In 4Gamer.net’s round up on Japanese developer’s 2025 ambitions, Team Ninja’s Fumihiko Yasuda mentioned how the team hoped…

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Meta wants AI characters to fill up Facebook and Instagram ‘kind of in the same way accounts do,’ but also had to delete a humiliating first run of its official bots

The conspiratorial “dead internet theory“—that most online activity is just a haze of self-perpetuating algorithmic noise⁠—is not true, yet, but it sure seems like some people really want to get us there as quickly as possible. As reported by 404 Media, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta has hastily deleted a swathe of experimental AI…

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Minecraft creator Notch says that he ‘basically announced minecraft 2’ with a Twitter poll and a commitment to making a spiritual successor

Original Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson has stated on Twitter that his next game will be a Minecraft spiritual successor and that he “basically announced minecraft 2.” Notch had run a Twitter poll asking followers to weigh in on whether he should keep his in-development project’s current direction, or put it on the shelf to…

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