Microsoft employee escorted out of 50th anniversary event after protesting sales to Israel: ‘You have blood on your hands. All of Microsoft has blood on its hands’

A Microsoft employee interrupted an address being given by AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman as part of the company’s 50th anniversary event, demanding the company “stop using AI for genocide.” The disruption was first reported by The Verge, which also shared video of the incident. It can also be heard in The Verge’s full coverage of…

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Months before Schedule 1 was a Steam top seller, its solo dev was worried he was ‘kneecapping’ himself by not putting ‘drug’ in the title

Thanks to the benefit of hindsight, we know that Schedule 1 is a pretty cool name for the drug-dealing sim that’s topped the Steam charts these last two weeks. It’s evocative, memorable, and references its subject matter without affixing a played-out “Simulator” on the end. But five months ago, back when Schedule 1 was nothing…

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Unity CEO rails against the ‘idiocy’ of the metaverse: ‘I experienced all those new platforms and just thought they were garbage’

Unity has not been having the greatest time in recent years, much of which is down to its former CEO John Riccitiello. Calling developers “fucking idiots” didn’t seem a wise move when your business depends on, erm, developers, but that was nothing next to Unity’s plans for a mooted runtime fee that would see game…

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I’m losing my mind over Inzoi’s massive river sharks

Since life sim Inzoi launched in early access last week, I’ve relished watching players discover the game’s weirdest quirks, ranging from impressively detailed housing customization options to…the ability to kidnap babies. My new favorite thing, however, is how players who have tried out the game’s fishing system have been unexpectedly greeted with a sharp surprise….

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Tekken 8’s newest season is being dogpiled with negative reviews as director says there’s a ‘disconnect between what the community wants’ and what the developer is doing

Tekken 8 is losing the matchup against its own community right now, with its second season being met with near-universal criticism, tanking its recent Steam review rating all the way to Overwhelmingly Negative. Currently, only 14% of reviews made in the last 30 days are positive, while its overall rating is still Mixed as Steam…

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The Monster Hunter Wilds update added a big, beautiful bird who gives you free stuff, and players are already worshipping it as a benevolent god

They might eagerly go toe-to-toe with a tyrannosaur just to turn its hide into a hat, but even hunters love free stuff. It’s no surprise, then, that it’s taken only hours for Monster Hunter Wilds players to turn a newly-added bird benefactor into an object of worship. Wilds’ first big update adds the Grand Hub:…

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13 years after it was first teased, the official Mewgenics trailer is here with live-action sexual dysfunction, brutal violence, a divine grudge, and more than 100 truly awful cats

2012 was quite a year. Barack Obama was re-elected, PC Gamer selected Mass Effect 3 as Game of the Year, and Binding of Isaac studio teased its next game, an “adorably horrible” kitty-cat mutation simulator called Mew-Genics. Now it’s 2025: Donald Trump is somehow sort of in charge, BioWare seems pretty much cooked, and Mewgenics—now…

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