Google isn’t scanning your Gmail to train Gemini, it’s letting Gemini scan your inbox to provide ‘personalized insights’ but I’m not sure that’s better

For the banishment of all doubt, no, Google isn’t scraping the contents of your email inbox in order to train its AI models. However, that doesn’t mean Gmail is free of Gemini, and sooner or later you’ll need to decide your own personal boundaries with AI. Google announced at the start of the year that…

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Following Digital Eclipse’s Remake, Atari Has Now Acquired The Rights To One Of The Most Influential RPGs Of All Time

Wizardry 1-5 are now owned by Atari, though Drecom still retains its rights. Atari has just announced the acquisition of “the complete and exclusive rights to the first five Wizardry games and their underlying IP”. This includes Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (1981), Wizardry II: The Knight of Diamonds (1982), Wizardry III: Legacy…

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Atari just bought the rights to the big daddy of PC RPGs, and a reissue campaign is afoot

Released in 1981, Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord was the first grid-based first-person RPG—what we nowadays call blobbers—and it proved enormously influential. Its art was rudimentary: the monochrome dungeon halls were a series of white lines carefully placed to simulate the feeling of moving through a three-dimensional environment. Leaving the ruggedness of its…

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With a peak player count of 14.2 million, 99 Nights in the Forest has an audience other multiplayer games would kill for: ‘To find these behemoth playerbases you need to be on a platform like Roblox’

When I was a kid I might get a videogame for Christmas and another for my birthday, but in between it was free games that filled my time. First shareware, then Flash games. If you were a kid after 2006 though, the free games that defined your childhood probably involved Roblox. In 2025, players spent…

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