Party Animals’ studio finally cancels its AI video contest and promises to approach topics like this in the future ‘with a much more humble and cautious attitude’

It’s official: there will be no AI video contest as part of Party Animals “Golden Paw Awards”, as its studio has decided after masses of player backlash followed by a vote across major platforms to wholly cancel the event and apologise to players. “Regarding the controversy surrounding the recent ‘Golden Paw Awards’ AI Video Contest,…

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Intel is reportedly forcing PC builders to buy its latest, most expensive 18A CPUs and I’m wondering what that means for Arrow Lake desktop chips

A new report claims that Intel is pushing its client PC customers to buy its latest CPUs built on 18A silicon. It’s said the older Intel 7 node is increasingly being reserved for more profitable server chips and even Intel CPUs made in TSMC’s fabs will be in short supply. Nikkei Asia says Intel’s move…

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Discord just got the privacy feature it probably should have had for years, introducing end-to-end encryption for very nearly every voice and video call

Discord has just announced that all voice and video calls that take place on its platform will now enjoy end-to-end encryption. You may be forgiven for thinking the platform already had this in place, but that’s not the case. The platform began ‘experimenting’ with end-to-end encryption back in 2023, but has only just made it…

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“You Won’t Want To Miss This” – Hilltop Is Gearing Up For A “Major Fan-Translation Announcement”

Get your guesses in now. The translator Hilltop has taken to social media to tease a “major fan translation announcement” set for Friday, May 22nd, 2026, on YouTube. You may already know Hilltop from their work on quality fan translation patches for Japanese-exclusive games, such as Racing Lagoon, Aconcagua, Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, and Mega…

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World’s largest film archive has a collection of internet memes now, including a granny having a cathartic GTA rampage and Limmy’s Purple Burglar Alarm

It’s important to archive things for future generations—books, culture, music, film, and hey, absolutely videogames. The awareness of the very latter being a hot button topic per the Stop Killing Games movement. The British Film Institute (BFI)—a charity funded by our national lottery which, among many other things, maintains the world’s largest film archive—has similarly…

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