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Share of the Week: Hands

Share of the Week: Hands

Last week, we asked you focus in on characters moving their hands using #PSshare #PSBlog. Let’s give a hand to this week’s highlights: cenrice shares Diana raising a hand to open an interface in Pragmata PattyGnand shares Ellie’s hands tuning a guitar in The Last of Us Part II rorottino shares Dollman using his hands…

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Riot taunts would-be hackers using physical hardware to cheat: ‘congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight’

“congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight,” Riot Games taunts on X. A whole bunch of nefarious hardware tinkerers seem to now be on the wrong end of the company’s Vanguard anti-cheat, as it seems Riot has gone beyond kernel-level and confounded even cheaters’ attempts to bypass the anti-cheat by using a…

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‘What we’re building is grounded in consent, credit, and compensation for the artists and songwriters that take part’: Planned Spotify AI tool can generate remixes and covers

Spotify plans to introduce a tool that will allow users to create AI-generated covers and remixes. My first instinct was to raise my hackles up, too, but it turns out there’s a smidge more nuance to get into. Namely, the planned feature is pitched as a ‘groundbreaking responsible AI tool.’ How does a massive corporation…

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3 years on from laying off over 1,000 people, Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast are sending daily emails and physical letters encouraging the survivors to not unionise

Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons, has a problem—no, not its cancelled video games. Its workers would like to unionise, and I’m just starting to get the sense that it really doesn’t want that to happen. Just a smidge. A tiny inkling. Late last month, WoTC…

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Dying Light’s former director believes devs are obligated ‘to focus and listen to the players’ because as soon as a game’s released ‘it stops being only your game’

Tymon Smektała spent 13 years as director for the iconic zombie parkour game Dying Light and after stepping away from said role earlier this month he’s reflected on the franchise, its fans, and what listening to a playerbase can do for a game. “I believe very strongly that this makes it your obligation to focus…

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