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Fabulous news everyone: Market analyst says the AI bubble is 17X bigger than the dotcom goldrush, and 4X larger than the subprime bubble that caused the 2008 crash

The AI sector isn’t just a bubble, says one senior market analyst: It’s the single biggest bubble the markets have ever seen, the bubble of bubbles if you will, a bubble so large it looms over the entire global economy and leaves Sir Mix-A-Lot breathless. In unrelated news, the Associated Press has just reported that…

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As Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices, former FTC chair says I told you so: The Activision-Blizzard buyout is ‘harming both gamers and developers’

As Microsoft slashes jobs and raises prices, former US Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan has taken to X to say that the company’s actions since completing its acquisition of Activision Blizzard in 2023 is pretty much what the FTC warned would happen when it opposed the deal. Khan, you may recall, was head of…

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A slot machine for gags disguised as a Vampire Survivors-like is taking over Steam, and I’m just as addicted to pulling the lever as the other 90K people playing it

One of the most popular games on Steam right now looks like it came from the mobile game ads I scroll by on TikTok. Every clip I saw of Megabonk before I actually played it seemed primed to yell “EPIC BATTLES”, “INFINITE XP”, and “FREE GOLD” at me until I hit the download button. Megabonk…

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Dying Light: The Beast players have killed enough zombies in two weeks to equal a quarter of the world’s population

Dying Light: The Beast has only been out for about two weeks—but for players, that’s been more than enough time to slice and dice a record number of zombies to un-undeath. According to developer Techland, in the first 12 days after the survival horror game launched, players have killed more than 2.2 billion zombies. That’s…

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As Game Pass prices get laughably high, Microsoft is reportedly spinning up a free version of Xbox Cloud Gaming—but of course you’ll have to sit through ads

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced an up to 50% price increase for Xbox Game Pass, offering the compelling value proposition of “What if one month’s access to a new Xbox-published game cost almost a quarter of the price of just buying the damn thing and owning it forever?” Microsoft’s explanation for the price hike was…

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