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Games Workshop says its senior managers aren’t excited about AI, prohibits its use and laments that it’s ‘included on our phones or laptops whether we like it or not’

Warhammer company Games Workshop says that it does not allow generative AI in its products, and although some of its senior managers have investigated the technology, “none are that excited about it yet.” The comments came from Games Workshop CEO Kevin Rountree in the company’s half-yearly financial report for the back end of 2025, in…

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Hytale’s developer warned us the adventure sandbox ‘isn’t good yet,’ but it already feels pretty good to me

It’s pretty incredible that Hytale launched into early access today. It’s a miracle it even exists at all, really: games canceled by major studios typically vanish forever. Remember Blizzard’s survival game Odyssey that was canceled after nearly eight years in development? Poof. Gone, tragically leaving behind nothing more than a handful of leaked screenshots. So…

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Hytale’s developer warned us the adventure sandbox ‘isn’t good yet,’ but it already feels pretty good to me

It’s pretty incredible that Hytale launched into early access today. It’s a miracle it even exists at all, really: games canceled by major studios typically vanish forever. Remember Blizzard’s survival game Odyssey that was canceled after nearly eight years in development? Poof. Gone, tragically leaving behind nothing more than a handful of leaked screenshots. So…

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Meta is closing 3 VR studios and laying off roughly 10% of Reality Labs as it shifts focus from the metaverse to AI wearables, it’s next sure-fire, can’t-miss idea

Meta chief technology officer Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said early in 2025 that the metaverse could be a “legendary misadventure” if the company’s Reality Labs division didn’t turn things around that year in a big way. Well, here we are in 2026, and it looks like the mission was not accomplished: Bloomberg says Meta is beginning…

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How to get iron in Hytale

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of dying to bears, and the mean grizzlies expedited my search to get iron in Hytale since my weapons fashioned from rocks and sticks just weren’t cutting it. I found a hefty deposit early on, and I’ve smelted it all down into iron ingots for making fancy…

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It’s January 13 and Ubisoft just announced its second round of layoffs for 2026, at Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm

A “voluntary career transition program” at Ubisoft’s Massive studio announced in October 2025 apparently wasn’t enough to get the job done, and so now Ubisoft is going back to the old-fashioned way of doing things by simply laying people off. “Earlier today, we informed all employees in our Swedish studios (Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm)…

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It’s January 13 and Ubisoft just announced its second round of layoffs for 2026, at Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm

A “voluntary career transition program” at Ubisoft’s Massive studio announced in October 2025 apparently wasn’t enough to get the job done, and so now Ubisoft is going back to the old-fashioned way of doing things by simply laying people off. “Earlier today, we informed all employees in our Swedish studios (Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm)…

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