Xbox reportedly wants to put a stake in Blade and sell off Arkane, even though Todd Howard says development is going well

Xbox reportedly wants to put a stake in Blade and sell off Arkane, even though Todd Howard says development is going well

Microsoft has been extremely busy lately, taking a well-earned break from polluting the world with AI to eviscerate the videogame industry. The reports of potential layoffs and closures—coupled with the short-sighted strategies of other publishers, including main rival Sony—are devastating. And the bad news just keeps coming. According to The Verge, Arkane’s Blade is now…

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The maker calls it the ‘world’s worst USB drive’ but to my eyes, it’s far more impressive than any external SSD you can buy right now

With AI data centers swallowing up every bit of memory storage around, it should come as no surprise that some creative engineers might be looking at alternatives. Most aren’t going to be considering solutions from the 1950/1960s, of course, but that’s precisely what one self-professed tinkerer did to create the “world’s worst USB device”. Tech…

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The ESA quietly starts walking back baffling statements about private servers being ‘illegal’, though it’s still tutting and wagging its finger

The Entertainment Software Association, in an ongoing attempt to slow the roll of the games conservation movement Stop Killing Games, made a baffling statement at a recent California State Senate hearing over a proposed Protect Our Games Act that goes as follows: “[Private servers are] illegal. They are not in any way affiliated with Microsoft….

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