Square Enix, Bandai, and other Japanese studios demand OpenAI stop using their content without permission, drop a not-too-subtle hint about legal trouble if it doesn't

Square Enix, Bandai, and other Japanese studios demand OpenAI stop using their content without permission, drop a not-too-subtle hint about legal trouble if it doesn’t

The Content Overseas Distribution Association, a Japanese industry group whose members include Square Enix, Bandai Namco, FromSoftware parent Kadokawa Corporation, and Cygames, has issued a formal notice to OpenAI demanding that it stop using its members content to train its Sora 2 video generation tool without permission. In a way, it feels like this was…

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Exclusive – Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy will let you be a crooked cop, pinning crimes on the innocent, or follow in good boy Gregor Eisenhorn’s footsteps

I have technically solved a lot of crimes from the comfort of my gaming chair, but it’s surprisingly rare for games to actually engage with the mechanics of a criminal investigation. You’ll chat to folk, maybe use your ‘detective vision’, and then the culprit is found. Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy asks more from you. As…

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Fallen Aces’s second episode won’t be out this year, but it will feature a first-person car chase with a tommy gun in both hands and a foot-operated steering wheel

If you haven’t played Fallen Aces, I highly recommend it whether you’re a dedicated immsim sicko or an FPS greenhorn. It’s Dishonored by way of Dick Tracy: an immediate and stylish neo-noir FPS dripping with pulpy comic art and a tantalizingly interactive goon sandbox. And that’s just the first episode, which launched into early access…

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Helldivers 2 players are staying logged in overnight to dodge queue times and clog servers, Arrowhead’s CEO agrees that an AFK time-out is due

Helldivers 2 is good—like, really good. But that comes with a cost. With hundreds of thousands of players piling into the unexpected co-op shooter darling, servers have been buckling under the sheer weight of a mass deployment. While I’ve been able to play myself, I haven’t been able to matchmake publically for around four days—I’ve…

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Chaotic destruction sim Teardown breaks cover on its multiplayer update, revealing 8 player team deathmatch and support for modded servers

I haven’t paid much mind to Teardown since it was released back in 2022, so I was surprised to see what a strong run of post-release support the destruction-focused heist sim has received in the last three years. Over that time, a featured mods menu, a creative mode, new mini-campaigns, and a third-person camera have…

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