Larian and Microsoft working to address 'annoying and uncool' Xbox account bans caused by the unfortunate combination of Baldur's Gate 3's notorious horniness and automatic gameplay uploads

Larian and Microsoft working to address ‘annoying and uncool’ Xbox account bans caused by the unfortunate combination of Baldur’s Gate 3’s notorious horniness and automatic gameplay uploads

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a notoriously oversexed videogame, and that’s causing headaches for some Xbox Series X-S owners who have found their accounts suspended after their consoles automatically uploaded gameplay clips of, as one redditor put it, “naked camp fun time.” Xbox rules state that even though a game is approved by Microsoft, gameplay clips…

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Memory chipmaker CXMT sees shares surge 466%, becomes one of China’s most valuable listed companies right below Tencent

On Monday, Chinese memory manufacturer CXMT made its initial public offering on Shanghai’s STAR stock market. This debut was the biggest in Asia this year, raising $8.6 billion and seeing shares in the company surge by 466%. In terms of valuation, that places CXMT right at the top of China’s stock market. CXMT’s market capitalisation…

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Best City Builder 2024: Manor Lords

Break out the lute, because Manor Lords was our favourite city builder of the year. For more awards, check out our Game of the Year 2024 hub. Elie Gould, News Writer: Manor Lords came out at just the right time for me. Before landing on this medieval city builder/management game, I played quite a few…

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STERN OF THE UNION ADDRESS – OCTOBER 2023

The Stern of the Union Address, your monthly resource for news, information and highlights on all things Stern Pinball.  Without further ado my fellow pinheads: Stranger Things: After being lost in The Upside Down… Stranger Things Pinball has returned. Join Mike, Lucas, Dustin, Will and Eleven as they try to uncover the events occurring in…

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App promising a universal shopping experience automated with AI actually used a small army of human workers in the Philippines and Romania instead

In the world of technology, exaggerating the capabilities of a product is pretty much the norm. But when one app company managed to raise millions of dollars in investments on the promise that it would be fully automated via AI, the US Department of Justice charged its former CEO with fraud because it turns out…

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Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord’s big naval expansion is delayed: ‘After taking a hard look at where things stand, it became clear we won’t be ready’

War Sails, the Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord expansion announced in March, has been delayed. Instead of launching on June 17 as planned, developer TaleWorlds Entertainment says it’s now on track for release in early fall. “After taking a hard look at where things stand, it became clear we won’t be ready by the originally…

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