Embracer Group sells off Space Marine maker Saber Interactive and most of its studios for $247M, but the price could go a lot higher

Embracer Group sells off Space Marine maker Saber Interactive and most of its studios for $247M, but the price could go a lot higher

Embracer Group has announced the sale of Saber Interactive to a company called Beacon Interactive, founded by Saber co-founder Matthew Karch, in a deal worth $247 million, although options in the deal mean that price could go much higher. The deal will also see Embracer halt all operations in Russia, which the company said in…

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I’ve played 1000s of hours of Overwatch but it wasn’t until its new Anniversary game mode that I discovered I have no clue what the hell I’m doing

Week two of Overwatch’s 10-year anniversary celebrations kicked off with more challenges, loot boxes, and a gamemode for us to try out. Instead of the OG mode that players got to check out last week, this time we’ve got a play on Mystery Heroes, the mode where each player gets a random hero when they…

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George Lucas says rejecting AI is like rejecting cars in favour of horses: ‘There’s nothing you can do about it… it’s the future’

Just over a year after Lucasfilm, the production company bearing his name, declared creative bankruptcy with a risible display of AI-generated ‘aliens,’ George Lucas has offered his take on the tech. It’s, ah, well it’s not great. In a chat with A Rabbit’s Foot (via Kotaku), Lucas alighted on the topic of other directors’ hostility…

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New York City might get its first gamer mayor: Years before winning the Democratic primary, 11-year old Zohran Mamdani had his heart set on SimCity 3000

Last night, New York assemblyman Zohran Mamdani declared victory in New York City’s mayoral primary election, defeating former governor and political dynast Andrew Cuomo and an opposition backed by billionaire-funded interest groups and an antagonistic press. Some might argue that Mamdani—a 33-year old Muslim immigrant and democratic socialist—achieved a surprising victory by pitching a bold…

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