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Hideo Kojima is prepared to ‘present a new dimension of cinematic adaptation’ for the Death Stranding movie, because making games that are ‘similar to a movie’ isn’t enough

Around a year ago, we learned the acclaimed movie studio A24 had joined Death Stranding’s film project. At the time, I remember thinking A24 may be one of the only studios out there that could keep up with Hideo Kojima’s wild visions, and it seems like I was right because Kojima doesn’t want this movie…

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McDonald’s achieves AI apotheosis with a generative AI Christmas ad so utterly miserable, the production company responsible took down a statement defending it: This was ‘an important learning,’ McDonald’s exec says, but what did we learn?

‘The holidays suck ass and we’ll be lucky to get out of them with our health and sanity intact, but at least we can shove some crappy fast food into our slack pieholes before the existential darkness claims us’: That’s the premise of a new McDonald’s holiday ad that, as reported by the BBC, was…

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Sam Altman says the prototype AI ‘thing’ he’s making with Jony Ive gives the ‘vibe’ of ‘sitting in the most beautiful cabin by a lake in the mountains’ and I’m left wondering if he’s ever listened to the noises coming out of the hole under his nose

Open AI has the first prototype of its mysterious AI device being developed in collaboration with former Apple design guru Jony Ive. And according to CEO Sam Altman, it’s “jaw droppingly good.” To quote Altman in full on the the device, “finally we have the first prototypes and I can’t believe how jaw droppingly good…

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