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Ubisoft buyout talks are reportedly progressing, but there’s one small hitch: The Guillemot family wants to stay in charge, but Tencent isn’t so sure about that

The possibility of some sort of major shakeup at Ubisoft grew a little more distinct today as Reuters reports that company shareholders are now looking at how to structure a buyout of the company that, ironically, would leave the founding Guillemot family in control. The possibility of a buyout was first reported in October, although…

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OpenAI is now 10 years old, but how well has its mission statement to ‘benefit all humanity’ aged?

Almost exactly 10 years ago, OpenAI was founded. The AI outfit’s CEO, Sam Altman, has marked the anniversary with a retrospective blog post which concludes much as the company’s original mission statement began, with a call to “benefit all humanity.” Question is, how well has that ambition aged? Specifically, Altman signs his latest blog post…

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‘We simply can’t do subpar’: Behind the scenes with GTA 1991, the ambitious San Andreas prequel whose creators are on the cusp of something special

It’s unclear why Rockstar chose not to pursue an official origin story for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Given the success of Liberty City Stories and its Vice City counterpart—fully-realised prequel offshoots for GTA 3 and its faux Miami-set successor—in the mid-2000s, a return to Grove Street felt inevitable. Fast forward 21 years, and we’ll…

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