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“War Is Not A Video Game” – White House Social Media Post Mixing Iran War Footage With Nintendo’s ‘Wii Sports’ Triggers Outcry

“This has ruined my perception of the Nintendo brand”. The White House social media account is no stranger to leveraging video game imagery in its messaging, and has already used the likes of Pokémon and Halo without permission – almost always resulting in the IP holders of those franchises publicly distancing themselves from the accompanying…

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Apple Explains Its FBI Stance in New FAQ

Apple admitted on Monday that it has the capabilities to create a tool to unlock the FBI’s confiscated iPhone, but chooses not to, believing that such a tool would be too dangerous if it fell into the wrong hands. The only way to keep customers safe, according to Apple, is to never create it in…

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Blizzard hit the $90 dinosaur mount emergency button to fill the gap before the next WoW expansion and players are already dumping millions of gold into the ether to buy it

It’s a bit of a quiet time for World of Warcraft as players wait for the release of its next expansion. In this pre-Midnight lull, there’s not much to do except prepare yourself for the removal of combat mods and the sweeping class balance changes. This, along with it being WoW’s 21st anniversary, is probably…

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43 Years Later, Michael Cranford Is Finally Bringing Shadow Snare To C64 – With The Help Of Some Pretty Sloppy GenAI

“I’m returning to the original promise with four decades of different experience”. Michael Cranford is a true legend of the video game industry. He’s most famous for designing and programming 1985’s The Bard’s Tale and its 1986 sequel The Bard’s Tale II: The Destiny Knight, and his other credits include Maze Master, Dark Seed and…

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AI chatbot once again transforms from super genius into stupid tool the moment it goes off-script: ‘Grok doesn’t actually know why it was suspended’

In June, Elon Musk said that he’ll use Grok 3.5’s “advanced reasoning” to “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors.” Today, however, the AI chatbot is just a tool that doesn’t know anything, because after Grok’s X account was briefly suspended (via Business Insider), it declared that it got…

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