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Company That Cleared Sega’s Offices Of “Stolen” Nintendo Dev Kits Is A Charity, New Evidence Reveals

“SEGA’s position amounts to accusing a charity of theft”. We recently reported that Sega used the British Police to recover a selection of dev kits and consoles it had “negligently disposed of” from a business owner who resells items from office clearances. The person in question purchased the items, along with a selection of undumped…

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Trump extends TikTok sale deadline in the US yet again, leaving the whole situation feeling ‘less like a ticking clock and more like a looped ringtone… political Groundhog Day’

US President Donald Trump has once again pushed back a deadline requiring TikTok to be sold by its Chinese owner, Bytedance. Last year the US passed a law requiring either a sale or that the app be banned. This marks the third time that Trump has extended the deadline. Trump signed the executive order yesterday,…

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Grokipedia claims to be ‘a massive improvement over Wikipedia’ but sure loves to copy its homework

Grokipedia, xAI’sAI-powered online encyclopaedia, is now live. Version 0.1 features an extremely basic white-text-on-a-black-background look and stripped back page layouts, plus more than 885,000 articles. But despite Elon Musk’s recent claim that Grokipedia “will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia,” much of the content seems to have come directly from it (via The Verge). In…

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Rust’s crafting update gives the survival sim real-time food cooking and pies to rival Monster Hunter, but the tastiest treat is the ability to make and throw ‘bee grenades’

Video gaming is currently in an arms race (or should that be ‘farms race’) to depict the most delectable virtual food possible. It’s a race variously led by the Yakuza series, Final Fantasy, and most recently, Monster Hunter: Wilds, which features a cheese naan so mouthwatering it caused a sales surge of dairy-filled bread products…

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Microsoft’s Project Helix sounds like it could be better for gamers than the Series X but in a way that is worse for Xbox

James Bentley, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Trying to enjoy the sprinkling of sun in the UK’s otherwise cloudy weather, and attempting to wrap my head around Crimson Desert. It’s important to get out of the way early on that there’s still a lot we don’t know about Microsoft’s Project Helix—…

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