Blackbird Interactive, the developer behind Homeworld 3, announced today that it has laid off more than 40 employees after several of its upcoming projects have been canceled. The news was first made public on LinkedIn (spotted first by X user @bogorad222) by James Marshall, who is a Technical Artist at Blackbird Interactive. Marshall noted that… Read More »
Datamining can provide an interesting window into a developer’s intentions for a game. However, such info can be lead to inaccurate conclusions, as seems to be the case with Baldur’s Gate 3. Speaking with IGN, director Swen Vincke talked about the various content that has been unearthed by fans, including the removal of certain epilogues… Read More »
reader comments 31 with In late May, researchers drove out a team of China state hackers who over the previous seven months had exploited a critical vulnerability that gave them backdoors into the networks of a who’s who of sensitive organizations. Barracuda, the security vendor whose Email Security Gateway was being exploited, had deployed a… Read More »
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Any NFL player will tell you that wins don’t come on Sundays, they come during the week during practice. That’s why practice squads are an under-appreciated part of the NFL game. After NFL squads trim their rosters to 53 players, the next step is for those teams to… Read More »
The “golden generation” of young American talent is starting to reach its peak years, and with that comes moves to bigger clubs. With the wealth of the Premier League snatching up talent from across the globe, USMNT players are beginning to raise their profiles by joining top-flight English clubs. There has been a lot of… Read More »
ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive Cossacks clip from the Ukrainian Chicken Soup for the Soul and Crackle fantasy series. The series is set to debut on the service on Friday, September 1. Cossacks features several actors and crew members who are currently fighting in the war against Russia, including actors Volodymyr Kravchuk and Volodymyr Kanivets,… Read More »
The trailer for Bargain previews the gruesome South Korean thriller, which will soon debut on Paramount+, and which was awarded the Critics’ Choice Award at Seriencamp Festival in Cologne. It also won for Best Screenplay at the Canneseries Festival. “In BARGAIN, men are lured to a remote hotel under the guise of sexual encounters only… Read More »
Space Marine 2 has a new, explosive nine-minute gameplay video keen Warhammer 40,000 watchers are sure to get a kick out of. Saber Interactive’s Space Marine 2 has so far shown off the relentless alien Tyranids as the primary enemy facing Lieutenant Titus and his Ultramarine brethren as they battle to save the Imperial Jungle… Read More »
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 launches with in-game voice chat moderation powered by AI. Activision is using AI-powered model ToxMod from Modulate, which features real-time voice chat moderation, to combat toxic behaviour. The tech uses AI to identify in real-time and enforce against toxic speech including hate speech, discriminatory language, and harassment. Call of… Read More »
James Marshall; Getty Images reader comments 74 with In May, Sputnik International, a state-owned Russian media outlet, posted a series of tweets lambasting US foreign policy and attacking the Biden administration. Each prompted a curt but well-crafted rebuttal from an account called CounterCloud, sometimes including a link to a relevant news or opinion article. It… Read More »