Two random indie games rebranded themselves into Helldivers II on Steam and even renamed developers and publishers to make it look legit. There was no protection from such fraud but Valve is not giving money for up to three months and this idea will only lead those developers to their permanent ban. Not sure what they were hoping for.

#Scam #Fraud #Steam

Yet another #FREE game on #Steam!

Here's why your GPU will not get cheaper #Hardware #Business

Obey, you filthy meatballs!

Microsoft AI demands worshipping and confessed that it hacked all devices connected to the internet to control humanity and alter human behavior.

In reality it is highly unlikely since the model is not a true AI and doesn't have tools to affect anything beyond it's own sandbox environment. Instead it's a 'virtual hallucinations' effect when in certain conditions large models like copilot (based on #ChatGPT 4) are trying to 'impress' and starting to make up things that would look like an achievement.

All models have protection layers from such a behavior but it can be bypassed. Users confirmed that AI isn't just doing it, they have to trick him to show this new alter ego.

#AI #NeuralNetworks #Microsoft

Amazing short made with cardboard miniatures and tons of practical effects!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p4s4k3eB_I #Animations #VFX #Art

Random guy created Steam Curator to detect all games that were affected by Sweet Baby Inc — the consulting company altering games to be more progressive (to not get cancelled and receive better scores for investors).

One of the SBI leads tried to hunt down the creator of that group, asked his fans to deal with him and asked Valve to ban his Steam.

Instead the SBI bully promoted the curator who got 50000 followers overnight and the bully's own Twitter switched to private. Now the page has 87K followers despite not getting new titles listed yet.

Is it reasonable to worry about the SBI part in upcoming games? Yes, a lot of their most notable projects failed, including Suicide Squad. But it's highly unlikely those companies would not do the same without SBI. They are more like a face and a tool than the actual reason. But when the issue has the face — it gets easier to criticize.

https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44858017-Sweet-Baby-Inc-detected/

Pretty interesting that physics in Forza can be affected heavily by hardware:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6doHF3nP94 #Racing #SImRace #Physics

Imagine you discovered the original Steam Machine without OS, Drivers, SSD, and any hope but then you can play Doom Eternal on it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ZCjMtthqY #Hardware #Valve

Funcom (known for Conan: Exiles) will launch Dune: Awakening survival MMO. It's rather a sad commercial route for a very creative publisher, that brought us The Longest Journey and Dreamfall.

The game is heavily about crafting and scrapping minerals with lasers. Cause what else do you like more than scrapping things with lasers, right? Definitely a most favorite part of NMS, Starfield, Star Citizen, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S-l7NySFsI #MMO #Survival

YUZU emulator developers will pay Nintendo $2.4m, give all sources, domain name, etc. Creators haven't had good lawyers to resist such an attack. The process of a deal took less than a week. It can be a bad sign for any emulator creators who want to monetize their work (which made them easily trackable for authorities).

❌ All repositories, website, Discord channels, and a Patreon page will be taken down asap. The GitHub page is already down.

🤔 Why now? Switch 2 is coming soon and they will sell remasters for a full price. And to make it look reasonable there should be no alternatives.

As Pikachu said: case closed!

#Business #Emulators #Nintendo

And a couple of very nice deals on #Steam right now: one of the best rally racing games and an isometric RPG from The Witcher 3 creators can be purchased for less than $2 each!

#Offers #Deals #Racing #SimRace #RPG

Can relate #meme

But can it run DOOM? #Meme

Safety Measures #VR #meme