Month: July 2023
Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups because so many people are joining from Twitter
Bluesky, a decentralized Twitter-like social network, is pausing new signups “temporarily” to try and resolve performance issues it’s been experiencing after Twitter introduced limits on the amount of tweets you can see in a day. Even though you still need an invite code to be able to join Bluesky, it…
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Valve won’t approve Steam games that use copyright-infringing AI artwork
On Thursday, various outlets reported on a June Reddit post from user potterharry97 saying that Steam would no longer be publishing games with AI-generated content. Later in the month, another game dev penned a similar post. Valve says that’s not quite right. In a statement emailed to The Verge, Valve…
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The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so
Active solicitation of celebrities or high profile figures to do AMAs. Email and modmail coordination with celebrities and high profile figures and their PR teams to facilitate, educate, and operate AMAs. (We will still be available to answer questions about posting, though response time may vary). Running and maintaining a…
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Meta’s Twitter competitor, Threads, briefly showed up on Google Play
Alessandro Paluzzi, a developer who routinely digs into app code to expose unreleased features, tweeted early this morning that Meta’s Twitter clone, Thread, had been released into the Google Play store. It appears as though that was a mistake, however, because the app is nowhere to be found now. Paluzzi included…
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The Sims 5 will be free-to-play, according to this now-deleted job listing
The Sims 5 will be free-to-play, according to a now-deleted job listing that briefly popped up on publisher EA’s careers website. The job advert was swiftly pulled offline – shocking, I know – but not before the internet saw, and screenshotted, the website and advertisement, which you can see for…
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Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag is reportedly getting a remake
Rumor has it, Ubisoft is rebooting Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag. According to two sources who have opened up to Kotaku, Ubisoft’s remake of the 2013 sea-shanty smasher is “still in its earliest stages” but reportedly involves the team based at Ubisoft Singapore. In news unlikely to surprise you,…
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