Tag: gaming
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In a big year for Chinese cultural exports, a new video game is the latest to win a global audience. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/china-connection-newsletter-video-game-soft-power-tencent-netease-pif-where-winds-meet.html more ›
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In the aftermath of Steam and itch pulling thousands of pages of adult content, their creators are speaking about their experiences making a living selling smut. more ›
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In response to pressure from its payment processors, itch.io had a broad swath of adult content on its platform targeted and removed. https://www.theverge.com/games/715299/itchio-games-delisting-payment-processor-paypal more ›
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As industry groups decry censorship, players are flooding Visa and Mastercard with complaints and sharing the titles of delisted NSFW games to support developers. https://www.wired.com/story/gamers-are-furious-about-the-censorship-of-nsfw-games-and-theyre-fighting-back/ more ›
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An alphabetical listing of sports betting terms with definitions, including favorites, against the spread, over/under, totals, underdogs, futures and more. https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/38897025/sports-betting-glossary-odds-lines-spreads-futures-more?utm_source=perplexity more ›
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Left to their own devices, an army of AI characters didn’t just survive — they thrived. They developed in-game jobs, shared memes, voted on tax reforms and even spread a… more ›
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Zhu Hao, an office worker in his early 20s, recently checked into a hotel in China’s southern city of Shenzhen for a weekend escape with a couple of buddies. Their… more ›
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Niantic has trained more than 50 million neural nets to date, where multiple networks can contribute to a single location. All these networks combined comprise over 150 trillion parameters optimized… more ›
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Move over, pandas. Chinese state media and policymakers have crowned a new cultural “magic weapon,” a soft power export that’s being received enthusiastically around the world. This magic weapon? It’s… more ›
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To players and outside observers, 2023 looks like one of the 70-year-old gaming industry’s greatest-ever years. Chief among its achievements was its slate of new software releases. https://www.matthewball.vc/all/gaming2024 more ›