How Google made the ad tech industry revolve around itself

How Google made the ad tech industry revolve around itself

Google’s mission statement seems made to evoke warm and fuzzy feelings about how its products help everyone. “Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” Google says on its corporate site. The company used to have an even more saccharine motto: “Don’t be evil.” But the decisions Google … Read more

Hollywood is coming out in force for California’s AI safety bill

Hollywood is coming out in force for California’s AI safety bill

Hollywood is squaring off against Silicon Valley in the battle over SB 1047, California’s first-of-its-kind AI safety bill. Amid doubts about whether Governor Gavin Newsom will sign the legislation, a wave of star-studded endorsements mark the first organized celebrity effort to advance AI regulations beyond the direct interests of the entertainment industry.  On Tuesday, over … Read more

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 and 2 are getting a remaster

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 and 2 are getting a remaster

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver is one of those series of games that has always felt unjustly left behind to me, and at Sony’s State of Play today, it’s finally getting its due, at least a little. The two classic Crystal Dynamics games, which I enjoyed in their penultimate form on the Dreamcast, are getting … Read more

Palworld’s PS5 port is on hold indefinitely in Japan

Palworld’s PS5 port is on hold indefinitely in Japan

Palworld | Screenshot: PlayStation (YouTube) Sony included the PS5 launch of Palworld as one of its news items during Tuesday evening’s State of Play presentation, but it left out a detail. While the game has launched on PlayStation platforms in 68 countries and regions worldwide, Japan is not one of them. The official Japanese account … Read more

Ghost of Yotei is the next entry in Sucker Punch’s Ghosts series

Ghost of Yotei is the next entry in Sucker Punch’s Ghosts series

To close out Sony’s State of Play presentation, Sucker Punch debuted a first look at the next game in its award-winning Ghosts series. Dubbed Ghost of Yotei, players will inhabit a new female protagonist named Atsu, who wields a shamisen in addition to a samurai’s traditional sword. According to the trailer description, Atsu will travel … Read more