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Elon Musk’s X changes its terms of service to steer user lawsuits towards a Texas court instead of California. Which is fine. Just happens to be a completely different Texas court district to where X is actually headquartered

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X, formerly known (and still colloquially referred to) as Twitter, has recently moved its headquarters from San Francisco to Texas. This mirrors a 2021 move from California to Texas for one of Elon Musk’s other companies, Tesla, and has since resulted in Musk appearing in public in many different cowboy hats. Now X has updated … Read more

Meta takes ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ to its logical conclusion as iFixit finds the Meta Quest 3S is mostly the same as the Quest 2

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Generally, when a new version of a product is announced, we expect it to have a vast number of upgraded specs and features over generations past. After all, this is the new model, and it can be tempting to expect the relentless march of progress to have rendered all the parts from the old one … Read more

Dave the Diver creator says ‘story DLC’ is coming, jokes about expanding into a ‘Dave cinematic universe’ with new games

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One of last year’s best surprises was Mintrocket and Nexon’s Dave the Diver, a deeply charming and funny adventure that oscillates between deep sea exploration and being a sushi chef. The game proved a hit with critics and players alike: It scored a whopping 91% in our review, with Chris Livingston saying “I’m routinely up … Read more

The curse of horde shooter balance: Fans take to Steam in protest as Space Marine 2 gets unpopular patch—devs promise course correction within the week

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If covering Helldivers 2 this year has taught me anything, it’s that balancing a horde shooter is monstrously hard—starting with an unpopular major balance patch that dented the Railgun, it wasn’t until this month that, after a big overhaul, Arrowhead started hitting the mark again. So to see Space Marine 2 now running into the … Read more

6 months after release, the studio behind Tales of Kenzera has put its team ‘on notice for redundancy’ as it scrambles to find funding

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Surgent Studios was founded by actor Abubakar Salim, best known for roles as Bayek in Assassin’s Creed Origins and Alyn of Hull in House of the Dragon. It went on to make Tales of Kenzera: Zau, but times have been tough since the game’s release, and now the studio is taking a temporary hiatus. “We’ve … Read more

AMD’s spoiling Intel’s Arrow Lake party with Ryzen 9000-series price cuts and the promise of ‘next-gen gaming’ X3D chips arriving November 7

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AMD is looking to play party pooper by today announcing an ‘early holiday promotion’ for its latest Zen 5 processors as well as a Ryzen 9000X3D tease, announcing the availability of its first 3D V-cache CPUs from November 7 this year. Intel is set to launch its brand new desktop CPU platform, codenamed Arrow Lake, … Read more