It was marketed as a “celebration of chocolate in all its delightful forms” but it ended up being so horrid that the Scottish police were called and refunds were ordered immediately. An event company called House of Illuminati used AI-generated images to market on Facebook and charged about $44 to experience their Willy’s Chocolate Experience. [...]read moreWilly Wonka-Inspired Event Was So Bad The Cops Were Called
An organization called Newsmast is introducing a new approach to decentralized social media with the launch of an updated version of its Mastodon mobile app that now integrates content from two servers into one interface — a different approach compared with how Mastodon, the open source Twitter/X alternative, typically works. The idea is to offer [...]read moreNewsmast brings curated ‘communities’ to the open source Twitter/X alternative Mastodon
Ubisoft’s pirate game Skull and Bones is not putting up the strongest player numbers, but the publisher is touting the game’s “record player engagement” as the title’s first season launches. According to Ubisoft, Skull and Bones players are spending, on average, more than four hours in the game every day. This is the second-highest daily [...]read moreSkull And Bones Breaks Records At Ubisoft Despite Reportedly Low Player Numbers
The owner of Tumblr and WordPress.com is in talks with AI companies Midjourney and OpenAI to provide training data scraped from users’ posts, a report from 404 Media alleges. The report, based on an anonymous source inside the company, says that deals between Automattic and the two AI companies are “imminent.” It follows nebulous rumors [...]read moreTumblr’s owner is striking deals with OpenAI and Midjourney for training data, says report
Don’t you just hate it when a glitch you exploit in your fave video game gets fixed? I do, too, and apparently, so do Palworld players. Developer Pocketpair recently patched up a popular bug-turned-feature in the Pokémon clone that let players do something they weren’t actually supposed to: capture tower bosses. After squashing the glitch, [...]read morePalworld Devs Are Sorry For Fixing The Game
Oh, would you look at that. It’s Pokémon Day, an annual celebration commemorating the game’s launch on this very day in 1996. Fun fact: Pokémon was first a video game, but it was quickly adapted as a trading card game and anime, both of which are arguably equally as responsible as the Game Boy titles [...]read moreThe best Pokémon Day deals on games trading cards and more
Screenshot: Fox / Disney The latest episode of Fox’s long-running animated comedy, The Simpsons, featured an homage to an iconic video game series: Mario Kart. During the scene, we see Lisa as Mario, Homer as Wario, and other characters dressed up as Nintendo characters in a Mario Kart spoof. For [...]read moreNew Simpsons Episode Features Mario Kart Spoof & Wario Homer
A lot has changed at HTC in the decade since a small team broke off to form its mixed reality division. In fact, it’s a fundamentally different business in several meaningful ways. For one thing, you can’t call HTC a phone company any longer. Contrary to popular perception, the Taiwanese corporation does still produce handsets [...]read moreHTC Vive became an enterprise product while you weren’t looking
By Bloomberg Published Feb 27, 2024 Luxury giant LVMH is in talks to buy French magazine Paris Match from media conglomerate Lagardere SA, which is majority controlled by Vincent Bollore’s Vivendi. See catwalkLouis Vuitton – Spring-Summer2024 – Womenswear – Paris – © Launchmetrics The owner of Louis Vuitton approached Lagardere with a bid and its [...]read moreLVMH in exclusive talks with Lagardere for Paris Match magazine
The 1.0 update in Sons of the Forest added a plethora of intriguing content, but one of the best additions is a long-awaited feature: proximity chat. In the early access version of Sons of the Forest, you could use the voice chat feature, but that would only allow you to talk to everyone on the [...]read moreSons Of The Forest – How To Use Proximity Chat