Jay Peters
Sucker Punch is reportedly cutting staff.
The Ghost of Yōtei developer is laying off 24 people, Aftermath reports.
Update: Aftermath now says 24 staffers, not 26, were let go.
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Jay Peters
Total War studio says they are “investigating” the AI-botched Shogun 2 remaster.
Sega recently pulled the recently-launched Complete Edition of the game, which was made in part by an external developer, after users found bugs and upscaling seemingly done by AI.
“At Creative Assembly we do not use generative AI to create game assets, including AI-generated art,” Creative Assembly’s VP of Total War Roger Collum, said in a big post on Reddit. “We demand the same of any external developers we work with.”
Dominic Preston
Inside Netflix’s creative clearout.
Alongside laying off 1,000 employees, Netflix has fired the heads of its film and content divisions this month. We’ve already explained the company can’t fire its way out of a slump that’s now hitting its engagement metrics, but Bloomberg recounts just why co-CEO Ted Sarandos thinks otherwise, and how he got here in the first place.
Jess Weatherbed
Here’s the first episode of Grok’s “historically accurate” Odyssey.
It was supposed to be a “full-length movie,” but whatever — Elon Musk’s version of Homer’s epic poem has now arrived to take on Christopher Nolan. Just ignore the inconsistency of the character’s faces, historically inaccurate armor, non-functional shield wall, etc…
Walker’s 2006 album is unsettling, bizarre, and the perfect way to kill a party.
Terrence O'Brien
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Firefox’s new ad tries to remind you of a time before the internet sucked.
Let’s travel back to when memes were new, anyone could get their 15 minutes with a silly dance, and the amount of data tech companies collected about you was slightly less creepy. Mozilla reunited some of the biggest names in late ‘aughts memedom for its “come back to Firefox” campaign.
Terrence O'Brien
Some Kind of Animal, the latest record from Fielded, jumps from slinky R&B, to neo-soul, to industrial funk.
Terrence O'Brien
How the stop-motion animation studio blends traditional techniques with modern tech.
Andrew Webster
Jay Peters
Netflix reportedly offered Microsoft $500 million to license Xbox games for adaptations.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and team countered by asking for $800 million, and Netflix has pulled its offer, Puck reports in an article discussing the new leadership at Netflix.
Xbox launched an “XP” division this month that will work on adaptations of its games, and Xbox is already working with Netflix on a Diablo animated series.
Andrew Webster
Take shelter in 2027.
Amazon announced that its Fallout-themed reality show — which throws contestants into a Vault-Tec bunker — will start streaming on January 13th. It’s something of a spiritual sequel to the Squid Game competition on Netflix.
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