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Jay Peters

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    Some changes at BioWare.

    While “core team” at the studio is working on the next Mass Effect game, others have been matched “with other teams at EA that had open roles that were a strong fit,” BioWare GM Gary McKay writes in a blog post. IGN reports that “a smaller number of Dragon Age team members are also seeing their roles terminated.”

    Last week, EA said that Dragon Age: The Veilguard didn’t meet expectations.

    BioWare Studio Update

    [blog.bioware.com]

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    Jay Peters
    Bluesky now has 30 million users.

    The platform crossed the milestone last night, and it happened about a month and a half after the 25 million mark. Bluesky still has a long way to go to pass Threads, though; Meta’s platform has more than 100 million daily active users.

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    Jay Peters
    Spider-Man 2 seems like a promising PC port.

    Sony has detailed the PC-specific features and recommended specs for the game, including Nvidia DLSS Ray Reconstruction, support for ultrawide aspect ratios up to 32:9, and more. The game also won’t require a PSN account to play.

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    Marvel Snap’s developer will bring most publishing duties in-house.

    The app was briefly banned because its current publisher is owned by ByteDance, but it’s back online and has returned to app stores. According to developer Second Dinner in a post on X:

    To ensure this never happens again, and with the help of our current publisher Nuverse (Thank you!), we’ve already signed agreements and started the work to bring almost all operational and publishing responsibilities in-house at Second Dinner with support from a new U.S.-based publisher, Skystone Games.

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    Jay Peters
    Another change from Google’s maps team.

    Google announced yesterday that Maps in the US will show Gulf of America and Mount McKinley, and CNBC today reports that the company’s maps division has added the US to its list of “sensitive” countries. CNBC says that that classification is reserved for “states with strict governments and border disputes” and includes countries like “China, Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, among others.”