Jay Peters
“What is a streaming service?”
Sony is soliciting bids to bring Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune to streaming services, The New York Times reports. The company apparently expects that it will reach a deal by early April.
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“Jazz solitare.”
Despite Balatro’s obvious poker influences, in a blog post, developer LocalThunk says that solitare is “arguably is the most important” inspiration for the game.
“This is why you might have seen me refer to this game as ‘jazz solitaire’ in the past,” he says. “I wanted to bring the old feeling of solitaire into a game with modern design bells and whistles, creating something new and yet familiar. Only time will tell if I actually accomplished that.”
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Chat, time to start my Twitch career?
Sometime this year, Twitch is going to open up monetization tools, including subscriptions and bits, “to most streamers, from day one,” according to an open letter from CEO Dan Clancy.
The change means you won’t need to reach affiliate status, which has some streaming and follower requirements, to be able monetize, spokesperson Ashton Williams tells The Verge.
What’s Next in 2025: An Open Letter from Twitch CEO Dan Clancy
[blog.twitch.tv]
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A reboot for Fortnite cheaters.
Epic Games is introducing a “one-year matchmaking ban for first-time cheating offenses” in Fortnite, according to a blog post about its anti-cheat updates. However, “a second offense will result in a lifetime ban.”
Fortnite Anti-Cheat Update - February 27, 2025
[fortnite.com]
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Anthropic’s Claude AI is playing Pokémon.
As I write this, it’s hunting a Mankey outside of Viridian City in Pokémon Red. It’s using the new Claude 3.7 Sonnet “hybrid reasoning model” and shows its thinking in a side window.
The stream is less interesting and slower-paced than the original Twitch Plays Pokémon. But it’s fun to see Claude’s thinking process, especially when some of it has mirrored my own while playing Pokémon games.
Update: Claude is playing Pokémon Red; I initially missed that in the Twitch description.
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OpenAI is rolling out a free version of its Advanced Voice mode.
This free version will be powered by GPT-4o mini instead of GPT-4o. “The natural conversation pace and tone are similar to the GPT-4o version while being more cost effective to serve,” OpenAI says on X.