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Jay Peters

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    Vampire Survivors launches on PlayStation later this month.

    The game is finally being released for Sony consoles on August 29th. It’s already available on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and mobile.

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    Jay Peters
    Zoom plugs more AI into work chats.

    Following Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, Zoom is now letting you make AI-generated backgrounds with its AI Companion tool (which is included with paid plans). AI Companion will also be able to take things people say in the chat and incorporate them into its AI-generated meeting summaries.

    A screenshot of Zoom’s interface for generative AI-created backgrounds.
    Image: Zoom
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    Jay Peters
    Disney and Fortnite are announcing news inside Fortnite.

    Visit the “Disney Horizons Live from D23” island in Fortnite (island code 7908-6413-2516) at 11:30PM ET on August 10th to catch the show. If you miss it live, the in-game island will be available until August 16th, where the presentation will be on a loop.

    A promotional image for Epic Games and Disney’s Fortnite reveal island for D23.
    If you attend for more than 10 minutes, Epic will give you this “Peelverine Plush” backbling.
    Image: Epic Games
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    Jay Peters
    Intel is bringing its Arc GPU to cars.

    After introducing the Arc brand a few years ago, Intel announced in China that cars with the GPUs could arrive “as soon as 2025.”

    While it hasn’t specified which cars, a demo showed it running AAA games and a “new generation cockpit user interface (UI) that transforms vehicles into immersive mobile hubs supporting seven high-definition screens rendering 3D graphics and six-in vehicle cameras and interactive features.”

    Intel exec Jack Weast holding a chip in front of an “Intel Arc Graphics” sign.
    Intel Graphics for Automotive
    Image: Intel
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    Jay Peters
    Apple and Google are making changes to address the so-called “0.0.0.0 Day” security vulnerability.

    The vulnerability deals with how browsers deal with queries to the IP address 0.0.0.0, as reported by Forbes and the security startup Oligo. Apple tells Forbes that it is making changes to the macOS Sequoia beta to fix the issue, while Google has plans to fix it in Chrome.

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    Jay Peters
    Prince of Persia’s excellent platformer from January hits Steam tomorrow.

    Price of Persia: The Lost Crown is one of my favorite games of this year — my colleague Ash Parrish loved it, too — so if you’ve been holding out for the game to come to Steam, I strongly encourage you to check it out. It’s playable on Steam Deck, too!

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    Jay Peters
    A last letter from Game Informer’s former editor-in-chief.

    “It is one of the great honors of my life to have worked with all of you, hit those tough writing deadlines, and shared in the joy of opening up each new issue as it arrived to see the results of all that effort,” says former Game Informer EIC Matt Miller in a long letter on Bluesky.

    The publication was suddenly shut down by GameStop on Friday.

    A screenshot of a message from former Game Informer editor-in-chief Matt Miller.
    A screenshot from Matt Miller’s full letter on Bluesky.
    Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge