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    Not a flattering portrayal of Sam Altman.

    A new report from The Washington Post says that senior OpenAI staffers had indicated to the board Altman had been “psychologically abusive.” The board had also worried that it couldn’t keep Altman accountable.

    All of that contributed to Altman’s firing, the report says — though, as we now know, Altman ultimately came out on top.

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    Jay Peters
    Beeper Mini is having an outage, but it’s apparently not Apple’s fault.

    Users reported issues like delayed notifications on Friday, and a Reddit user who says they’re on the Beeper team says that the company is “dealing with an outage on the Beeper Mini side.”

    Seems like it’s just a blip and that Beeper Mini will live another day.

    Update, December 8th, 5:01PM ET: Welp.

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    Jay Peters
    For recap season, Twitch, naturally, has a game.

    In the Twitch Recap Game, you play as an autoscrolling dinosaur and try to collect goat emotes while a bunch of clips from the year play in the background. It’s a simplistic game, and the clips are the same no matter how many times you play, but it’s a fun diversion.

    The game only available on desktop at the moment, though I imagine it you’ll be able to play it on mobile soon: the game told me to rotate my device when my browser window was too small and had an image of a phone rotating in that message.

    Twitch’s “Recap Day” is on Monday, where I’m guessing Twitch will offer personalized recaps of your year.

    A screenshot of Twitch’s Twitch Recap Game.
    Yes, my score sucks. I was trying to capture screenshots, ok??
    Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    When Geoff Keighley introduced Timothée Chalamet as a YouTuber, he wasn’t lying.
    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Alan Wake II’s New Game Plus mode comes out on December 11th.

    Kyle Rowley, the director of Alan Wake II, snuck in the mention of the new mode at the end of Sam Lake’s acceptance speech for the Best Game Direction award. Rowley promised it will have “new story content.”

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    Jay Peters
    As Dusk Falls is coming to PlayStation.

    The multiplayer narrative game launched on Xbox and PC in 2022, but it’s coming to PS4 and PS5 on March 7th, 2024.

    The game’s story is pretty typical thriller fare, but I thought that the multiplayer, which lets you vote on story decisions with up to eight players in local co-op, was a lot of fun.

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    Jay Peters
    Skull and Bones is definitely, actually, really coming out this time.

    You’re going to be able to play it on February 16th, 2024, Ubisoft says. It definitely won’t get delayed again. Nope.

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