Jay Peters
Google Japan made a literal keyboard cap.
Just watch the video, it’s excellent. The company has details about how you can make your own on GitHub.
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Telltale Games laid off staff — but it’s unclear how many jobs were cut.
As reported by Polygon’s Nicole Carpenter, Telltale says it let “some” of its team go “due to current market conditions,” though all games in development are “still in production.”
Earlier on Thursday, a person who says they used to work at Telltale claimed the company laid “most of us off” in early September.
Update October 5th, 8:52PM ET: I reached out to Telltale to try and get details about how many were laid off, but Telltale spokesperson Elizabeth Olson declined to share that.
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I’m starting to see YouTube’s ad blocker prompt — are you?
I asked if Google was starting to show the prompt to more people, but spokesperson Christopher Lawton pointed back to a statement from June defining the prompt as a “small experiment globally.”
Personally, I’m wondering if it has something to do with my switch yesterday from Chrome to Safari — perhaps my Safari ad blocker is getting caught by YouTube more easily? But let me know if you’ve started to see the prompt more often as of late, too.
Update October 6th, 1:20PM ET: Thanks for the responses! Many seemed to be from people using non-Chrome browsers, so I asked Lawton about that. He says the experiment is browser agnostic, “meaning we are not targeting any specific browsers.”
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Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile is set to launch in spring 2024.
Activision noted the date in a new blog post with a bunch of information about the future of the Call of Duty franchise. The new mobile version of the battle royale hit was first announced in March 2022.
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This one is for Challenger-level fans of Worlds.
iam8bit and Riot Games are releasing a vinyl set of the anthems for the League of Legends World Championships from 2014-2023 (including NewJeans’ new track). Pre-orders start on Friday at 12PM ET.
Image: iam8bit and Riot Games
Jay Peters
BlackBerry is splitting up.
It’s going to separate its IoT and cybersecurity businesses, reports Reuters, and is planning an IPO for the IoT side of the house next fiscal year. We’ll see how that goes!
We mourned the end of BlackBerry devices running BlackBerry’s software in December 2021. But earlier this year, we got to relive the history of those devices thanks to the BlackBerry movie — which is a movie I still need to see.
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