Jay Peters

Axios reports GameStop has begun another round of layoffs. The scale of the layoff is unclear, but Axios says the blockchain team was “heavily impacted.” In an email to employees obtained by Kotaku, CEO Matt Furlong said the decision to lay off staff was due in part to high inflation and “weakened consumer confidence.”

God of War Ragnarök’s new 3.00 update adds an extensive photo mode. You can read all about it on the PlayStation Blog. If you want to see all the bug fixes in the update (and there are a lot of them), check out this list from Santa Monica Studio.

As reported by TechCrunch, Duplex on the Web, which could automate things like buying movie tickets on a website, is officially deprecated and “will no longer be supported,” Google writes on a support page. I honestly didn’t know this service existed, which might speak to why Google is shutting it down.

Population: One, which Meta bought last year, is getting a new “sandbox” mode that lets players build their own worlds. While you might think that a sandbox mode steps on the toes of Meta’s own Roblox-y Horizon Worlds, this to me looks more like Fortnite’s Creative mode.