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Epic reaches mystery settlement with Samsung days before new Galaxy phones
Epic is done suing over Auto Blocker.
www.theverge.com
Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later
You can soon pay off in-game items in four installments.www.gamespot.com
This is how Epic beats Steam.
This is already possible to do on Steam if you use PayPal's Pay in 4 option, but you have to spend at least $30.
I cannot believe praising Grok in the same week the AI was calling itself MechaHitler. Like holy fuck, read the room.
It's klear he's in a different room than any of us.
Tim Sweeney slams Apple’s ‘unlawful’ EU App Store changes - 9to5Mac
His comments came immediately after Apple announced a sweeping set of changes to its App Store guidelines in the European Union.9to5mac.com
Apple announced a bunch of sweeping changes to the App Store in the EU yesterday in an attempt to comply with the DMA. Frankly it is so convoluted that I've read over it several times and don't completely understand it. But I think the gist is Apple is lowering their take rate for the highest grossing apps to 20% and raising the bottom tier to 12%. Tim has spent the past ~24 hours being mad about it so kudos to Apple for upsetting him.
Looks like the EU might actually accept that nightmare of bureaucracy. Would likely put an end to that chapter of the Apple/Epic saga in the EU.
Blades of Fire flopped.
Also Tim Sweeney is calling Reuters fake news. Hanging out around MechaHitler and Epstein Client #1 has rubbed off on him.
was announced
I give it six months before the plug is pulled
Epic just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again
It may go all the way to Supreme Court.
www.theverge.com
Yo dawg etc etc etc.
Fuck epic, etc. etc., but Tim/Epic always had a point with Google.Epic just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again
It may go all the way to Supreme Court.
Yo dawg etc etc etc.
Apple runs a closed platform and Epic mostly lost based on that.
Google masquerades Android as an open platform, then acts like a mob boss when anyone else tries to compete with Google Play.
It was so brazen that Epic basically had a slam dunk case if they could prove the accusations.
And at the end of the day, Google is a far more terrible company than Epic so whatever. Fuck 'em both.
I agree Google are a bunch of scumbags, but the fact they have to allow third party stores on Google Play and they have to allow those third party stores to access everything on Google Play is pretty fuckin' wack.
Not against the verdict, way against the remedies.
Not against the verdict, way against the remedies.
This is a classic case of “Fuck around and find out”.
If Google hadn’t fucked around, they wouldn’t find themselves in this situation.
The remedies are designed to redress an anti-competitive imbalance going back 15 years. I think they are harsh and fucking wild, but overall the least Google deserves.
Google got destroyed, sucks for them. Although I have to say that it is very stupid that the walled garden of Apple gets to keep doing most of its bullshit.
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On the bright side, you'll be able to use Google Play to download EGS and use that to download Steam. 
He's having his Trump character arc by calling things fake news. Sadly I'm more likely to believe the Murdoch rag instead of him.
Yay, lets praise the AI that can turn racist and create fake porn at the drop of a hat.
At this point I think I would prefer Skynet.
At this point I think I would prefer Skynet.
All these dumbfuck CEOs are going to have egg on their face once the AI bubble bursts.
I pray for this every day.
I’m not even of the opinion that all LLM/genAI technology is shit.
There is value there. However, like with anything that has a high compute cost, the value is on the edge and not centralised.
But Silicon Valley is wanking itself off trying to loss lead themselves into being the next big ecosystem and it’s not going to end well.
There is value there. However, like with anything that has a high compute cost, the value is on the edge and not centralised.
But Silicon Valley is wanking itself off trying to loss lead themselves into being the next big ecosystem and it’s not going to end well.
The new Fortnite season came out this week and it had the lowest opening numbers since Epic started publicly displaying player counts. This weekend peaked at ~1.852 million. For comparison the previous seasons opening weekends were:
Chapter 4, Season 3: 2.1 million
Chapter 4, Season 4: 2.8 million
Chapter 4, Season OG: 6.1 million
Chapter 5, Season 1: 7.1 million
Chapter 5, Season 2: 5.1 million
Chapter 5, Season 3: 2.4 million
Chapter 5, Season 4: 3.2 million
Chapter 5, Season 5: 4.5 million
Chapter 6, Season 1: 4.7 million
Chapter 6, Season 2: 3.2 million
Chapter 6, Star Wars: 2.3 million
Chapter 6, Season 3: 2.2 million
I think the overall decline can be contributed to the fact the Battle Royale numbers continue to drop and the metaverse hasn't picked up the slack.
Chapter 4, Season 3: 2.1 million
Chapter 4, Season 4: 2.8 million
Chapter 4, Season OG: 6.1 million
Chapter 5, Season 1: 7.1 million
Chapter 5, Season 2: 5.1 million
Chapter 5, Season 3: 2.4 million
Chapter 5, Season 4: 3.2 million
Chapter 5, Season 5: 4.5 million
Chapter 6, Season 1: 4.7 million
Chapter 6, Season 2: 3.2 million
Chapter 6, Star Wars: 2.3 million
Chapter 6, Season 3: 2.2 million
I think the overall decline can be contributed to the fact the Battle Royale numbers continue to drop and the metaverse hasn't picked up the slack.
In general you would expect higher player numbers in the summer for a new season because kids aren’t in school, though I’m guessing Power Rangers just aren’t doing it for their user base.
player numbers are the lowest during summer as people are traveling and the weather is nice. You can view the same phenomenon on Steam.Also I doubt the average zoomer cares abut Power Rangers, or at least the version that was airing on TV while they were swimming in their daddy's junk.
Are there even any major collabs that haven't been in Fortnite yet? It feels like they've emptied the well of all the big names they can get their hands on. It's not like you'll ever see Pokemon or Nintendo characters in the game. I've read the next season is rumored to be The Simpsons which isn't very relevant nowadays.
Have they done anything with Star Trek yet? A William Shatner skin will surely bring in the youth.
