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After creating a massive kerfuffle by forcing Helldivers 2 PC players to link their Steam accounts to the PlayStation Network, Sony is backing down. The May 6 update will no longer be released and, presumably, the game won't be removed from sale on Steam in 177 countries and territories as reported yesterday. "Helldivers fans weve heard your feedback on the Helldivers 2 account linking update," the company said on X. "The May 6 update, which would have required Steam and PlayStation Network account linking for new players and for current players beginning May 30, will not be moving forward." In a separate post, Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt said, "firstly, I am impressed by the willpower of the @helldivers2 community and your ability to collaborate. Secondly I want to thank our partners and friends at @PlayStation for quickly and effectively making the decision to leave PSN linking optional. We together want to set a new standard for what a live game is, and how developers and community can support each other to create the best game experiences." Ouch, right in the review score Well, I guess it's warranted. Sorry everyone for how this all transpired. I hope we will make it up and regain the trust by providing a continued great game experience.I just want to make great games! pic.twitter.com/EPO7apDUlc Pilestedt (@Pilestedt) May 3, 2024 After Sony's announcement that it would require players to link their Steam and PSN accounts, users pushed back en masse. Thety complained not just about privacy issues, but the fact that the game was removed from all countries without PSN access some 177 in total, according to @SteamDB. That resulted in over 200,000 negative reviews on the game, which led to an apology from Pilestedt. "Ouch, right in the review score," he wrote. Earlier this year, Sony President Hiroki Totoki promised to shrink the gap between PlayStation 5 and PC releases in an effort to grow profit margins. Helldivers 2 followed that dictum, releasing to PSN and PC on the same day, February 8. Helldivers 2 was supposed to require a PSN link from launch day, but Sony delayed the plan due to network limitations. Other multiplayer titles include Ghost of Tsushima (Legends) also supposedly require a PSN account, but it's not clear if Sony will retain that requirement given the recent bad publicity. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/sony-quickly-backs-down-on-helldivers-2-psn-requirement-for-pc-players-120030227.html?src=rss
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When I first saw the Rabbit R1, it was more appealing than the Humane AI Pin. The R1 had an actual screen, not a dim projector, and it had a twee scrolling wheel, all wrapped up in a glossy, fiery orange-red shell. Alas, as our review explains, it doesnt work as well as promised. It doesnt do much and is, at launch, riddled with bugs and issues. Devindra Hardawar, who reviewed it, even took issue with the scrolling wheel. Nooooo. Engadget The main takeaway might be: If your phone can do all these tasks just as well (or better, in most cases), whats the point, Rabbit? The truth might be I just wasnt into the Rabbit R1. Even if I am into pretty much anything Teenage Engineering designs. Mat Smith The biggest stories you might have missed Parrots love video-chat X is using Grok to publish AI-generated news summaries The best gifts to upgrade your grads tech setup You can get these reports delivered daily direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here! Carbon dioxide removal plans may not be enough to meet Paris treaty goals Theres a gap between plans and whats needed. New research conducted by the University of East Anglia (UEA) suggests current carbon removal plans will not be enough to comply with Paris treaty goals to limit global warming to 1.5C. Theres a gap of up to 3.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) between current global plans to remove carbon from the atmosphere and whats needed to avoid the worst impacts of global warming. The study says a rapid reduction in emissions is far more important than where to stuff the CO2 already around. Continue reading. Google bans ads for deepfake porn apps and services Or it will on May 30. Google has updated its Inappropriate Content Policy to expressly prohibit advertisers from promoting websites and services that generate deepfake pornography. There are already restrictions in place for ads that feature some types of sexual content, but this aims squarely at synthetic content that has been altered or generated to be sexually explicit or contain nudityThe company will start implementing the rule on May 30, giving advertisers the chance to remove any ad in violation of the new policy. Continue reading. Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8,000 takedown requests Theyre aimed at emulators. Engadget Nintendo sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice for over 8,000 GitHub repositories hosting code from the Yuzu Switch emulator. You might recall the games maker said Yuzu was enabling piracy at a colossal scale. Redacted entities representing Nintendo assert the Yuzu source code illegally circumvents Nintendos technological protection measures and runs illegal copies of Switch games. This is all happening as game emulators enjoy a resurgence. Last month, Apple loosened its restrictions on retro game players in the App Store. However, the more earnest reasons for emulation (archiving a history of gaming that could otherwise be lost; playing games no longer in circulation) evaporate when youre doing it for a free copy of Tears of the Kingdom. Continue reading.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-the-verdict-on-the-rabbit-r1-111538948.html?src=rss
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Jack Dorsey has apparently exited the Bluesky board. As spotted by TechCrunch, the former Twitter CEO who was previously Blueskys highest-profile proponent shared the life update this weekend on X, where hes been posting a lot lately. In response to a user who asked are you still on the bsky board, Dorsey said only, no. Thats it, nothing more. Engadget has reached out to the company for comment and will update this story if we hear back. no jack (@jack) May 4, 2024 The decentralized social network started as a project by a team at then-Twitter back in 2019, but it eventually split off on its own. It only opened to the public this March after being invite-only for almost a year. While Jack Dorsey sat on its board, Bluesky is led by Jay Graber, its CEO since 2021. Dorsey has said mixed things about X since Elon Musks takeover, but it seems hes now swung back around. On Saturday, he posted on X, dont depend on corporations to grant you rights. defend them yourself using freedom technology. (youre on one). The company has made no mention yet of Dorseys departure, and hes still named as a board member on its website. Dorsey seemingly deleted his own Bluesky account months ago, TechCrunch notes. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/jack-dorsey-says-on-x-that-hes-not-on-the-bluesky-board-anymore-183902317.html?src=rss
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