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The enshittification continues, until ~~morale~~ profit improves.

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.

Elon Musk: At long last, I have created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel "Don't create the Torment Nexus".

Piranha Bytes is/was owned by Embracer, that should say everything about its chances of survival.

As far as I understand it, the studios are trying a different angle: They are not suing Reddit this time, but an ISP and want Reddit to provide the data of costumers of that ISP.

Now Elon has lost the crucial support of NFT bros. All five of them!

Because there are lots of people in this thread who paint whales as "rich schmucks" who can afford to spend $48k without thinking twic. This is a myth that lots of the gaming industry itself loves to perpetuate, because it absolves them of taking responsibility for ruining lives.

Research has shown repeatedly that whales are much more likely to be people with mental health problems and/or gambling addicts. That Star Citizen isn't a freemium game with loot boxes makes it marginally better than - let's say - Genshin Impact, but offers like the bundle in the article is still predatory.

If you are up for written reviews: Buried Treasure does a very good job of digging up stuff that hardly ever gets any attention elsewhere.

That's one part of the reason: Google seriously angered the judge by deleting possible evidence (Google got in similar trouble in the anti-trust trial in regards to their search engine). Additionally there were emails that showed that Google was very worried about Epic and that they bribed phone manufacturers to not install pre-install a Fortnite launcher (or other app stores) on their phones.

So there was a clear paper trail that showed how Google execs used their control over Android and the Google app store in order to undermine Epic's efforts to circumvent having to pay Google for being included in the app store. That's the main difference in regards to the trial against Apple where the evidence was not that clear-cut.