‘Destiny 2’ Is Now Reselling Old Seasonal Cosmetics For Nine Times The Price (www.forbes.com)
Just when I was giving Bungie credit for taking Destiny 2 armor out of Eververse this season and making it an earned, in-game reward, we now have a situation I’d describe as pretty baffling.
Saw The Eclipse And Aurora? Now Comes A Third Once-In-A-Lifetime Event (www.forbes.com)
Russia deploys Silok jammers to ground Ukraine’s drones. Ukraine hunts down the Siloks with, you guessed it, drones (www.forbes.com)
Russian force in Ukraine deploy Silok radio-jammers in order to disrupt the radio links between Ukrainian drone and their operators....
X Announces Peer-To-Peer Payment Service Will Launch In 2024 (www.forbes.com)
Energy Vault Wins Big With Gravity Storage In China (www.forbes.com)
Epic's Layoffs Should Be Blamed On A Quixotic Pursuit Of The Metaverse (www.forbes.com)
Epic has rocked the video game industry by laying off 16% of its workforce, nearly 900 people. While layoffs and studio closures and game cancellations are all too common in the industry, this was worse than usual, given the context in which they took place.
AT&T Says Personal Information From 73 Million Customers Leaked On The Dark Web—Including Social Security Numbers (www.forbes.com)
Here’s How The Russians Are Taking Out Ukraine’s M-1 Abrams Tanks (www.forbes.com)
‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense (www.forbes.com)
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Stonehenge Sprayed With Orange Paint One Day Before Solstice (www.forbes.com)
The U.S. Dollar Is ‘Finished’—Wall Street Legend Warns Trump’s And Biden’s China Nightmare Is Suddenly Coming True (www.forbes.com)
Apple Vision Pro Sold Out, At Least For Pre-Order (www.forbes.com)
Apple Vision Pro Sold Out, At Least For Pre-Order::Trying to score a pre-order for a $3,500 face computer? Good luck: Apple appears to be out of stock of Apple Vision Pro headsets, at least for the moment.
Texas Ordered To Remove Rio Grande Buoy Border Barrier By Federal Judge (www.forbes.com)
The Main Lesson From ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Should Be ‘People Hate Microtransactions’ (www.forbes.com)
If reception to Baldur’s Gate says anything, it’s that people hate microtransactions in their AAA games.
Credit Card Delinquency Rates Are At Highest Level Since 2012 (www.forbes.com)
The Pokémon Company Announces It Will ‘Investigate’ Palworld IP And Assets (www.forbes.com)
The Pokémon Company, partially owned by Nintendo, announced it will investigate Palworld for potentially using its IP and assets.
‘The Walking Dead’ Just Released A Shocking, Hilariously Bad Game (www.forbes.com)
Ukraine’s TB-2 Drones Are Back In Action. That’s An Ominous Sign For Russia. (www.forbes.com)
Months after virtually disappearing from Ukraine’s skies, the Ukrainian armed forces’ Bayraktar TB-2 drones are back in action....
Microsoft’s Xbox Series S Parity Demands Are Now Handing Sony Free Wins (www.forbes.com)
Larian has delayed the release of Baldur’s Gate 3, currently on pace to possibly be 2023’s Game of the Year, until they can figure out how to make split-screen work on Series S.
This AI Watches Millions Of Cars And Tells Cops If You’re Driving Like A Criminal (www.forbes.com)
This AI Watches Millions Of Cars And Tells Cops If You’re Driving Like A Criminal::Artificial intelligence is helping American cops look for “suspicious” patterns of movement using license plate databases.
Trying And Failing To Cross A River In Vovchansk, 400 Russian Troops Got Cut Off. Now They’re Surrendering. (www.forbes.com)
Russia’s northern offensive isn’t going well....
Russia Has Massed 500 Tanks For An Attack On Kupyansk. Thousands Of Ukrainian Drones Await Them. (www.forbes.com)
‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Studio CEO Refutes Ubisoft’s Subscription Model Comments (www.forbes.com)
Larian's CEO says that less games like Baldur's Gate 3 will get made if the industry keeps chasing subscription models for new releases.
A Brand-New Ukrainian Drone Blasted A Russian Machine Gun From 1910 (www.forbes.com)
A Ukrainian drone has claimed a very old prize: a Russian M1910 machine gun—a type that first appeared in, you guessed it, 1910....