Month: December 2024

The company is teaming up with Bwin.pt in Portugal where it is now pushing with more slot games through the prominent local domain and operational license. The companies’ partnership will bring benefits to both parties, as Bwin stands to enrich its library of games whereas MGA Games will have a new way to connect with local audiences.

MGA Games is deploying its greatest titles, which are known to elicit strong responses from players, lead to better engagement for operators, and generally help brands grow. Among the titles featured in the latest content deployment are Sandro Rey, Samantha Fox, Dream 3 Team, Popeye Caça-Tesouros, A Mina de Ouro, Deus dos Mares, and Paulo Future.

Bringing Quality Products to a Strong Local Market

These titles are not just some of the best games in MGA Games’ portfolio, they are also some of the titles that will appeal the most to local audiences. MGA Games are distinguished i…

Larian director of publishing Michael Douse, never one to be shy about speaking his mind, has spoken his mind about Ubisoft’s decision to disband the Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown development team, saying it’s the result of a “broken strategy” that prioritizes subscriptions over sales.

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is quite good. PC Gamer’s Mollie Taylor felt it was dragged down by a very slow start, calling it “a slow burn to a fault” in an overall positive review, and it holds an enviable 86 aggregate score on Metacritic. Despite that, Ubisoft recently confirmed that the development team has been scattered to the four winds to work on “other projects that will benefit from their expertise.”

This, Douse feels, is at least partially the outcome of Ubisoft’s focus on subscriptions over conventional game sales—the whole “feeling comfortable with not owning your game” thing espoused by Ubisoft director of subscriptions Philippe Tremblay earlier this year—and the decision to stop releasing games on Steam, which is far and away the biggest digital storefront for PC gaming.

“The last notable game on their platform was arguably…

If you’ve been settling into the first few hours of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, you might’ve responded in the same way I did—with a reflexive grimace every other line. Now that I’ve sunk close to 50 hours into the game, I’m here to tell you to keep going. The story does get better. Kinda.

I still think Dragon Age: The Veilguard misses the mark in a lot of ways, and the problems of its opening hours are still present in the rest of the game. But there are things to like here. Its characters sometimes have charming moments, it does have some interesting lore drops, and I have, at times, found myself genuinely endeared to its cast. I still think we’re leagues below Dragon Age: Origins in character writing (and still measurably lower on the ladder than Inquisition), but there are bright spots.

But those opening hours, jeez. The Veilguard doesn’t introduce you to its world and setting with a flourish as much as it takes one step, tumbles clumsily down the rest of the stairs, and lands with a broken leg. Then it says “ow, falling down those stairs hurt, I feel upset about how I fell down those stairs”, before a little prompt pops up, reading: “because the story fell…

Yes, I know it’s a bit hypocritical to be critical of AI, specifically generative AI, and use it like some sort of sick party trick. However, I’m a journalist and this is like doing science, kinda. Google Notebook LM, Google’s AI summarization system, has a new feature to guide its audio summarization feature, with a focus on certain topics and sources, and it’s both quite smart and sort of haunting.

Announced today, Google Labs, the search company’s site for AI tools, has implemented this latest addition and users can test it out for themselves. I wanted to give it a piece of information that is somewhat nuanced yet I know quite well so it’s hard to find a better choice than something you’ve written.

I handed it a piece I had written earlier today, which is critical of opt-out policies when it comes to AI data scraping, and watched two hosts summarize it for the point of helping take notes. Apart from calling opt-out the “Opt O U T” model, it kinda nails it.

The two AI hosts manage to get to my basic opinion in a roundabout way and appear like they’re earnestly and level-headedly criticising the thing that made them exist in the first place (data scraping). …