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Krafton shutters free-to-play PUBG spin-off after two months, in line with policy of using Early Access to "quickly validate a game’s potential"

2 months 4 weeks ago

Krafton is shutting down PUBG Blindspot, a free-to-play PC spinoff of its hit PUBG Battlegrounds, after only two months in Early Access. The news comes despite the PUBG franchise powering the firm's best-ever annual revenue, but is in line with its previously stated policy of using Early Access releases to validate games before committing development resources.

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Jon Hicks

Unity sees growth in engine revenue, shuts down IronSource ad network in favour of Vector AI user-acquisition platform

2 months 4 weeks ago

Unity has announced that it is shutting down its IronSource advertising/user-acquisition network and planning to divest Supersonic, publisher of mobile games including Bridge Race, Going Balls and Build A Queen. The firm said the process would "simplify the business" and enable it to focus on higher growth segments, including its AI-powered ad network Vector. The news was included in the firm's latest investor update.

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Jon Hicks

Why OpenAI really shut down Sora

2 months 4 weeks ago

OpenAI's decision last week to shut down Sora, its AI video-generation tool, just six months after releasing it to the public, raised immediate suspicions. The app had invited users to upload their own faces — so was this some kind of elaborate data grab?

Connie Loizos