Category: politics
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PMG: “The Games Industry Must Not Stay Silent on Palestine”
People Make Games has posted this video about the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people by the Israeli government. YouTube won’t let this video be embedded, but you can click on the link above or here to see it.
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Ukrainian Government Calls for Video Game Sanctions on Russia & Belarus
The invasion of Ukraine has led to the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine & Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine (that’s one person, Mykhailo Fedorov) requesting via Twitter that Microsoft’s Xbox division, and Sony’s PlayStation division, in addition to “all game development companies” and “esports platforms”, to temporarily block all games from accounts in Russia…
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Microsoft Outfits Soldiers for AR Murder With Hololens
Lucas Matney writing for Tech Crunch: Today, Microsoft announced that it has received a contract to outfit the United States Army with tens of thousands of augmented reality headsets based on the company’s HoloLens tech. This contract could be worth as much as $21.88 billion over 10 years, the company says. Microsoft will be fulfilling…
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“…I love the Bangles!”
Michael Lewis writing about the national embarrassment’s transition to office: Before any of the calls could be made, however, the president of Egypt called in to the switchboard at Trump Tower and somehow got the operator to put him straight through to Trump. “Trump was like … I love the Bangles! You know that song…