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The Day Before, once Steam’s most wish-listed open-world survival MMO, has been delisted from Valve’s platform. The game launched in early access to an almost immediate flood of negative reviews last week, with most players claiming that it wasn’t really an MMO but an extraction shooter reminiscent of Escape from Tarkov, combined with the post-apocalyptic

Raphael Satter / Reuters: Apple updates its law enforcement guidelines to now require a judge’s order before handing over users’ push notification data, instead of only a subpoena  —  Apple (AAPL.O) has said it now requires a judge’s order to hand over information about its customers’ push notification to law enforcement … Source link

Microsoft is reportedly planning to offer free game streaming in exchange for advertisements. As per TweakTown, Xbox Gaming CFO Tim Stuart suggested during the recent Wells Fargo TMT Summit that to expand geographically, it would be ideal to leverage the company’s xCloud service, allowing players to cloud stream games at any ‘endpoint’ via a simple

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney discusses beating Google, attributing the win to a jury trial and Google deleting chats, and says “Apple didn’t write anything down”  —  – The verdict is a significant win for Epic Games and its CEO Tim Sweeney, which have been fighting against mobile app stores and

Bloomberg: Google’s legal defeat to Epic threatens to roil an app store duopoly with Apple that generates ~$200B per year and will likely accelerate weaker app store rules  —  – Jury decision poised to accelerate crumbling of business model  — Case takes aim at app store commissions of up to 30% Source link

Beeper Mini was released last week on December 5 to allow Android users to access Apple’s iMessage service for a small monthly fee. However, days after its launch, Apple blocked the service citing privacy and security concerns. Beeper claimed that its service is secure and eases communication between Android and iPhone users. The firm also

Jinshan Hong / Bloomberg: Apptopia: shoppers spent ~22 minutes per day on Temu in October, up from 18 minutes in Q2 2023, compared with 10 minutes on Amazon and 11 on AliExpress in Q2  —  – Games and rewards entice shoppers to spend longer on Temu  — Firm has seen explosive growth in US, with

WhatsApp introduced View Once messages for text, photos, and videos back in 2021. Now, the Meta-owned instant messaging platform is expanding this feature to voice messages. With this feature, users will be able to set voice messages to disappear after their recipient listens to them. Like the View Once photos and videos, View Once voice

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: In his first public appearance since returning to OpenAI, Sam Altman says AI is “going to lift the world up”, and you cannot build AI “safely in a vacuum”  —  – Altman spoke on the ethics of AI and need to push exploration  — ‘You gotta deploy,’ says the chief of

Fortnite maker Epic Games has prevailed in its high-profile antitrust trial over Alphabet’s Google, which alleged the Play app store operated as an illegal monopoly, in a ruling that if it holds could upend the entire app store economy. Jurors found for Epic on all counts, a court filing showed, after more than a month