Valve appears to be blocking the release of video games made with AI-generated assets on its online store, Steam. A Reddit Post from earlier this monthfirst noticed by GameDiscoverCo founder Simon Carlesscontains a message from Valve stating that it “cannot deliver games for which the developer does not have all necessary rights”. On June 29thAnother ...
screenshot: futurama Stability AI and Midjourney — two of the biggest names in the exploding field of AI-generated imagery — and portfolio website DeviantArt have become the target of a class-action lawsuit filed in California on behalf of artists. As we have already mentioned, AI-generated images are a highly controversial fieldone where “Artists don’t write ...
picture: Deviant art DeviantArt is a website that has survived several generations of the internet because it does one thing, and it does it well: it allows artists to upload and share their work. That’s it! So it’s both funny and more than a little tragic to see how the site tried something new last ...
picture: Gamestop / Krystian Majewski / Kotaku GameStop has proven once again with its NFT shenanigans that an unregulated market built on planet-destroying technology isn’t a particularly good idea, and that may shock you. In a thorough Report from Ars Technica, the GameStop NFT Marketplace is once again the subject of controversy as an NFT ...
This image is pretty much the only thing you can find on the marketplace website, apart from a button to connect your crypto walletscreenshot: GameStop The NFT market and other blockchain-associated tricks like cryptocurrency, are having a very bad month as their perceived “worth” evaporates and the actual monetary value they had falls through the ...
screenshot: Yuga Laboratories Something bad is happening over there Bored Ape Yacht Club, the year-long NFT collection from blockchain technology company Yuga Labs. Bad things seem to be happening almost daily in the NFT sphere and the cryptocurrency community in general, which unfortunately is both common targets of multi-million dollar hacking initiatives and equally expensive ...
screenshot: Square Enix Do you know what no one could have ever predicted? That a market based on imaginary ownership of infinitely duplicable JPEG images may not be the end of the game and sustainable in the long term. When The Wall Street Journal reports, the NFT market is “flattening out” and is down 92 ...
Sina Estavi is a “crypto entrepreneur” who last year bought a digital token that represents the first-ever tweet from Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. He paid $2.9 million for it and this month attempted to recoup his “investment” by auctioning it off, expecting it to bring him $48 million. It has not. Continue reading…
screenshot: Sega / Paramount / Kotaku It seems, like another great video game publishers, Sega is also interested in including NFTs in future games, as revealed in an interview with various executives and producers. During the same interview, Sega spoke more about its “Super Game” projects, confirming that it will be more than one game ...
photo: Alex Wang (Getty Images) Facebook parent company Meta is reportedly planning to launch a new digital currency for the Metaverse. Internally, employees at Meta call the unannounced currency “Zuck Bucks.” These new digital dollars probably won’t be connected to any kind of blockchain, but don’t worry; Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is planning ...
