Blackbird Interactive used VR to sculpt Homeworld 3's new Mothership

Vancouver-based studio Blackbird Interactive has laid off 41 employees.

Blackbird Interactive, the developer behind Homeworld 3, announced today that it has laid off more than 40 employees after several of its upcoming projects have been canceled.

The gamers behind the Gray Lady have a new game to add into our morning rotations: Connections, which invites the player to categorize 16 words or phrases into four distinct groups of four.

By Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.

The space race India aims to win this week by landing first on the moon's south pole is about science, the politics of national prestige and a new frontier: money.

Across years of updates and new missions, Payday 2 ultimately escalated to such a ridiculous degree that the gang broke into the White House to stole pre-signed Presidential pardons for themselves. It was good ridiculousness. Now Payday 3 is on its way, and the cooperative heisting looks far more down-to-Earth in a new trailer fresh out of Gamescom.

Developer Starbreeze Studios and publisher Deep Silver have released a new trailer for upcoming co-op shooter Payday 3 at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2023. The trailer features a mission briefing by actor Ice T. Check it out below.

Last week, reports emerged that the New York Times may take legal action against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI as its AI models allegedly use content published on the website, which is NYT's intellectual property, to train its AI models. While that may not have happened so far, the major news publisher has now decided to ban OpenAI's web crawler from viewing content on its website. The move means that the website's content cannot be used to train any of OpenAI's AI foundational models.

The US economy has been confusing over the last few years, with unemployment rates, inflation, and interest rates bouncing all over the place. The latest news is that Americans' credit card balances collectively increased by $45 billion between the first and second quarters of 2023, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, tipping past the $1 trillion mark for the first time. As I write this, Forbes Advisor's weekly credit card rate report puts the average interest rate at 24.72% (for the week of August 14, 2023). In other words, a whole lot of people are paying close to 25% on their share of the $1.03 trillion in US credit card debt.

The battle between artificial intelligence (AI) and people in creative fields has been ongoing for some time. In the US, actors and writers working in Hollywood have been on strike to limit the usage of AI as they may lose their jobs. Even authors have joined the cause by submitting an open letter to corporations involved in developing these AI tools requesting them to pay fair compensation for using their work as “food” for AI. And now, reports have emerged that a major news publisher New York Times may take legal action against OpenAI, the developer of the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT.

We review Get On Board, a flip and write board game published by IELLO. In Get On Board, players are trying to make bus line routes to get people where they need to go.

New York City has banned the TikTok app and no official will be allowed to use it. All the government agencies' personnel will have to remove it within a period of 30 days. TikTok has been facing numerous bans over the past few years due to security reasons and one of the countries that it is banned in is India too. TikTok app has been dubbed a security threat and that has led to a ban being imposed on its use.