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WIT Studio Banned Generative AI: Nobody Checked the Opening
WIT had a stated no-AI rule, a president who called AI a threat and no step in the pipeline where anyone verified either one.
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King Gnu’s “GO GHOST” opened the new THE GHOST IN THE SHELL on July 29, with millennium parade’s “Blue” closing it. Daiki Tsuneta fronts both bands and wrote both songs, the first time the two have scored the same project. Splitting the opening and ending between unrelated artists is the normal way to buy a second fanbase without paying for it. Tsuneta kept both slots. The ending brings in the outside names instead, where Canadian artists Daniel Caesar and Saya Gray sing on “Blue.”
GTA VI holds its November 19 date, its 2nd delay already behind it. After 13 years of waiting, Rockstar has released 2 trailers and 0 minutes of gameplay footage. Layoffs and union-busting accusations serious enough to draw UK political attention run underneath the release. Studios usually time that kind of story around a hype cycle, not through the middle of one. Rockstar is betting that 13 years of anticipation outweighs a labor story most players will forget by November.
Rockstar gave Netflix a six-hour exclusive window on the GTA 6 extended look. A studio that has never needed a distribution partner just took one.
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Valko's 8-Day Cancellation Didn't Fix What Broke Love and Deepspace
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Infold Games cancelled Love and Deepspace's newest character eight days after revealing him and banned new characters forever. The resourcing complaint that caused the backlash is still unresolved.
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Sleep Token Hid the Album Behind a Puzzle and Debuted at Number One
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For three months in 2025, Sleep Token scattered clues across a weather forecast, a print interview and a page source. Then Even in Arcadia entered the Billboard 200 at the top.
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CD Projekt Red Called It Silosis, Almost Lost the Studio Over It
· 8 min read
Cyberpunk 2077's launch exposed an org chart, not a bug count. The studio tore down how it built games to ship Phantom Liberty.
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A Sixth-Grade Teacher Ran a Forced Ranking System: The Kids Broke It Before Microsoft Did
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In a 2005 Japanese drama, a homeroom teacher built a point system that turned twenty-four kids into informants. GE and Microsoft ran the adult version. Both failed for the same reason.
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Balatro Wasn't Poker: Everyone Read It Wrong
· 7 min read
LocalThunk built a math toy in poker clothes. Then the world kept mistaking the costume for the product.
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What Overfly Was Actually Casting For
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Luna Haruna came from Gothic Lolita fashion, had one prior single and got the closing theme for SAO's messier second half. LiSA had the Aincrad OP. That turned out to matter.
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