Scientist have found that whales are happier when humans are not around, and this was during the first year of the COVID-19 Pandemic, when human activity on the ocean was limited. Which begs the question do whales really hate humans?

Eve Online's creator CCP Games have decided to go open source...will this make the game immortal? Only time will tell...

Hollywood is facing an exodus of film crew workers, is this the sign that the Hollywood cinema is coming to an end?

Whales hate humans

- University of Queensland research finds whales were less stressed during early COVID pandemic - ABC News

Eve Online Open Source Edition

- Hilmar Pétursson: Making CCP tech open source will enable Eve Online to live forever | GamesIndustry.biz

Hollywood Exodus

- Goodbye, Hollywood: Why these film and TV workers decided to ditch L.A.

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A classic MMO designer thinks modern MMOs aren't giving players enough ways to play together. MMOs have changed over the last 20 years, and are no longer the only way to play with your friends. So what's really behind the changes?

A new study suggests geoengineering might actually just move the issue from one place to another. Who will bear the consequences of trying to prevent global warming?

GTA has never been made into a movie. One of the Rockstar founders has come forwards to explain why.

Modern MMO….

- MMOs 'don't give people the tools to build community anymore,' says EverQuest 2 creative director | PC Gamer

Geoengineering...curse or cure

- Cloud geoengineering could push heatwaves from US to Europe | New Scientist

GTA the movie….

- Rockstar Games Co-Founder Says 'Grand Theft Auto', 'Red Dead Redemption' Never Adapted To Film Or TV Because "The Risk Never Made Sense" - Bounding Into Comics

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Team Fortress 2 has been overrun by bots. A new campaign to save this game from the hackers and cheaters who are ruining it begs Valve to make a difference. We discuss how this relates to the Stop Killing Games campaign and the various ways Valve and the community can save the game.

By all accounts, The Crow's reboot will not be any good. Can it be saved? Who will watch it?

The Arctic Fox is on the brink of extinction, except for the diligent work of a team of fox breeders working to save the population through captive breeding. Will they be successful or will the fox go the way of the dodo?

Please Fix Team Fortress 2

- SaveTF2 Petition

- Why is #FixTF2 trending? Team Fortress 2 issues explained

The Unwatchable Crow

- https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/06/10/former-the-crow-reboot-screenwriter-trashes-film-its-horrible-its-unwatchable-dont-waste-your-money/

Project Artic Fox

- Eagle attacks, red invaders and a genetic bottleneck: inside the fight to save arctic foxes | Endangered species | The Guardian

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Sorry about the audio quality on this one. The people responsible have been fired out of a cannon into the sun. The problem has been fixed and we'll be back to our usual quality next week.

Should we pay modders for their work? After hundreds of hours playing modded games, and even designing some mods himself, Professor's got some thoughts on this.

The future of PCs is AI. Or is it? The Nerds disagree that Microsoft's Recall will gain any traction.

George R R Martin is ranting about how movies and shows are never as good as the books they are based on. He might be right.

Should We Pay Modders

- Featured Blog | Modders are Developers - It’s Time to Pay Them

AI is coming…..to your PC

- Microsoft Is Giving Windows a Memory and It Might Change Everything

- Windows to drive PC refresh? Everyone's talking about AI • The Register

- Google AI Overview's health advice: Eat a rock a day, and go jump off a bridge

George R.R.Martin strikes…again…and again…and again

- 'Game Of Thrones' Creator George R.R. Martin Calls Out Most TV & Film Adaptations For Being Worse Than Source Material: "They Never Make It Better"

- The Adaptation Tango | Not a Blog

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According to surveys, most gamers Smurf - that is high level players using a low level account to stomp noobs. So why do you do it, and is it as bad as it sounds?

The end of anime's Golden Age may be upon us. Miyazaki says so, but he's just won an award for anime. So is it self-deprecating humour or bragging?

The Australian government has suggested social media should be for adults only. The Nerds discuss why this won't work.

Fecal matter transplants are a seemingly miracle treatment for a variety of conditions, and might even slow the progression of Parkinson's disease. You'll have to get over some ick before you go for this treatment though.

Smurfing and no its not about the Smurfs

- https://news.osu.edu/gamers-say-they-hate-smurfing-but-admit-they-do-it/

Miyazaki : The Golden age of anime is over

- https://comicbook.com/anime/news/studio-ghibli-hayao-miyazaki-anime-over/

- https://geektyrant.com/news/hayao-miyazaki-feels-that-the-golden-age-of-anime-is-over

Australia wants a Social Media Ban for under 16 year olds

- https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/21/anthony-albanese-social-media-ban-children-under-16-minimum-age-raised

- https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/21/australia-social-media-ban-children-state-government-nsw-qld-sa-vic

Poo Pills Part 2

- https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/news/gut-bacteria-transplant-may-improve-parkinsons-movement-symptoms

- https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/news/research-bacteria-gut-reveals-how-they-potentially-cause-and-affect-progression-parkinsons

- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589537024001421

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The UK has issued a response to the Stop Killing Games campaign with a possible angle of attack. Remember to keep signing your local petitions to help make a change.

The creator of Ghost in the Shell Arise thinks Isekais are off the rails and that the real world doesn't suck that much. Has he been outside recently?

AI deepfakes are being used in a new type of scam called Pig Butchering. Keep yourselves safe.

Joycon Lawsuits

- Two Joy-Con lawsuits against Nintendo are dismissed | GamesIndustry.biz

Rob Scotts’s Stop Killing Games lawsuit update

- UK government responds to Stop Killing Games campaign | GamesIndustry.biz

Why The Isekai hate

- 'Does Everyone Hate Real World?': Ghost In The Shell: Arise Director Bemoans The Rise Of Isekai Anime - Animehunch

New A.I Scam : Pig Butchering

- How South-East Asia's pig butchering scammers are using artificial intelligence technology - ABC News

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Helldivers 2 players have achieved a major victory over Sony, leading to the PSN account requirement being retracted. Good work troops.

WBD are planning some more Lord of the Rings movies, starting with The Hunt for Gollum. The Nerds discuss why they've picked such an overdone part of the story to cover.

Plastic eating nanobots may be coming to a water treatment plant near you. Scientists have developed a type of nanobot that "eats" plastic and can be filtered out of the water supply.

Helldivers vs Sony Saga

• https://www.gamesindustry.biz/sony-backtracks-on-helldivers-2-psn-log-in-requirement

DJ – New Lord of the Rings movies

• https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/new-lord-of-the-rings-movies-2026-peter-jackson-1235894513/

Nanobots farming microplastics

• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.202402567

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The USA's TikTok ban coming into effect could affect game developers too. We'll break it down and go over the possible effects.

If you want to preserve your body for the future, you might turn to cryonics. If you can't afford a full body, you can just preserve your brain and hope someone grows you a new body in the future.

Marvel movies suck. Everyone's saying it. Even the cast and crew are saying it. Here's why.

Tiktok bans affects gaming

- The US is banning TikTok, could Fortnite and League of Legends be next? | This Week in Business | GamesIndustry.biz

Cryonic brains...the next evolution to brains in a jar

- How a Controversial Cryonics Procedure Could Finally Make Immortality Possible

Why do Marvel movies suck?

- Avengers Directors Say Marvel Flops Aren't Superhero Fatigue

- Avengers: Endgame directors say they don't believe in superhero fatigue and that the MCU's current problems are part of a "generational divide"

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