Google CEO says company should be ‘trusted source’ in US election

Hello Googlers, Tomorrow is Election Day here and many across the United States will go to the polls to vote for everything from school boards to judges to Congress to the president. Teams at Google and YouTube have been working hard to ensure that our platforms provide voters with high-quality, reliable information, just as we … Read more

Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn on AI, gamification, and the power of freemium

Today, I’m talking with Luis von Ahn, the cofounder and CEO of Duolingo, the popular app that teaches languages. It’s an interesting time to be in the language business: if there’s anything the current state of AI tech can do, it’s babble away in different languages with people who aren’t quite fluent in what they’re … Read more

Saber won’t say whether their CEO wrote this highly baity comment about games “imposing morals on gamers”


Yesterday I watched a Youtube video about Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, in which sundry, gesticulating milords of the internet opine that they had “forgot what it’s like to be the target audience” for games, hailing the new (and for our money, fairly good) Warhammer 40K shooter as a throwback affair that “oozes masculinity”, with no excess feelings or real-life social relevancy. I then combed through several thousand comments below said video, many of which expressed similar longing for the hypothetical Good Old Days, before those wily feminists invaded the medium, transformed every game into a LGBT+ weeping simulator, and threw all the Real Men into a big hole. I did this because I was searching for one particular comment written by somebody claiming to be Matthew Karch, CEO of Space Marine 2 developers Saber Interactive.

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