It's MS, so a name change should be expected around every 3 months or so. IAM is Purview, Azure Security Centre is Defender for Cloud Apps (not to be confused with Defender for Cloud, because who could possibly get that mixed up...), Yammer is Viva Engage, Privacy is Priva, Data Service is Dataverse (barf), ATP is Defender for O365, Flow is Automate, AzureAD is Entra... the list is endless.

Genuinely endless. In another 3 months, we'll have another 15 product name changes to remember. Or ignore. People at my work still use the old names for an insane number of their products. It's just easier, since they'll change again over time.

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Man, folk really love a 5x5 hero shooter, huh? I played a lot of the original Overwatch, and I have to say, I'm done with this genre now, but it's just keeping on going.

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When the experience of pirating a game is better than buying it legitimately, publishers have failed their customers by treating them like criminals.

It's baffling to me that publishers still think, today, that spending hundreds of thousands on Denuvo is a better or safer option than treating their customers like people and not scum.

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After all the Embracer crap last year, this is some fine news.

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Super cool. Love this.

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Absolutely magic interview - thanks for that! Game looks great too, so on the wishlist it goes for a suitable gap in my currently frenzied deck-building addiction (Die in the Dungeon, Fights in Tight Spaces and Diceomancer). Although considering it's only around £4, I'll probably pick it up anyway for later.

And for the record, since that first article you reference, the genre has always been "horde-survival" for me!

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Replies (triggering notifications) and avatars are the two things I miss. I don't really miss the forum at all - I was rarely on there, given the Discord.

The OSA has been fiercely criticised and for good reason - complex, layered yet without nuance, harsh to small sites, vague on specifics. It's an absolute mystery how either this became law, or the absolute fools behind it believe that it actually makes a difference to reducing paedophilia. Those same fools are now lobbying for encryption backdoors, so you know the kind of IQ we're dealing with here.

And I get it. Child safety should be key, and unbreakable encrypted comms ARE an enabler for bad (paedophilia) as well as good (privacy). But this ain't it, chief. It's not even close.

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These are great changes. I only played "3D Dota 2" for a week or so back in August when it came out. It felt overwhelming. The playerbase seems to agree too, with player count dropping from it's early peak of 175K down to today's average 15K. Hope this boosts interest again.

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Then again, technophobia is real

Well, also ethical standards. They're real too. Just ask all the striking voice artists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%932025_SAG-AFTRA_video_game_strike [External Link]

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I'm looking forward to the no-doubt-coming assertion that AI was trained on reaped movies or music. Then the likes of the RIAA, Paramount, WB and Sony Entertainment will be throwing the legal heavyweights out there, for restitution - for billions in lost royalties. It will be a glorious court case, dragging all the big-tech into the firing line. Napster, but with heavyweights on both sides, juking it out for all that stolen revenue.

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