An indie developer who says they have had to refund 55,000 sales allegedly due to Steam's two-hour refund policy said it "should not be possible" for players to be refunded for games they leave positive reviews for. Read more Read Full Article read more

Apple's self-driving car program never really got off the ground, but it may have been what made the company's chips the powerful AI performers they are. Early in the development of the self-driving platform, Apple realized that it would need powerful on-device AI processing. While the car processor was never finished, as Mark Gurman details… read more

Hintze apparently mismanaged the whole studio and blamed the devs for it. The post ‘It’s emotional and shocking:’ Halo Studios devs accuse Pierre Hintze of severe abuse and mistreatment, according to new report appeared first on Destructoid. Read Full Article read more

Be careful folks. The post A Sea of Thieves convention shuts down after people were apparently getting their drinks spiked with ‘unknown substance’ appeared first on Destructoid. Read Full Article read more

Matmos are an incredibly accomplished duo between their own solo records like the masterpiece A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure and production classic Bjork records like Vespertine. But Drew Daniel, one half of Matmos, is fiendishly prolific. When he's not literally dreaming up new viral music genres, he's also putting out records… read more

Someone somewhere is happy about this, I guess. The post Sony’s own bank (yes, really) is about to introduce a crypto coin to let you buy PlayStation games appeared first on Destructoid. Read Full Article read more

Lorde was performing at the Real Cool Festival in Madrid on Thursday and took some time during her set to speak out against AI glasses. While she didn't specify any brands in particular, it's likely she was taking a shot at festival sponsor Ray-Ban, which has collaborated with Meta on a pair of AI smartglasses.… read more

I am just savvy enough with anime and manga to hesitantly observe that there are at least two broad types of "magic girl" story. There are the naive and upbeat ones in which the magic girls sincerely believe all the nonsense they yell about the power of Hope and such, and then there are the… read more

Another horrendously hot Saturday, another wedding to go to. I am all in favour of love, but could we please reschedule it to a cooler day in the year? Mercifully this one's a London wedding and it can be reached and returned from on the tube. Though travelling on a hot carriage and not arriving… read more

Donald Trump's Homeland Security regime has been at the center of two critical stories in the past two weeks. In the first, federal agents shot and killed a man and quickly got to work justifying the use of force under the flimsiest of pretenses. In the other, it made house calls to people who said… read more

Never stop voicing your opinions, folks. The post EA caves under community pressure over microtransactions in latest College Football title: ‘we will remove all paid progression options’ appeared first on Destructoid. Read Full Article read more