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Twitch recently confirmed it will use streamers’ content to train its generative AI models. The Amazon-owned platform is automatically opting all users in to the feature. And in the most predictable turn of events possible: the move has not gone over well, to put it mildly.

“It’s time to sue Sony,” game preservation advocates Stop Killing Games have declared, as the group throws its weight behind a Dutch lawsuit targeting the PlayStation Store’s alleged monopoly and “Sony Tax” on digital games.

The members of SB19 are no strangers when it comes to being trailblazers. Amid the sweltering Chicago heat at Lollapalooza, the band emerged full throttle in fiery leather outfits to rep its culture.

To help answer that question, we’ll be hosting a live conversation with Ross Scott, the founder of the Stop Killing Games campaign, on August 11 at 2:30 pm ET as part of the Ars Live series. As Ars’ Senior Gaming Editor, I’ve documentedcountlessexamples of once vibrant games being left for dead by their creators.

In the first-ever episode of Mad Men, the ad executives of Sterling Cooper are trying to figure out a fresh new way to advertise Lucky Strike cigarettes after the recent revelations that everyone’s favourite pastime is causing cancer. One of the agency’s team members offers research suggesting that smokers are driven by a collective death…

When PlayStation released the PlayStation Portable (PSP) in 2005, it successfully filled the hunger for a handheld version of the popular PlayStation 2 console. Sony began sunsetting the original PSP in 2012, releasing the Vita as its successor in February 2012 – the hope was to ride the wave of the PSP, which sold over 76 million…

Netflix never lets us down when it comes to binge-worthy teen dramas. From Ginny & Georgia to Heartstopper and Outer Banks, there is an endless list of addictive shows to choose from – and its latest is proving to be another huge hit. 

Japanese authorities have reportedly called on the U.S. government to stop using characters from some of Japan’s most famous entertainment franchises in political memes, arguing that such content may violate intellectual property rights and harm the image of beloved characters, AzerNEWS reports.

New reports have suggested that XBOX could be looking to move away from Steam and stop releasing XBOX games on the store, but this has been mooted already, with new details on XBOX’s ‘doubling down on PC gaming.’

Tampa, Fla. — Walking into a video game store is something Isaiah Chavez hopes he’ll always be able to do.