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AI-generated voices in indie games: A great way for small teams to add voice acting, or something players will reject? Devs, would you use it?

A former Epic Games dev says Steam has become almost impossible to compete with, even if someone builds a better launcher. Kiaran Ritchie argues that developers aren’t really paying Valve’s 30% cut for its services, they’re paying for access to Steam’s huge player base. He believes most Steam users simply have no reason to move to another store, even if it offers a better experience. “They played capitalism so well they broke it.” Ritchie says that Steam has become so dominant that developers can’t afford to ignore it, leaving them with no choice but to accept the 30% cut.

Nexus Mods will make AI disclosure mandatory for all mods, but won’t ban AI-generated content. The platform announced several changes following community feedback: > Authors must declare AI usage and explain how it was used in AI-assisted mods. >New rules will let authors control AI use, AI training and derivative mods. Permissions will default to “Ask me”. >Content filters: Users will get easier options to hide AI-generated mods. > AI-tagged mods received just 2.13% of all Donation Points this year. Reward rules won’t change for now. Nexus will also never use mods to train AI or license them for that purpose. Existing mods have until January 2, 2027, to meet the new requirements. After that, violations could lead to account restrictions or mod removal.

Just deleted a couple terabytes of ai slop 😌

Happy Halloween from the wifey's!! 🎃🕸️

From today, charities can apply to sponsor refugees through new, capped Named Community Sponsorship and Refugee study safe and legal routes. Sponsors will provide accommodation, integration support and help finding work. First arrivals are expected in autumn 2027.

The number of game pages being created per day has doubled in the past 2 months

ANTHROPIC IS CRACKING DOWN ON VIDEO GAME REWRITES 🚨 Claude Code picked up a new rule around Oct 27, sent from Anthropic’s servers under a flag called "tengu_heron_brook". There’s no setting to turn it off. The full rule: “Do build original games, games in a genre, and games from the user’s own designs and assets. Don’t build a recreation of a specific existing game, even if it is renamed or called original.” Is this the end of game rewrites, modding and everything in between?

when w*m*n say they read 20+ books a year, this is what they're talking about

Dressmaker developer Sabrina Becker says women are still an underserved audience in gaming. “We were definitely targeting women from the get-go,” “Women are such an underserved market in video games, even though women love video games.” The team saw how popular dress-up games are on platforms like Roblox and wanted to create a deeper experience for that audience. It seems to have worked: Dressmaker has over 17,500 Steam reviews with a 98% positive rating, and still averages more than 15,000 concurrent players a month after launch. The game has also attracted older players, with some reviewers saying it even brought back their love of sewing.

We made the first AI model you can have a realistic conversation with that was trained entirely on speech! Dessa is a full-duplex speech-to-speech model that you can run on consumer GPUs. This is a GPT3 moment for speech.

YouTube is testing hiding the dislike button Users are seeing it inside the three dot menu, nearly five years after public dislike counts were removed

El productor japonés Yu Mashiro respondió a los lectores extranjeros que exigen traducciones oficiales y justifican la piratería cuando no las reciben: el manga se crea pensando en Japón, y son las ventas de ese país las que deciden si una serie continúa o termina cancelada. Mashiro explicó que la industria pasó de sorprenderse por el interés extranjero a no entender por qué algunos lectores tratan las traducciones como una obligación. Publicar un manga fuera de Japón implica adaptar referencias culturales, rehacer viñetas y asumir costos que muchas veces ni siquiera se recuperan. Pero los problemas no terminan en el dinero. Mashiro recordó cómo las versiones en inglés de "Crayon Shin-chan" americanizaron su humor, cómo se inventaron términos de ciencia ficción inexistentes en "Gundam" y cómo algunos traductores alteraron diálogos para introducir sus propias opiniones personales.