Epic Games hacker isn’t a hacker, at all

Epic Games hacker isn’t a hacker, at all

Mogilevich, which claimed to have breached Fortnite maker Epic Games last month, was due to release the stolen data this week. However, clicking the link to view what was meant to be a trove of personal information and source code instead led to an announcement. Quoted by Cyber Daily, a spokesperson named Pongo writes, “Unfortunately …

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Fortnite Is Currently Filled With Racist AI-Generated Art

Fortnite Is Currently Filled With Racist AI-Generated Art

If you boot up Fortnite right now and start digging around through the game’s massive amount of user-created content, you’ll quickly notice a strange pattern: Many user-made maps and modes feature AI-generated artwork of large men, often shirtless, smiling, and holding food. Some of these images also feature crude, racist depictions of people. And yet, …

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Google agrees to pay $700m to settle one antitrust action in US

Google agrees to pay 0m to settle one antitrust action in US

Computing reported last week that Epic had won its antitrust case against Google, with a federal jury deciding that the Google Play app store effectively constituted an illegal monopoly. This was not the only antitrust case relating to Google Play that the company had been fighting. (In both of these cases Google was accused of deliberately …

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Spotify Allowed to Sidestep Play Store Fees as Part of Confidential Deal, Google Executive Says

Spotify Allowed to Sidestep Play Store Fees as Part of Confidential Deal, Google Executive Says

Google allowed Spotify to sidestep the company’s mandatory Play Store fees, a company executive reportedly confirmed while giving testimony during the ongoing Epic vs Google trial. The Verge reports that a confidential deal with the streaming giant has come to light, revealing that Spotify was allowed to process its own payments on the service without paying …

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Eminem coming to Fortnite – Destructoid

Eminem coming to Fortnite – Destructoid

Fortnite has just announced its Big Bang event, and there are already reports circulating that Eminem is one of many surprises in store. According to Fortnite leaker @HYPEX, the upcoming Big Bang event will be the multiplayer game’s largest to date, weighing over 1.5 GB. In addition to providing the artwork featuring an animated version …

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BioShock: The Collection Goes Free Till June 2 During Epic Games Store Mega Sale 2022

BioShock: The Collection Goes Free Till June 2 During Epic Games Store Mega Sale 2022

BioShock: The Collection — which includes remastered versions of BioShock, BioShock 2, and BioShock Infinite — is now available for free on the Epic Games Store. The collection of games was originally released in 2016, and is the second entry in Epic’s “mystery games” giveaway that commenced with the four-week Epic Mega Sale 2022 that …

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