This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. The VR industry has been on edge since Meta’s massive job cuts earlier this year: One exec called the layoff announcements “one of VR’s darkest weeks.” There’s talk of a […]
CD Projekt Red has hired a new AI director, Dorian Kieken, a former BioWare developer with credits on the Mass Effect series.
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Disney would have been wise to hold on to the creator of both WandaVision and Agatha All Along, but now she’s heading over to Amazon.
Hulu and Disney Plus have a returning show with near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes scores that seems to be vastly overlooked.
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Severance season 3’s release date is confirmed to be ages away, but larger plays for the “universe” seem questionable as well.
Epstein Island was home to a Pokestop for one of its landmarks, discovered a while ago but only recently removed by Niantic.
Highguard is on the verge of collapse like Concord before it, and many in the industry cannot believe this is happening again.
Blizzard Entertainment has added the Warlock class to Diablo 2: Resurrected, and confirmed that the same class will be coming to Diablo 4 and Diablo Immortal this year.
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Valve’s Steam Deck OLED models are out of stock in the US, and the RAM crisis looks like it may be responsible again.
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