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Square Enix responds to Kingdom Hearts Collection AI controversy two months after players called it out

"Updated assets have been implemented where appropriate." “We’re aware of feedback regarding recent Kingdom Hearts visuals,” a Square Enix representative told GameSpot. “These assets were created by our development team without the use of generative AI, and the issues resulted from human error.” The Square Enix rep noted that the publisher is aware of the […]

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Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls shows early signs of popularity, soaring up tournament entry leaderboards

As seen on the Start.gg page for upcoming American fighting game tournament CEO – major national event for the region – 1054 attendees signed up for the Marvel Tokon bracket by the time registration closed. To compare, Street Fighter 6 came in at 1,111, and Tekken 8 has 783 entrants. This reflects previous figures posted

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DuckDuckGo anti-AI glasses offer zero cameras and notifications

While it’s been reported that Apple is debating whether or not the camera in its upcoming glasses product should allow users to shoot photos and videos, DuckDuckGo is going one step further … The privacy-first search engine company is selling a pair of sunglasses called DuckDuckGo Paso Robles with the strapline “Normal F***ing Sunglasses.” Knockaround

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‘Deck de France’ is a new free software that can turn your bike trainer into a controller for your Steam Deck

If you’ve ever felt like your bike trainer has a disturbing lack of Rocket League or Forza Horizon, you are in luck. One app called Deck de France can let you use your bike as a controller for games, though it’s pretty limited so far. Shared on GitHub (via Hackaday), Deck de France is technically

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Google is working on a new UI for customizing Gemini Daily Brief

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Google has been working on letting users customize their Gemini Daily Brief. Last week, we spotted the company testing an easier way for users to personalize their briefings. It seems Google is still refining the feature and making a couple of changes to

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You might soon be able to create Gemini Spark skills directly on your Android phone

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Gemini Spark is Google’s Gemini-powered autonomous agent offering that can quietly and intelligently work in the background to handle digital tasks on your behalf. A good part of what makes Spark effective is its reliance on “Skills,” custom instruction sets, and saved context

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Memory chip maker Samsung says the component shortage will continue to get worse in 2027, while earning a pretty penny from it

As reported by TechCrunch, the Korean tech giant said supply will remain constrained in 2027, while demand will continue to rise. Samsung expects this to continue until at least 2028. Samsung’s estimates are based on data from AI companies, which Samsung said have been “sharing their medium to long-term demand forecasts” in an effort to

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Microsoft raises prices of Xbox by 25% to 30% in Europe with the Series S now costing more than the Series X at launch

If Microsoft gutting its Xbox division, laying off staff, and struggling to give its console a real unique selling point hasn’t quite put you off the brand, you will now have to pay hundreds more for its devices if you live in Europe. As originally spotted over in a Resetera thread, the prices of Xbox

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FF7 Remake director had to tell his team to ‘be reasonable’ because they got too excited about the FF14 crossover: ‘That would be putting the cart before the horse’

Final Fantasy 14 isn’t any stranger to crossovers—but Evercold will be a first for the MMO, wherein both the raid series and the alliance raid series (8-man and 24-man raids, respectively) will be crossovers. With the latter being a whackadoodle Evangelion crossover, and the former being a far more reasonable FF7 one. This won’t be

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Heavy Siri AI usage could cost more than we expected, given Cook’s comment

What seems like a deliberately vague comment by outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook during the earnings call suggests that heavy Siri AI usage could be more expensive than we’ve so far expected. While it had always seemed clear that we wouldn’t be able to make unlimited use of Siri AI without paying for it in

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