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Daily tech news & jokes to have a good start for 03/02/2023

To be calm is the highest achievement of the self. Zen Proverb

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“We are working on improvements to these games” — Business interviews are often pretty dry, and a recent chat between Post…

Business interviews are often pretty dry, and a recent chat between Post Arcade — the Financial Post’s gaming section — and Nintendo of Canada General Manager Susan Pennefather was no different. But there were some interesting gems hidden in all the … [726 chars]

After three expansions, Turtle Rock Studios is moving on from Back 4 Blood and is focusing on what comes next.

Turtle Rock Studios announced that it will not be adding any more content to Back 4 Blood and will be focusing on its next big game. The game has already received three expansions: Tunnels of Terror, Children of the Worm, and River of Blood. “Turtle … [1485 chars]

New-gen console comfortably outsells Nintendo Switch — It’s taken a long time, but PS5 is finally doing well in Japan. T…

@Ralizah I think Disgaia kind of wore out its welcome. It’s niche to begin with, and it’s had so many entries and all of them are kind of the same, plus the horrible Switch performance, I think it may have been one Switch-era entry too many. PS not c… [663 chars]

NOOOOOO — Pour one out for a real one: the Ace Attorney Court Bot, one of the best bots on Twitter, is being forced to shu…

Pour one out for a real one: the Ace Attorney Court Bot, one of the best bots on Twitter, is being forced to shut down after Twitter announced that it would be charging for access to its API. This affects a ton of bots, of course, including Hourly Ha… [1565 chars]

A fresh development titbit from Dragon Age Inquisition studio BioWare has revealed the game’s ability to make your hors…

A fresh development titbit from Dragon Age Inquisition studio BioWare has revealed the game’s ability to make your horse “sprint” was in fact just an illusion. Indeed, the game simply “added speed lines and changed the camera so it felt faster”, BioW… [1640 chars]

It’s claimed that the Canadian studio was recently affected by layoffs at Microsoft…

The Coalition has reportedly shifted its full attention to the next entry in the Gears of War series after two other games in development at the studio were cancelled. During his Game Mess Mornings show on Thursday, Giant Bomb reporter Jeff Grubb cla… [1769 chars]

The brothers behind developer Bay 12 Games, who spent 20 years making Dwarf Fortress for donations before putting a new 2022 Steam version on sale, have revealed how much money they game has made since launch

Brothers Tarn and Zach Adams, creators of the legendary colony simulation game Dwarf Fortress, have revealed that they made $7.2 million in January 2023, following the release of the Steam version of the game in December 2022. The Adams brothers have… [1766 chars]

Microsoft has listed the latest six titles set to leave its Xbox Game Pass subscription, which will include Alan Wake a…

Microsoft has listed the latest six titles set to leave its Xbox Game Pass subscription, which will include Alan Wake and Control developer Remedy’s Crossfire X: Operation Catalyst campaign. CrossfireX joined Xbox Game Pass exactly a year ago. 12 mon… [828 chars]

An M3 estate with as much power as a Huracan? Sign us up…

Yes, yes — more M3 Touring news. But we’ve been waiting long enough, a couple of weeks more excitement won’t do any harm. Inevitably the car was going to attract the interest of tuners, given both the general hype around it and the tuning potential t… [1824 chars]

Top of the crops — It’s a week of mixed fortunes for the Switch in this week’s Famitsu charts (via Gematsu). The big story…

It’s a week of mixed fortunes for the Switch in this week’s Famitsu charts (via Gematsu). The big story is that the PlayStation 5 has outsold all Switch models to be the best-selling hardware of the week of 23rd — 29th January. Sony’s console sold an… [1834 chars]

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Tech enthusiast, currently entrepreneuring — regularly sharing content on tech news and irregularly on other topics.