Live Service games with an ongoing story have to end sometime, right? Destiny 2 did, and suddenly nobody wants to play anymore. Does this mean future games will drag on forever? Hopefully not.

The BBC and Disney have officially split, meaning we won't get Doctor Who for over 12 months. Is it time for another charity single to save the Doctor?

Mirror life is a hypothetical form of life which is molecularly reversed compared to existing life. Scientists think this could be apocalyptic, so what are they doing to protect us?

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Resources Mentioned

• What if your favorite game never truly ends? We’re diving into why some stories never give you closure—and why that might actually keep you addicted. (Can a live service game ever have a satisfying conclusion? | Opinion | GamesIndustry.biz)
• What happens when the streaming giant says ‘we’re out’? Could this be the beginning of the end—or a new chapter—for Doctor Who? (Disney+ Officially Exiting ‘Doctor Who’ Partnership With BBC After Two Seasons)
• Mirror Bacteria (Mirror bacteria may constitute ‘radical departure from known life,’ scientists warn | CNN)

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The Protoclone is an android based on human muscles. DJ thinks this thing might be too lifelike, and it's time to call Rick Deckard.

EA are being bought by a consortium of investment firms. Do they still have a future, or will they be killed off?

Tilly Norwood is an AI actress created for the sole purpose of starring in real movies. As any first gen tech, it'll be rubbish, but if you combined Tilly and a Protoclone body, DJ would probably be very scared.

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Resources Mentioned

• Introducing the Protoclone (Humanoid 'Protoclone' robot twitches into action while hanging from ceiling in viral video | Live Science, I Met ProtoClone — The World’s First Human Clone 🤯 )
• The explosive EA buyout (Who bought EA? | GamesIndustry.biz )
• Introducing the world’s first AI actress : Tilly Norwood (AI Actress Tilly Norwood Debuts at Zurich Summit as Industry Grapples With Emerging Tech: We Want Her ‘to Be the Next Scarlett Johansson’, AI Actress Tilly Norwood Draws Backlash From Melissa Barrera, Lukas Gage and More Hollywood Names as Creator Defends Her as a ‘New Tool’ and ‘Not a Replacement for a Human Being’, Gersh Will Not Sign AI Actress Tilly Norwood: 'We're Not That Agency', AI-Directed Movie ‘The Sweet Idleness’ Releases Trailer Amid AI Actor Tilly Norwood Controversy: ‘The First Movie’ Made by an ‘AI Agent’, SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin Says Union Will Address AI Actress Tilly Norwood With Agents and Continue Fight for AI Compensation)

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A new study tells us all the statistics about Australian gamers. Turns out we're all getting older and less social. We have some theories why.

Dance Dance Revolution can be adapted into a memory trainer for people with dementia, and it actually works to reduce the rate of decline.

A fully AI movie will be presented at Cannes soon, and we expect it to be bad.

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Resources Mentioned

• There is something about Australian Gamers (82% of Australia engages with video games | GamesIndustry.biz)
• Dance Dance Elderly (Training to improve memory | ETH Zurich)
• A Full Hollywood A.I. Movie now a reality (OpenAI Says It's Making a Full Hollywood Movie Using AI)

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Things get wild when Professor and DJ talk about stopping children from accessing in appropriate games.

Warner Bros are suing Midjourney for ripping off their art. With the recent case against OpenAI for pirating books, the precedent might not be on their side.

Science is hard to do objectively. There's always a bias, and good scientists find ways to minimise that. The Nerds talk through creating science to push a narrative, and why that's a bad thing.

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Resources Mentioned

Resources:

• Age verification crackdown (Valve introduces age verification for UK Steam users | GamesIndustry.biz, Roblox partners with International Age Rating Coalition to replace current maturity labels | GamesIndustry.biz, Steam games with adult content banned from early access, after payment processors force restrictions - NotebookCheck.net News
• Warner bros vs Midjourney (Warner Bros. Joins Studios’ AI Copyright Battle Against Midjourney)
• Objectivity in science is a myth (Scientific objectivity is a myth – cultural values and beliefs always influence science and the people who do it )

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Mojang are being sued for breaking the laws of the European Union by changing their terms of service to ban gun mods. Spearheaded by a mod developer, this lawsuit is adjacent to Stop Killing Games but not quite part of it.

Google has announced a plan to block indie developers from publishing apps for Android without giving away their personal details. Professor is mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore, and is seriously considering switching to a Linux phone.

Child stars and social media sounds like a bad time. Stars with experience have suggested that the child stars on the new Harry Potter series need to be trained to deal with it, which sounds like a good idea when you realise how much hate is going to get flung around just because the series isn't exactly the same as the originals.

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Resources:

• Minecraft Lawsuit (We’re Suing Minecraft in a Class Action Lawsuit)
• Android killing emulation (Google wants to make sideloading Android apps safer by verifying developers’ identities, This small change might kill emulation on Android phones next year )
• Social media training should be madatory – Sophie Turner (New Harry Potter Child Actors Can't Use Social Media, Says Sophie Turner)

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This week we interviewed Isaac Fox, creator of popular comics like SuccuBUSTED and Cremisi about his new project, The Manti-Corps.

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Astral Tickets Comics

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Astral Ticket Newest Kickstarter THE MANTI-CORPS : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/isaacfox/the-manti-corps-0-recruited

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This week we interviewed Savas Savidis about his game Tales of Grimace and what it takes to be a an indie game developer in high school.

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Tales of Grimace The Game

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Marcelo Brocker’s Game : Lucid Nina

– Lucid Nina on Steam

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The famous modder behind the Special K mod has deleted their steam account and written a manifesto about why Steam is evil. We disagree.

The resurrected Direwolves are doing well, and Peter Jackson is promising to bring back the Moa next. Let's just skip straight to the dinosaurs.

Movies used to be based on comics. But now movies are bigger than comics, and people think comics are worse for it.

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Modders Deleting their Steam out of protest

- Why I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years · GitHub

Direwolf Update & Peter Jackson’s Newest Project

- The "de-extincted" dire wolves are 6 months old and getting quite big

- Peter Jackson, Maoris, Colossal To De-Extinct World’s Largest Bird

Have Superhero movies ruined Comics

- Have Superhero Movies Ruined Comics? - ComicBook.com

Stop Killing Games Petition : https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

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