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Snoop Dogg Is Coming to Hitman — Have Celebrity Crossovers Become Gaming's New Expansion Pack?

Snoop Dogg joins Hitman World of Assassination on August 27 as Dr. Cyrus Cane in The Herbalist, another example of celebrity crossovers becoming playable game content.

Player One

RayNeo holds nothing back with iO smart glasses HUD and the pure cinema GT Max

RayNeo's new productivity-focused glasses have no microphone, but a transparent HUD for info and a GT series that's all about shows, movies, and Dolby Vision.

Android Central

Amazon walks back comments about taking 007 off of IO, but does say 'anything's possible' when it comes to buying the studio outright

Not quite what I wanted to hear.

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Sam Altman and Jony Ive formed a dream team to reinvent hardware. Now it’s at the center of a battle for OpenAI’s future

Betting that a new breed of tech gadgets will give it an edge over its AI rivals, the ChatGPT maker tapped Apple’s former design guru last year. A legal fight with Apple is just one of the challenges now facing OpenAI in its hardware quest.

Fortune

OpenAI wants its speaker to feel alive. Apple says it's a stolen idea

The device designed by former iPhone guru Jony Ive would reportedly use ChatGPT to answer questions and make the device “human-like.”

Fortune

OpenAI's first hardware device will be a speaker

Apple's complaint, filed on Friday, accuses OpenAI of orchestrating ‌a broad ⁠effort ⁠to systematically acquire and exploit Apple's confidential information through its former employees, recruiting practices and supplier relationships to accelerate its push into the consumer hardware business.

The Economic Times

Stolen laptops, data breaches, secret moles, and recruiting-as-espionage. Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI reads like a corporate spy thriller.

Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI for stealing trade secrets reads like a corporate spy thriller

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Apple's AI struggle turns ugly as it sues OpenAI and io, the company founded by iPhone designer Jony Ive

And yes, Elon Musk has weighed in.

Creative Bloq

Hitman and 007 First Light dev IO Interactive regains "full ownership" of its mysterious online RPG project after Xbox reportedly pulled funding

Project Fantasy will be developed and funded "independently amongst our other projects," IO Interactive says

GamesRadar

Fantasy meets reality: Why turmoil at Xbox is impacting IO Interactive and Project Fantasy

007: First Light and new Hitman: World of Assassination updates sent IOI on a victory lap – a publishing partner just spoiled the party

GamesRadar

Ahead of next week's expected Xbox bloodbath, IO Interactive loses funding for its online fantasy RPG

The studio says it remains "100% committed" to Project Fantasy, but its future is now very uncertain.

PC Gamer

87% of cybersecurity managers say quick compliance programs are actually increasing risk and making businesses less resilient

Security professionals are skeptical if the speed comes at the expense of actual business resilience.

TechRadar

IO Interactive says 007 First Light was 'always' supposed to be an origin story — 'We wanted to take that risk and introduce a fresh Bond for the gamers'

IO Interactive has confirmed that 007 First Light was always intended to be a young James Bond story, and it collaborated frequently with Amazon MGM Studios.

TechRadar

007 First Light devs say post-launch content is in IO Interactive's 'DNA' and is now something players are 'starting to expect' — 'We want the players to come back, and we want to create more content'

IO Interactive has teased 007 First Light's upcoming post-launch content following the game's "unreal" reception.

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Bangkok Post

Isoc must accept IO 'smear' verdict

An Appeal Court ruling penalising the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc) for its information operation (IO) against two human rights defenders sets a welcome precedent for the protection of rights.

Bangkok Post

IOs are real and need to be stopped

A surprising but welcome decision was made by the Court of Appeal this past week, which overturned part of a lower court ruling and ordered the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc) to pay over 200,000 baht in compensation to human rights activists smeared online by a so-called information operation (IO).

GamesRadar

007 First Light roadmap revealed, including New Game Plus and the return of Lenny Kravitz's Bawma in a new story mission

IO Interactive is making good on that Hitman: World of Assassination pedigree with more content

Destructoid

Amazon seems to walk back suggestion they’d send Bond on a new adventure rather than following IOI’s First Light

Grim stuff.

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“Too early to say” as Amazon walks back comments that implied IOI might not return for the 007 sequel

Amazon's comments about future James Bond games have raised concerns that IO Interactive may not be involved in a sequel to 007 First Light. Here's what was actually said, and why the situation may not be as worrying as it first appears.

PC Gamer

'We have a great relationship with IO Interactive,' Amazon says, but it won't commit to bringing the studio back for future Bond games

Amazon says "it’s still too early to discuss future projects."

GamesRadar

007 First Light dev IO Interactive won't publish future James Bond games despite its success, as Amazon gaming boss reminds everyone who owns the IP now

Sequels will be "done by MGM and, theoretically, by Amazon Game Studios."

GamesRadar

Don't expect rapid 007 First Light sequels, former Destiny 2 boss says, as they'd likely "review worse," "sell worse," and still be very expensive to make

Although fans are quick to remind that the Hitman trilogy was pretty quick to release

PC Gamer

007 First Light review

IO awkwardly welds together two schools of game design.

PC Gamer

007 First Light has sold 1.5 million copies in its first 24 hours and claims the victory of 'fastest selling title in IO Interactive's history'

I wonder who the seventh person to buy the game was?

Destructoid

All outfits in 007 First Light and how to get them

So how do you want to decorate Bond?

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