'View the Work With That Understanding in Mind' — Shift Up CEO Defends Stellar Blade: Blood Rain AI Music Video Against Player Backlash - IGN
The CEO of Shift Up has responded to backlash surrounding the release of an AI-generated music video promoting Stellar Blade’s sequel game, Blood Rain. The video, published on July 31, showed the game’s main character, Evie, singing and dancing to an upbeat pop song titled "Wanna be in Love." It’s very obviously AI-generated, containing all the signature tells of such content, including nonsensical written wording, inconsistencies in character models, and a blurred, airbrushed filter over it all.
Xbox revenue drops 10 percent as Microsoft’s cloud and AI business surges - The Verge
Xbox is having yet another tough quarter, as revenue from content and services like its Game Pass subscription dipped 10 percent over the past few months. At the same time, Xbox hardware sales declined 13 percent, according to Microsoft’s fourth-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday.
Microsoft Says New Cybersecurity AI Model Helps MDASH Score 95.95% at Half the Cost - The Hacker News
Microsoft has launched its first cybersecurity-specific model inside MDASH, its multi-model vulnerability identification and remediation harness. The company says MDASH, using MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and GPT-5.4, scored 95.95% on CyberGym.
EXCLUSIVE: A New Ambitious FAR CRY Game Enters Development at Ubisoft - Insider Gaming
A new game in the FAR CRY universe has passed its conception stage at Ubisoft and has entered development at Vantage Studios. The new game comes in the wake of issues surrounding another FAR CRY game in development, codenamed Maverick, an extraction shooter that has since been canceled.