This Week In Techdirt History: June 14th – 20th
This Week in 2016 This Week in 2011 This Week in 2006
Read moreCategory: General
The videogame market is as big as ever, with PC leading growth—global games revenue surpassed the $200 billion mark in 2025
Market analyst Michiel Buijsman reckons GTA 6 will be 2026's "defining commercial catalyst."
Read moreThe Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI
Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of...
Read more
CD Projekt Red's CEO still thinks they need to finish their post-Cyberpunk redemption arc, and he's hoping The Witcher 4 will help
I think despite the mess that was the launch of Cyberpunk 2077, it wouldn't be right to say that CD Projekt Red's reputation was completely tarnished....
Read moreGet AMD's flagship Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 32GB of DDR5 memory and an MSI B850 Wi-Fi 7 motherboard at a discount — Micro Center bundles are now available on Amazon
Micro Center is now selling some of its bundles on Amazon, including this 9800X3D combo that gives you an excellent motherboard and fast RAM without breaking...
Read moreFormer Dragon Age writer says AI could make gamedev 'frustrating as hell': 'How are we going to train up the next generation of devs if we eliminate every entry-level task?'
Part of the sales pitch for AI is that it can carve out tedious 'busy work.' Should it?
Read moreSony say goodbye to PC and hello to AI in their annual business report, which must be a good thing, right?
Back in March, a report emerged claiming that Sony no longer had plans to release the likes of Ghost of Yōtei and other such singleplayer-only games...
Read moreTricking a Bike Counter
Some municipalities implement bike counters on cycling routes in order to monitor traffic. [nullpxl] recently investigated how these counters work, and explored methods that can be...
Read moreWD's 2TB Black SSD price drops by nearly 20% ahead of Prime Day sale — grab the 2TB SN7100 for $242.96
The WD Black SN7100 stands out for its high-end performance, low operating temperatures, and impressive efficiency. It is one of the few PCIe 4.0 SSDs that...
Read moreThe best D&D videogame you've never played is one guy's outsider art, personal Baldur's Gate saga
Realheads know Swordflight. Sickos love it.
Read more5 promising games recently cancelled by Microsoft
If you wished for more pizazz at this year's Xbox Showcase, there's lots of it buried in an growing graveyard of cancelled Xbox games.
Read moreTo make Pragmata's Diana feel naturally childlike, a small group of women dubbed the "Diana Police" was set up to keep things in check
Despite being a dad game, a pseudo-genre that has its fair share of problems in the way it depicts father-child relationships, Pragmata generally seemed to approach...
Read more