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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Madden NFL 27 will be free to play on Luna for Amazon Prime subscribers.

EA’s latest American football game is joining the Luna standard tier alongside NBA The Run, Mixtape, and Kingdom Come Deliverance II, Amazon announced today.

Luna November Content Update

[Amazon Game Studios]

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Google’s Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash can generate clips up to 15 seconds long.

The new version of Google’s video generation model allows you to generate clips at a specific length, from three to 15 seconds. Google says Omni 1.2 Flash can also make edits to a video without re-generating the entire clip, and is better at generating scenes with continuous camera movements and “natural-sounding” dialogue.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Here’s a thoughtful video about when AI clones your game.

In a 20-minute video, Mark Brown of Game Maker’s Toolkit walks through his feelings over a Claude Code-made clone of his own Word Play game. He’s more even-keeled than I would be about Claude replicating something he made over the course of seven months in just twelve minutes.

(Anthropic, for what it’s worth, has made changes to try and prevent Claude-made game clones.)

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Lauren Feiner
Lauren Feiner
Google, Meta, TikTok sue to block California law restricting algorithmic feeds for kids.

The companies filed separate lawsuits arguing that that the law violates the First Amendment and Section 230 by forcing them to present content to kids under 16 in a way that the government finds acceptable, Reuters reports. California DOJ spokesperson Elissa Perez said they’re “committed to defending California’s commonsense laws to protect kids online.”

Update: Added California DOJ statement.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Rockstar just released dozens of new GTA VI screenshots.

Some of the shots in the new launch gallery look straight out of a movie, with new peeks at Jason, Lucia, and Leonida. GTA VI’s launch is just two weeks away on November 19th, and players can start preloading it next week on November 10th.

A screenshot from Grand Theft Auto VI
A screenshot of Lucia from Grand Theft Auto VI
A screenshot of Jason and Lucia from Grand Theft Auto VI
A screenshot of Jason from Grand Theft Auto VI
A screenshot from Grand Theft Auto VI
A screenshot from Grand Theft Auto VI
A screenshot of Lucia from Grand Theft Auto VI
A screenshot from Grand Theft Auto VI
A screenshot from Grand Theft Auto VI
1/9Image: Rockstar Games
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
An excellent breakdown of what dial-up modems were saying to each other.

Anyone who used the internet in the age of dial-up can probably do a terrible impression of their modem’s screeching handshake sequence. But do you know what all those tones and sounds were actually for? This explainer from the YouTube channel Mixed Signals breaks down all those weird sounds and why they were all important for connecting you to MSN Messenger.