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NetEase executives and workers were reportedly arrested amid a corruption investigation

The ex-head of NetEase’s esports division and NetEase Games’ former general manager are said to have been arrested on money laundering and bribery charges. Alongside ex-executives Xiang Liang and Jin Yuchen, several other people who worked at the company were reportedly arrested over alleged corruption. As noted by Game Developer, Chinese outlet Leifeng reported that […]

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ChatGPT rejected 250,000 election deepfake requests

A lot of people tried to use OpenAI's DALL-E image generator during the election season, but the company said that it was able to stop them from using it as a tool to create deepfakes. ChatGPT rejected over 250,000 requests to generate images with President Biden, President-elect Trump, Vice President Harris, Vice President-elect Vance and […]

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Nintendo is suing a streamer of pirated software for millions of dollars

Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against a streamer called EveryGameGuru, whom it's accusing of streaming gameplays of pirated games before they were even released and of providing viewers access to illegal ROM copies and piracy tools. In its lawsuit, the company said the defendant livestreams himself playing games on YouTube, Discord, Twitch, TikTok, Trovo, Kick, […]

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Engadget review recap: Two new Macs, the PS5 Pro and more

Techtober rolled straight into November this year. The first week of the month was a busy one at Engadget HQ as we published a number of high-profile reviews over the last few days. There’s the MacBook Pro and Mac mini from Apple alongside the beastly (and expensive) PS5 Pro. Plus, we’ve got yet another VR […]

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DJI Neo drone firmware update adds more speed and vertical video

DJI’s Neo is shockingly capable for a tiny drone, but it did have a couple of weaknesses — namely, the lack of vertical video and relatively slow flying speeds in tracking mode. The company has now addressed both of those issues with a new firmware update, adding vertical video and increasing the Neo’s tracking speeds, […]