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Mere days after the messy early access release of The Days Before, the studio behind the project, Fntastic, has announced it's closing down.Fntastic announced the news via a post on X (formerly Twitter), stating The Day Before, previously one of Steam's most-wishlisted games, "has failed financially, and we lack the funds to continue." The Day Before did briefly rise to the top of Steam's best-sellers and most-played games list, before dropping off dramatically as negative user reviews for the game poured…

Fntastic, the developer behind the controversial and much-derided postapocalyptic shooter The Day Before, announced it is shutting down just four days after the game’s launch. Fntastic “Today, we announce the closure of Fntastic Studio. Unfortunately, The Day Before has failed financially, and we lack the funds to continue. All income received is being used to pay off debts to our partners,” a message posted to Fntastic’s X account and website states. “We invested all our efforts, resources, and man-hours into the…

Earlier this year, Google announced it would in 2024. Since then, the company has started moving podcasts into YouTube and its companion app YouTube Music. As a way to ease the transition, Google will be rolling out a for its current podcast app users. With the tool, users in the US will be able to move their favorite pod subscriptions from Google Podcasts to YouTube Music, or export them for use in other podcast apps.In the coming weeks, the migration tool will be available through a banner in Google Podcasts. There…

Meta said Thursday that it removed 4,789 Facebook accounts in China that targeted the United States by posing as Americans and spreading polarizing content about U.S. domestic politics and U.S.-China relations. In its Q3 Adversarial Threat report, Meta, which owns Facebook, said it was able to identify and remove the accounts before they gained traction with real people and communities. The accounts included fake photos, names and locations in an effort to appear like average American citizens expressing…

Taylor Swift‘s long-time publicist Tree Paine has put a stop to rumors that the pop singer secretly married ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn. Responding to Instagram gossip account Deuxmoi, which has made several claims that Swift and Alwyn tied the knot in 2020 or 2021, Paine said the rumors were completely untrue. “Enough is enough with these fabricated lies about Taylor from Deuxmoi,” Paine wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “There was NEVER a marriage or ceremony of ANY kind. This is an insane thing to post. It’s time for…

Beyoncé went blonde again, and as innocent and boring as this may sound, the R&B star’s new hairdo has sparked outrage online that blew out of proportion to the point that her own mother had to come to her defense.On Wednesday (November 29), the 42-year-old singer took to her Instagram to share eight new pictures of herself and her husband Jay-Z to her 318 million followers, flaunting her new icy blonde coif.In the first take, Beyoncé was seen posing in an immaculate cropped white hoodie with the hood pulled over…

Is all well again in the Harris household? Rapper T.I. and his son King have set aside their apparent animosity and banded together for King’s newest foray into music.On Wednesday, the 19-year-old released his first family collaboration, “Father Like Sons,” which features T.I.’s elder son Domani. Incidentally, it came on the heels of King and the Grammy-winning rapper getting into a dispute that went viral after King partially livestreamed it. T.I. and King, who said he is retiring his Kid Saiyan moniker in 2024, had…

After the blockbuster success of Hollywood film, Barbie many fans have been expecting a sequel of the film. However, the reports and rumors of the sequel were quashed after the film’s producer and actor Margot Robbie revealed that making a trilogy of the film was never on the cards. In a statement to the Associated Press, producer and actor Margot Robbie revealed that the cast and crew of the film had put their heart and soul into the first installment, she said, “I think we put everything into this…

Apple Touch ID will not make a returnIn the latest post on China’s social media platform, the source says that most of the equipment originally used to manufacture the chips required for the iPhone’s version of ‌Touch ID‌ has now been permanently shut down.The Weibo source was the first to report that the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus will retain the A15 Bionic chip and the A16 will be exclusive to Pro models.  The only remaining units were for the third-generation iPhone SE.What this means is that the fourth-generation iPhone…

Image: SunbirdThis week brought a series of disasters (and quite some embarrassment) to Android messaging apps that were trying hard to break the infamous green-blue bubble barrier between Android and Apple users. It started with the failure of Nothing Chats and recently extended to the shutdown of Sunbird.Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter KillerNothing Chats launched fairly recently (and didn’t even last a full day) with the ambitious goal of being able to chat through the same servers as Apple…