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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Artists on Apple Music will earn a bonus payout of up to 10 percent in royalties for all songs that are also available in spatial audio. That’s according to an update sent to record label partners and seen by 9to5Mac. Quoted by Music Business Worldwide, it says that starting with January’s month-end payout, “pro-rata shares for Spatial Available plays will be calculated using a factor of 1.1 while Non-Spatial Available plays will continue to use a...

Pocketpair's survival game Palworld recently went into Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview, and the studio has already found itself in some hot water. At face value, Palworld looks like a Pokemon game with guns because of how similar the monsters look to the Nintendo property. Thanks to VGC, we know that some people have begun to accuse the studio of plagiarism. A significant reason why these accusations became popular was because of X/Twitter user @ byofrog. On January 20, the user...

Riot Games, the team behind League of Legends and Valorant, has announced that it has laid off 530 employees. This equates to roughly 11% of the workforce at the studio. The news comes from a Riot Games blog post where A. Dylan Jadeja, the CEO of Riot Games, wrote, "I'm accountable for the changes we're making and where we're headed in the future. So, I think it's important for me to share how we got here and how the next few days will work." A big reason why Jadeja claims the layoffs are...

LG’s MyView smart monitor | LG Electronics You can now purchase the entire slate of LG’s webOS-powered MyView monitors, which debuted at CES earlier this month, including one with a 31.5-inch 4K IPS panel (model 32SR85U) that starts at $599.99. Sure, gamers can find better value for their money than a monitor that maxes out with 5ms response times and a 60Hz refresh rate, but visual creatives might appreciate a 95 percent DCI-P3 color gamut. And when your office work is done, you can fire...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Securities and Exchange Commission has linked a SIM swapping attack to its account breach on X earlier this month, which led to the creation of a fake post announcing approval of Bitcoin ETFs that caused the cryptocurrency’s price to spike. In an update on Monday, the SEC says an “unauthorized party obtained control of the SEC cell phone number associated with the account in an apparent ‘SIM swap’ attack.” A SIM-swapping attack occurs when a...

22 January 2024Human Rights Hundreds of Afghan women were forced to quit their jobs or have been arrested and denied access to essential services in the last quarter of 2023, a UN report revealed on Monday, as Taliban officials continue undermining their basic human rights. Among those whose working lives have been upended, de facto authorities “banned” approximately 400 women workers at a pine nut processing from the workplace and dismissed another 200 at a power plant, the UN...

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is the second chapter of the planned Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy and tells the story of what happens after the main characters leave the dark, oppressive city of Midgar and set off into a gorgeous world. While there's still plenty more to come in the final entry, there's a monstrous amount of the 1997 original's tale to cover in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and players should expect to spend quite a lot of time uncovering it all. Read on to find out exactly how...

Wrestling fans don't have to wait much longer for the latest edition of the 2K's annual series. WWE 2K24 releases on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC via Steam on March 8. There are multiple versions of WWE 2K24 available on all consoles, each with its own unique box art featuring different WWE Superstars. This includes special deluxe and Wrestlemania editions that come with tons of bonus content and let you play the full game a few days early. Some versions even include a free digital copy of last...

Avowed, the upcoming RPG by developer Obsidian, is set to feature open-zone areas comparable in size to the ones in the studio's previous game, The Outer Worlds. In an interview for the Official Xbox Podcast, republished by Xbox Wire, game director Carrie Patel and gameplay director Gabe Paramo shared details about scope, combat features, and how quests will work. "It’s open-zone, size comparable to The Outer Worlds areas on the larger side, and [with] multiple paths essentially to tackle...

Image: MrBeast Exactly how much money can you make by uploading a video to X? The going assumption has been that X — like Twitter before it — is a poor platform for video creators that can’t compete with YouTube and TikTok in terms of monetization and reach. So there’s been a lot riding on the results of a recent test by MrBeast, who aimed to see whether he could actually make money on Elon Musk’s platform. Last week, MrBeast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, posted a video to Musk’s platform...