Like a relentless horror movie monster, Friday the 13th- The Game is finally going to die, but very, very slowly-

Friday the 13th: The Game has been a lot like a horror movie monster: No matter what’s been done to it over the years, it just will not die. But today publisher Gun Media announced that the end is finally in sight: The company’s license will expire on December 31, at which time it will no longer be offered for sale, and at some point after that it will stop working completely.

“The game will, however, continue to function through at least December 31, 2024, if you already own it,” Gun Media said. “At this time, we’ve made the decision to reduce the price to $4.00 for the base game and $0.99 for each piece of DLC content. We will continue to offer the title and content at that price point right up until it is removed from digital/physical storefronts on December 31st, 2023.”

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Starfield players reckon ‘something big is going on behind the scenes,’ but it’s probably just the upcoming Shattered Space expansion-

There are some rumblings going on in Starfield communities right now, as a few players have spotted some activity going on with the man behind the space curtain—specifically, there are more change logs now than ever before in the game’s history. 

“Something big is going on behind the scenes,” user JarusinTheStars says in a post to the game’s subreddit. “It’s pointless trying to decipher the changelogs on SteamDB, but one thing is certain from experience: When there are a lot of changes, something big is coming. For example, there were around 50-60 changes between the February and March updates. And around 100 between the March and May updates. We’ve almost surpassed that figure in less than a month.” They go on to theorise that this probably has something to do with the…

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Oh good- Elon Musk’s Neuralink gets FDA approval to put microchips in human brains-

Remember when PCs were just lovely big beige boxes that sat in the corner of the room, and you’d use them for gaming or the occasional internet session? The people of the future will look back on us like cavemen with charcoal, because in the future they’re all gonna be walking around with mini-PCs in their brain matter.

That’s one possible future, anyway, and the would-be pioneer (in the West, at least) is Neuralink. Elon Musk’s brainchip firm has now received approval from the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) to begin conducting tests on humans: The first time this will ever happen (that we know of, anyway). The cyberpunk future is now.

“We are excited to share that we have received the FDA’s approval to launch our first-in-human clinical study,” said Neurali…

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