🏰 THE ELDER SCROLLS VI FINALLY STIRS AFTER 8 YEARS
After more than eight years of waiting, The Elder Scrolls VI is making headlines again — and this time, we actually have a tiny glimpse of what's happening behind Bethesda's closed doors.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says she recently saw a live playthrough of The Elder Scrolls VI, describing the game's scale and grandeur as “incredible” and praising its story.
That's a pretty big statement considering just how little the public has seen.
Bethesda first announced The Elder Scrolls VI at E3 2018 with a brief teaser. More than eight years later, we still don't have a release date or public gameplay.
But there may have been another clue hidden in Sharma's comments:
The Elder Scrolls VI: ********
Those eight asterisks immediately sent fans into detective mode. Could they be hiding an eight-letter subtitle and, potentially, another clue about where the next Elder Scrolls adventure takes place?
Fans have already floated possibilities such as Sentinel, Redguard, Orsinium and Balfiera, although Bethesda hasn't confirmed that the asterisks represent a subtitle at all.
For now, it's speculation — but after eight years of waiting, Elder Scrolls fans finally have something new to obsess over.
🟣 TWITCH IS USING CREATOR CONTENT TO TRAIN AMAZON AI — UNLESS YOU OPT OUT
A new Twitch privacy setting is getting a lot of attention after creators discovered that their content can be used to help train Amazon's generative AI models.
And we're not just talking about livestream video.
Eligible content can include livestreams, VODs, clips, images, chat messages and other content appearing on Twitch channels.
The controversial part is that creators aren't being asked to opt in.
Instead, creators who don't want their channel content used for Amazon's generative-AI training have to manually opt out through Twitch's privacy settings.
Creators can check:
Settings → Security and Privacy → Training for Generative AI
But there's another wrinkle that affects viewers, too.
If you opt your own channel out but then chat in another streamer's channel, the setting for that channel applies to your interaction there. If that creator hasn't opted out, messages you post in their chat could still be included among content eligible for Amazon's AI training.
The decision to make the feature opt-out instead of opt-in has generated backlash from creators and viewers concerned about how their content is being used.
Twitch CPO Mike Minton gave an unusually straightforward explanation when discussing why Twitch didn't simply ask everyone to opt in:
“If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in.”
And that answer may have created an even bigger controversy than the setting itself.
🎮 STOP KILLING GAMES: DO WE REALLY OWN THE GAMES WE BUY?
What happens when you buy a game, spend hundreds of hours playing it, and then the publisher shuts down its servers — making the game completely unplayable?
That's what Stop Killing Games is fighting.
The international consumer-rights movement gained major attention following the shutdown of Ubisoft's The Crew. The campaign isn't demanding companies run servers forever. Instead, it argues that when official support ends, publishers should have a reasonable plan that prevents purchased games from becoming permanently unplayable.
The movement has gained serious momentum in Europe. Its Stop Destroying Videogames European Citizens' Initiative received more than 1.29 million verified signatures, forcing an official response from the European Commission.
The bigger question is simple:
If a company can permanently disable a game you paid for, did you ever really own it?
🔗 Learn more and support the movement:
🎮 Visit Stop Killing Games
