Grand Theft Auto

• Rockstar Games®, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), is proud to announce that Grand Theft Auto VI is coming to PlayStation® 5 computer entertainment systems and Xbox Series X|S games and entertainment systems in 2025.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231204993583/en/
  Grand Theft Auto VI coming 2025 to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
• Watch Trailer 1 now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdBZY2fkU-0
  Celebrating its 25th anniversary in December, Rockstar Games pioneered the open-world genre of video games with the launch of Grand Theft Auto III in 2001.
• With each successive blockbuster entry in the series including Grand Theft: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto has become one of the biggest selling, most critically acclaimed and influential properties in all of modern entertainment.

• Your screen brightens with emojis of food, roses and stars purchased by her audience.
• Pinkydoll is a Montréal-based social media creator who has become the face of TikTok’s latest trend: NPC streaming.
• With this trend, more TikTokers have found incentive to become living game pieces for a digital public.
• The rise of NPC streaming showcases how gamer cultures and adult content make for lucrative bedfellows.

Livestreamers as our ‘playthings’

• Their apps offer an easy interface between broadcasters and audiences, who interact with each other in real-time via voice and chat.
• NPC streamers are thus already established creators familiar with commodifying our attention.
• Amazon’s Twitch platform remains an exemplary case of a streaming platform that sells live interaction, with more than seven million active streamers.
• For every subscription received, Ahgren would extend the livestream by 10 seconds, leading to over US$1.4 million from those who subscribed.
• In this context, NPC streamers are just the latest genre of creators who divide their bodies into marketplaces of intimacy.

What’s new is old in gamer patriarchy

• Like e-girls, NPC streamers have been received as anti-heroines who have gamed our eyeballs into profit.
• When women gain our attention for money, we pay attention to the figures.
• In gamer cultures, a similar paranoia pervades against women seen to be “weaponizing” their sexuality.
• Understanding how different bodies, practices and agencies are received — and strategically surrendered — is essential to building safer play and work in social media.

• Abnormal Security , the leading behavioral AI-based email security platform, today announced the launch of three new products focused on expanding security detection for Slack, Microsoft Teams and Zoom.
• Security leaders are concerned about these new attacks, but lack a single platform that can correlate signals across channels in one unified view.
• When the platform identifies anomalous activity, it provides a consolidated view through an “Abnormal Behavioral Case Timeline,” which allows security teams to see cross-channel attacker activity and take remediation actions.
• The new products are part of the comprehensive Abnormal Security platform and will be available for all customers to explore through the brand new Abnormal Marketplace starting next week.

• Sophia is the world's most advanced AI driven humanoid and the first robot Innovation Ambassador for the United Nations Development Program.
• David Hanson, creator of Sophia and Hanson Roboticssaid, "We are excited for Sophia to join the amazing and diverse XSET community.
• Since its inception two years ago, XSET has been dedicated to spreading the message that gaming is an activity for everyone and that XSET is driving the gaming lifestyle revolution.
• XSET lives at the intersection of gaming, inclusion, entertainment, technology, music, fashion, sports, esports and content.