A new month, a new reading tips issue. This time it’s about the planned Twitter takeover Elon Musk and Horizon – Forbidden West (in the test). Other topics are games journalism in Germany and data collection by Amazon Alexa. At the end it gets musical, because HM Global Joergi stands at the mixing desk and hangs up.
“The child prodigy ruined his life’s work”
rnd.de on May 20th, 2022, Frank-Thomas Wenzel
Elon Musk confronted Twitter a few days ago about the high number of fake accounts on the network and said he wanted to temporarily put the planned takeover on hold because of this. Frank Thomas Wenzel from the Editorial network Germany commented:
In any case, the accusation comes far too late. He probably should have spent a little more than the five percent of his time on the acquisition. Musk gambled away his reputation with such antics.
“Important work that no one wants to pay for”
wasted.de on May 14, 2022, Dom Schott
In order to be able to pay his bills, Cathedral Schott publish several articles per week as a freelance games journalist. Under these circumstances, investigative reports are a loss-making business:
The fees in text journalism are bad. They are mostly based on standard sentences and only rarely on the actual effort that would be necessary for the research and the actual writing. […] The consequence: Investigative work is at the expense of the journalists, who risk their livelihoods with their work – or it is completely ignored.
“There is only ever a first time”
polyneux.de on May 18, 2022, player two
Even if Horizon – Forbidden West is a successful sequel to the first part, two players can polyneux.de doesn’t fascinate the game world and Aloy as a character as much as with Zero Dawn:
But what I’m missing, and I don’t blame the developers at all, because it’s just in the nature of things, is this feeling of discovering a new world like a small child with wide eyes, which Forbidden West doesn’t have in this form can reproduce.
“Your Echos are Heard: Tracking, Profiling, and Ad Targeting in the Amazon Smart Speaker Ecosystem”
arxiv.org on 04/22/2022, Umar Iqbal et al.
A scientific study on tracking by Amazon Alexa and the software ecosystem built around it. The research team at Umar Iqbal (Nvidia Research) found that up to 41 advertising partners sync their cookies with Amazon and interacting with the Echo devices can result in advertisers bidding up to 30 times higher.
From the GG archives: DJ Hero with HM Global Joergi
GamersGlobal.de on October 31, 2009, Jörg Langer
A video test from the early days of GamersGlobal where Jorg Langer showed full physical effort. Around DJ Hero To give proper credit, the GG editor-in-chief became a record wrestler himself and put on a few beats as HM Global Joergi. Personally, I didn’t think DJ Hero was bad at all, even though my turntable controller broke after playing three or four times.
In today’s video: On the occasion of their 250th episode, GameTwo had itself reviewed – by Heinrich Lenhardt.
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