Tag Archives: Clone

Queen ants in southern Europe produce male clones of an entirely different species — tearing up the playbook of reproductive biology and suggesting we need to rethink our understanding of species barriers. The workers in Iberian harvester ant (Messor ibericus) colonies are all hybrids, with queens needing to mate with males from a distantly related species, Messor structor, to keep …

The First Descendant developer/publisher Nexon has been accused of using a series of “embarrassing” AI-generated TikTok advertisements, at least one of which is alleged to have imitated a real content creator. As collated by u/iHardlyTriHard on Reddit by scrolling on their For You Page for just 15 minutes, they came across four ads, along with another two “low effort ads …

The ALPACA algorithm We introduce ALPACA, an algorithm to infer allele-specific copy-number profiles of every tumour clone, given three inputs that can be inferred by existing methods: estimates of allele-specific fractional copy number from multiple bulk tumour samples; a fixed number of clones and the proportion of each clone in each tumour sample; and a fixed topology of the tumour …

Tencent has quietly removed, edited, and/or replaced key art on the Steam page of its upcoming adventure game, Light of Motiram, just days after Sony filed a copyright lawsuit. Towards the end of last year, Tencent’s development studio, Polaris Quest, revealed Light of Motiram, a post-apocalyptic open-world survival crafting game featuring mechanised animal-like creatures that bore a remarkable resemblance to …

It’s always a risk betting on new video game hardware from a little-known company: what if game developers never show up? But the $50 Thumby Color, on sale this week, is an easier sell — the two-inch handheld is cute as a button, fits on your keychain, and lets aspiring programmers build and publish games right on the web, and …

Sony’s recent lawsuit against Tencent’s Polaris Quest studio over the game Light of Motiram, for similarities to the Horizon franchise, reads like a bizarre déjà vu moment for me, and I think for many gamers. And it speaks to a deeper issue with games and creativity. The claim? That Tencent’s new open-world, but unreleased, adventure appears to have heavily borrowed …

Sony has filed a lawsuit against Tencent, claiming its upcoming game Light of Motiram is a “slavish clone” of its Horizon series. As initially reported by Reuters, Sony has filed a lawsuit in California federal court alleging copyright and trademark infringement, and claiming that the game is so close to Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West that players could …

Sony is suing Tencent to attempt to stop the release of Light of Motiram, which Sony describes as a “slavish clone” of its Horizon series of games, as reported by Reuters. Light of Motiram was announced last year with a trailer featuring an aesthetic that’s quite similar to the Horizon franchise — including huge robot animals and even a title …

Sony is suing Tencent for copying nearly every aspect of its Horizon games for the upcoming Light of Motiram, an open-world hunting game with some obvious similarities to Sony’s franchise, as first reported by Reuters. Tencent first announced the new game in November 2024. The lawsuit goes into detail on the various ways Tencent’s new game appears to be unlawfully …

Image: ModRetro Anduril Industries cofounder Palmer Luckey has pulled back the curtain ever so slightly on his retro gaming company side project’s next console. We still don’t know what the M64 looks like, or what exactly it’s capable of, but a brief new teaser shows it running Mario Kart 64 on a CRT for the “early bird” price of $200. …