From what I understand. The development team plans to transition to ElevenReader, while Omnivore will remain open-source and, hopefully, community-driven.

Servers will be shutting down in November so if you are not self hosting you will need to backup your saved articles.

Here is the full email I got:

Hello everyone,

We’re excited to share that Omnivore is joining forces with ElevenLabs, the leading AI audio research and technology company. Our team is joining ElevenLabs to help drive the future of accessible reading and listening with their new ElevenReader app.

As part of the ElevenLabs team, we’ll have an even larger platform to create accessible and engaging experiences for serious readers. We came to know ElevenLabs by integrating their ultra realistic AI voices into Omnivore—soon enough, listening to articles and books with ElevenLabs voices became one of our most popular features in Omnivore. We’re thrilled about this opportunity, and we wanted to share some info that’s important for you to know.

First, all Omnivore users are invited to create a free account with ElevenReader. Our team has already shipped valuable updates to the ElevenReader app, and it’s incredibly powerful as a go-to reader and audio listening app that’s free:

Download for iOS | Download for Android

Next, all Omnivore users will be able to export their information from the service through November 15 2024, after which all information will be deleted.

Lastly, ElevenLabs is committed to the developer community and the Omnivore codebase will remain 100% open-source for all users. This decision ensures that the broader development community can continue to build upon and improve Omnivore’s technology.

We hope you’ll join us on Discord and try the ElevenReader app for iOS and Android. We’re hard at work ensuring an accessible, bright future for readers everywhere.

Onwards,

Jackson & Hongbo

He was Muslim not Christian so most likely never went to that church, unless he converted or something. But it does sound like it was religiously motivated:

the boy had told churchgoers who restrained him, in Arabic: “If they didn’t insult my Prophet, I wouldn’t have come here.”

Embracer Group were expecting a massive investment to fund all their recent aquisitions (2 billions I think?) that fell through. So they have been cutting and closing studios ever since.

The video tries to imply it’s industry wide, but only show 3 tweets. I’ve also seen nothing but praise from other game developers I know.

Fans expectations for games are already insanely high. Baldur’s Gate 3 isn’t going to change much.

Also the video implies that this complaint is industry wide but only has 3 tweets (or X’s?).

These might be too violent for a 10 year old. But these are the only ones that come to mind that haven’t been shutdown:

• Naraka Bladepoint - melee battle royale
• Chivalry - hack n slash
• For Honor - arena fighter (small player base could be hard to find a match)

More similar to Knockout City:

• Omega Strikers
• Roller Champions (Could get shutdown soon)