Kingdom Come Dev Talks Risks And Benefits Of AI And Losing Players If Games Are Too Difficult One of the new creative directors at Kingdom Come studio Warhorse, Prokop Jirsa, has commented on the hot-button issue of using artificial intelligence in game development. His comments come at a time…

The Final Episode of Kurt & Lucy Gotcha Covered Thank you to everyone who watched our silly little show.

Fan Updates Nirvanna The Band’s Wii Shop Song For Current Gen Like most retro gaming fiends, Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol were eating well in the Wii era. Better known as Nirvanna the Band, the two uploaded comedy shorts online before landing a TV show and hit feature film. This included a…

The Killing Joke Costs $17 Grand Batman: The Killing Joke remains one of the most influential runs in the Dark Knight’s history. Written by Alan Moore and drawn by Brian Bolland, it is a twisty odyssey into a legendary rivalry. Testing Batman’s fortitude and unleashing an outright vicious vision…

Takashi Tezuka Reinvented Zelda Without Overthinking It Earlier this week, longtime Nintendo producer and current executive officer Takashi Tezuka announced that he would be retiring from the company. Tezuka had been with Nintendo since the mid-80s, cutting his teeth on Punch-Out‼ before tackling…

Fans Think New GTA 6 Emails From Sony Signal Something Big I know we’ve danced this dance a dozen times at this point, but, for once, there is some genuine evidence that Take-Two and Rockstar Games are gearing up to drop some Grand Theft Auto 6 news in the next few days. However, the reason why it…

Psychonauts Maker Double Fine Forms Latest Union At Microsoft Developers at the long-running game studio Double Fine, which was acquired by Microsoft back in 2018, are forming a union. The group, which is best known for Psychonauts and just recently released the pottery battle game Kiln on Game…

Rocket Report: Alpha Block 2 coming this summer; Falcon sets booster landing mark Chosen for impact to humanity … The Falcon 9 team was chosen from a long list of impressive nominees. “In the end, the deciding factor was what we felt like was the team’s impact to humanity,” said Dan Dumbacher,…

The US military just released a bunch of UAP files, but there’s no there there And on Friday, the Department of Defense (which has renamed itself the Department of War without the required authorization from the US Congress) began releasing those files. So what’s in there? You can see for yourself…

Ryan Cohen Says He ‘Isn’t Passionate’ About GameStop If dubious auction listings, cable news follies or pure financials weren’t cutting it before, GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is leveraging another stake in his bid for eBay: his emotional investment. In a conversation with Business Insider’s Sarah E.…

The Nintendo Switch 2 is getting more expensive later this year These now-routine price increases are a marked change from a decades-long period where game consoles routinely and quickly dropped in price in the years after their launch. Even before recent component shortages, though, a combination…

Legendary Mario And Zelda Director Is Retiring From Nintendo After 40 Years A Nintendo legend is about to call it a day, as veteran game designer and director Takashi Tezuka will leave the company later this year. Nintendo noted in its investor briefing today that the 65-year-old Tezuka will…

How climate change makes your allergies worse Pollen isn’t the only allergen impacted by climate change. Increased humidity, heat, and flooding also create ideal conditions for mold to flourish in places where it was previously rare. That can cause mold allergies to flare up, especially in the…

Mortal Kombat 2 Made Millions Before Its Official Release Day Mortal Kombat 2 is out now in theaters, and it made millions before its official wide release. The movie picked up $5.2 million in preview screenings in North America on May 7 ahead of its wider release today, May 8, according to…

The new Wild West of AI kids’ toys The main antagonist of Toy Story 5, in theaters this summer, is a green, frog-shaped kids’ tablet named Lilypad, a genius new villain for the beloved Pixar franchise. But if Pixar had its ear to the ground, it might have used an AI kids’ toy instead. AI toys are…

The 12 Best Mortal Kombat Fatalities Ever The Mortal Kombat series has been around since the ’90s and is one of the biggest, most successful fighting game franchises in history. A lot of this success is a direct result of consistent gameplay improvements, popular characters, and some truly wild…

Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare Cramming for finals is bad enough without the platform you use to do your schoolwork suddenly shutting down. Unfortunately for countless students across the US, that’s exactly what they faced on Thursday after Canvas went into “maintenance mode”…

Genshin Impact Next Update And Banners – Everything We Know About Version 6.5 And 6.6 Want to know when the next Genshin Impact update is? Sticking with a regular six-week schedule, we rarely need to wait for the next livestream to know when a new version is releasing. Livestreams give us more…

Best Live-Captioning Smart Glasses (2026), WIRED tested Unlike the other glasses I tested, Even doesn’t sell a subscription plan; everything’s included out of the box. The only downside I could find with the G2 is that it is largely devoid of offline features, so the glasses have to be connected…

Cosplaying Gamers Will Raid EA HQ To Protest Saudi Arabia's $55 Billion Buyout In the wake of Saudi Arabia's leveraged buyout of Electronic Arts for $55 billion, gamers upset by the takeover are planning to protest the publisher's Redwood, California, headquarters on May 11 in cosplay. A movement…

The 19 Most Exciting Cars at the Beijing Auto Show 2026 While major motor shows in Europe and the United States are being forced to downsize or change their format, those in China continue to expand. With 1,451 vehicles on display, including 181 world premieres, the 2026 Beijing International…

Leon Kennedy & Hugh Williams Actors play CO-OP Pragmata David Menkin (Hugh Williams from Pragmata) and Nick Apostolides (Leon Kennedy from Resident Evil) team up to play Pragmata in co-op! David controls Diana and Nick controls Hugh as the two try to clear one of Pragmata's toughest challenges.

Which Macs are suffering from shortages—and where are things getting worse? Cook attributes the desktop shortages in part to demand from AI enthusiasts running models locally on Mac hardware—Apple Silicon’s low power usage, good performance, and unified memory pool accessible by both the CPU and…

Battlefield 6 Season 3 Patch Notes Detail Improvements For Vehicles, Netcode, Gadgets, And More Season 3 of Battlefield 6 and Redsec arrives on May 12, and Battlefield Studios has released the patch notes ahead of the big update. In addition to the new content, this season's update includes a…

DNA identifies four more crew members of doomed Franklin expedition DNA identifies four more crew members of doomed Franklin expedition - Ars Technica Erebus; the fourth was Petty Officer Harry Peglar of the HMS…

The Best Games Of 2026 (So Far) The year has gotten off to a flying start, and looking ahead, there are many highly anticipated games coming in 2026. How well will they score when they arrive? That remains to be seen, but, as in previous years, we'll keep track of all the games that hit a review…

Chrome’s 4GB AI model isn’t new, but you’re not wrong for being confused A curious omission Google users were more willing to excuse AI in 2024, but the backlash is real in 2026. People are increasingly looking to avoid AI features, which makes this 4GB stealth download all the more questionable.…

Preorders Are Live For Magic: The Gathering's Reality Fracture Event After The Hobbit, Reality Fracture is the penultimate mainline set for 2026 before Star Trek drops in November. It's the culmination of what the in-universe story has been building to since Phyrexia: All Will Be One that sees…

Elon Musk faces criminal probe in France after ignoring summons in X case French prosecutors yesterday opened a criminal investigation into Elon Musk and X, escalating a probe into sexual images of minors and other alleged illegal content on Musk’s social network. The action came three months…

Saros Doesn’t Like Being a Roguelike, So Why Is It One? “ARCADE IS DEAD,” developer Housemarque abruptly decreed in all caps on its blog shortly after Matterfall’s release in 2017. This candid manifesto explained how the team saw no future developing the arcadey games it had specialized in for…

Instacart Promo Code: $15 Off | May 2026 Like many others, I first used Instacart during the early days of the pandemic when it was a lifesaver. Literally. As the primary caretaker of my immunocompromised grandmother, I was at a loss for how to do something as simple as feed her without risking…

GTA 6 Company "Exploring" AI To Help Make Games "Smarter" And Possibly Bring Down Costs Grand Theft Auto 6 could be one of the most expensive games ever in terms of its budget, and this kind of investment may only be sustainable for a small group of games, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said in an…

Chaos erupts as cyberattack disrupts learning platform Canvas amid finals Chaos erupted at schools and colleges throughout the US on Thursday as a cyberattack disrupted online learning platform Canvas just as students were due to take final exams. Canvas parent company Instructure said that as of…

PlayStation Boss Embraces AI To ‘Unleash Creativity” In Gaming PlayStation CEO Hideaki Nishino devoted a surprisingly long portion of his recent Sony earnings presentation remarks to making the case for AI and how it will benefit gaming and the company’s bottom line. He was not subtle, and he…

The unprecedented and deadly cruise ship hantavirus outbreak, explained “This is not COVID. This is not influenza. It spreads very, very differently,” Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s acting director for epidemic and pandemic management, emphasized in a press briefing Thursday. Given the nature of this…

This Stunning Roguelite Is About A Fallen Final Boss Fighting Back We all know the satisfaction of defeating the final boss in a game and rolling credits, but what then happens to your thwarted opponent? Demon Lord: Just a Block is a stunningly good turn-based action-roguelite in which you play as…

Sony says “efficient” AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market Anyone following the modern game industry knows that easy-to-use game engines and the accelerating shift to digital distribution have helped enable a massive increase in the quantity of commercial games released each…

Manufacturing qubits that can move Like any other manufactured chip, the wiring that connects the quantum dots is locked into place during the chip’s manufacture. Since different error correction schemes require different connections among the qubits, this forces us to commit to specific…

Mortal Kombat 2’s Most Surprising Death Has Fans Divided Mortal Kombat II is in theaters now, and I’m gonna be real, I kinda forgot a lot of the finer details about its 2021 reboot predecessor. That’s probably on me for not doing a rewatch beforehand, but also the film’s release was delayed by a…

Top Megelin Deals for Laser and LED Therapy Devices (2026) The red-light therapy market shows no signs of slowing down. According to Fortune Business Insights, the industry is projected to grow from $1.21 billion in 2026 to $1.76 billion by 2034. Riding that wave is Hong Kong-based Megelin, which…

Sony Isn’t Bailing On Marathon Despite Bungie’s Poor Earnings After months of haters pointing to Steam charts to predict Marathon‘s impending doom, Sony has signaled to investors that it’s not giving up on Bungie’s new sci-fi shooter just yet. That ongoing faith in the underlying game is just the…

Trump reportedly plans to fire FDA Commissioner Marty Makary President Trump has signed off on a plan to fire Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, though insiders caution that the plan is not final and could change, according to several media reports. News of the planned axing…

Neverness To Everness Accused Of Replacing AI Art With Different AI Art Less than a day after the developers of Neverness to Everness announced they would be “reworking” the AI-generated images in their recently released open-world gacha game, a new patch for the game has dropped–and, apparently,…

#t’s A Dirty Frag Frag Friday Oh, Come The #%@& On!  Can We Not Have One Nice Weekend? Dirty Frag, brought to you by the same rays of sunshine that introduced you to the Dirty Pipe and Copy Fail Linux vulnerabilities, is yet another horrific Linux vulnerability.  Just like the other two, Dirty…

ABC refuses to capitulate to Trump admin, fights FCC probe into The View Anna Gomez, the FCC’s only Democrat, said the public will remember “who complied in advance and who fought back. I’m glad Disney is choosing courage over capitulation.” The filing for ABC was submitted by attorney Paul…

Mixtape Devs Break Down The Game’s Soundtrack Mixtape, developer Beethoven & Dinosaur’s musical coming-of-age narrative adventure, is set to a curated playlist of mood-setting songs. When I sat down with creative director Johnny Galvatron and producer Woody Woodward, they said that the team picked…

Court rules Trump’s 10% tariff is just as illegal as the tariff it replaced Trump has made it clear that he is not happy about court-ordered refunds, which some businesses should start receiving next week, Reuters reported. Last month, he cheered news that Apple and Amazon had yet to request…

Darkest Dungeon Devs Won’t Use AI To Copy Iconic Voice There’s no separating Wayne June from Darkest Dungeon. Like Logan Cunningham’s work as the narrator in Supergiant Games’ Bastion, every narrow victory and heart-wrenching defeat in Red Hook Studios’ dark fantasy dungeon crawler is punctuated…

Course correction: Google to link more sources in AI Overviews Hovering over links in AI answers will soon show preview pop-ups. Credit: Google While most of the newly announced AI features will roll out soon, Google is still seeking partners to support one of them. Google is seeking publishers…

Helldivers 2 Devs’ Attempt To Quell Outrage Has The Opposite Effect Helldivers 2‘s recent review tally on Steam is currently sitting at Mostly Negative, and the latest wave of negative reviews has also dropped the game’s overall ranking down to Mostly Positive. In an attempt to put the fanbase’s…