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AI Weapons Maker Teases $200 Retro Console That Will Play Your Old Copy Of Mario Kart 64
24.7.2025
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...
Coinbase Co-Founder Fred Ehrsam Raises $100M for Brain Interface Startup
24.7.2025
Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam, who launched a brain interface startup last year, announced on Tuesday that the new project, dubbed Nudge, has raised $100 million from two venture firms, Thrive Capital and Greenoaks Capital Partners. Several angel investors also participated in the Series...
Game Studio Spends Millions Of Dollars To Buy A Popular Fortnite Map
23.7.2025
Gaijin Entertainment, the studio behind the popular online game War Thunder, announced on Wednesday that it had spent millions of dollars acquiring the rights to the popular Fortnite user-created map The Pit. Read more
5 Switch-Exclusive Games That Run Better On Switch 2 (Without A Patch)
23.7.2025
The Nintendo Switch 2 is already one of the most successful consoles ever launched, and with it came a roster of exclusive launch games that we can only describe as…a little lackluster. Don’t get me wrong, I am the target audience for a new Mario Kart and a remaster of a throwback 3DS RPG. And with...
New PS5 Feature Will Limit Performance In Some Games To Save Power
23.7.2025
Sony has announced that a new beta firmware update for the PlayStation 5 will begin rolling out to select users starting this week. One noteworthy aspect of this update is that it will include a feature that lets you cut back on your PS5's power consumption while playing games, though doing so will...
5 Things We Just Learned About The Best-Selling Games In June 2025
23.7.2025
Last month was a big deal for games. Nintendo finally released the Switch 2 and reversed a long-running downward trend in the market. The device has been making waves, even if it feels like people aren’t buzzing about the new launch as much as they have about past ones. We now know it’s...
Borderlands 4 Launches On Switch 2 Just A Few Weeks After Other Consoles
22.7.2025
Borderlands 4, the next big entry in Gearbox’s popular sci-fi looter shooter franchise, is coming to Switch 2 on October 3. This is just a few weeks after it arrives on other platforms. Borderlands 4 launches on PS5, Xbox, and PC on September 12. So not a long wait for the open-world shooter. Read...
Wait, The Free-To-Play Pokémon Puzzle Game Is Not Free On Switch?
22.7.2025
As is often the case with Pokémon Presents, The Pokémon Company made some announcements during its showcase this morning that initially sounded like cool and fun new things but gradually got worse as the reality became clear. Pokémon Friends, a new puzzle game in which you solve old-fashioned...
Blockchain Could Boost Covered Bonds, but Adoption Faces Major Hurdles: Moody's
22.7.2025
Moody’s notes that current blockchain use is mostly limited to on-chain bond issuance, with certain key functions still reliant on off-chain infrastructure
Ori Developer Not Prioritizing Xbox For Its New Action-RPG Soulslike's Console Launch
21.7.2025
No Rest for the Wicked came to Early Access last year and some fans are patiently waiting for it to finally hit console. The head of developer Moon Studios recently told fans the action-RPG Soulslike will likely come to PlayStation 5 first. Xbox, where the studio’s critically-acclaimed Ori games...
Meta’s Whatsapp Faces Blacklisting as a Threat to National Security in Russia
21.7.2025
According to State Duma Deputy Anton Nemkin, it is only a matter of time before Whatsapp is blacklisted in Russia. Nemkin explained that the app, owned by Meta, has not complied with the requirements of the Russian government, resulting in a “legal breach of national security.” Whatsapp...
Next-Gen AI Model Achieves New Milestone in General Intelligence
20.7.2025
Alexander Wei, a member of Openai’s Large Language Model (LLM) and reasoning research team, reported that a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) experimental reasoning model achieved gold medal-level performance at the International Math Olympiad (IMO). Openai CEO Sam Altman...
Coldplay Concert Kiss Cam Scandal 'Vibe Coded' Into A Game By Song A Day Guy
18.7.2025
The Coldplay concert kiss cam incident is the most viral moment of 2025. It’s also a video game now, sort of. Coldplay Canoodlers was thought up by Jonathan Mann, best known as the guy who has uploaded a new song to YouTube every day for over a decade (Remember “GTA: This Is Why We vVdeo Gaming?”)...
Playing Metal Gear Solid 3 Without Pressure-Sensitive Buttons Is Giving Me Literal Phantom Pains
18.7.2025
In the east coast heat of the summer of 2013, I stood outside of a particular McDonald’s in Forest Hills, NY, in a dazed state of shock. I had just come out to some friends—I actually said it out loud, but all that had to wait because at the same time, I had also just learned that the PS4’s...
Xbox Is Done Selling Movies And TV Shows
18.7.2025
12 years after Xbox introduced the Xbox One as a console that would be your entertainment media hub, Xbox is no longer selling TV shows or movies. The news came with little fanfare or notice, though some people who regularly check Xbox’s movie and TV section saw a bunch of movies about the end...
Help, The PS5 Store Is Flooded With AI Slop
17.7.2025
I was recently digging through the PlayStation Store’s upcoming games section when I spotted a clearly AI-generated image of a shark in shoes. “Strange,” I thought to myself. And then I saw another. And then three more. And then even more. That’s when I realized AI slop has fully infested the...
New Gaming Handheld Transforms From A Nintendo Switch Into A DS But It Won't Come Cheap
17.7.2025
The OneXSugar Sugar 1 was announced earlier this year and is one of the wildest modern gaming handhelds out of China I’ve ever seen. It has multiple screens and a bunch of swinging arms that make it look like a Transformer that spans multiple generations of portable Nintendo hardware....
PROMO: Off The Grid Is Now Available On Steam
17.7.2025
The battlefield just got a whole lot bigger. Off The Grid officially launched on Steam today, meaning players of the cyberpunk battle royale game can now compete across devices to be the last avatar standing.Read more
Meta to Invest Hundreds of Billions in AI Superclusters
17.7.2025
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company is prepared to build several Titan-sized superclusters to expand its AI infrastructure. He reported that one of the upcoming clusters will have a footprint equivalent to that of Manhattan. Meta to Allocate ‘Hundreds of Billions’...
Cyberpunk 2077's New Patch May Fix One Of The Game's Biggest Annoyances Five Years Later
15.7.2025
CD Projekt Red is hosting a live stream tomorrow, July 16, to talk about the next update to Cyberpunk 2077. While the main team is working on the upcoming sequel, Virtuos is co-developing further updates on the original RPG because the studio can’t quite seem to let it go completely. I’m...