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'Netflix For AI' CEO Hyping Animated Slop Admits 'Maybe Nobody Wants This'
30.7.2025
Showrunner is a new video content platform that will specialize in user-generated AI slop. The idea is people will pay to use generative AI tools to produce their own TV, starting with short animated sketches. Who asked for this? Amazon for starters, which is investing an undisclosed amount in...
The First Nintendo Direct Of The Switch 2 Era Is Here
30.7.2025
A long rumored Nintendo Direct is taking place this month after all. The Mario maker announced a partner showcase will take place on July 31, marking the first new Nintendo Direct since the Switch 2 launched in early June. Read more
There's Finally A Nintendo Game That Uses The Switch 2's Mouse Controls, And It's 33 Years Old
29.7.2025
During the marketing for the Switch 2, one of the most talked about aspects (perhaps because there was so little else to talk about) was the potential that the new Joy-Con 2s could be used as mice. Post-launch, there’s been almost no reason to bother. It hasn’t featured as a necessary control...
Bakkt Sells Loyalty Business and Pivots to Pure-Play Crypto, Offers Shares
28.7.2025
The technology firm sold its loyalty business for $11 million and announced a public share offering to fund bitcoin purchases
Jack Dorsey’s Messaging App Bitchat Goes Live in the Apple App Store
28.7.2025
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who now heads Bitcoin tech firm Block, announced on Monday that his messaging app Bitchat, which communicates exclusively via Bluetooth, is now available in the Apple App Store. According to Bitchat’s whitepaper on Github, the app is “a secure, decentralized...
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...