January 29, 2025

The Olympic Esports Games was announced in 2024 as a collaboration between the International Olympic Committee and the National Olympic Committee of Saudi Arabia, with events held “regularly” over a 12-year span beginning in 2025. But it now looks like that timeline may have been overly optimistic, as a SportBusiness report says the event has…

I’ve never claimed to understand high fashion. Or advertising. Or really much of anything. So you can imagine my confusion when I received a press release for the Prêt-à-Portable capsule collection, which appeared at Paris Fashion Week and includes a tracksuit, parka, jumper, and a “handcrafted, XXXXXXL bucket bag” that’s “big enough to fit an…

Back when I was a kid in the 1980s, I distinctly remember three rumors spreading around at school: Mikey from the Life cereal commercials died from eating Pop Rocks and Coke In the next Friday the 13th movie, Freddy Kruger from the Elm Street movies would fight Jason In the next Alien movie, the aliens…

The videogame-to-TV pipeline grew a little wider today with a Deadline report revealing that a show based on Quantic Dream’s action-adventure Beyond: Two Souls is now in development at Elliot Page’s Pageboy Productions. Page, you’ll recall, starred in Beyond: Two Souls, a “psychological action thriller” about a girl whose powerful telepathic abilities lead her into…

Speaking as someone with a pathological fascination with procedural simulations, following the development of Streets of Fortuna feels like watching as my time and attention are steadily pulled toward the event horizon of a distant black hole. Considering it’s coming from Kitfox Games, who we can thank for ushering Caves of Qud out of early…

One week after revealing that Dragon Age: The Veilguard significantly underperformed by missing its sales expectations by nearly 50%, Electronic Arts has announced that “many” of the studio’s employees have been moved to other EA teams as part of an effort to make the company—you guessed it—”more agile.” “Now that Dragon Age: The Veilguard has…

OpenAI, the company behind the internet-scraping ChatGPT large language model (LLM), has complained that the new Chinese AI assistant DeepSeek has been copying its models. The emergence of DeepSeek, an AI LLM that was apparently developed at a fraction of the cost of other models but boasts comparable performance, has sent shares in AI-focused tech…

There aren’t enough stylish action games like Ninja Gaiden in the world. Nothing draws me in as instantly as a great one: I relish struggling through punishing combat in games that give me the tools to move and battle in a way that’s typically reserved for flashy cutscenes, and demand I use them or die….