April 16, 2025

The Breakthrough Prize, whose co-founders include Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, and Yuri Milner, is kind of like the “Oscars of science” in that they’re glitzy, televised, and crawling with Hollywood celebrities. The most recent prize ceremony, for instance, featured appearances by Mr Beast, Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow, and Katy Perry, among numerous others, none of…

Bethesda’s long-rumored Oblivion remaster is now all but official, thanks to a leak from developer Virtuous Games that blabbed a bunch of screens and box art all over the internet yesterday. You might expect that development would take the wind out of the sails of Skyblivion, the fan-made Oblivion remake in the Skyrim engine, but…

World of Warcraft‘s 11.1.5 patch debuts next week, and players were dismayed to learn that it would launch without details on “Dinar,” a currency and vendor that attempt to give a long-term solution for players’ bad luck with loot drops. Blizzard has flirted with ways to make up for bad loot luck in the game…

Early access survival games can feel like a dime a dozen these days, but RuneScape: Dragonwilds is already impressing people with its flashy magic spells and cozy building mechanics. There’s a lot to love about Dragonwilds already, but Jagex has more surprises in store for the road ahead. Jagex hasn’t said how long RuneScape: Dragonwilds…

A Minecraft Movie pleasantly surprised me with its mostly accurate depictions of how people play Minecraft, though some of its antics understandably stretched beyond what’s currently possible in the game. One of those impossible antics is now very much possible in Minecraft’s Java’s latest snapshot updates: Ghast airships are real, and they have a lot…

Bloober Team unveiled its new project Cronos: The New Dawn in 2024 with a cinematic trailer that I quite liked: Man in badass spacesuit plays chess with nice old lady and also blasts away at Dead Space-style creepos in a different time/space/dimension/whatever, and then when he loses the chess game he offs her anyway. Or…

Did you receive an invitation to a Witcher 4 closed beta test? No you didn’t, according to developer CD Projekt, which says the purported invites offering an early look at the new game are in fact just a scam. “Recently, we’ve been getting reports from some community members that they’ve been invited to a beta…

Since the dawn of time a battle has been raging between two equally powerful but opposing concepts. I am, of course, talking about dragons and drugs. And yes, I know all about how Puff the Magic Dragon allegedly tried to bring the two factions together, but it’s all lies. There can be no lasting peace….