The fun begins later this month. Nintendo has announced it will be performing another Nintendo Switch Online Playtest Program starting later this month. To apply and participate, you’ll need to have a Nintendo Account and an “active” Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership. This is a test of the “same service” Nintendo performed a…
A Reddit poster going by Emotional_Stranger_5 says they spent 16 days working with ChatGPT on an illustrated children’s book intended as a gift for a group of local kids. Believing that the chatbot had been invisibly toiling away creating 700 illustrated pages, they turned to the OpenAI subreddit to ask how to download the completed…
It’s a date. No Sleep For Kaname Date – From AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES is the newest entry in Spike Chunsoft’s AI: Somnium Files series and is actually a spin-off of the first two games. As a ‘mid-quel’ between both stories, No Sleep for Kaname Date is a good companion piece for fans of the…
I saw the original Mortal Kombat film in theaters about 100 years ago, give or take, and it was bad but also really good. It was the ’90s and I was going through kind of a Christopher Lambert phase (if you ever have the chance to see The Hunted, I highly recommend it), and it’s…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent on Thursday, its latest effort in the industry-wide pursuit to turn AI into a profitable enterprise—not just one that eats investors’ billions. In its announcement blog, OpenAI says its Agent “can now do work for you using its own computer,” but CEO Sam Altman warns that the rollout presents unpredictable risks….
An Italian YouTuber who specializes in retro gaming says he’s facing criminal charges and a possible jail sentence as a result of reviewing retro gaming consoles on his channel, some of which came with pre-loaded ROMs. Francesco Salicini, who streams as Once Were Nerd, said in a video posted on July 14 (via Android Authority)…
Gabe Newell, the co-founder of Valve Corporation and the driving force behind much of the company’s unique philosophy, recently gave an interview to YouTuber Zalkar Saliev, a channel that’s more business-focused than games but, hey, this is Gaben. The full interview is yet to surface but a few shorts from the conversation have been released,…
The Steam Summer Sale is over, but that doesn’t mean that opportunities to snag cheap games you’ll probably never play are over—or free ones, for that matter. The Epic Games Store’s 2025 Summer Sale kicked off today with a nice array of deals, a big boost to Epic Rewards, and a very nice freebie to…
Remember Ubisoft’s live-action Assassin’s Creed TV series that it’s been cooking up over at Netflix? No? Well, don’t beat yourself up about it; I’m pretty sure Ubi’s forgotten once or twice too. The studio was first chatting about its grand plans to make an AC TV show in 2017, in the afterglow of the (not…
Gabe Newell, the co-founder of Valve Corporation and the driving force behind much of the company’s unique philosophy, has had a much less public-facing role in recent years. Newell still turns up for things like the Steam Deck launch and official documentaries, but much of his time now is spent on one of his (several)…