April 27, 2026
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July 2025

The next Helldivers 2 warbond is going superscience sicko mode with a seven-barreled assault rifle, a plasma cannon, and a wormhole-generating backpack that lets you warp around the battlefield

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After spending months in the field using Helldivers 2’s explosive crossbows, lightning-throwers, and orbital railguns, “reserved” is never a word I would think to use to describe the armaments of the Super Earth military. And yet, after seeing the sheer amount of nonsense tech packed into the next HD2 warbond, Control Group, I can’t help…

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Krafton accuses former Subnautica 2 bosses of abandoning the game in surprising new statement: ‘We feel a profound sense of betrayal by their failure to honor the trust placed in them’

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The cold war of words between Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton and the recently ousted leadership of developer Unknown Worlds got very hot today as Krafton issued a statement accusing the former studio heads of effectively abandoning the project, resulting in “repeated confusion in direction and significant delays in the overall project schedule.” Krafton, best known…

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McDonalds serves up super size AI botch with a ‘McHire’ platform that allowed admin access to 64 million candidate chats with the username and password ‘123456’

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Like many large corporations McDonalds now uses an AI hiring platform, McHire.com, to screen candidates for jobs. The process involves a chatbot called Olivia, built by AI firm Paradox.ai, which takes personal information from applicants, points them towards a personality test, and answers basic questions about the company (though sometimes it’s really bad at this)….

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The GameStop stapler that smashed a Switch 2 screen on launch day is being auctioned off for charity, and bidding has already broken $100,000

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You will recall that there was a bit of a fuss a month or so ago when an undoubtedly-harried GameStop employee stapled some customer receipts directly to Nintendo Switch 2 boxes—and through the boxes, and into the Switch 2 units themselves. It was all quickly resolved, without lawsuits or fistfights, and with the ugliness now…

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The videogame voice actors’ strike officially ends as performers ratify agreement between SAG-AFTRA and publishers

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One year after launching a strike of videogame performers and a month after suspending that strike on reaching a tentative agreement with publishers, SAG-AFTRA has announced that its members have ratified the new Interactive Media Agreement, bringing a definitive end to the strike. According to SAG-AFTRA, over 95% of voting members approved the new agreement,…

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Elon Musk claims Grok was ‘manipulated’ into praising Hitler, then makes wild claims about it discovering ‘new technologies’ and ‘new physics’ within the next year: ‘Just let that sink in’

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Elon Musk has addressed the latest controversy around Grok, xAI’s public-facing chatbot, after the technology had a very normal one and started calling itself “MechaHitler” while regurgitating antisemitic tropes. “Grok was too compliant to user prompts,” said Musk during a livestream (thanks, The Verge). “Too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially. That is being…

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