Given the way the AI industry is going these days, the following news probably isn’t a huge surprise. But it’s unnerving all the same. Announced in a new blog post, Anthropic, arguably the sole remaining example among the major AI players that really bigs up its safety responsibilities, has ditched its core commitment to “pause”…
There’s a lot riding on Marathon, potentially even the fate of legendary developer Bungie given the current state of Destiny, which has been carrying the studio’s baton for years. Now it’s time to pass the burden onto Marathon, I guess, while the studio figures out what it’s doing with Destiny going forward. After divisive playtests…
If I can be vulnerable for a moment, I have something I need to get off my chest: I have no idea what Marathon is actually about, but that’s by choice. I am unequivocally in love with its marketing and the fact it gives very little away about what’s actually going on in the world…
Google Sheets is perhaps my most disliked member of the Google Workplace suite. It’s not that it’s bad at what it does, more that it’s a deathly-dull spreadsheet editor that I loathe having to stare at for more than five minutes. But lo and indeed behold, because Google says it’s caught Sheets being used in…
If you grew up feeding quarters into arcade cabinets or collecting tokens at your local game room, you already understood the concept of digital currency long before Bitcoin existed. The retro gaming world quietly built the foundation for how we think about virtual money today. And in 2026, the connection between old school gaming and…
Retro themes are everywhere in online casino games, especially in slots. Pixelated fruit symbols, chiptune soundtracks and arcade cabinet aesthetics are some of the design features used to play on the nostalgia factor. Nostalgia in gambling products isn’t just a visual trend or for fun; it draws on well-documented psychological mechanisms that shape how players…
Category: Games February 26, 2026 A Never-Ending Nightmare Haunts South Town in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Yasuyuki Oda, Producer, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Summary Nightmare Geese, South Town’s former emperor, is back haunting it asthe latest character in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves. Geese’s visual design and moves harken back…
Gotta count ’em all. Pokémon officially turns 30 tomorrow, but with Japan already ticking over into 27th Feb, The Pokémon Company has released a special video to celebrate the series’ big birthday. The vid is all about those new 30th anniversary icons that you may have spotted online in recent weeks. TPC has designed one…
As my esteemed colleague Joshua Wolens once wrote, I “never thought I’d die fighting side-by-side with the Pope.” Pope Leo XIV has made AI a key theme of his papacy, and his thoughts on the technology at times could not be clearer: he says it’s “turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts”. In a…
The budget wireless gaming headset market is in such a tough spot right now. That’s partly because the mid-range is absolutely knocking it out of the park, and partly because with the word ‘budget’ often comes the denigrative terms ‘cheap’, ‘flimsy’, or ‘yeah, this sounds kinda bad’. Okay, that last one isn’t very snappy, but…