Director Kane Parsons is probably riding pretty high right now: At just 20 years old, his first feature film hit #1 in the world, tripled studio A24’s previous record, and even outperformed the latest Star Wars at the box office. But his dad, Michael Parsons, is also primed to take a victory lap or two…
In the midst of the RAMpocalypse and the billions of dollars being thrown at AI, it’s easy to become blind to the fact that the use of machine learning can be highly beneficial in lots of different scenarios. Case in point: an update to an old AMD GPU Linux driver was created with the help…
Category: XBOX Insider June 10, 2026 XBOX Insider Update Adds More Personalization, Easier Social Discovery, and Energy-Saving Improvements Alex Charters, Senior Product Manager; Eden Marie, Principal Software Engineering Lead Starting today, select XBOX Insiders can start testing new updates designed to make your XBOX consoles feel more personal and connected to the people and games…
Category: Games Alien: Isolation 2 is Poised to Deliver Another Bold Chapter in Survival Horror Mike Nelson, XBOX Wire Editor Published June 10, 2026 Summary We played the Alien: Isolation 2 prologue at Summer Game Fest: Play Days and lived to talk about it with the creative geniuses at Creative Assembly. Creative Director Al Hope,…
From “a computer lab in Moscow” to being beaten by a teenager on the NES. A new book charting the 40-plus-year history of Tetris is set for release this August, from Irish video games journalist Anthony McGlynn (Variety, IGN, Ars Technica…) and Pen & Sword Books’ White Owl publishing imprint. The Tetris Story is McGlynn’s…
First spotted by D0ntevenknowme on the PC gaming subreddit, Valve has updated its Steam store help page with a notice that it is phasing out physical gift cards for the service, with the last ones expected to go out of stock before the end of this year. Those cards will continue to be honored by…
It’s rare that, when I talk about layoffs in the gaming industry—be it videogames or TTRPGs—that I do so with sympathy for the company dropping the axe. Usually it’s down to short-sighted business practices or greedy, dollar-eyed acquisitions. Not so this time—at least, not directly. Paizo, the creators of Pathfinder 2e (which has stolen my…
Gran Turismo 7 is about more than finishing 1st — it’s about mastering what you love. Today marks the start of Endurance racing’s biggest stage: The 24-hour Le Mans race. To help players get into the feeling, this game update drops a stacked grid of modern legends, from the Ferrari 499P that brought the Prancing…
See if you can guess who… Konami’s 1980s pool game Rack ‘Em Up, which is known by the slightly cooler name “The Hustler” in Japan, is scheduled to join the Arcade Archives range of classic arcade games this week, on consoles. So, if your idea of a good time happens to be playing decades-old arcade…
A ruling from a German court has found that Google is liable for the claims made in Search’s AI Overviews. What is this? The consequence of Google’s all-in-on-AI actions? The case involves false claims made about two Munich-based publishers. Allegedly, Search’s AI Overview misattributed the questionable practices of another existing business to the plaintiffs, drawing…