Captain Ahab had his white whale, Inspector Javert had Jean Valjean, and Forza Horizon 6 players have Bowie Knife99—an AI drivatar that has pushed players to breaking point with its erratic and borderline murderous driving. If you’re not familiar with the legend of Bowie Knife99, let me shed some light on the situation. You see,…
Music streaming platform Spotify announced a licensing deal with Universal Music Group last week which would allow subscribers to create AI-generated covers and remixes of songs from participating artists, who would then be compensated. The tool would be a paid extra to “create an additional source of income for artists and songwriters.” Now, Spotify co-chief…
It’s been a bad weekend for Marvel Rivals after a small update opened the floodgates for more cheaters to scurry inside, wreaking havoc in games all the way from Bronze to One Above All. How bad is it you ask? A slew of cheaters actually took to streaming their crimes over the weekend to a…
Oh Mai. Over the years, the Switch has become home to several Fatal Fury ports, including a couple of cheeky additions to the SNES Switch Online library. So if you’re someone who has yet to dive into the series or perhaps fancy picking up an entry or two, it might be wise to brush up…
A proper jewel. If you’re old enough to recall the battle between the PS1, N64 and Saturn at the close of the 1990s, then you’ll no doubt be aware that by 1997, Sega had effectively thrown in the towel in the West. Sony’s 32-bit console was dominant in pretty much every market, but in Japan,…
The first true Nvidia CPU has been benchmarked and found to beat, well, just about everything. The catch? While this is an independent test, Nvidia dictated the kinds of workloads that could be assessed. We speak, of course, of Nvidia’s Vera CPU, part of the company’s upcoming nexty-gen Vera Rubin AI platform. Vera contains a…
In 2017, a new era of Star Trek was born. More than a decade after Enterprise’s cancellation, we returned to the pre-ToS period with Discovery. We had drama, betrayals, twists and movie-quality set-piece space battles. Also mushrooms or something. Next year, a decade after it began, this era will be over. Discovery ended in 2024,…
The Rage:MP multiplayer platform for Grand Theft Auto 5 says it will begin a “structured shutdown” after receiving a cease-and-desist order from GTA publisher Take-Two Interactive. The news of the looming closure was shared by the admin team in the Rage:MP forums (via Dextero): “Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive have made it clear that FiveM…
Deadlock still technically isn’t out yet—which means that Valve’s gonna experiment. As was the case with last Friday’s patch, that made a sweeping list of changes to the urn, one of the objectives on the game’s map that helps encourage players to actually batch up for teamfights. Previously, the urn spawned on one side of…
Katsuhiro Harada may have departed Bandai Namco at the end of 2025—it seems, unfortunately, in favour of opening up a Saudi-funded studio of his own—but he can’t shake his 30-year history with Tekken that easily. During a visit to Atlanta for an appearance at Momocon, Harada made sure to stop by and document his visit…