(Image credit: Sunblink Entertainment) When Eric Cartman asked Butters in South Park why he wasn’t playing World of Warcraft even though he was at his PC all the time and Butters replied, “I’m playing Hello Kitty Island Adventure,” I laughed. I sat there and laughed at him, because how can a game about Hello Kitty
(Image credit: Nintendo, @BlazeHedgehog on Twitter) Nintendo—a company that’s famously litigious when it comes to muscling down on fan projects, emulators, and sometimes just straight-up other games—took one to the chin recently after a supermarket in Costa Rica, named “Super Mario” after its owner Don José Mario Alfaro González, won a legal battle to keep
(Image credit: Firaxis) Aside from Civilization 7’s transformative ages system, one of the most significant changes is the introduction of towns. In past games, all of your civilization’s settlements were cities, and they all worked in the same way. In Civ 7, you can have just one city if you want—your capital—and still expand across
“We’re making new Pebble watches,” writes original Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky on the “rePebble” launch page. Eight years after Pebble’s time as an upstart watchmaker came to an end, Migicovsky says that he’s working with a small team on “a Pebble-like smartwatch that runs open source PebbleOS.” There should be some new features, but new
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday his company will launch a paid ride-hailing robotaxi service in Austin, Texas using its own fleet vehicles this coming June — the latest in a long line of sky-high promises he has yet to meet about autonomy. Musk was otherwise unsurprisingly light on details. During an earnings call, Musk
Some days those yellow letters just won’t turn green no matter what you do, if they ever turn up at all. If that happens, make sure you use our clue for the January 30 (1321) Wordle to quickly find your way. It’ll help you uncover today’s winning word, while still leaving you all the satisfying
(Image credit: Ninth Exodus) Peripeteia is an upcoming indie immersive sim where you’re an out-of-work cyborg mercenary living in a dilapidated post-Soviet city full of homeless people, gas-mask thugs, and talkative bartenders. “It’s Deus Ex except you’re Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell, retired, in Poland.” That’s how I summed up the demo for
(Image credit: Kitfox Games) Speaking as someone with a pathological fascination with procedural simulations, following the development of Streets of Fortuna feels like watching as my time and attention are steadily pulled toward the event horizon of a distant black hole. Considering it’s coming from Kitfox Games, who we can thank for ushering Caves of
(Image credit: BioWare) One week after revealing that Dragon Age: The Veilguard significantly underperformed by missing its sales expectations by nearly 50%, Electronic Arts has announced that “many” of the studio’s employees have been moved to other EA teams as part of an effort to make the company—you guessed it—”more agile.” “Now that Dragon Age:
The Chinese generative artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek has had a meteoric rise this week, stoking rivalries and generating market pressure for United States-based AI companies, which in turn has invited scrutiny of the service. Amid the hype, researchers from the cloud security firm Wiz published findings on Wednesday that show that DeepSeek left one of