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Jeff Kaplan, former vice president of Blizzard Entertainment and lead director on Overwatch, left the company in 2021 after it demanded Overwatch generate recurring revenue or it would lay off 1,000 employees, according to a recent interview on the Lex Fridman podcast. In that time, Kaplan founded a development studio called Kintsugiyama and it has revealed what it has been working on all these years.A far cry from the fantasy of Warcraft and science-fiction of Overwatch, The Legend of California is an open-world survival shooter game set in California during the gold rush era. In the game players will survive and…

Apple’s newly launched MacBook Neo may not be marketed as a gaming laptop, but that hasn’t stopped curious users from putting it through its paces. In a recent experiment, YouTuber Andrew Tsai tested 10 different games on the entry-level MacBook to see how well Apple’s most affordable laptop can handle gaming workloads. The MacBook Neo is positioned as a budget-friendly Mac, starting at around $599, and is powered by Apple’s A18 Pro chip. That’s actually the same processor architecture originally designed for high-end iPhones. While the device is aimed primarily at everyday productivity and student use, the test explored whether…

Drinkbox Studios is commonly known as the team that brought us the Guacamelee series and Nobody Saves the World, but perhaps my favorite title in its catalogue is Severed, which originally released in 2016 on the PS Vita. While that game features fun touchscreen-based combat and an intriguing minimalist story, what stuck with me the most is its striking art style. As I walked up to the station where I’d spend the next 20 minutes playing Drinkbox’s latest game, Blighted, I immediately noticed echoes of that gorgeous Severed art style, even as the gameplay deviates from it.Vibrant, contrasting colors and…

Ford just gave the European Explorer EV a meaningful upgrade, and the headline feature is one American buyers will probably spend a few minutes being quietly jealous about. The 2026 Explorer now comes with Pro Power Onboard — basically a built-in power outlet that turns the SUV into a mobile generator (what we commonly call Vehicle-to-Load functionality). There’s a socket in the trunk and an optional adapter at the charge port, delivering up to 2.3 kW combined. Camping trips, dead e-bikes, laptops mid-road trip — Ford’s got you covered. US customers, unfortunately, do not get this one. Europe only. So…

We’ve all been there — thumbs mid-air, staring at a suggested word that somehow nailed what we were trying to say. So we tap it. Obviously. But a new study suggests those little taps might be doing more than saving us a few seconds. Research out of Cornell Tech, published this week in Science Advances, found that AI-powered autocomplete suggestions don’t just change how you write — they nudge how you actually think. And you won’t even notice it happening. What did the research actually find? Researchers ran two large-scale experiments with over 2,500 participants, asking them to write short…

Tilly Norwood, a digital character from the UK studio Particle6, dropped her debut music video “Take the Lead” on March 10. The project is meant to be a playful response to the criticism she faced after her introduction in 2025. But instead of silencing the skeptics, the clip has become a fresh flashpoint in the conversation about whether artificial intelligence can produce good art. The early reviews are pretty brutal. Critics have described the track as “copy-paste uplift” that reads like a corporate mission statement rather than pop music. The lyrics lean on jargon like “scale” and “next evolution.” Visually,…

WhatsApp is rolling out parent-managed accounts for pre-teens, giving guardians full control over their child’s contacts and group chats, and how their privacy settings are configured, all managed from the parent’s own phone. The feature targets families with children under 13. It’s WhatsApp’s clearest move yet to position itself as a safe messaging environment for younger users, at a time when pressure on tech platforms over child online safety has never been higher. How parent-managed accounts actually work Setup requires both phones in the same room. Parents link their own device to their child’s to connect the two accounts, and…

In 2022, Google first announced its Google Play Games on PC project, which allows Android users to play their favorite games on Windows PC. Since then, Google has released several updates to improve its service, with Google Play Games for PC officially exiting beta on September 23, 2025.  It’s one of the few Google projects that hasn’t been left to wither away, and now, Google Play is rolling out a handful of useful changes that could genuinely improve how you discover, buy, and play games, whether you’re on your phone or PC. The timing seems intentional. Google made these announcements…

The Sennheiser HD 650 has been a reference point in serious headphone audio for over two decades, and right now it’s down to $314.69 at Amazon, a $265 saving off its $579.95 list price. If you’ve been considering a proper step up in headphone quality, this is one of the better opportunities to do it that I’ve seen in a while. What you’re getting The HD 650 is an open-back dynamic headphone, which means it trades noise isolation for a soundstage that feels notably wider and more natural than closed-back designs. The presentation is airy and spacious in a way…

Google is finally bringing Chrome‘s Gemini side panel to India, New Zealand, and Canada starting today. The move adds support for more than 50 languages, including Hindi, French, and Spanish, which means millions of new users can now access the AI assistant on desktop, iOS, and Chromebook Plus devices without switching their browser language. The assistant runs on Gemini 3.1 and lives in a side panel so you can keep browsing while asking for help. Need to summarize a dense article? Just ask. Wondering if you can make that recipe vegan? The AI can figure it out. It can even…