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Games Done Quick (GDQ) has announced that its flagship speedrunning marathon, Summer Games Done Quick, will return to Minneapolis this July to benefit Doctors Without Borders. The full schedule has been released and will feature a wide range of speedruns from July 5 to July 11, including a game-breaking Balatro run, a unique tool-assisted Super Mario 64 run, the NES Tetris Tournament Finals, and so much more. The in-person event will be held at the Hilton Minneapolis Downtown in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to benefit Doctors Without Borders, a private international humanitarian organization founded in 1971 to provide lifesaving medical care to those…

macOS has a built-in screenshot tool that gets the basics right. You can take a screenshot, record your screen, and even annotate your captures. But the moment you want something more, like scrolling capture, advanced annotation tools, or a quick way to share your screenshots via a link, it starts to fall apart. That’s where CleanShot X comes in. It’s a powerful screenshot and screen recording app for Mac that replaces the built-in screenshot tool. It feels as if the developers looked at the screenshot features in macOS and added everything that was missing. Over the past few years, the…

We recently announced our latest cover story as The Blood of Dawnwalker, the debut title from Rebel Wolves, a studio co-founded by Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, who directed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Cyberpunk 2077. We spent a full day in the Rebel Wolves’ studio in Warsaw, Poland, seeing an extended hands-off demo and speaking with key members of the development team. After watching a long demo consisting of the prologue (read our impressions of that here), we went into a small room with Tomaszkiewicz to get an exclusive look at an extra sequence that hints at how relationships will play…

Google I/O is almost here, and now that Google has already wrapped up The Android Show, all eyes are shifting toward the company’s AI ambitions — especially Gemini. While nothing has been officially announced yet, a new leak gives us an early glimpse of what Google could be preparing behind the scenes. Your inbox might soon fear Gemini more than spam A post shared by Waguri_Kaoruko8 on X reportedly showcases something called the “Gemini Spark Model,” alongside a new Agent or Chat Mode designed for more advanced tool-based actions. And honestly, this feels like Google trying to turn Gemini into…

Developer/publisher Unknown Worlds Entertainment launched Subnautica 2 into Early Access yesterday, May 14, and in just 12 hours, the game surpassed 2 million copies sold. Subnautica 2 also reached 651,000 peak concurrent players across Steam, the Epic Games Store, and Xbox yesterday, making it clear that this highly anticipated underwater survival game is an Early Access hit. Subnautica 2 also has more than 12,500 reviews on Steam and maintains a “Very Positive” rating. Though Subnautica 2 still has a ways to go before matching its predecessor’s sales, which sits at 18.5 million copies sold worldwide, it’s off to a great start.  Unknown…

A new kind of near-invisible solar cell could one day help everyday glass surfaces generate electricity. This could include car windows and sunroofs, smart glasses, wearables, building façades, and home windows. Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, have developed ultrathin transparent perovskite solar cells that are about 10,000 times thinner than a strand of human hair and around 50 times thinner than conventional perovskite solar cells. The NTU research team, led by Associate Professor Annalisa Bruno, published the findings in ACS Energy Letters (via TechXplore). Can solar cells disappear into everyday glass? These solar cells are semi-transparent and color-neutral, so…

Bungie revealed earlier this week that Season 2 of Marathon will begin on June 2. Ahead of the new season’s start, the studio has released a massive blog post detailing plans for Season 2 and beyond, what went wrong with Season 1, what went well, and more. Perhaps the biggest surprise in the post is the news that Bungie will implement experimental PvE modes in Marathon during Season 2. In a section of the blog post titled “More Options To Chill And New Survival Experiences,” Bungie says it is looking to evolve Marathon as a whole to be an experience where…

Microsoft apparently has plans for a new Xbox controller. But this one seems different from what we’ve come to know from the brand. Rather than being a typical refresh, a Tecnoblog report found that Microsoft is working on a compact controller that could be focused on the Xbox Cloud Gaming. It’s not just the design that’s getting a touch-up, as the leak documents also suggest improved connectivity for a cloud-first setup. What will the new Xbox controller look like? Images that were revealed in the leak show a more compact-looking controller that appears smaller than the traditional Xbox Wireless Controller.…

Professor Harry Everhart may have survived the cosmic horror that plagued him while he was trapped on that accursed Pacific island in Call of the Sea, but he still suffers from ominous visions decades later. Elsewhere, university student Evangeline Drayton has similarly bizarre dreams of a life and civilization beyond her understanding. When fate brings these two together, it leads to an intriguing and fun mystery centered on solving puzzles that bend the mind and reality itself.Like its 2020 predecessor, Call of the Elder Gods challenges players to solve elaborate environmental puzzles using observational and deductive skills, with no small…

If you have ever stared at a long list of options and felt your brain just give up, you are not alone. Researchers at Cornell University get it, and they have built a tool called Interactive Explainable Ranking (IER) that steps in right at that moment, not to decide for you, but to quietly point out when your choices do not match the values you care about. How does this tool actually work? IER doesn’t hand over decisions to AI but uses it to make sure your decisions actually make sense. Think of it like a reality check for your…