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In our latest and sanest episode of The Game Informer Show, it’s time for the crew to dodge zombies, mix herbs, and slot gemstones into strange doors. It’s Resident Evil Requiem week, and everyone’s been playing it in some fashion, so Marcus, Wes, Charles, and Eric spend the first half of the show talking through all of it.After the break, we get into our favorite Steam Next Fest demos, from Star Fox-alikes and Disco Elysium-alikes to a game where an egg is mightier than the gourd. And we close things out with Marcus teaching us all a little bit about…

After playing Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege (now Siege X) on PC for nearly a decade, I’ve seen metas rise and fall, operators get nerfed to irrelevance, and some baffling changes from Ubisoft. But despite many controversial updates, R6S remains one of the most profitable games under the studio’s umbrella. So when Rainbow Six Mobile was announced, it didn’t seem like something I’d be interested in. Translating such a mechanic-rich experience to an accessible form seemed like a Herculean task. Mobile shooters usually follow a familiar formula that involves sprinting towards the nearest enemies for a gunfight. While that’s a…

This article was originally published on December 4, 2017The Resident Evil franchise has a storied and well-documented history, but here’s something that you might not know: development on Capcom’s campy horror game originally began on the Super NES.While visiting Capcom for our recent cover story on Mega Man 11, we chatted with director Koji Oda, who was originally hired to work at Capcom in 1991 on games like Super Ghouls ‘n’ Ghosts and The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse.“Honestly, I feel like I joined the game industry at the best time,” says Oda. “Typically, games would take half a year…

A24 pulled back the curtain to The Backrooms, teasing an unsettling, must-see sci-fi horror movie from director Kane Parsons. Based on Parsons’s web series of the same name, The Backrooms follows a psychiatrist who ventures into an alternate, maze-like dimension to rescue a patient. The film stars Chiwetel Ejiofor (The Life of Chuck, Doctor Strange), Renate Reinvsve (Sentimental Value), Mark Duplass (Creep), Finn Bennett (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms), Lukita Maxwell (Shrinking), and Avan Jogia (56 Days). This horror movie is Parsons’ feature-film debut as a director, the youngest in A24’s history. However, The Backrooms has already presented itself…

The hype around Grand Theft Auto 6 continues to build, and an alleged former Rockstar Games employee has added to the high expectations with a fresh rumor. The new set of potential features suggests that GTA 6 might raise the bar on realism in ways that go beyond graphics alone. GTA 6 NPCs are the biggest leap forward One of the biggest claims in the Reddit leak centers around NPC behavior and interaction. Building on the systems introduced in Red Dead Redemption 2, the upcoming game will allegedly expand NPC interaction in a major way. Players can now have basic…

A new investigation from The New York Times reveals how quickly YouTube floods feeds with bizarre AI-generated videos aimed at the youngest viewers. After a single CoComelon video, more than 40 percent of the recommended Shorts in a 15-minute session contained synthetic visuals. The algorithm pushes content from channels claiming to teach toddlers about the alphabet and animals. But the clips themselves are often nonsensical, featuring warped faces, extra body parts and garbled text. None run longer than 30 seconds. Experts say that format leaves no room for repetition or narrative structure, both essential for young children learning from media.…

Microsoft just turned its AI assistant into someone who actually clocks in. Copilot Tasks, a research preview announced today, stops the chitchat and starts doing multi-step work while you focus on other things. No more generating text you still have to act on. This version books, cancels, unsubscribes, and tracks stuff across the web with its own browser. You describe what needs doing. It figures out the rest. The shift is simple but significant. Chatbots gave us answers. Copilot Tasks aims to give us completed items from the to-do list. Microsoft is letting a small group try it today, with…

Samsung’s bold experiments with radical foldable phone designs, like the ultra-slim flagship Galaxy S25 Edge and its first triple-folding device, may not see a traditional yearly release. An executive has revealed that the company remains uncommitted to launching more insanely pricey smartphones anytime soon. Why the next TriFold isn’t a given During an interview with Bloomberg, Won-Joon Choi, chief operating officer of Samsung’s Mobile Experience Business, said the brand is skeptical about successors for the Galaxy S25 Edge and Galaxy Z TriFold. The sales of these devices lagged behind expectations compared with their more mainstream models like the Galaxy S…

University of Washington researchers built a smartphone app that tracks fetal heart rate as accurately as clinic tools. No extra hardware, no gel, just the phone’s own speaker and microphone. It’s called DopFone. The system plays an 18kHz tone and listens for the echo. A machine learning model estimates the heart rate from subtle shifts in that reflected sound. In a study of 23 pregnant patients, the app landed within about 2 beats per minute of a medical-grade Doppler. That’s well inside the 8 BPM margin doctors accept. The idea is to give more people access to regular fetal monitoring…

If you’re thinking about upgrading to Samsung’s new Galaxy S26 series, you don’t have to wait until the release date and drop serious cash to get a feel for what it’s like. Samsung is letting you get a taste of its next-gen flagships with a new web-based interactive experience. This clever virtual try-before-you-buy tool is for curious buyers who want hands-on familiarity before pulling the trigger on the pricey upgrade. What is TryGalaxy and how does it work? The TryGalaxy platform from Samsung isn’t a full emulator or downloadable app. It is just a mobile-optimized web experience designed to run…