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Four astronauts are about to embark on a historic voyage that will take them around the moon in a spacecraft about the size of a large camper van. During the Artemis II mission, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, will spend 10 days inside the Orion capsule after being blasted to space by the SLS rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, hopefully next week. As many astronauts have noted over the years, the question they’re asked more than any other is: “How do astronauts use the bathroom in…
Developer GSC Game World has revealed Cost of Hope, the first major expansion for its open-world survival shooter, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, which originally launched on Xbox and PC in 2024 before coming to PlayStation 5 last year. The team describes Cost of Hope as a massive nonlinear expansion packed with dozens of hours of gameplay in the Zone, and it launches sometime this Summer simultaneously for all versions of the game. Revealed during today’s Xbox Partner Preview with a new trailer, Cost of Hope puts players in control of Skif, the base game’s protagonist, once more to navigate events…
Online dating apps have long been dominated by “the swipe,” but as the digital landscape evolves, people are demanding more from the dating platforms. Individuals are no longer satisfied with just scrolling and swiping on potential partners. The action is increasingly seen as repetitive and gamified, and doesn’t feel meaningful to users. Because of the low stakes, some users aren’t as invested in the process, resulting in common frustrations like ghosting and stalled conversations. Dating apps are entering a post-swipe phase in response to the cultural shift, with some platforms beginning to introduce AI agents that take a more active role in how interactions unfold, such…
Ghost of Yōtei was both Game Informer and one of my own favorite games of last year. The single player campaign is dense and often solitary by design. Atsu spends a lot of time alone, pushing even those who want to get close to her away. The new Legends mode, which released March 10, is not a lonely experience. Like Tsushima’s similarly titled Legends mode, it is a full campaign of levels that can be played with others. The amount of additional game on offer is impressive, even more so when you consider that it is all free for Ghost of…
After analyzing 10 million webpages, researchers have found thousands of websites accidentally exposing sensitive API credentials, including keys linked to major services like Amazon Web Services, Stripe, and OpenAI. This is a serious issue because APIs act as the backbone of the apps we use today. They allow websites to connect to services like payments, cloud storage, and AI tools, but they rely on digital keys to stay secure. Once exposed, API keys can allow anyone to interact with those services with malicious intent. Sensitive API keys exposed across thousands of sites According to TechXplore, the researchers identified 1,748 unique…
Today’s Xbox Partner Showcase revealed a new trailer for The Eternal Life of Goldman, a beautiful 2D platformer by Weappy Studio, developer of This is the Police and Rebel Cops. Additionally, we learned the anticipated game will launch day one on Game Pass.The Eternal Life of Goldman centers on the titular Goldman, a cane-bearing elderly adventurer who travels to a mystical set of islands called the Archipelago to kill an entity known as the Deity. Featuring hand-drawn, hand-animated art evocative of ‘70s-’90s animation and inspired by European folklore, the game channels classic platformers such as Ducktales in its gameplay. Goldman…
Apple rolled out iOS 26.4 recently, and while your iPhone got several upgrades, CarPlay quietly had one of its best days in years. The latest iPhone updates bring two meaningful features that can change the way you use CarPlay on your car’s infotainment screen. Would you use ChatGPT while driving? Apple’s iOS 26.4 unlocks support for a brand-new category of apps in CarPlay: voice-based conversational apps. AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Claude will now be able to extend their iPhone apps to CarPlay for hands-free voice conversations, as soon as developers update their apps to support it. The…
Last year, Hades II and Dispatch were among the most critically acclaimed games. Hades II landed at number 2 on Game Informer’s list of the best games of 2025, while Dispatch was one of the final titles cut from that top 10 list. However, they also have another thing in common: Neither came to Xbox last year. That is changing very soon, as both Supergiant Games and AdHoc Studio announced their critical and fan-favorite games are coming to Microsoft’s gaming platform in the next few months.In Hades II, you take control of Melinoë as you journey through the underworld to…
You know that moment when AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude suddenly lose the plot mid-conversation and start hallucinating like they’re absolutely sure they’re right? Yeah…it’s equal parts funny and painfully annoying. My usual reaction is switching between apps, hoping one of them gets it right. But the real problem is that I have to start over every single time. It feels like I’m stuck in a loop explaining my life story to different AIs, one after the other. Now with Gemini, I can now jump in from other AI apps without that whole reset conversation. Finally, the Google…
Vaunted is one of the world premieres from today’s Xbox Partner Preview and comes from upstart studio Lost Lake Games. This team consists of former developers behind strategy hits like StarCraft and Guild Wars, and is channeling that expertise into its debut strategy title.The game takes place in a galaxy ruled by chaos, following the collapse of a galactic empire a millennium ago. Mercenaries and treasure hunters dominate the cosmos and regularly clash over the pursuit of priceless imperial relics. This includes the dysfunctional team treasure hunters Dyse, Gendril, and Kyvaath, who players will control in their quest to find…