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Marathon is Bungie’s highly-anticipated extraction shooter, and the company just dropped a new gameplay overview trailer and a release date: September 23, 2025. You take the role of a Runner, a cybernetic humanoid whose goal is to explore the ruins of the planet of Tau Ceti IV and uncover its secrets — and walk away with as much loot as you can carry. The reveal was unlocked through an alternate reality game, where thousands of community members all cooperated to find the date. For long-time Bungie fans, that shouldn’t come as a surprise; Halo 2 was announced in a similar…

Table of Contents Table of Contents Microsoft generates Quake II Claude “plays” Pokémon Red As AI tools improve, we keep getting encouraged to offload more and more complex tasks to them. LLMs can write our emails for us, create presentations, design apps, generate videos, search the internet and summarize the results, and so much more. One thing they’re still really struggling with, however, is video games. So far this year, two of the biggest names in AI (Microsoft and Anthropic) have tried to get their models to generate or play games, and the results are probably a lot more limited…

Now that its first season is in the books, we keep getting more evidence that The Pitt was a bona fide hit for Max. Variety is reporting that the hospital drama averaged 10 million viewers across the first 14 episodes of its first season, according to Warner Bros. Discovery. This number is the average number of people who watched the show both when it premiered and in the days afterward, as opposed to on the day of each episode’s release. WBD also said that the first episode has now hit 16.2 million viewers and that each episode has outperformed the previous one in…

Table of Contents Table of Contents Why was it a dire situation? A huge relief for consumers  If you have lately been concerned about an imminent — and meteoric – rise in the price of electronics such as iPhones, laptops, and PC components, you can breathe a sigh of relief. The US government has granted an exemption to a wide range of electronics items from the heavy tariffs it has imposed on China over the past few weeks. Why was it a dire situation? The US government recently slapped heavy tariffs on multiple countries in Asia and Europe, including China.…

Table of Contents Table of Contents What AI can change for Netflix search? Why am I excited about it? There’s a running joke in the streaming world. By the time you decide what to watch, the snacks are over, or the mood is gone. Netflix even launched a tool called “Play Something” to end the meaningless catalog scrolling. But an inherent part of the problem is also the platform’s bad search system.  For years, users have complained about the algorithmic recommendation system’s tendency to repeat listings, while the lack of a proper sort and filter system only worsens the situation.…

Table of Contents Table of Contents Games and rehabilitation How does the eJamar platform work? Why are games ideal for rehabilitation? The future outlook  When one thinks of virtual reality (VR) and video games, the first thing that pops up in the mind is recreational digital experiences. Over the past few years, however, we have seen increasing interest in VR headset-driven workout routines. The applications, however, go far beyond. Earlier this year, neuroscientists detailed a platform that can help with early detection of Alzheimer’s disease.  VR-based therapeutic programs are also being used to help people cope with post-surgery pain. Doctors are…

As a writer and director, Alex Garland is used to inviting audiences into his distinct worlds, ranging from a zombie apocalypse (28 Days Later) and dystopian United States (Civil War) to a post-nuclear wasteland (Dredd) and an alien-infested environment (Annihilation). For his new war film, Garland entered a world that belonged to a former soldier, Ray Mendoza. The result was Warfare, an immersive new war film from writer-directors Garland and Mendoza. The film’s ensemble features D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai as Mendoza, with Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Joseph Quinn, Noah Centineo, and Charles Melton. Warfare follows a group of Navy SEALs on a surveillance…

The New York Times has introduced the next title coming to its Games catalog following Wordle’s continued success — and it’s all about math. Digits has players adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers. You can play its beta for free online right now. In Digits, players are presented with a target number that they need to match. Players are given six numbers and have the ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide them to get as close to the target as they can. Not every number needs to be used, though, so this game should put your math skills to the…

A major outage on Saturday morning caused Unified Payments Interface (UPI) services to stop working across India, affecting thousands of customers. The UPI services on multiple platforms, like Paytm, PhonePe, Google Pay, Bhim, and more, were disrupted due to this outage. Moreover, it also extended to major financial institutions like HDFC Bank, State Bank of India, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and more. Multiple users across the country reported that they could not transact using UPI. This also marks the fourth disruption of UPI services within a month.UPI Services Down in IndiaAs per the latest data available on DownDetector, more than 2,000…

Table of Contents Table of Contents What is AGI?  An unpredictable timeline The potential of AGI development Artificial intelligence (AI) may soon have a mind of its own, and many companies want to make that happen as soon as possible. Whether this is plausible remains to be seen; however, if achieved, we could move from the AI age to the AGI age in record time.  The AI explosion of recent years may seem sudden to many, but the industry has been in constant development for several decades. As technology goes on, the evolution of AI has been rapid, and many…