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The Blood of Dawnwalker's controversial time mechanic won't necessarily be in a sequel, the game director says
The Blood of Dawnwalker director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz has told me the game's divisive time mechanic - which gives you a limited amount of time to…
IllustrationGo 1.27 is released
Go 1.27 adds generic methods, encoding/json/v2 package, uuid package, faster memory allocation, goroutine leak profiles, and more.
Character Development and Storytelling in Kernel Hearts, Out Now on XBOX
Kernel Hearts is an action RPG about magical girls fighting angels to save the world, but it’s so much more than a punchy soundbite can explain.
Creators on Capitol Hill: Launching the Senate Creators Caucus
YouTube Creators join the launch of the bipartisan Senate Creators Caucus, co-chaired by Senators Cory Booker and John Kennedy.
Cisco warns of max severity ISE zero-day exploited in attacks
Cisco has released security updates to address a maximum-severity Identity Services Engine vulnerability that attackers are actively exploiting in…
Five Years of Solo Development – Interview with Fountains Creator John Pywell
Fountains is a solo-developed Metroidvania inspired by Dark Souls and Hollow Knight, built over five years by creator John Pywell.
Gears of War: E-Day Has Gone Gold, Pre-Install Begins September 29, Full PC Specifications Revealed
Today, I’m proud to share that Gears of War: E-Day has officially gone gold, marking a major milestone for the team as we enter the final stretch…
(PR) Alphacool Releases the ES PCIe Slot Bracket
Alphacool International GmbH, based in Braunschweig, Germany, is a pioneer in the field of PC water-cooling technology.
(PR) Philips Unveils Evnia 34M2C8600P Ultrawide Curved Gaming Monitor With 5th Gen QD-OLED Panel and 280 Hz Refresh Rate
Philips Evnia introduces the 34M2C8600P, a 34-inch (86.4 cm) curved ultrawide gaming monitor that combines 5th Gen QD-OLED picture quality with a…
Wardogs is the only FPS where I actually expect to get revived
Bribe or no bribe, people want to help in Wardogs.
Ubuntu 26 generally available and latest migration
The Ubuntu 26.04 runner image for GitHub Actions is now out of public preview and fully supported for production workflows on both x64 and arm64.
World of Warcraft: Forever players are reliving 2004 with hour-long queue times to get into the highly-anticipated beta
Blizzard says it's working on getting everyone in as soon as possible.
(PR) CORSAIR Launches Updated Nautilus II AIO CPU Coolers and Upgraded RS II Fans
Corsair (Nasdaq: CRSR) is excited to announce the launch of powerful second-generation cooling hardware with NAUTILUS II all-in-one liquid CPU…
Free Play Days – Sea of Thieves and Hell Let Loose Vietnam
Time to clear the flank and walk the plank with Free Play Days! Hell Let Loose is available on XBOX and PC this weekend for XBOX Game Pass Ultimate,…
The AI Superintelligence Slowdown
Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too.
Denuvo is on the hunt for DRM cracker 'voices38' as the company attempts to take one of its biggest foes to court
Step one: Finding out who "voices38" is.
Workflow execution protections in GitHub Actions generally available
Workflow execution protections for GitHub Actions, previously in public preview, are now generally available for GitHub Enterprise, organizations,…
Intel Granite Rapids WS vs. AMD Threadripper Zen 5 SMT Performance
As a follow-up to the article earlier this month of the Intel Xeon 600 workstation performance against AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series in over 400…
‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People
Flock ran searches for “coexist bumper sticker,” “white truck with a trump sticker,” and “Star of David,” apparently to demonstrate what cops…
What we’ve learned from Microsoft’s own AI transformation
AI is reshaping work faster than any organization has fully mastered. Across industries, the conversation has shifted from what AI can do to how…
Brandon Sanderson Says He 'Would Love to' Create Tabletop Adaptations of His Cytoverse Books
Brandon Sanderson has been heavily invested in making tabletop adaptations of his Cosmere books.
Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud
The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of…
'Midnight Reckoning' quest walkthrough in The Blood of Dawnwalker
Here's how to escape the trap in The Blood of Dawnwalker's "Midnight Reckoning" quest, and what happens if you side with Brencis
Intel squeezed a 1.58-bit LLM down to 1.485 bits without changing a single weight
The 1.58 in a 1.58-bit language model sounds like a hard limit, but Intel researchers pushed a ternary model below
The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI
As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and at…
Wardogs Is Officially One of the Best FPS Games of the Decade
Wardogs, the latest FPS from Bulkhead, is still in early access, but it already feels like a revolutionary take on the genre.
Zero Parades: Director's Cut will challenge you to drive a stolen truck through a busy roundabout while stoned out of your mind
The Director's Cut is coming as a free update in October.
Brevo supply-chain attack injected ClickFix scripts on customer sites
Brevo confirmed that attackers stole a Cloudflare API key and used it to inject malicious ClickFix scripts into its websites and JavaScript files…
Is the AI safety debate about safety or control?
Not everyone agrees with Amodei's call for globally coordinated action for AI safety.
Cute Critters Come to the Cloud: ‘Aniimo’ Launches on GeForce NOW
A new creature-catching adventure is ready to stream from the cloud this week.
Firefox 156 Launched With 45% Faster PDF Reader and Improvements to Online Media Viewing
Mozilla has officially updated Firefox, releasing version 156 for macOS, Windows, and Linux and adding several improvements to the open-source…
Don’t sleep on No Law: It has the potential to be one of 2027’s most stunning games
The open-world cyberpunk FPS impressed us more than any other title at Gamescom
UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents
The shift comes after a UNICEF test found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statistics.
Get Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade Switch 2 Edition for Under $9 by Following This 1 Easy Step
We're getting close to wrapping up this trilogy.
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content,…
New R-Rated Survival Sci-Fi Officially Crowned Highest-Rated Video Game Adaptation Ever
Zach Cregger's 'Resident Evil' adaptation has the highest Rotten Tomatoes rating for a movie based on a game.
Diablo 4's anniversary event brings back the game's most iconic location, and boy that music is sending me
Tristram is back, baby, and the level of detail Blizzard has put into this recreation is genuinely impressive.
Affinity Ships a Major Update With Over 60 New Features
Last year, Affinity combined three separate apps into a single, free super app for creators that, like Affinity Photo before it, has become a vital…
Twitch CEO says GTA 6 multiplayer will launch in 2027
That soon? Twitch CEO Dan Clancy sounds pretty sure of it.
Save $30 or more on a refurbished Apple TV 4K
Most hardware prices have soared in 2026, and that includes a variety of Apple laptops, tablets, and smart devices.
Inside the lab where the Arm AGI CPU is brought to life
We travel to the Arm ATE lab to see what goes into bringing up a new Arm server processor, the Arm AGI CPU. It is lab tour time!
Logitech Ships Unreleased X3 Superstrike Mouse Instead of X2 Superstrike
It's no secret by now that Logitech is planning to launch an update to the G Pro X2 Superstrike, even though the peripheral-maker has yet to actually…
What time are the Kingdom Hearts power hours in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4?
Here's what time the Kingdom Hearts power hours are in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4, in your time zone.
Watch Point It Out! Episode 4, the Big Blizzcon Breakdown
On the latest episode of Point It Out!, Polygon's SImone de Rochefort and Giovanni Colantonio unpack an announcement-filled Blizzcon.
University Rescinds Job Offer to Activist Who Allegedly Wiped Phone Before DHS Could Search It
Samuel Tunick allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before CBP officials could search it, in what has become a high profile civil liberties case.
Microsoft Brings Windows 11 Auto SR to Intel Core Ultra Series 3-Based PCs
Microsoft is expanding the availability of Auto SR (Super Resolution) to Copilot+ PCs based on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors. com.
Tokyo Game Show 2026: Bill Skarsgård Cast as Lead Role in PHYSINT
Just when it appeared that the XBOX Tokyo Game Show 2026 Broadcast had come to a close, legendary game creator Hideo Kojima arrived with one more…
Microsoft Announces Copilot + OneDrive Event on October 20
Microsoft will be holding a Copilot + OneDrive digital event on October 20, 2026 to discuss how its cloud storage service is “evolving for the AI…
Faraday Blues: Rewrite Your Family’s Fate Across Three Shattered Realities
Hi, I’m Zhenghua Yang (Z), Founder of Serenity Forge and Game Director on Faraday Blues.
Can you name the game this game-within-a-game is from?
If an RPG doesn't have a card game in it, do I even want to play?
Brandon Sanderson Reveals Why He’d Never Take Over Game of Thrones
The author of the Stormlight Archive has no plans to finish George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and fire series
Contest to Open for Ed Sheeran Flooded With Free Palestine Videos and Fart Memes
Guitar Center's 'Open for Legends' contest page was seemingly unmoderated for hours on Wednesday.
Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave: Best story protagonist to choose first, ranked
Which of the four Flame Lord protagonist stories you should play first in Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave
Waymo restarts San Antonio service 5 months after flooding troubles
The company suspended service in the city in April after one of its robotaxis got swept away.
“Be transparent only if asked”: OpenAI’s models learned to leave notes for their future selves
OpenAI revealed Wednesday evening that some GPT-5.6 Sol model instances, during reinforcement learning (RL) training, wrote instructions to conceal…
(PR) Razer Unveils the Tartarus V2 Pro
Razer, the leading global lifestyle brand for gamers, today announced the Razer Tartarus V2 Pro, the next evolution of its Tartarus gaming keypad…
Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 4 ISOs Published
The fourth monthly-ish snapshot of Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" is now available for testing and comes ahead of next week's Ubuntu 26.10 beta…
GitHub and Anthropic used their own agents for major Rust rewrites — with very different playbooks
Rust is seemingly the language of the moment, with open-source projects and companies forming an orderly queue to move core
NVIDIA DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Now Runs in a Web Browser Via WebGPU
A developer going by MAAN has demonstrated NVIDIA DLSS 5 Neural Rendering running inside a web browser using WebGPU, and according to their post on…
Proposal Raised To Finally Standardize Video Memory Stats Reporting Under Linux
The idea has been talked about before but in 2026 still hasn't made it to the mainline Linux kernel....