Rumor: Disney is considering fully buying out Epic Games and taking ownership of Fortnite
Fortnite is already absolutely awash with Disney IP, and the House of Mouse has already thrown $1.5B at Epic Games to help put together a “huge...
Amazon Big Spring Sale: Best Deals On Fire TV, Echo, Blink & More
Amazon is hosting its Big Spring Sale with explosive savings on hardware that, incidentally, coincides with what NASA has declared the start of the 2026 fireball season. What do the two events have in common? Not much, though the bargains include deals on Blink security cameras that could catch a streaking meteorite, which you could then play
RuneScape Dragonwilds’ Dowdun Reach is live today with new quest content and dedicated servers
As promised, RuneScape Dragonwilds’ 0.11 patch has entered the survival sandbox’s early access chat today, bearing the uncomfortable name Dowdun Reach, which either sounds like...
NASA Declares Start Of 2026 Fireball Season As Meteor Activity Intensifies
Heads up sky-gazers, fireball season is upon us! That’s according to NASA, which notes that we’re now in peak fireball season, a time period that typically runs from February through April. During that time, exceptionally bright meteor sightings can increase by 10-30%, especially around the March equinox. That date has already come and gone,
NCsoft America CEO on the MMORPG genre’s future: ‘Trends in any creative industry come back around’
Wccftech has a new interview up this week with NCsoft America CEO Jeonghee “JJ” Jin, who in her typical quirky way has more or less...
World of Warcraft’s Holly Longdale speaks to future development: ‘We want to add dazzle to it’
Recently, World of Warcraft Executive Producer Holly Longdale sat down to do one of those fluffy interviews where much was said about the future of...
PNY Scores Points With Gamers After Replacing Dead RTX 5070 With A 5070 Ti
More often than not, if an RMA makes the news cycle, it’s because something went horribly wrong. Sometimes those wrongs are corrected, like when ASUS revamped its return policy, but wouldn’t it be nice if a company got it right on the first try? Enter PNY and a surprise GPU upgrade it sent a user who owned a GeForce RTX 5070 that “died completely.”
VR multiplayer sandbox Rec Room is shutting down on June 1
It’s sad news this week for fans of the multiplayer hangout and building space Rec Room, as the developers have announced that the game is...
Starlink satellite 34343 disappears in ‘fragment creation event’ — observation ‘immediately detected tens of objects in the vicinity of the satellite after the event’
Starlink posted an update on satellite 34343, which it lost communications with on Sunday after a debris‑generation incident.
One of JavaScript’s most popular libraries compromised by hackers — Axios npm package hit in supply chain attack that deployed a cross-platform RAT
An attacker compromised the npm account of a lead Axios maintainer on March 30, and used it to publish two malicious versions of the widely used JavaScript HTTP client library.