Choose My Adventure: Taking up a big purple shield and punching every face I see in Destiny 2
Just in case the column’s title didn’t clue you in, the Void subclass for my Destiny 2 Titan character won out. It was a literal coin...
Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact Black communities in Mississippi already suffering from elevated lung disease rates
The population of the communities surrounding the Colossus 2 site, which is in the center of a lawsuit involving unpermitted natural gas turbines and pollution, is predominantly Black.
Ex-PlayStation Exec Blames Publishers For High Digital Game Prices
Sony has been catching a lot of heat from gamers after it announced its plans to no longer produce discs for games released after January 2028. One of the key complaints is the high pricing of games available in the PlayStation Store, but in an interview with Insider Gaming, a former executive pointed the finger at publishers for this dynamic.
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Torchlight: Infinite recruits players to guide souls through the afterlife in the latest season
Forget mowing lawns and babysitting to earn your off-season wages, because Torchlight: Infinite has a much more interesting profession to fill up your summer months....
Microsoft Is Finally Cleaning Up Windows 11 Search By Stripping Away Ads
Windows 11 users have long voiced their frustrations regarding the cluttered and confusing nature of the operating system’s search function. For years, pressing the Windows key and typing a query often resulted in a messy screen filled with irrelevant web links and unwanted promotional materials. Microsoft is finally listening to this feedback
MMO Business Roundup: Sony games discs, Monster Hunter Wilds’ price, and Ubisoft almost figures it out
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business news. And no, this one isn’t heaping more onto the Xbox tire fire; there are...
China claims chip exports nearly doubled to $177 billion in the first half of 2026 as memory prices surged — 96% year-on-year increase inflated by hikes
The Chinese customs administration attributed the surge to global demand for AI hardware.
RuneScape studio says this week’s housing upgrade is not a ‘one-and-done’ feature
Yesterday’s massive RuneScape housing upgrade did not go off without a hitch, meaning that Jagex is already hard at work shoring up the revised systems....
Nintendo Switch 2 May Get A Premium 1080p OLED Display Upgrade
Nintendo is considering a display upgrade for its popular Switch 2 handheld, with a move to an OLED display featuring the same 1080p resolution as the current LCD model, according to ZDNet Korea. There is no mention of a potential size increase like we saw with the original Switch OLED. Either way, don’t hold your breath waiting for an imminent
Villagers & Heroes discloses that it’s using generative AI for splash screen placeholders
Indie studio Mad Otter Games posted a memo to Villagers and Heroes fans yesterday that reads pretty much like an AI disclosure, though it’s not...