Microsoft Gives ‘Voluntary Exit Offer’ To 60,000 Employees, Roughly 25 Percent Of Its Total Workforce
The cuts come amid a heated AI race
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'Public Access Afterworld' Is a Brilliant Mess That 'Camp Miasma' Fans Need to Read ASAP
As a follower of Schoenbrun’s work, I can’t help but know so much about them. I know that they used to work as a film critic before directing and writing movies. I know that they’re trans, and that their work is in constant conversation with that identity. It has propelled them…
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Now That The Shoe Is On The Other Foot, Microsoft And Epic Games Suddenly Agree That AI Is Theft
Rules for thee, but not for me
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Pokémon Fans, Here’s Your Post-Work Viewing For The Night
The real shame of theater is that you usually have to be in one city to see it, but not anymore
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The Fans Trying To Save Mass Effect Just Paid For A Billboard In Times Square
The group’s petition to keep BioWare’s series alive just surpassed 200,000 signatures
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Pokémon Pokopia DLC 2 Leaks Reveal New Pokémon and More
Pokémon Pokopia offers new ways for players to interact with their favorite Pocket Monsters. Instead of capturing and battling Pokémon, players talk with them and build them homes. It's an early Nintendo Switch 2 hit, and, unsurprisingly, Pokémon Pokopia received a new DLC…
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Final Fantasy And Chrono Trigger Veterans Believe Modern Developers Must Possess Skill To Take An Idea ‘From 0 To 1’ In The Age Of AI
Yoshinori Kitase and other Square Enix creatives also reflected on the SNES development of the Mana series
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Steam Client Stuck On ‘Loading User Data’? Yeah, That Happens Sometimes
There's a workaround, but as usual, waiting it out might be the best policy
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Phantom Blade Zero Reviews Call It An ‘Incredibly Well Tuned’ Adventure With ‘Brilliant Weapon Design’
It's currently rated the best action game of 2026
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Epic Boss Tim Sweeney Calls Steam’s AI Declarations ‘Political’ And ‘Abhorrent’
The CEO describes revealing the use of genAI slop as a forced 'political statement'
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Hackers Begin Dumping Nintendo Switch 2 Games As Expanded Exploit Breaks Console Security
New exploit allows for game dumps, but will probably be patched soon
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Mass Effect 5 Director Says One Day Fans May Get Explanations For All Those Cryptic Teasers
There was a reason Liara was crawling around derelict Reapers
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27 Years Ago, 'Buffy the Vampire' Unleashed an Impossibly Good Season, and Broke the Fandom
Buffy the Vampire Slayer was no exception. The show's first season was mixed at best, as the cast and writers all struggled to find their footing. Yet Buffy season 2 easily has one of the finest batches of episodes in television history, largely thanks to the introduction of…
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Amazon's Fourth Wing Show Reportedly Set to Start Filming Soon
Fourth Wing went viral on BookTok in 2023, amassing fans all over the world. These thousands of avid readers are anticipating Amazon's adaptation of their favorite romantasy series. As more details come out, it's clear that it is close to leaving pre-production. Recent reports…
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D&D's Japanese Rival Sword World Crowdfunding Raises Over $2 million in a Day
Japan's most popular fantasy tabletop role-playing game, Sword World RPG, is finally live on BackerKit with its first official English localization. Courtesy of Mugen Gaming, a company that specializes in localizing Japanese tabletop games, the Sword World RPG campaign is…
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Beloved Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck Voice Eric Bauza Passes Away at 46
On the evening of Oct. 25, it was announced that prolific, Emmy-winning voice actor Eric Bauza suddenly passed away at age 46 from hypertensive heart disease. A notice was posted to his Instagram reading:
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10 Best 'Star Trek: Original Series' Episodes of All Time, Ranked
Ask 10 Star Trek fans to name the best episodes from The Original Series , and you're likely to get 10 completely different lists. Some will prioritize the writing, others the performances or the science-fiction concepts. And inevitably, somebody will argue that "The City on the…
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Eric Bauza, The Voice Of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, And Many More Has Died At 46
The actor’s family said he passed ‘suddenly’
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