Sam Altman’s PR Team Desperately Tries To Shut Down Questions Over ChatGPT Encouraging Suicide
In an interview with Vanity Fair, the OpenAI chief has no good answers
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Rockstar Explains How It Actually Makes A Game Like GTA 6
Working on one chunk at a time, for years and years and years, apparently
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Here’s What Capcom Said About Using Generative AI In The RE Engine: ‘AI Is Not A Replacement For Humans’
Capcom want to evolve RE Engine into an engine for the AI generation, but not turn it into an engine powered by generative AI over humans
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Senua Studio Ninja Theory Begins Letting People Go After Two Deals To Save The Studio Fell Through
'It’s incredibly sad knowing that we won’t get to finish what we were working on'
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Zelda and Banjo Recompiled Devs Go To War With AI Vibe-Coded ‘Slopcomps’
AI-assisted projects provoking stark criticism
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Let’s Play Through Kingdom Hearts Together (No, Seriously)
Kingdom Hearts IV is around a year away, so what if we all played through the series again?
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Lanterns Season 2 In Early Development And There Are Plenty Of Ways For Hal Jordan To Come Back
Kyle Chandler's performance might be too good to leave in the past
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GTA 6 Shows 'What the American Dream Looks Like Now' in a Game Without Background Characters
From what we've seen so far about Grand Theft Auto 6, it looks like one of the biggest open-world games in history. When developers have to create such sprawling virtual environments, there's a risk of them feeling empty or repetitive, but that doesn't seem to be the case with…
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31 Years Later, One of the Most Disturbing Thrillers Ever Made Is Officially Free on Streaming
Released in 1995, Ice Cream Man is the type of so-bad-it's-good horror movie that rarely gets made in the post-Get Out era where the genre is taken much more seriously. Directed by pornographer Paul Norman, who hoped this was his pivot to kid-friendly horror flicks, Ice Cream…
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Prime Video's Reacher Is Officially Returning This Month After a Stellar Season 4
If there’s one thing Reacher fans can count on, it’s that Jack Reacher is never gone for very long. The Prime Video series has turned Lee Child’s wandering ex-military cop into one of TV’s most reliably entertaining action heroes. With season 4 now finished and a new spin-off in…
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Stephen Colbert's Lord of the Rings Movie Still in Development after Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
On Oct. 4, rumors emerged that Stephen Colbert's Lord of the Rings project, which the TV host revealed in March 2026, was "paused" as a consequence of the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. The story was reported by Knight Edge Media, but it seems that Lord of the Rings fans can…
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21 Years Ago, a Brilliant Sci-Fi Series Changed TV Forever With One Last-Minute Change
Every mystery box has the same inherent problem: Eventually, you have to open it. The questions that keep an audience obsessing over a TV show from week to week can lose their power the moment we finally get some answers. Explain too little, and viewers feel frustrated. Explain…
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5 Crucial Changes 'Legend of Vox Machina' Season 4 Made to Critical Role Campaign 1
Critical Role has never been afraid to change the events of their popular live-play Dungeons & Dragons show while adapting it for TV. That was already obvious after the first three seasons of their animated series, The Legend of Vox Machina, and it's only become more true with…
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65 Years Ago, the Most Terrifying Episode of 'The Twilight Zone' Broke All Its Own Rules
The Twilight Zone is very much a product of its time. While the celebrated anthology series continues to be deeply influential in the areas of science fiction and horror, that doesn’t change the fact that it aired from 1959 until 1965 and that, in many respects, the show is…
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25 Years Later, One of the Greatest Crime Thrillers Ever Made Is Free on Streaming
Cinema is full of high-stakes character dualities. Heatpits a veteran bank robber, McCauley (Robert De Niro), against a ruthless detective named Hanna (Al Pacino) in a cat-and-mouse game set across Los Angeles, while Michael Mann’s later Collateral forces an ordinary cabbie…
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Zelda: Ocarina of Time's Link and Epona Get Official New Lego Set
Lego and Nintendo will mark the 40th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda with a new set timed to the return of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. In 2027, Link and Epona will be memorialized with a new Lego set that captures the Hero of Time and his trusty steed in brick form.
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10 Near-Perfect Nintendo Switch Games Nobody Played
When a system has a library as diverse as the Nintendo Switch, some great games are bound to go unrecognized. There are thousands of physical titles available, and thousands more that never got more than a simple digital release. Not every game is for everyone, though. Many…
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Warner Bros. And Paramount Unveil New Name As Both Studios Restructure
James Gunn gets a boost as top Warner Bros. brass are booted in the proposed merged company, unceremoniously known as Skydance
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