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Culture

Final Fantasy and Star Wars face the same problem, says former Square Enix exec

Former Square Enix business director Jacob Navok has argued that Final Fantasy and Star Wars share a common issue: their core fans are aging while the pipeline of new, younger fans is small. He shared a Variety report that the latest Mandalorian and Grogu movie has struggled at the box

Culture

YouTuber Enters Rockstar North Lobby; Police Allegedly Called

A YouTuber who makes videos about Grand Theft Auto 6 filmed himself entering Rockstar North’s office lobby and says local police were called. The creator, German YouTuber ÜberGaming, posted the video on June 2 showing him entering the lobby after staying in a luxury hotel across the street. The

Culture

Blade Runner's Biggest Omission: Mercerism from the Book

Even after its 1982 box-office flop, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner grew into a cult classic. Having read Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? before watching the film, the writer found the two works strikingly different: the movie borrows the basic premise but trims

Culture

Netflix's 2-Part Assassin Thriller Quietly Fixed What John Wick Couldn't

Bob Odenkirk was an unusual choice to lead an action franchise, but Nobody's 2021 success proved he could shoot, stab, and mangle bad guys with the best of them. Nobody 2 underperformed at the box office compared with the first film, yet delivered arguably more — and gorier — mayhem,

Health

The doctor who mends broken brains

Claire was brought to the ward on a stretcher and hoisted onto a bed, curled up and unable to speak; her eyes were flat and her face expressionless. She could move her right arm a little, but her left arm and both legs were immobile. Months earlier she had collapsed

Sports

Liverpool and Man City lead chase for Hertha wonderkid

Manchester City and Liverpool have emerged as the frontrunners to sign Hertha Berlin midfielder Kennet Eichhorn after Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund stepped away from negotiations. The 16-year-old is widely expected to leave the capital this summer, but Bayern and Dortmund pulled back amid concerns over the financial package surrounding

Tech

Meta's metaverse lead quietly left four months ago

Meta's metaverse division has a new leader — again. The latest executive shuffle inside Reality Labs comes as Meta continues to scale back parts of its metaverse ambitions and pour billions into AI, raising questions about where the company's virtual-world strategy fits in its future. Gabriel Aul,

Tech

Save $150 on the 15-inch LG Gram Book

The 15-inch LG Gram Book (8GB, 512GB SSD) is on sale at Best Buy for $549.99, down from $699.99. That 23% discount takes $150 off the normal price. It runs on the Intel Core Ultra 5 Series 1 processor and weighs just 3.74 pounds with a 0.

Culture

Simon Cowell Hosts AGT Judges' Callbacks in His Garden

America's Got Talent introduces a new Judges' Callbacks round in Season 21 that sends selected acts to perform in more intimate settings — including Simon Cowell's garden. The idea began when a producer suggested each judge pick contestants they'd like to see a second

Culture

'Alaskan Bush People' star Matt Brown's cause of death revealed

An autopsy by the Okanogan County Coroner in Washington ruled the death of 'Alaskan Bush People' star Matt Brown a suicide, caused by a single penetrating gunshot wound to the head. The report noted contributing circumstances of subsequent immersion in water — a river — and that he was under

Tech

007 First Light sequels to be handled by MGM and possibly Amazon

007 First Light has been described as a strong James Bond videogame, and early appearances suggest it is a hit. Amazon Gaming general manager Jeff Gattis says more entries are expected, though who will make them remains unclear. Amazon acquired the Bond movie franchise in 2025, five years after IO

Crypto

Bitmine's Ethereum bet nears $8.9 billion paper loss as ETH falls under $1,800

Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), the largest corporate holder of ether (ETH), is facing nearly $9 billion in unrealized losses after ETH slid below $1,800 and cut the value of its large treasury. Shares of the Tom Lee-chaired company fell another 5.9% Wednesday, dipping below $17 and extending a

Business

Amazon Games may make 007 First Light sequel, James Bond boss says

007 First Light opened strongly: IO Interactive said the young Bond game sold 1.5 million copies in its first 24 hours, reaching that milestone faster than any of the studio’s Hitman titles. IO Interactive self-published First Light. Jeff Gattis, GM of gaming at Amazon, said sequels will be

Culture

Marvel's Wolverine will be a linear single-player adventure, not open world

Insomniac has confirmed Marvel's Wolverine is not an open-world or sandbox game. Game director Mike Daly said, "We did not set out to make an open world game or a sandbox game. What we really wanted was high octane, high intrigue, linear single-player adventure, and the missions

Tech

Robotaxis may not reduce traffic, Waymo data shows

Robotaxis, once the stuff of science fiction, now operate in a handful of American cities. It took just over a decade to move from the DARPA Grand Challenges to Waymo’s commercial service in California, initially with a safety driver on board. Backers point to safety: last year Waymo’s

Culture

Laufey reveal sparks 'Meanwhile' Faye meme

It hasn’t even been 24 hours since God of War Laufey was announced, and fans have already turned its premise into one of the series’ funniest jokes. Only about 20 minutes of footage has been shown, and the reveal that Laufey runs parallel to the 2018 Norse-themed reboot set

Tech

Why Bluetooth 'multipoint' often fails — and how LE Audio might help

Headphone makers often promote “multipoint” as a way to keep a headset connected to two devices at once and switch audio between them. The catch is that multipoint isn’t an official Bluetooth feature; it’s an application built on top of Bluetooth’s toolbox. "[Bluetooth multipoint] is not

Culture

George Costanza’s Best Line: “I Always Wanted to Pretend I Was an Architect”

Seinfeld’s dialogue has lodged itself in viewers’ memories, and few lines are more telling than George Costanza’s wish to be an architect. The character is by turns petty, insecure and blunt—someone who often says whatever he’s thinking while standing still in life. Season 5’s “The

Culture

Which Sci‑Fi World Would You Survive?

Take an eight-question Sci‑Fi Survival Quiz to see which universe fits your instincts: The Matrix, Mad Max, Blade Runner, Dune, or Star Wars. The questions probe how you react when the world goes wrong — whether you pull on every thread to understand a system, stockpile supplies, keep your head

Culture

How a crinkle-crankle wall reinvented the Serpentine pavilion

For 25 years the Serpentine pavilion on the green carpet of Kensington Gardens has acted as architectural haute couture, commissioning architects who had not previously built in the UK. Past pavilions ranged from Frank Gehry’s lumber-yard explosion to Peter Zumthor’s charcoal-walled hortus conclusus. This year it’s the

Sports

Real Madrid trigger Dumfries' €20m release clause as he undergoes medical

Real Madrid have officially informed Inter that they have triggered Denzel Dumfries’ €20 million release clause, and the defender is undergoing medical tests in the Netherlands while on international duty. He was suspended for the friendly against Algeria after being sent off in the previous match, providing a window for

Business

Taylor Swift's net worth reaches $2 billion

Forbes estimates Taylor Swift's net worth at $2 billion as of June 2026, making her the richest female musician in history. Her career includes 14 Grammys—including four album-of-the-year wins—a vast discography and a devoted global fan base. The bulk of her fortune came from the 21-month,

Tech

Summer Game Fest arrives amid debate over AI in games

Crystal Dynamics and Flying Wild Hog unveiled a new trailer for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis during the State of Play showcase, and fans reacted positively—"That's the Lara I remember!" Shortly after, the game's Steam page posted a content disclosure noting that "

Culture

Why Lego isn't making Pokémon minifigs (yet)

Pokémon nostalgia stretches across three decades of raising and growing monsters, but Lego’s sets have so far focused on the creatures rather than the human faces of the franchise. Pikachu, Mewtwo and Gengar appear as Lego builds, while iconic trainers such as Ash, Misty and Brock are absent from

Culture

Clint Hocking says Chaos Theory was his Splinter Cell peak

Ubisoft veteran Clint Hocking says he reached a summit with the 2005 stealth game Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and does not want to make another Splinter Cell. Hocking spent nearly 15 years at Ubisoft working on Splinter Cell, Far Cry 2 and, most recently, Assassin's Creed Hexe as