Culture

Final Fantasy Resonance: HD-2D Rebuild of a Mobile Gacha Game

Final Fantasy Resonance is being billed as the franchise’s first HD-2D entry and, unexpectedly, it’s a port of the mobile gacha game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. Square Enix says the new release is based on the mobile title’s first story arc but has been refined and extensively

Culture

'The Pitt' Confirms Another Major Exit in Season 3

Shabana Azeez has confirmed that her character Victoria Javadi will not be working in the emergency room in Season 3 of The Pitt, moving into a psychiatry rotation to focus on a career in mental health. Azeez said, "I can say that I’m not in the ER this

Culture

Sudoku 7,342 medium

Click here to access the print version. Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9. Continue reading... sudoku, sudoku 7342, medium, puzzle, print version, 3x3 box, fill grid, grid, rows, numbers 1-9

Culture

Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive?

Which Sci‑Fi World Would You Survive? The quiz lays out five universes: The Matrix, Mad Max, Blade Runner, Dune, and Star Wars. Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built

Sports

Raphinha reportedly offered four times his salary by Saudi clubs

Mundo Deportivo says the Saudi Pro League is looking to lure Raphinha from FC Barcelona by offering him four times his current net salary. Two clubs, Al-Nassr and Al-Hilal, are pursuing the 29-year-old Brazilian, with the sovereign wealth fund PIF backing both suitors. His net pay would rise from €12

AI

US desk workers are the world's biggest AI skeptics

More than half of US desk workers consider themselves AI skeptics, a level far above the global average. A Salesforce and YouGov survey of more than 1,500 desk workers across four continents finds American workers are 43% more likely than the average global worker to be skeptical. Workers in

Culture

Andy Cohen asks if West Wilson was on beta blockers at Summer House reunion

Andy Cohen asked West Wilson if he was on beta blockers during the final part of the Summer House Season 10 reunion. The question followed Jesse Solomon breaking down about possibly "losing a brother" after learning of Wilson's secret relationship with Amanda Batula, while Cohen noted

Culture

Is Overwatch's 52nd hero a robot or a human?

Overwatch's soft reboot earlier this year has kicked off more story development. Several new short stories, comics, and webcomics are building up to something big, and those pieces look necessary for figuring out what is going on with its newest hero. The trailer for Overwatch's 52nd

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Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 — a flashy, entertaining co-op shooter

With several horror-focused Alien projects in the works, Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 chooses to lean into the series’ action side. The original Fireteam Elite was underrated at launch, but the sequel expands that co-op shooter formula and could become a major multiplayer title while serving as a more action-heavy counterpart

Culture

Project a Black Planet review: theory overwhelms where it should sing

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a painter with the imagination of a great novelist. She paints fictional people not portraits — a young woman reading avidly, a man in Pierrot-like fancy clothes, another in a cool green coat. For this group of paintings she has a white-walled room to herself; her young moderns

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West Wilson says he loved Amanda Batula 'for a very, very long time'

In a preview for “Summer House: The Aftermath,” West Wilson tells Amanda Batula’s estranged husband, Kyle Cooke, that he loved her "for a very, very long time." The admission came during an emotional three-hour sitdown weeks after the reunion, after Wilson asked, "Do you want full

Tech

Destiny 2's final update draws over 164,000 players on Steam

It's the day of Destiny 2's final live service update, and players have swarmed into the shooter to celebrate the game and make their demands for Destiny 3 known. With a peak of over 164,000 Steam concurrents so far today (via SteamDB), Destiny 2 is

Culture

First look: Brad Pitt's Heart of the Beast arrives Sept. 25

First look action photos for Heart of the Beast have surfaced, and the Brad Pitt thriller is slated to arrive Sept. 25. Pitt plays James Belmont, a Special Forces officer whose plane crashes in the Alaskan wilderness, leaving him stranded with his combat dog, Odin. The film frames a survival

Culture

Fans revisit Code Veronica's campy voice acting ahead of remake

Capcom announced the Resident Evil: Code Veronica remake during Summer Game Fest 2026, prompting fans to revisit the 2000 Dreamcast original after 26 years. The reveal has renewed interest in the game's story and in whether updated gameplay and performances will change its tone. Online clips have drawn

Science

Flight Dynamics Research Facility

The Flight Dynamics Research Facility (FDRF) is a large, subsonic wind tunnel with a vertical test section for flight dynamics research, including stability, controllability, free-fall, aircraft spin and spin recovery testing of atmospheric vehicles. The FDRF will be a highly versatile and cost effective vertical wind tunnel for conducting free

Culture

Zelda: Ocarina of Time Teaser Prompts 'Hire This Man' Jokes

On June 9, during Nintendo’s Summer Game Fest–adjacent Direct, the company released a very short teaser for its remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, due on Switch 2 in 2026. The clip offered only a few seconds of Link’s new appearance. Those few seconds

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Eric Kripke Apologizes After Backlash to The Boys Finale

The Boys concluded with Season 5's eighth episode, and the series finale proved divisive. While it included several expected deaths, many viewers felt the final confrontation lacked the spectacle teased earlier and did not live up to the promised "scorched earth" showdown between Billy Butcher and

Crypto

Solana Institute urges CLARITY Act developer protections

Solana Institute CEO Kristin Smith has urged the US Senate to pass the CLARITY crypto market structure bill with developer protections intact, saying open-source developers and blockchain infrastructure providers should not be regulated as financial intermediaries. In a thread on X, Smith wrote the legislation “has a real shot at

Culture

Which Horror Villain Could You Actually Survive?

A short eight-question quiz matches your instincts and habits to one of five horror villains: Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Pennywise, or Chucky. It calculates which antagonist you have the best chance of surviving by testing how you react under pressure. Questions probe setting, first instincts, survival assets, the

Sports

Harry Kane: Christian Eriksen faces 'some decisions' after on-field collapse

Harry Kane has offered support to former Tottenham team-mate Christian Eriksen after the Denmark midfielder clutched his chest and fell during a friendly against Ukraine, an incident that echoed his cardiac arrest at Euro 2020. The England captain said he had been in touch and expressed relief that medical intervention

Business

Salesforce offers up to 30 weeks of severance to laid-off US employees

Internal documents show that eligible U.S. workers can receive up to 30 weeks of severance as the company begins another round of layoffs. Notifications began Monday and were tied to a regulatory notice in California, amid concerns that AI tools could replace traditional software such as the company’s

Culture

Howie Mandel body-slammed the Golden Buzzer for Yu Hojin's act

Magician Yu Hojin returned to America’s Got Talent for a third time on Season 21 with a new ensemble called Hundred Fingers. Dressed in black, the 10-member group—literally 100 fingers on stage—performed precise sleight-of-hand: wands, cards and feathers appeared, floated, transformed, vanished into puffs of smoke and

Culture

Jennifer Lopez wipes away tears at son Max's graduation

Jennifer Lopez was seen wiping away tears at her son Max’s high school graduation on Friday. She wore a pastel green floral dress with a gray cardigan, nude heels and carried a matching Hermès Birkin bag. In photos, Lopez embraced the 18-year-old, who wore a tie-dye shirt, tan pants

Business

Streamer receives $180,000 after long Destiny 2 loan dispute

In 2022 Jake Strauss, who streams as GernaderJake, loaned $100,000 to Evolve PCs, a boutique PC maker then owned by Destiny 2 streamer Ari "TripleWreck" Smith, to keep the business running while it awaited investment. Smith missed the January 1, 2023 repayment deadline, and later in 2023

AI

Kingdom Hearts fans allege AI use in collection's box art

Kingdom Hearts fans have raised concerns that the box art for the newly announced Kingdom Hearts Collection was AI-generated after spotting unusual illustrative quirks. Observers flagged discrepancies including Donald Duck appearing to have four fingers on one hand and five on the other, chains arranged in impossible configurations, a clock