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Epic Games ran a Discord-based alternate reality game in the 48 hours before this article’s publication, seeding Fortnite’s upcoming Chapter 7 Season 4 with coded transmissions that the community decoded one franchise at a time — and the reveal that generated the most reaction was not the iconic hedgehog or the Tokyo Phantom Thief. It…

Streaming service Twitch has introduced an account setting that allows users to opt out of having their channel content used to train Amazon’s generative AI models. By default, this option is enabled for all users, and the platform has only announced the ability to opt out.

Atlus dropped an official Persona 5 teaser trailer for Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4 on Wednesday, confirming Joker’s Fortnite skin and completing the most stacked daily reveal sequence in Fortnite’s live-service history. The confirmation arrives seven days before Override launches on August 20, 2026 — and it seals a lineup that includes two collabs nobody…

PC gamers after a new open-world adventure can now pick up this 88% positive-rated title from 2024 for free.

Mixed reality has a credibility problem, and it is mostly the fault of the demos. Punch a cartoon hole in your wall, watch some robots pour out, take the headset off after eleven minutes. Plenty of Quest 3 games technically support passthrough while treating your living room as wallpaper. The eight below do not. In…

Christy Knowings, an actress and singer known for Nickelodeon’sAll That,has died at age 46.

The August VR Games Showcase ran this morning at 11 AM PT, and it was the biggest one the show has put on. Twenty-three games in the main event, six more in the pre-show. Plenty of it was the usual healthy churn of release dates and gameplay trailers. Then Flat2VR Studios closed out with System…

Rolling Loud: The Movie, which is loosely based on a true story involving director Jeremy Garelick, has been given a red band trailer — watch it above.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) – An investigation into child sexual abuse on Roblox has been launched.

This past February, my friend Stari asked me two questions: “Do you like Umamusume?” followed immediately by “Would you go see a movie with me?” My answers were “I only know that it exists lol” and, after a couple follow-up questions, “Putting it on my calendar now!!” At the time, I had no idea what…