The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics
The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics

Like many people, director Valerie Veatch was intrigued when OpenAI first released its Sora text-to-video generative AI model to the public in 2024. Though she didn’t fully understand the technology, she was curious about what it could do, and she saw that other artists were building online communities to share their new AI creations. The […]

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 202 — Artemis Imminent

On Episode 202 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Mike Wall, the spaceflight and tech editor at Space.com, to bring us up to date on all the latest Artemis news.

Oeuf is a punishing platformer in a cozy shell
Oeuf is a punishing platformer in a cozy shell

The funny shape of eggs is the curious lifeblood of Oeuf, the new physics platformer by prolific developer Increpare Games. In a gaming landscape saturated with complex systems dropped into simple games, that grapples with metaphor within straightforward narratives, and that is desperate to bring cinematic sensibilities into gaming, Oeuf only asks that you briefly […]

‘I’ve tasted blood, I’ve worn it’ — how The Pitt season 2 prepped Shawn Hatosy for the guts and gore of Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

We’re treated to double helpings of Shawn Hatosy this week in The Pitt season 2 and Ready or Not 2, and his time in the ER was the weirdest kind of preparation possible.

Would you like to know more about ‘Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!’? Developer Auroch Digital has the answers (interview)

The latest Starship Troopers video game knows where its strengths lie and packs a couple of neat twists that set it apart from its predecessors.

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come review — the sequel is convoluted and full of carnage, but saved by star power

Ready or Not 2 may seem like a pointless sequel but it’s worth watching to see the cast having the time of their lives.

A new Nintendo Switch 2 could be the poster child for replaceable batteries
A new Nintendo Switch 2 could be the poster child for replaceable batteries

Nintendo plans to release a Switch 2 revision in the European Union that will let users replace their own batteries, Nikkei reports. The current version of the Switch 2 has a glued-in battery. But Nintendo apparently plans to make the change in order to comply with EU rules going into effect in February 2027 that […]

Love Project Hail Mary? Here are the Andy Weir books you need to read

Has Project Hail Mary left you craving more of Andy Weir’s work? We’ve rounded up the best of Andy Weir’s sci-fi books, from The Martian to Artemis.