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If you've had trouble using ChatGPT today, you aren't alone. The AI chatbot is experiencing a partial outage for many users this afternoon. Down Detector reports of issues with the service leapt from almost nothing to more than 12,000 around 3PM ET.  OpenAI issued a status update noting that "elevated error rates" are occurring for ChatGPT and Platform users. All 13 components of ChatGPT are marked as having “degraded performance” on the OpenAI status page. "We are working on implementing a miti...

Maybe someday?

Epic is adding Grammy Award-winning pop star Chappell Roan to Fortnite alongside her iconic outfits and songs as the next Fortnite Festival Icon.

Dropout comedian Zach Reino shared his Pokémon sex rankings on Make Some Noise season four, and we have thoughts.

New M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro models are slated to launch in the near future, according to information shared with MacRumors by an Apple Premium Reseller. The third-party Apple retailer said that ‌MacBook Pro‌ stock is very low currently because there is an imminent new product introduction. Apple typically coordinates supply with retail stores ahead of a new model launch to avoid leaving resellers with too many outdated machines. Over the weekend, Bloomberg said that the new MacBook Pros ar...

Apple has just released Xcode 26.3, and it's a big step forward in terms of the company's support of coding agents. The new release expands on the AI features the company introduced with Xcode 26 at WWDC 2025 to give systems like Claude and ChatGPT more robust access to its in-house IDE.  With the update, Apple says Claude and OpenAI's Codex "can search documentation, explore file structures, update project settings, and verify their work visually by capturing Xcode Previews and iterating throug...

Glass Cannon Network have announced Call of Cthulhu Live, a live actual play tour featuring the iconic cosmic horror TTRPG.

"Bethesda games have maybe pulled back from doing that a little bit."

"I'll reveal who it is on the anniversary day". Stardew Valley celebrates its 10th anniversary later this month. Yes, really. On 26th February 2026, ConcernedApe's monumental farming sim will turn a decade old. It came to Switch in 2017 and, in the time since it's release, has sold millions of copies and has consistently received a number of big free updates, with the next one — update 1.7 — on the horizons. And, speaking to IGN ahead of the game's big birthday, Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone gave u...

Developer Obsidian recently announced that it currently has no plans to make The Outer Worlds 3, according to a report by Bloomberg. Company head Fergus Urquhart didn't give a reason as to why Obsidian won't be working on a sequel, but he did note that the performance of The Outer Worlds 2 was "disappointing" and that it needs to "think a lot about how much we put into the games, how much we spend on them and how long they take." Urquhart also said that Avowed was something of a miss for the com...

This co-op murder coverup game with wonky physics hasn't even been announced, yet footage of it is exploding on the internet.

Lucasfilm loves its Star Wars crossover cameos. Maul: Shadow Lord is the perfect chance to bring back Paul Bettany's character from Solo.

YouTuber and Twitch streamer Blurbs is known for his wild Red Dead Redemption 2 mods, but this time he plans to release the mod to the public

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Apple is continuing to improve the AI Support Assistant that it is testing in the Apple Support app, introducing new functionality in the latest update. In addition to answering questions about Apple devices and services and providing device-specific help, Apple says the Support Assistant is able to help run diagnostics to show details about a device's health and performance. The Apple Support app now has a more informative interface for the Support Assistant, and the tab for accessing the featu...

You know, sometimes I wonder if Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone ever sleeps. At any given moment it sounds like he's working on something, whether that be yet another update for Stardew Valley, or the definitely still in development, just wait a while you silly sausages, Haunted Chocolatier. And, as it turns out, somewhere along the line, Barone had even considered making Stardew Valley 2.

Not so black and white. We're suckers for a good murder mystery game with a funky visual style, and The Posthumous Investigation looks like exactly that. This is an upcoming noir thriller from developer Mother Gaia Studio and publisher CriticalLeap, where you'll be trying to solve the murder of Brás Cubas in 1937 Rio de Janeiro. The catch is that you're caught in a time loop, and will have just one day to get to the bottom of things before everything resets.

The "cease and desist" demand was posted to the MindsEye Discord just minutes after Cyber Boi's video went live.

Josh D'Amaro replaced Bob Chapek as chairman of Disney Parks. Hopefully this time the transition sticks

To hold us over in the meantime, Firaxis added everyone's best friend: Gilgamesh.

The purpose of a Tamagotchi is to have a tiny, portable digital pet with you at all times that you can feed and feed and feed until it grows into something slightly bigger, different, a new creature almost. It's generally a sweet, albeit potentially irritating (the beeps…) little micro-game that may cause a touch of stress, but certainly no feelings of fear. In Full Bloom, however, asks "what if your Tamagotchi was actually a blob of an organism with nothing but a mouth that you must continuousl...

Highguard's central mode is genuinely cool, but it's overstuffed with FPS trends that should go away for a while.

Humble Bundle’s latest collection of goodies includes some essential sci-fi FPS titles to play, from Black Mesa to the rip-and-slaying Doom Eternal.

Michael Peña and Zazie Beetz discuss the possibility of reprising their Marvel roles as Ant-Man's Luis and Deadpool's Domino.

"I hope that, through developing this title, I too have grown". 2026 marks 40 years of the Dragon Quest series, a staggering achievement for one of the RPG genre's biggest and brightest. Known for its cosy atmosphere, warm character, humour, and iconic art, Dragon Quest is due a big year, and Square Enix is kicking things off with a brand new "reimagining" — Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined. Bringing what is regarded as one of the longest RPGs of the PlayStation era to Switch 1 and Switch 2, Dragon ...

With Xcode 26.3, Apple is adding support for agentic coding, allowing developers to use tools like Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex right in Xcode for app creation. Agentic coding will allow Xcode to complete more complex app development tasks autonomously. Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI models have been available for use in Xcode since Apple added intelligence features in Xcode 26, but until now, AI was limited and was not able to take action on its own. That will change with the opti...

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You also sent more than 100,000 gifts on the Epic store, which seems pretty good for a service that only rolled out in mid-November.

Sony's wireless WH-1000XM6 headphones are on sale for $398 via Amazon. This is a record-low price, as it drops $62 from the price tag. The sale applies to all three colorways. These easily topped our list of the best wireless headphones. They are, in a word, fantastic. The headphones are packed with premium features, like advanced ANC. There are a whopping 12 ANC microphones throughout and a brand-new chip to power the feature. The end result? It successfully blocks background noise at medium an...

Delta Force gets playable bosses before Escape From Tarkov, but Battlestate probably won’t be too worried about being beaten to the punch.

A great choice with a lot going for it.

In a new interview, Stardew Valley's creator says he could envisage a sequel or spin-off when asked about what the next ten years hold.

Fitbit's founders have a new startup. Two years after leaving Google, James Park and Eric Friedman announced a new platform that shifts the focus from the individual to the family. They say the Luffu mobile app "uses AI quietly in the background" to collect and organize family health information. "At Fitbit, we focused on personal health — but after Fitbit, health for me became bigger than just thinking about myself," Park said in a press release. The app is particularly focused on the "CEO of t...

The ChatGPT-maker has apparently been seeking alternatives to Nvidia GPUs since last year, as it looks to use more specialized chips.