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Arc Raiders and The Finals dev Embark Studios is improving its machine-learning anti-cheat, and warns about keyboard and mouse software.

BF6 Season 2 is out this week. Here's when Battlefield 6 season 2 releases in your time zone, plus what to expect.

The beloved Stargate SG-1 has always been the pinnacle of the Stargate franchise.

Wicked sick.

The Where Winds Meet Hexi expansion arrives at the start of March, kicking off a journey into a three-zone region with new combat styles.

Give us a hand. Howdy partners! It's time for this week's Box Art Brawl! Last time, it was a one-on-one match-up for the SNES' Super Bomberman 2 to celebrate its arrival in the Super Bomberman Collection, and it was a pretty tight contest. The Japanese cover just came out on top, in the end, winning 56% of the vote and leaving the Western variant with the remaining 44%.

Happy belated new year! Linux 6.19 is now out in the wild and… ah, let’s just cut to the chase. We know what you’re here for. The big one Asahi Linux turns 5 this year. In those five years, we’ve gone from Hello World over a serial port to being one of the best supported desktop-grade AArch64 platform in the Linux ecosystem. The sustained interest in Asahi was the push many developers needed to start taking AArch64 seriously, with a whole slew of platform-specific bugs in popular software being ...

NIS America teams up with Happinet. The Switch 2 is getting another strategy RPG, with NIS America, Inc this week announcing it's teamed up with Happinet to publish Brigandine: Abyss - a "brand-new entry" in the storied franchise. It's due out at some point in 2026 and features a completely unique world that both new and experienced players can dive right into. Here's a bit more about it from the official PR, and you can check out the announcement trailer above:

Earn the number. Although 007 First Light was delayed recently, his new mission is now back on track with a 27th May 2026 release. With the target date in his sights, IO Interactive has now treated fans of Bond to a new trailer. This video originally popped up during this week's PlayStation 'State of Play' broadcast and focuses on the story of this "re-imagined origin story" where Bond must "earn the number" in the 00 Programme.

Legacy of Kain: Ascendance and Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered will both be available in March.

Pre-orders are now live. Alongside the release of Rayman: 30th Anniversary Edition on the Switch eShop and multiple other digital platforms this week, Ubisoft and Atari have also confirmed a physical Switch release is on the way.

Does this mean there are hints in Baldur's Gate 3 about what'll be in Divinity?

Well, I am, anyway.

The latest ChatGPT caricatures trend has me worried about AI’s access to our private data. It’s one of the many reasons to start using a VPN.

It might be time to back up some files.

Airbnb plans to double down on artificial intelligence to improve its user experience for both guests and hosts. During a fourth-quarter earnings call, Airbnb's CEO, Brian Chesky, said the company is building an "AI-native experience" aimed at helping guests book trips, assisting hosts with their listings, and running the company more efficiently. According to Chesky, there's an AI search tool to help guests book trips that's live for a small percentage of users right now. In a shareholder lette...

In a "down with love" mood? Here are the best anti-romance movies streaming free or available for rental now, from drama to horror to comedy.

"People have been craving this sort of experience, which was offered by Larian and CD Projekt."

Konami giveth, and Konami taketh away.

Disney is going after another generative AI tool, accusing ByteDance and its recently released Seedance 2.0 of using its copyrighted material without permission. As first reported on by Axios, the Walt Disney Company sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, claiming the Chinese company developed its Seedance tool "with a pirated library of Disney's copyrighted characters from Star Wars, Marvel, and other Disney franchises, as if Disney's coveted intellectual property were free public domain ...

One of Star Wars' key themes is romantic tragedy and connection. What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than by ranking Star Wars romances?

Treat me mean, keep me keen.

Need something new for your reading list? Here are two titles we think are worth checking out. This week, we read Aoife Josie Clements' deeply unsettling Persona, and the first issue of Bleeding Hearts, from the relaunch of the DC imprint, Vertigo. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com​/entertainment/what-to-r​ead-this-weekend-the-uns​ettling-new-horror-novel​-persona-185152256.html?​src=rss

UK Discord users have raised concerns about the company's new age verification processes, claiming that while it had originally promised that "video selfies submitted for facial age estimation will never leave a user's device", a change in service provider allegedly now suggests otherwise.

OpenAI's GPT-4o may have survived its first brush with going offline, but it won't be as lucky this time. OpenAI has officially retired GPT-4o, the ChatGPT model that was seen as more conversational and notoriously sycophantic, on February 13. The news of GPT-4o's end was first announced in a post on the OpenAI website in January, but the discontinuation also included GPT-5, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini from ChatGPT. It's not the first time that OpenAI has delisted GPT-4o as an opti...

Star Citizen’s free fly event offers five ships for you to zoom around the massive space MMO in, as its spinoff Squadron 42 nears launch.

Two-player games like Split Fiction and Lego Voyagers are the perfect fit for a cozy weekend

The Crew-12 mission, SpaceX’s 20th human spaceflight, launched at 5:15 AM Eastern on February 13 from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It’s expected to dock with the International Space Station today, February 14, at 3:15 PM, and you can watch the event below as it happens. By the time the mission’s Dragon capsule docks with the ISS, it will have traveled approximately 34 hours since lift off. Inside are NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency’s Sophie Adenot and Roscosmo...

Tomb Raider has a fan-level scene as storied as Quake or Thief.

Sorry if you were hoping to woo Junker Queen or Mauga.

Who’s single, married, and dating in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

Party finder.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 secured five awards at this week's Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' (AIAS) DICE Awards (not to be confused with EA's Stockholm studio of the same name), including the coveted Game of the Year prize, while Sucker Punch's Ghost of Yotei secured three, including for Adventure Game of the Year.

If you love to build and hate having too much free time, Satisfactory is Steam Deck Verified and will burn away the hours wherever you are.

Within hours of co-founder and chief development officer, Hjalmar Vikström, announcing his departure to make "way smaller games", GTFO studio 10 Chambers has undertaken a "significant restructuring of the studio, impacting a large number of roles, including several of the studio's co-founders".