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/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25842934/390865_Lili__digital_project__2025_2025.png?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "The Royal Shakespeare Company is turning Macbeth into a neo-noir game")
Source: The Verge Macbeth, William Shakespeare’s iconic play, is being reimagined as an interactive video game with a neo-noir vibe — and it’s being developed in part by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The game, titled Lili, is a “screen life thriller video game” where you’ll have access to a modern-day Lady Macbeth’s personal devices, according…
Source: Venture Beat EA’s December quarter was weak because of weaker-than-expected sales of Dragon Age: Veilguard and global football (soccer) games. Read Full Article
Source: Venture Beat UI-TARS understands graphical user interfaces (GUIs), applies reasoning and takes autonomous, step-by-step action. Read Full Article
Source: Venture Beat Epic Games released its first Fortnite ecosystem year in review for 2024, and it has a lot to celebrate. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24087489/STK137_Tumblr_K_Radtke_02.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Tumblr’s experimental GIF feed finally launches after 10 years")
Source: The Verge Illustration: The Verge Tumbler has finally launched Tumblr TV as a new tab at the top of its app, the company said today in a brief set of update notes spotted by TechCrunch. Tumblr TV first debuted as a GIF-finding feature in 2015, but now it includes video content as well. Screenshot:…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25842911/ss_065dd283044a629eabd2cf16f64d76a614c85539.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Celeste developers cancel follow-up game Earthblade")
Source: The Verge Earthblade, the next game from the developers of Celeste, has been canceled. The fantasy-inspired game got its first trailer in late 2022, and the game would have let you explore a “free-roaming, dynamically-loading map,” Extremely OK Games’ Maddy Thorson said at the time. But the team decided to cancel the game in…
Source: Venture Beat Unreal Engine, which has been known in its various incarnations as the premiere — perhaps even de facto — game engine for over a decade, is already quite familiar to major game developers, especially those with AAA experience. It might be harder to explain to the world of animated TV shows, though…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25290329/STK255_Google_Gemini_A.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "A Samsung integration helps make Google’s Gemini the AI assistant to beat")
Source: The Verge One of the most important changes in Samsung’s new phones is a simple one: when you long-press the side button on your phone, instead of activating Samsung’s own Bixby assistant by default, you’ll get Google Gemini. This is probably a good thing. Bixby was never a very good virtual assistant — Samsung…
Source: Venture Beat Google challenges OpenAI with free Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model, offering million-token processing, native code execution, and breakthrough performance in math and science benchmarks. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25838985/twarren_rtx5090_2.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Nvidia’s triple-fan GPU cooler was one step along the way to a slimmer RTX 5090")
Source: The Verge Nvidia has posted a new video showcasing a history of Founders Edition graphics card designs that explores the design of its new RTX 5090 and confirms a previously leaked prototype that used an unconventionally large four-slot design. As noted by VideoCardz, the prototype “Titan ADA” card first revealed by leaker Kopite7kimi included a…
