For all the less-than-encouraging news about climate change—rapid sea-level rise, the land itself transforming, serious trouble brewing under Antarctic glaciers—we’ve been getting plenty of hope. The price of renewable energy is crashing, for example, and we’re moving toward a cleaner, electrified future faster than you may realize. That shift... Read more

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Aspyr Media announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Beamdog. The studio will retain its independence within Aspyr. Based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and started by... Read more

Are you one of the people who hates Hollywood because Hollywood only serves up superhero movies and sequels … most of which are sequels to superhero movies? Well, here’s some encouraging news: Two of the highest-grossing movies of 2022 are romantic comedies: The Lost City, starring Sandra Bullock and... Read more

The film Ready Player One, based on a 2011 book, imagines humanity addicted to a society existing in a virtual-reality game. Jaap Buitendijk The Infinite wasn’t my first instance of traveling miles to try a virtual-reality adventure since the world reopened. But it was the most epic. A massive... Read more

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Most people familiar with virtual reality and augmented reality (VR/AR) think of gaming and entertainment, but VR/AR technology extends further beyond these limits. Leveraging VR/AR technology, organizations can offer safer,... Read more

Moon Knight gets into some killer action in episode 4. Marvel Studios Moon Knight shifted the action to Egypt on Wednesday, when episode 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe series landed on Disney Plus. As the costumed avatar of the moon good Khonshu, Marc Spector (Oscar Isaac) hunts cult... Read more

an indie video game published by Finji, Tunic pulls from the Zelda and Souls series in a reverent manner that feels both cohesive and transformative. After playing it, I’m convinced the game is a masterpiece worth celebrating, a small gem strewn among the heap of blockbuster releases in 2022.... Read more

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! On this week’s episode of Last of the Nintendogs, editors Mike Minotti and Jeff Grubb discuss the devastating news that Square Enix plans to release a new Kingdom Hearts game.... Read more

Union membership in the US has been in decline for decades, but there’s recently been a potential shift. Seventeen corporate Starbucks locations in the US have voted to form a union since the end of last year, and another 170 or so are slated to vote in the coming... Read more

Getty Images | Sundry Photography More than half a decade has passed since the notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical transmission station north of Kyiv a week before Christmas in 2016, using a unique, automated piece of code to interact directly with the station’s circuit breakers... Read more