MobLand Season 2 trailer released
Paramount dropped the full trailer for the second season of the crime drama MobLand. Despite all the drama surrounding Tom Hardy, the actor still made it into the new episodes. Season two finds the Harrigan...
YouTube tightens monetization requirements – newcomers will need twice as many views
YouTube might be turning into a less rewarding platform for creators just starting out. The platform announced updated monetization rules for its Partner Program, and the news isn't great for newcomers. Qualifying for the program...
Claude tried to prove the Riemann Hypothesis and made a new mathematical discovery
Prime numbers don't follow a regular pattern, but mathematicians can measure how closely their distribution follows a predictable average. The Riemann zeta function, an infinite mathematical expression, is a key tool in that work because...
Schoolboy destroyed a 26-million-ruble IMAX screen with a bubble tea ball
A single bubble tea pearl cost a movie theater in Khabarovsk, Russia a sum comparable to the value of a small business. A teenager shot the pearl at an IMAX screen mid-screening, and the venue...
Three years later, a line of dialogue for an impossible situation on the nautiloid was found in Baldur's Gate 3
An alternate line was discovered in the prologue of Baldur's Gate 3, but it only triggers under a condition that's impossible to reach in a normal playthrough. A player known as ImpressiveLie7365 found that the...
In Salzburg, more than 200 golden Mozart statues were stolen in a month
An art installation celebrating Mozart's 270th birthday has taken a serious hit after 210 of its golden statues vanished within a month. The display opened in Salzburg, Austria, on July 15 with 320 miniature versions...
World of Warcraft players report that characters continue to fight bosses even after disconnecting from the server
World of Warcraft players have noticed some strange behavior following the latest update. Instead of freezing up or vanishing when disconnecting in dungeons, characters seem to keep fighting on their own – with no input...
Cities Skylines player built the worst place to live – next to a crematorium, a waste incineration plant, a sewage outlet, and an airport
Even the most talented and skilled architect gets tired of building practical, comfortable, and attractive places to live sometimes. That's when they turn to experiments that make you understand why comic book villains do what...
After almost 15 years, snow deformation, which was considered technically impossible, has been added to Skyrim
Modder Josef Rudberg has shown off a working version of snow deformation for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, a mechanic the community had long considered impossible on the Creation Engine. In the video, a Nord...
A gamer visited the real Mothman statue in Point Pleasant, and three years later reached it in Fallout 76 as well
The small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia isn't famous for coal or the Ohio River, but for a winged creature with glowing red eyes. The legend of the Mothman dates back to 1966, when...
Head of Saber Interactive insulted the fired screenwriter of Rideshare Stimulator and accused her of leaking information about AI, while denying her statements about AI
The controversy surrounding Rideshare Stimulator has moved past a simple credit dispute and turned into a PR disaster. Writer Stella Sacco said on social media that she'd once been the game's lead writer but was...
Gamer lowered laptop processor temperature by 15°C by simply changing the desk surface
The constrained internal space of gaming laptops leaves little room for effective cooling. That leaves owners of these machines searching for various mods and experimenting with thermal paste replacement and undervolting. One gamer found an...
Blizzard has stopped adding personality to new Overwatch heroes, and D.Mon is a great confirmation of that
Cool hero design in Overwatch is one thing. A living personality behind it is a completely different matter. Blizzard keeps stumbling into the same trap, rolling out a hero with a flashy look and a...
Trailer and four minutes of footage from the Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse leaked online
A trailer and a four-minute clip from Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse have made their way around social media. The footage was originally shown at CinemaCon back in April, so someone sat on it for months...
Cases with a cigarette lighter, oven, and ashtray – recalling the era when a PC pretended to be a car
A computer case stopped being just a box for hardware a long time ago – these days it's a showcase of tempered glass, RGB lighting, and vertically mounted graphics cards. But there was a period...
Enthusiast turned a mini-PC into a fully passively cooled mini-server and retained 95 percent of performance
A Korean tech enthusiast running the YouTube channel Reeal Lab turned a Geekom A8 Max mini PC into a completely silent server, swapping out the stock active cooling for a passive heatsink pulled from a...
A fan created an interactive map of the "Game of Thrones" world in the style of Google Maps
An enthusiast going by vlado.noodles spent about a month building an interactive map of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" world and published the result on Vercel. The project covers both continents of the...
Crimson Desert turned out to be so successful that Pearl Abyss paid additional cash bonuses to a thousand employees
Crimson Desert has become one of the most talked-about games of 2026. Pearl Abyss earned roughly $200 million in the first two weeks of sales, and the game's Steam rating climbed past "Very Positive" with...
Founders of id Software – Tom Hall, John Romero, and both Carmacks – gathered together for the first time in 30 years at QuakeCon and even met with the "mother of id"
QuakeCon 2026 went down in history not just as a celebration of the 30th anniversary of Quake, but as an event many are already calling one of the warmest moments in gaming industry history. For...
An investigation into The Last of Us remake showed that Naughty Dog fixed the windows and extra balls, but hid the moon and forgot about the turbine on the dam
In the dockside industrial zone from the opening of The Last of Us, there's a brick building with five second-floor windows arranged in a two-one-two pattern. Each window is nearly square and divided into 16...
