PewDiePie released an uncensored AI model for home PCs and got banned by OpenAI for distillation
Felix Kjellberg, known as PewDiePie, unveiled Ajax – a custom language model that runs locally on a home computer. According to Kjellberg, OpenAI banned his account twice during development, and one of the emails shown...
Players review-bomb Gears of War: E-Day on Steam over strong Black women
Gears of War: E-Day ran into a wave of negative reviews on Steam right after launch. Some players are criticizing content they call "woke." Still, fans are back with Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago for...
Avengers: Doomsday poster shows the first incursion in Marvel history and 11 heroes
The new international poster for Avengers: Doomsday dropped overnight, with the Marvel epic about two months from release. The poster gathers every character confirmed to appear in the film, along with one of the story's...
California authorities demand an end to fights between humans and 180-centimeter robots
The California State Athletic Commission has issued an official warning to Robot Entertainment Kombat (REK), a robot fighting league. The trigger was a cage fight between a human and a humanoid robot, staged in September....
Fraudster earned $8 million from AI songs for bot listeners and got 18 months in prison
Schemes that turn almost nothing into a fortune have long captured the imagination. Magic: The Gathering players know the classic Channel and Fireball combo, which can end a game on the spot. In 2000, engineer...
Joe Russo explained why Doctor Doom is almost impossible to defeat in the new "Avengers"
Joe Russo explained what makes Doctor Doom more dangerous than the previous villains of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In Avengers: Doomsday, the franchise's top heroes unite against him, and judging by the footage shown so...
Prime Video shows lavish trailer for the series Blade Runner 2099 with Michelle Yeoh
Prime Video released a poster and a new trailer for Blade Runner 2099 at New York Comic-Con. The eight-episode limited series premieres in full on November 25 on Prime Video. Silka Luisa created the show...
Director of the new Avengers calls Tom Holland "the last great movie star"
Avengers: Endgame co-director Joe Russo has heaped praise on Spider-Man star Tom Holland. The comments came in a CBR interview about the box office success of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, where Russo said the actor...
Gamers release first fan film based on Morrowind about young Caius Cosades
Some games don't age, they become religions. There's no other way to explain why, almost 25 years later, people are still crossing the globe with cameras, costumes, and makeup to tell a story about ashstorms...
Scene with Edward Kenway hinting at an expansion or new installment cut from Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced
A user named Sliderv2 has uploaded a YouTube video that appears to show recovered cut content from Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced. The short post-credits scene runs a little over a minute and shows Edward...
Why the Balrog from The Lord of the Rings still looks like a monster with perfect design 25 years later
Computer graphics age too fast. Effects that dropped jaws in the 2000s now often look like a PlayStation 2 cutscene. But one monster seems to have dodged the clock, and it's the fire demon crawling...
Life-size Fallout protectron cosplay that people mistake for screenshots
The strangest compliment a video game cosplay can get is "this isn't cosplay." When a costume is so accurate that viewers hunt for a game interface in the frame, suspect upscaling mods, and flat-out refuse...
Why the theatrical version of The Lord of the Rings works better than the director's cut
Extended cuts are usually seen as a gift to fans, with more scenes, more lore, and more of a beloved world. But the extra minutes can work like a spoiler the director cut into his...
Why the wizard in Baldur's Gate 3 silently watches the barbarian fail a magic check
RPGs love to talk about friendship, trust, and a tight-knit party, but the mechanics sometimes shatter that idyll with a roll of the d20. Picture a hero with the intelligence of a stool trying to...
44 years ago Sony released the world's first CD player, and adjusted for inflation it cost about $3,700
44 years ago, on October 1, 1982, Sony put the world's first consumer CD player on sale. The CDP-101 kicked off the era of digital audio on compact discs, and shoppers in Japan could pick...
Deleted scene from The Return of the King where Aragorn broke the laws of war
Some of the creepiest scenes in a film are the ones most viewers never got to see in theaters. Worse, in just five minutes of screen time, a noble king becomes a war criminal, and...
Manga titles have doubled in length over 15 years, and the words "Isekai" and "Reincarnation" appear in them more and more often
Japanese e-book distributor and publisher BookLive analyzed manga titles, sales, and buying habits over the past 15 years. The study turned up several clear shifts. The average title length for a first volume grew from...
BBC head says he was sent a 50-minute AI-made episode of Doctor Who – and it was "not bad"
BBC boss Matt Brittin has shared his thoughts on AI and revealed that someone sent him an AI-generated episode of Doctor Who. Speaking at the Royal Television Society conference, he rated the result fairly highly....
The events of Songs of the Past for The Witcher 3 take place after Blood and Wine, but you don't have to complete the expansion
CD Projekt RED revealed where the The Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past fits in the timeline and what players need to finish before starting it. The story takes place after the ending of...
The fifth season of Reacher will be based on the most "disgusting" book about the character
Reacher season 5 with Alan Ritchson just got new details. Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher novel series and creator of the franchise, revealed that the new season adapts one of the darkest books...
