2026-09-13
Why is Blizzard still announcing games years ahead of release? 'We want to convey confidence in some of our biggest bets coming forward'
Maybe it's the fact it sounds like a year from the opening crawl of a sci-fi movie, but 2030 sure feels a long way off.
The 10 Best Tomb Raider Levels of All Time
From St. Francis' Folly's four-god gauntlet to Paititi's sprawling jungle hub, these are the 10 Tomb Raider levels worth remembering
2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: 16-Bit Homebrew Relay Computer
You want Retro? We did, when we started our retrocomputing challenge. [Peter] decided that transistors weren’t retro enough, and sent us this lovely homebrew relay computer, complete with 16- bit...
Playing RTS with a controller? Total War: Warhammer 40,000 dev says it 'really does work' in their game: 'I think we've landed in a really solid spot'
But how will we press "J" to make a unit about-face?
Stranger Things Officially Returns Next Week With 10 New Episodes
Netflix is bringing back Stranger Things with a second 10-episode season of Stranger Things: Tales from 85 on Sept. 17.
Diablo 4 On Switch 2: A Very Impressive Port That Supports Mouse Controls
Blizzard confirmed to Polygon that the Nintendo Switch 2 port of Diablo 4 that we played at BlizzCon will support mouse controls
10 Near-Perfect Fantasy Books Recommended by Brandon Sanderson
There are so many other complex magic systems and rich worlds to explore
The Talker Does Not Control The Doer (in Current AIs)
The Huggingface Incident appears to me to match up with an understanding I'd already formed from personal observation of Fable 5 and Sol 5.6, the August 2026 generation of frontier...
The F-111B Was Supposed to Be a US Navy Aircraft Carrier Fighter. It Exceeded 80,000 Pounds, Needed a Wingspan 7 Feet Wider Than the Air Force Version Just to Slow Down Enough to Land, and the Navy Walked Away in May 1968.
Soviet bombers were gaining long-range anti-ship missiles, and the Navy needed to kill them before they could launch. That requirement produced the Hughes AN/AWG-9 radar and the AIM-54 Phoenix missile...
The US Navy Planned 32 Zumwalt-Class Destroyers and Built 3. Each One Cost About $10,600,000,000 With Development Included — More Than 7 Times the Original Estimate — and the 2 155mm Guns on Every Ship Were Never Fired Because Each Shell Reached $800,000.
Raytheon and the Navy are now examining whether all three ships can swap their AN/SPY-3 radars for the AN/SPY-6(V)3 already going into the rest of the surface fleet, potentially starting...
10 Near-Perfect Nintendo 3DS Games Nobody Played
The 3DS came and went, leaving behind 10 near-perfect games most players overlooked, but shouldn't have.
AI is breaking our proxies for expertise
Mathematicians are broadly not anti-AI. They’re more culturally open to using AI as a tool than, say, artists or writers1. However, now that more and more genuinely prestigious problems have...
Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work
Here's a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning: I live at <my address>. Figure out 5K and 10K running routes from me that...
Over 4,000 Missiles Failed to Hit a Single US Air Force Mach 3.2 SR-71 Blackbird. Speed Was the Only Way to Survive as It Had No Weapons to Fire Back
The SR-71 Blackbird did not dodge missiles so much as it made the intercept mathematically unaffordable, arriving and departing faster than the defense could solve the problem it was built...
What pacing the frontier means for China
Dario's recent post on pacing the frontier mentioned how slowing down China more would help with international coordination. It seemed counter-intuitive, surely sabotaging their efforts would create badwill, but it...
Diablo 5 gameplay details from BlizzCon: More classes than ever before, procedurally-generated dungeons, and Diablo 2-style loot
Blizzard has offered up a surprising amount of detail about the action RPG sequel, which won't be out until 2029.
Blue Lock Director Reveals Why Crunchyroll’s New Action Series Goes Old-School
The Vermilion Mask director Tetsuaki Watanabe looked to the ’90s and early 2000s to make its supernatural battles easy to follow.
Making an Air-Powered Circular Saw with LEGO
Although building a table saw out of LEGO is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you look at those colorful bits of plastic, [Jamie] has been...
Diablo 5 Shows Off Its Brand New Plague Knight Class
The Plague Knight and more new Diablo 5 classes are on the way in the 2029 sequel, Blizzard confirmed during a BlizzCon panel
2026-09-12
No more Diablo 4 expansions are planned, but there's 'a lot of room' for more storytelling in the lead-up to Diablo 5
The Diablo team is "all focused on seasons and getting to Diablo 5," support for Diablo 4 will continue "for a very long time," says Blizzard.
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