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3 months after revealing his debut project at The Game Awards, Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi loses NetEase funding for his studio

Nagoshi Studio is trying to find someone to step into the breach, but so far it's had no luck.

I Replaced MyFitnessPal and Other Apps With a Single MCP Server: Here's How I Did It

My doctor asked me to keep a food diary. I tried MyFitnessPal, Lifesum, and others — none of them could easily export a summary for a date range. So I...

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie cast a surprising Yoshi: Donald Glover

Nintendo reveals more of the Super Mario Galaxy Movie cast, including Luis Guzmán as Wart, Donald Glover as Yoshi, and Issa Rae as Honey Queen.

eagle has landed #gdc

Investigating encoded reasoning in LLMs

Epistemic status: This work was done as a 1-week capstone project for ARENA. It highlights several areas of research we’d like to explore further.Chain of thought (CoT) monitoring provides alignment...

Bungie snuck a bunch of Halo guns into Marathon

The "CE" Tactical handgun. Oh they're not even hiding it.

The making of ‘F1’, at VFX Notes

Our 2026 VFX Oscars nominees season is here! The post The making of ‘F1’, at VFX Notes appeared first on befores & afters.

Friends Said His Business Idea Was the ‘Stupidest Thing.’ Then He Sold Over 290 Million: ‘I Watched Their Jaws Drop’

This product began as the founder’s personal hack to stop his headphones from tangling.

The Smartest Founders Aren’t Chasing Venture Capital — They’re Doing These 5 Things First

Instead of rushing to pitch investors, today's most successful founders are focusing on building and validating their product first.

Rapid Space Launches Shifting the Chemistry of Earth’s Atmosphere

Companies are using the Earth's atmosphere like a dumpster. The post Rapid Space Launches Shifting the Chemistry of Earth’s Atmosphere appeared first on Futurism.

Blizzard wants Diablo 4's outrageous damage numbers to mean something again in Lord of Hatred, so it's letting you crank the difficulty up to near-impossible levels: 'It's going to be really f*cking hard'

Finally, something to use those big numbers on.

Why Modern BI Architectures Need More Than Just Star Schemas

Traditional star schemas still power many BI systems, but modern analytics workloads - large datasets, real-time dashboards, and high query frequency can create performance pressure. This article introduces a simple...

​​Native Students Receive Excessive Discipline in This New Mexico School District, Report Finds

The post ​​Native Students Receive Excessive Discipline in This New Mexico School District, Report Finds appeared first on ProPublica.

Moody humans should let AI handle bad public feedback first, study finds

Enjoy meltdowns from businesses on Yelp over negative reviews? AI is threatening to take that away Angry company responses to customer complaints are a favorite topic of internet amusement and...

From Prompt to Operations: The Real Shift in AI Website Building

AI website builders have fundamentally changed how we think about building websites. With a simple prompt, you can generate a ready-to-launch site complete with layouts, design elements, and even written...

Steam game listing achieves knockoff singularity by aping Pokémon, Zelda, and even Overwatch designs with a shamelessness Palworld could only dream of

I don't feel good.

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Real-Time ISS Tracker Shows Off the Goods

What hardware hacker doesn’t have a soft spot for transparent cases? While they may have fallen out of mainstream favor, they have an undeniable appeal to anyone with an interest...

Marathon already feels like the scariest game of 2026

Player ambushes, powerful NPC enemy robots, and the fear of losing loot makes Marathon terrifying.

Super C NES to SNES Port Out Now

In the past, we have covered several NES to SNES fan ports created by the homebrew developer Infidelity, including previously reporting that Infidelity was working on a number of NES...