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Megan Farokhmanesh Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a rollicking parable about this moment in tech Charles Pulliam-Moore Feb 12 Reanimal wants to devour you Lewis Gordon Feb 11 Pokopia turns the Pokémon world into a relaxing, human-free paradise Charles Pulliam-Moore Feb 11 Latest In Entertainment J External Link Jay Peters 8:33 PM UTC Link Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile is shutting down on April 17th. Activision removed the game from app stores in May because it “did not meet our expectations.” If you’re still playing it, you’ll have a couple months until it’s offline for good. Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile Service Changes [ Activision ] J External Link Jay Peters 8:25 PM UTC Link Apple Music might soon help you find concerts nearby. It’s a new feature showing up in the app as part of the first iOS 26.4 developer beta, as reported by 9to5Mac . The beta also includes a new “Playlist Playground” feature that uses Apple Intelligence to make a playlist from a text prompt. Update : Added Playlist Playground details. Apple Music in iOS 26.4 has new design for albums, playlists, and more - 9to5Mac [ 9to5Mac ] J Jay Peters 6:23 PM UTC Link GameSir is making a GameHub app for Mac. GameHub on Android let Sean Hollister play the Steam version of Hollow Knight: Silksong on his phone , and GameSir says its new Mac app is “coming soon.” Gamesir claims the app will let you run Windows games natively, and it’s teasing a new controller, too. Previous Next 1 / 2 Image: GameSir T External Link Thomas Ricker 3:37 PM UTC Link Curling has never been so popular. It only took an on-camera F-bomb, accusations of cheating, and then video confirmation to get people to take interest. Is the Olympic sport that features frantic brooming having a Hawk-Eye moment ? As Olympic curling surveillance grows, Britain faces infraction [ ESPN.com ] Switch 2 pricing and next PlayStation release could be impacted by memory shortage Jess Weatherbed 1:45 PM UTC You need to watch the intensely surreal cult classic Possession Terrence O'Brien Feb 15 T Quote Terrence O'Brien Feb 14 Link Spotify’s CEO bragged that it’s paying its best developers not to code. During the company’s Q4 earnings call, Gustav Söderström revealed that Spotify had fully embraced vibe coding . AI is coming for a lot of jobs, and software developer is high on the list of those in danger. Still, it’s shocking that the top devs at Spotify haven’t written any code in 2026. Per Business Insider : “When I speak to my most senior engineers — the best developers we have — they actually say that they haven’t written a single line of code since December… They actually only generate code and supervise it.” - Spotify CEO Gustav Söderström Georgia Tech announced the finalists in its wild musical instrument competition Terrence O'Brien Feb 14 Returning stolen artifacts becomes a thrilling heist in Relooted Tauriq Moosa Feb 14 4chan’s creator says ‘Epstein had nothing to do’ with creating infamous far-right board /pol/ Richard Lawler Feb 13 T Terrence O'Brien Feb 13 Link Deezer is giving users more control over their infinite algorithmic Flow playlists. Flow Tuner lets users pick which genres are included in a Flow session, rather than just disliking individual songs. It’s a hamfisted way to customize your algorithm, but the specificity of Deezer’s options are impressive: Metalcore, Balkan Folk, Schlager. This is well beyond your basic buckets like rock and pop. A surprise God of War prequel is out on the PS5 right now Jay Peters Feb 12 J Youtube Jay Peters Feb 12 Link The God of War trilogy is getting a remake. It’s now in development, but still in the “early stages.” A Youtube Andrew Webster Feb 12 Link Here come the X-Men. The latest trailer for the 2D fighter Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls reveals a squad featuring X-Men like Wolverine and Storm. The game looks ridiculous in the best possible way, and is launching on August 6th on both the PS5 and PC. J Youtube Jay Peters Feb 12 Link Tons of details about Saros. In a new trailer , Housemarque showed off things like the game’s main hub, the skill tree, a way to fast-travel to different locations, and how eclipses will change the game’s world. Saros launches on April 30th. A Youtube Andrew Webster Feb 12 Link It’s not a sprint. Bungie’s return to the Marathon universe launches very soon — March 5th! — so here’s a new trailer that sort of gets across what the extraction shooter will be like. You can try it out early with a “server slam” event from February 26th to March 2nd. J Youtube Jay Peters Feb 12 Link A new John Wick game is in the works. Right now it’s just called the Untitled John Wick Game , so it seems really early in development. It will feature an “original script set in the John Wick timeline.” The game is a “collaboration between Saber, Lionsgate, and franchise director Chad Stahelski.” J Youtube Jay Peters Feb 12 Link Silent Hill’s next game looks frighteningly good. Silent Hill: Townfall is set to launch sometime in 2026 , and Konami will be hosting a dedicated showcase about the game at 7PM ET . A Youtube Andrew Webster Feb 12 Link A new Castlevania? In this economy? Yes, it’s true, Konami remembered that the vampire-slaying series exists, and the new game looks sick as hell. It”s described as a “2D action-exploration” developed Evil Empire and Motion Twin, of Dead Cells fame. Launching later this year. A Youtube Andrew Webster Feb 12 Link 007 in 2026. Here’s yet another glimpse at Hitman developer IO’s take on a youthful James Bond, which is launching on May 27th. J Youtube Jay Peters Feb 12 Link Now this is Star Wars racing. Star Wars: Galactic Racer launches in 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X / S, and PC, and Sony just showed off gameplay in a new trailer . There’s even some podracing! J Twitter Jay Peters Feb 12 Link Mina the Hollower is getting a PlayStation-exclusive demo starting tomorrow. Yacht Club Games’ next title was delayed last year , and it will now launch sometime in spring 2026. The game is “larger than all of the Shovel Knight games combined,” Yacht Club Games says in a press release. Update : Added information from press release. A Youtube Andrew Webster Feb 12 Link The Neva ending story. The gorgeous adventure Neva is getting a prequel that looks just as beautiful and will probably be just as heartbreaking. The DLC launches on February 19th. J Youtube Jay Peters Feb 12 Link Beast of Reincarnation launches on August 4th. Based on a new trailer , Game Freak’s next game could be shaping up into something special. A Youtube Andrew Webster Feb 12 Link Some resonating gameplay. Remedy showed off its upcoming Control sequel in action, and it sure looks like it emphasizes the action part of action-adventure game. It’s due out later this year. J Youtube Jay Peters Feb 12 Link Dead or Alive isn’t dead. Dead or Alive 6 Last Round is coming to PS5 on June 26th . There is also a new entry of the series in development . A Youtube Andrew Webster Feb 12 Link A better look at Pragmata’s world. Capcom’s sci-fi action game has been getting a lot of screen time lately — it was just featured at last week’s Nintendo Direct — but the newest trailer is a little quieter and slower, giving you a taste of the game’s atmosphere. J Youtube Jay Peters Feb 12 Link Bad Robot’s big new game is kind of giving me Returnal vibes. Sony will be publishing it , and thanks to a new trailer, now we can get a sense of 4 Loop ’s co-operative, roguelike-y gameplay. The team is led by Left 4 Dead designer Mike Booth, so I’m optimistic that it will be a good multiplayer game. You can sign up for playtests now . A Youtube Andrew Webster Feb 12 Link Ghost your friends. The excellent samurai action game Ghost of Yōtei ’s multiplayer expansion Legends is launching on March 10th, and it looks to bring a lot more Japanese folklore into the mix, as four-player squads will fight all kinds of mythological creatures. J Youtube Jay Peters Feb 12 Link Kena is back. Kena: Scars of Kosmora is a new sequel to 2021’s Kena: Bridge of Spirits . It’s launching on PlayStation and PC sometime in 2026. PlayStation State of Play February 2026: all the news and trailers Andrew Webster Feb 12 J The Verge Jay Peters Feb 12 Link PlayStation’s next big State of Play is about to begin. PlayStation, like other big publishers , has been leaning more into games that follow proven formulas , but I’m hoping we’ll see a few announcements that come out of left field. The show starts at 2PM ET and is set to last for more than an hour. We’ll be covering it live . Big games are getting bigger — and so are the stakes Jay Peters Jan 22 Spider-Noir looks like a hard-boiled thriller in first trailer Charles Pulliam-Moore Feb 12 S External Link Stevie Bonifield Feb 12 Link The official Nvidia GeForce Now app has arrived on Amazon Fire TV. Starting on Thursday, GeForce Now users can stream games directly on Amazon Fire TV devices , including a few new arrivals coming this week like Reanimal and Kingdom Come: Deliverance . Fire TVs join a growing list of platforms with support for Nvidia GeForce Now, which even includes Linux . GFN Thursday: GeForce NOW on Amazon Fire TV | NVIDIA Blog [ NVIDIA Blog ] J External Link Jess Weatherbed Feb 12 Link The Pokémon Go stop on Epstein’s island is gone. Yep, Little Saint James had a single Pokéstop until it was removed by Niantic this week after Pokémon Go players kept spoofing their locations to “visit” the island. We don’t know if Epstein himself used it, though emails show he recommended the game to Deepak Chopra and Sheikh Fahad Bin Hamad . Epstein Island Apparently Has a Pokemon Go PokéStop, Yikes [ GAMINGbible ] J TikTok Jay Peters Feb 12 Link Here’s a video about the amazing drone footage from the Winter Olympics. These shots have been so cool ! J External Link Jay Peters Feb 12 Link Where is the Steam Deck OLED? It’s out of stock in the US and in parts of Asia, as reported by Windows Central . We reached out to Valve this morning to ask about it, but didn’t get a reply. Wonder if it’s partly due to the component supply shortages that will affect the price of the Steam Machine . The Steam Deck OLED is getting harder to find, and the timing is suspicious [ Windows Central ] Highguard’s developer reportedly lays off ‘most’ of its staff just over two weeks after launch Jay Peters Feb 12 J External Link Jay Peters Feb 11 Link Severance could have at least four seasons. A big inside baseball article by Deadline reports that a fourth season of the show, of which Apple has currently aired two seasons, is a “lock.” A fifth would be at the discretion of executive producers Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller. Apple aims to start shooting season three this summer. Apple Acquires ‘Severance’ As It Grows In-House Studio; Series Eyes Summer S3 Start, 4-Season Run & Universe Expansion; Fifth Season To EP [ Deadline ] J Twitter Jay Peters Feb 11 Link Diablo II: Resurrected is getting a new class today. Diablo II: Resurrected — Reign of the Warlock is launching as a paid update with the Warlock class and some quality-of-life changes . (The game is now on Steam , too.) The update costs $24.99 on its own, or you can buy Resurrected with the update and the base game for $39.99. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Most Popular Most Popular Apple’s doing something on March 4th Why are Epstein’s emails full of equals signs? OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI The Pocket Taco is the best way to turn your phone into a Game Boy Anker’s USB-C cable that lets you charge two gadgets at once is 20 percent off Advertiser Content From This is the title for the native ad