The head of the biggest gaming site in the world is leaving the company at the end of August, Kotaku has learned. John Davison, who has been IGN‘s publisher since joining back in 2019, told staff on Monday it was time for “the next chapter.” The high-profile departure comes shortly after a big round of … Read more
A League of Legends player who claimed to have built a career around boosting accounts and selling them replied angrily on social media to a developer at Riot Games. He was worried about how he would make money now. The dev’s response was a link to McDonalds’ careers page. On August 11, Riot Games announced … Read more
OpenAI launched its long-awaited AI update, GPT-5, on August 7. It made lofty promises like “PhD‑level intelligence.” But within 24 hours, the tool’s most devoted users were cataloging its many bugs, errors, and shortcomings on Reddit. The ChatGPT fandom started melting down. CEO Sam Altman responded by promising to let customers start using the older … Read more
For months now, rumors of a Lego Star Wars Death Star set have been floating around Reddit, Instagram, and other places where Lego nerds (like myself) hang out. Now we finally have our first real look at the massive upcoming Lego set, and it seems to confirm the previous rumors, which also claimed the price … Read more
A small store in California was robbed earlier this month, and the thieves focused primarily on taking thousands of dollars’ worth of Labubu dolls. The owner says this happened only two months after opening her shop. As reported by ABC7, Joanna Avendano’s One Stop Sales, located in La Puente, California, was burglarized on August 6 … Read more
We’ve known for a while that Wuyang, previously codenamed “Aqua,” would be the next hero added to Overwatch 2. Wuyang is a support hero who, as his codename suggests, uses water-based abilities on the battlefield. While we haven’t seen his kit in action yet, the very concept already calls to mind images of the waterbenders … Read more
The traditional Metroidvania format works something like this: As you gain new abilities, you gain access to new areas. That platform up there that’s completely unreachable? Come back when you’ve gained double-jump. That sort of thing. Öoo follows the same formula, except when you return to those previously explored levels, you realize that it was … Read more
Mafia: The Old Country is set on the island of Sicily. Despite your proximity to the Mediterranean, however, there’s no swimming in the latest, not-quite-open-world gangster game. A clip showing the new blockbuster’s lack of “swimming physics” quickly blew up on social media, spurring a debate about whether The Old Country cuts corners. In actuality, … Read more
Over the weekend, Weapons made a killing at the box office, opening with an impressive $42 million and in the process helping movie studio Warner Bros. do something no other studio or distributor has done before in history. Zach Cregger’s latest horror film, Weapons, tells the story of a group of kids who all left … Read more
On August 8, Grass Wonder, a real-world racehorse which gacha game Umamusume: Pretty Derby based one of its anime horse girls on, died at the age of 30. According to the official obituary, the horse (who is male in real life) passed due to multiple organ failure. The official Umamusume social media accounts paid tribute … Read more