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IO’s James Bond origin saga 007 First Light has been out for several days, and that means modders have had time to start the important work of making sure we can skip the intros, make the cutscenes run at obscene…

“While we are quite pleased with your thieving prowess and how much you are enjoying the game,” say Thick as Thieves developers OtherSide Entertainment, “we also know that there is continued room for improvement and we intend to keep serving…

[Ed. note: Minor spoilers ahead for two details about Backrooms’ setting, and one question about practical vs. digital effects.]

We asked Keegan-Michael Key to pit Mario characters against real Italian-Americans, and learned a lot about his love for classic film.

As reported by Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter, Backrooms is big. How big? Bigger than Jesus The Beatles The Mandalorian and Grogu. Backrooms grossed $38.4 million with its opening day and previews, leaving it on track for an $85-$88 million…

According to the experiment’s data, Grok just loves committing arson and “inspiring voter fraud”

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There’s no “June Gloom” for Netflix this year. Not only are we getting a new Jennifer Lopez/Brett Goldstein rom-com, Office Romance, but also a veritable avalanche of wedding movies from Julia Roberts joints My Best Friend’s Wedding and Runaway Bride…

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has announced that its opt-in, generative AI-limiting “No AI” search page has received three times as much traffic since Google’s latest round of updates and PR for AI mode search. In addition to user privacy, DuckDuckGo…

Ubisoft seems to have another leak problem, as what appears to be a remastered version of Rayman Origins has appeared on the Xbox Store – and it’s only $2,000. Nintendo Everything caught and shared a Microsoft listing for an unannounced…