Oddiko wins The Very Big Indie Pitch with Viking pub management game Beer and Plunder

It's appropriate that President’s Day comes right after Valentine’s Day because there’s nothing we love more than democracy. To celebrate this most sacred of holidays, we’ve collected some games and literature to deliver some of that piping hot liber-tea directly into your veins.

Two years before his tragic death in 1973, the legendary martial artist, philosopher, and movie star Bruce Lee had an idea for a television show. Tentatively titled Ah Sahm, it would follow the adventures of a martial artist in the American Old West.

Though is filled with a ton of game mechanics with less emphasis on the lore or narrative, the giant tree in the top left of the screen has sparked the interest of many of the 19 million people who have hopped into the game since it was originally released. Without a direct story in beyond the Journal entries scattered throughout the Palpagos Islands, it's left to players' imagination as to what the giant tree is and what it could mean for the game's Pal population.

One of the bigger stories to come out of 2023’s Toronto International Film Festival was Bertrand Bonello’s science fiction movie The Beast, a dizzying, surreal story about a woman, Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux), reliving three past lives as part of a process to purge her memories and emotions. In each of these lives, she encounters Louis (George MacKay of 1917 and Marrowbone) in a series of emotional relationships that lead in dangerous directions. Critics’ responses were split between strong positives and dubious negatives, but they seemed to agree that it’s a remarkably image-driven, idea-packed film that’s sensual and challenging. The comparison to the Wachowskis’ Cloud Atlas seemed obvious, too, given the separate but linked stories of people echoing across time together.

Rise of the Ronin may have just been cancelled from being released in Korea.

OpenAI's Sam Altman said the United Arab Emirates could serve as the world's “regulatory sandbox” to test artificial intelligence technologies and later spearhead global rules limiting their use.

Terminal City, Mister X, and Batman: Black & White artist Dean Motter is teaming up with Dr. Rafael Medoff, the director of the David Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, for a new non-fiction graphic novel that tells the true story of four men who fought to reveal the existence of the Holocaust to the world.

We may not be using the M word much these days, but the race to build an interconnected avatar-driven virtual world didn’t take the last year off.

When we talk about extreme overclocking and breaking world records with the latest CPUs, we almost entirely expect it to be achieved on a flagship or high-end motherboard that costs several hundred dollars but what if an entry-level motherboard were to set world records using one of the fastest multi-threaded CPUs on the consumer segment? Well, ASRock has achieved just that with its $110 US B650 motherboard.

Game developer People Can Fly has laid off around thirty developers from an unannounced Square Enix game codenamed Project Gemini. The news was broken yesterday by Kotaku, which obtained an email sent by Development Director Adam Alker to his fellow employees. Alker chalked the layoffs to budget limitations and a decision to shrink the game's scope.

Global electricity demand from data centers, cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence could more than double over the next three years, adding the equivalent of Germany's entire power needs, the International Energy Agency forecasts in its latest report.

ASUS India introduces the Asus Zenbook 14 OLED (UX3405), an Intel Evo Edition ultraportable laptop that signifies a notable addition to the Zenbook Classic series. With this ASUS laptop, the company aims to redefine premium design, extend battery life, and champion sustainable practices along with artificial intelligence (AI).