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Steam Replay 2025 is here to recap your PC gaming habits
‘Tis the season for gift-giving, family feasts and companies turning their harvested user data into lighthearted recaps. Valve's take on the year-end rewind, Steam Replay, is now available. It...
Everything is a mockumentary now, thanks to Rob Reiner
Rob Reiner’s 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap would influence comedy for years to come. | Alberto E. Rodriguez/FilmMagic Between the emerging details surrounding the gruesome deaths of Rob...
The last Xbox update of 2025 includes a handy Wireless Headset upgrade
As part of its last Xbox-focused software update of the year, Microsoft is improving the Bluetooth performance of the Xbox Wireless Headset to make it work even better with Windows 11. Microsoft...
NYT Games has a year-in-review thing now too
The New York Times is getting in on the year-end roundup bandwagon. The publication's new Year in Games wraps up stats about which of its daily puzzles and brain-teasers readers played over the...
Is ISIS back?
Floral tributes and candles are placed at at Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach on December 16, 2025, in Sydney, Australia. | Audrey Richardson/Getty Images Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese...
Larian’s CEO says the studio isn’t ‘trimming down teams to replace them with AI’
A screenshot from Divinity’s reveal trailer. The CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 studio Larian has inadvertently stirred up some controversy over the use of AI in the developer's next game. Based on an...
Texas sues five TV manufacturers over predatory ad-targeting spyware
Behold: Ken Paxton will now demonstrate that broken clocks are indeed right twice a day. The Texas Attorney General is notorious for, well, a very long list of reasons. But in this case, he at least...
YouTube is letting creators make playable games with a Gemini 3 tool
Google's at it again, once more insisting that AI is something people need or want more of in their lives. The latest move comes from YouTube Gaming, which announced an open beta for a project...
Crunchyroll annual subscriptions are on sale for the holidays
If you're looking for something to watch during a holiday break from work or school, you can't go wrong with anime, and right now you can sign-up for a year of Crunchyroll for as low as...
Netflix will soon start airing video podcasts like The Breakfast Club
Netflix has inked a deal with iHeartMedia to begin showing video podcasts, so the content will never, ever run out. The partnership covers new episodes from more than 15 popular podcasts, including...