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Q&A with Tim Sweeney on his vision for a cross-platform gaming social system, Unreal Engine 6, AI's PR challenges, the state of AAA game development, and more (Tim Clark/PC Gamer)
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Tim Sweeney on the future of games, AI, and whether Valve will ever join forces with Epic: 'It's now clear that nobody's going to end up with an absolute monopoly'
The Epic Games CEO discusses his vision for "Team Open," his objections to Steam's AI disclosure requirement, and the huge problems facing AAA game development.

Trump utilized a Wednesday evening celebration on the National Mall to unveil a new athletic competition for high school students,
an announcement that promptly sparked ridicule online from detractors who drew comparisons to The Hunger Games.
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Donald Trump mocked over new 'Patriot Games' as critics brand it 'Temu Hunger Games'
President Donald Trump's new athletic contest for high school students sparked online mockery, with critics comparing it to The Hunger Games

Leben und spielen lassen: Die fünf besten „James Bond“-Games
Der berühmteste Geheimagent der Welt hat im Laufe der letzten 40 Jahre viele interaktive Abenteuer durchlebt. Wir präsentieren fünf der besten davon.

Leben und spielen lassen: Die fünf besten „James Bond“-Games
Der berühmteste Geheimagent der Welt hat im Laufe der letzten 40 Jahre viele interaktive Abenteuer durchlebt. Wir präsentieren fünf der besten davon.

Perhaps the hype was more effectively enhanced than the actual athletic performance?
Enhanced Games claim ‘we changed the world’ but only one record broken and three clean athletes win
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/may

Perhaps the hype was more effectively enhanced than the actual athletic performance?
Enhanced Games claim ‘we changed the world’ but only one record broken and three clean athletes win
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/may

malaria_genes: Malaria var DBLa HVR networks
Networks of recombinant antigen genes from the human malaria parasite P. falciparum. Each of the 9 networks shares the same set of vertices but has different edges, corresponding to the 9 highly variable regions (HVRs) in the DBLa domain of the var protein. Nodes are var genes, and two genes are connected if they share a substring whose length is statistically significant. Metadata includes two types of node labels, both based on sequence st…

#NowPlaying Been enjoying this GONG SLAYER (must always be said with both hands raised to the sky) album, “Gongs for the Dead” c/o Somnimage, which is some impressively hypnotic low end drone from a single 40-inch wind gong. https://

Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics, co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a ~$1B valuation; it raised a ~$50M seed in 2025 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/04/21/android-andy-rubin-gen…

Scoop: Android creator Andy Rubin's humanoid robotics company gets $1b valuation
Android founder Andy Rubin compares robotics opportunities to smartphones.

The US supreme court struck down a restrictive gun law in the state of Hawaii
that bans people from carrying guns in certain public spaces and on private property without the permission of the property’s owner.
At issue was a 2023 state law that barred carrying a firearm on private property without the owner’s approval
and created a list of more than a dozen “sensitive places” where guns cannot be carried,
such as beaches and restaurants that serve alcohol.
The …

US supreme court strikes down Hawaii’s gun restrictions in major second amendment ruling
The law banned people from carrying guns in most public spaces and private property without owner’s permission

General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning via gameplay footage, raised $320M led by Khosla at a $2.3B valuation, for $454M in total funding (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/from

From Fortnite to robots: General Intuition raises $2.3B on bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world | TechCrunch
General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.