Drew Swanson is a Features Article Editor from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Being a gamer all his life and enjoying everything from ARPGs like Diablo to JRPGs like Pokemon and Persona, ...

PARIS, March 26 (Reuters) - The chess Candidates tournament opens on Sunday with a throwback feel — eight players, long-time controls and the game in its purest form — but also with a sense that this ...

PCWorld highlights how Microsoft’s new Xbox leadership under Asha Sharma could address customer frustration over Game Pass Ultimate’s 50% price increase to $29.99 monthly. Microsoft Rewards points, ...

Advanced AI models appear willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put into simulated geopolitical crises. Kenneth Payne at King’s College London set three ...

In brief: Microsoft is still exploring ways to leverage NPUs for gaming. While AI-based image upscaling might be the most obvious implementation, the company is also attempting to turn Copilot into a ...

The designers at Lightspark write: Humans can’t reliably recall colors. This is a simple game to see how good (or bad) you are at it. Dialed shows you a color for 5 seconds, then asks you to recreate ...

Reanimal, the latest survival horror from Tarsier Studios of Little Nightmares fame, has both local and online co-op, complete with crossplay, and it only requires one player to own the game thanks to ...

Ramin Djawadi’s Game of Thrones theme is one of the most iconic TV scores of the 2010s. There’s perhaps a reason, then, that when House of the Dragon began, Djawadi returned to Westeros and kind of ...

Could a machine outthink the best human mind in the world? Thirty years ago that was still an open question, but a historic matchup between a chess grandmaster and an IBM supercomputer answered it. On ...

Framed as a sports tale, “Queen of Chess,” directed by Rory Kennedy, recounts the life of Judit Polgar, who battled sexism as much as rival players. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for ...