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Mafia: The Old Country, the next entry in the long-running franchise, was due out this year — and now Steam has accidentally revealed a potential release date. According to the game’s Steam page, it will launch on August 8. The game is also set to release on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series on the same … Read more

Xsolla, a global game commerce company, has partnered with Altava Group, a digital fashion and virtual entertainment company, to bring fashion IP to games.Read More

This week, as part of the process to develop a budget for fiscal-year 2026, the Trump White House shared the draft version of its budget request for NASA with the space agency. This initial version of the administration’s budget request calls for an approximately 20 percent overall cut to the agency’s budget across the board, … Read more

If you’re a gamer who has been on Facebook or YouTube in the past week, there’s probably a good chance you’ve seen people arguing about the Nintendo Switch 2’s pricing. My Facebook algorithm has interpreted my interest in the system as a sign that I want to see a constant stream of angry memes about … Read more

Mika Games Invests $2 Million in Hybrid-Casual Game Set to Surpass Plants vs. Zombies A gaming fund launched by Wargaming co-founder Nick Katselapov invests in Agonalea Games, the Buenos Aires-based studio behind Punko.io, the hybrid-casual tower defense game that delivers the mid-core experience players crave. With the product model’s revenue surg…Read More

The reliability of the electric grid is critical. From handling demand surges and evolving power needs to preventing infrastructure failures that can cause wildfires, utility companies have a lot to keep tabs on. Buzz Solutions — a member of the NVIDIA Inception program for cutting-edge startups — is helping by using AI to improve how … Read more

After declaring the FTC to be under White House control, Trump fired both Democratic members despite a US law and Supreme Court precedent stating that the president cannot fire commissioners without good cause. House Commerce Committee leaders said the all-Republican FTC will end the “partisan mismanagement” allegedly seen under the Biden-era FTC and then-Chair Lina … Read more

Your TV speakers are sick and tired of dishing out lackluster audio and are demanding a vacation. There couldn’t be a better time for Klipsch to have marked down one of its best home theater soundbars, the Flexus Core 200. For a limited time, this Dolby Atmos emulator is available on Amazon for only $395. … Read more

The Esports World Cup Foundation (EWCF) announced a record-breaking $70 million-plus prize pool for the upcoming Esports World Cup 2025.Read More

In the latest MLPerf Inference V5.0 benchmarks, which reflect some of the most challenging inference scenarios, the NVIDIA Blackwell platform set records — and marked NVIDIA’s first MLPerf submission using the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 system, a rack-scale solution designed for AI reasoning. Delivering on the promise of cutting-edge AI takes a new kind of compute … Read more