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A tour bus carrying members of MUNA caught fire on Interstate 5 in Burbank, Calif., Monday morning (Oct. 19), just hours after the trio performed at Stanford University. The band said everyone is safe. “Many personal items were lost but we’re all safe, thank goodness,” the group wrote in a social media post after the...

In some cases, interacting with video game characters stirs real jealousy in players’ partners. An extended gameplay presentation for Grand Theft Auto VI showed players the interaction between the two main characters, Lucia and Jason. A recent trailer went further and showed an intimate shower scene. Players will be able to develop romantic relationships in...

J.J. Abrams has made a lot of great science fiction, along with some bad stuff, too. His most celebrated achievement may be co-creating Lost. The show became the prototype for engrossing puzzle-box television. It hooked viewers with shock reveals and irresistible mysteries, and it changed the TV industry. Abrams also directed the pilot, which remains...

Modders have combined several modern AI technologies to bring NPCs to life. Universal-Modder recently introduced a mod for Grand Theft Auto V that lets players talk to its characters. The project, called NPCTalk, is an AI-based system that takes input from a microphone and generates character responses in real time. The system uses Fish Audio,...

Crimes will have consequences if you don’t wear a mask. Modders continue to support Red Dead Redemption 2 with mods that expand its gameplay mechanics. A modder who goes by nicklovin99 has now added a nemesis system to the Rockstar Games title, inspired by Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. According to nicklovin99, the mod gives every...

Swae Lee Supplied by Live Nation Swae Lee has announced a five-date Australian tour for January 2027 in support of his debut solo album, Same Difference. The run opens Jan. 6 at Forum in Melbourne, followed by Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Jan. 8 and Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Jan. 10. Hindley Street...

Critical Role has played Dungeons & Dragons for an online audience of fans called Critters for over a decade. In that time, the group has produced moments of love, heartbreak and devastation. Examples include Vax’s sacrifice in Campaign 1, the death of a beloved party member in Campaign 2 and the lore reveals of Campaign...

Resident Evil Requiem developers track several internal metrics to control the game’s visual and animation effects. Resident Evil fans recently noticed a developer interview in the latest issue of the Japanese magazine CGWORLD. In it, Capcom developers discussed their work on Resident Evil Requiem and shared several details. One example is a “pulse gauge” that...

Model Maria “Lady Melamori” Davydova has cosplayed as the Dark Urge from Baldur’s Gate 3, a version of the character who stopped fighting the voices in his head and chose to spread chaos, reveling in the suffering of others. Many players of the RPG Baldur’s Gate 3 praised its meaningful variety, where player decisions shape...

Activision’s most recent attempt to launch a new subseries was Call of Duty: Vanguard, released in 2021. Activision has confirmed that the next Call of Duty game, planned for 2027, will start an entirely new subseries of the franchise. It will belong to neither Modern Warfare nor Black Ops. Activision chief marketing officer Tyler Bahl...

The first reviewers have already met the new heroes of Night City. The first full reviews of season 2 of the anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, made by CD Projekt RED and studio TRIGGER, are now online. The sequel does not yet have a score on review aggregators, but most journalists respond to it positively. Critics again...

Chris Colfer and Darren Criss at London’s Royal Albert Hotel Danny Kaan Darren Criss reunited with his Glee co-star Chris Colfer on Sunday night (Oct. 18) at London’s Royal Albert Hall, where the two performed together for the first time in more than a decade. Criss, an Emmy- and Tony-winning actor, was making his debut...

Spider-Man star Tom Holland will headline Penthouse, a new thriller from Sony, written and directed by Drew Pearce (Iron Man 3, Hobbs & Shaw). Plot details are being kept under wraps. Holland will also produce Penthouse. It will be Pearce’s second outing as a director, following 2017’s Hotel Artemis. Holland has had a big year,...

Decomp.dev, one of the largest sites dedicated to video game decompilation, has announced that it is winding down its core operations. According to the project’s creator, the rise of artificial intelligence and the misuse of AI tools have split the community and turned collaborative work into a race for quick results. Decomp.dev was a directory...

All ten episodes of the new season will arrive on Netflix at the same time. The team behind the anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 has announced the exact time of its worldwide premiere. All ten episodes of season two will be available on Netflix on October 20 at 10:00 a.m. Moscow time. The sequel tells a...

Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow has been cast in the lead role of The Apology, a new series from Netflix and A24, according to Deadline. Thomas Vinterberg, the director of Another Round, will helm the show. The story follows Evelyn and Caleb Emspoker, whose son was brutally murdered 18 years ago. One day, a man turns...