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Terminator 2D: No Fate review – the least bad Terminator game in a long while

PC, Nintendo Switch/Switch 2, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox; Bitmap Bureau/Reef EntertainmentArcade specialists Bitmap Bureau ply their craft in this retro remake of James Cameron’s action film. But Termin...

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When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr

The US economy is pumped up on tech-bro vanity. The inevitable correction must prompt a global conversation about intelligent machines, regulation and riskIf AI did not change your life in 2025, ne...

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State of play: who holds the power in the video games industry in 2025?

This year has brought us many brilliant video games – but as wealth continues to concentrate, and games are used to exert economic and political influence, we need to keep an eye on the top players...

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Television in titbits: the rise of the billion-dollar microdrama industry

Hollywood is betting big on vertical microdramas told in chunks under two minutes. Can a gimmick turn into a new form of entertainment?If you have been anywhere close to the social media blast radi...

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George Osborne has a new job in tech, and it doesn’t bode well for Britain | Chris Stokel-Walker

OpenAI is the latest to make a political hire as big tech spreads its tentacles around the world. So what’s the attraction?George Osborne getting a new job isn’t exactly news. Since leaving frontli...

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Inside Fallout, gaming’s most surprising TV hit

With a blend of retro-futurism, moral ambiguity and monster-filled wastelands, Fallout became an unlikely prestige television favourite. Now there is something a bigger, stranger and funnier journ...

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Ghost jobs, robot gatekeepers and AI interviewers: let me tell you about the bleak new age of job hunting | Eleanor Margolis

In my six months of looking for work, I’ve found that from fake ads to AI screening software, the search is more soul-destroying than everAs I apply for yet another job, I look at the company’s web...

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Simogo Legacy Collection review – remember when phone games were this wonderful?

PC, Nintendo Switch/Switch 2; SimogoA suite of iOS classics is lovingly preserved in this collection from the Swedish developer, early standard-setters of the meaningful smartphone gameFifteen year...

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Musicians are deeply concerned about AI. So why are the major labels embracing it?

Companies such as Udio, Suno and Klay will let you use AI to make new music based on existing artists’ work. It could mean more royalties – but many are worriedThis was the year that AI-generated m...

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Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’

AI Mode is mangling recipes by merging instructions from multiple creators – and causing them huge dips in ad trafficThis past March, when Google began rolling out its AI Mode search capability, it...

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The US supreme court’s TikTok ruling is a scandal | Evelyn Douek and Jameel Jaffer

The decision means TikTok now operates under the threat that it could be forced offline with a stroke of Trump’s penJudicial opinions allowing the government to suppress speech in the name of natio...

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‘Our industry has been strip-mined’: video game workers protest at The Game Awards

Outside the lavish event, workers called out the ‘greed’ in the industry that has left games ‘being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money’It’s the night of the 2025 Game Awards, a majo...

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He wrote the world’s most successful video games – now what? Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser on life after Grand Theft Auto

He rewrote the rule book with Rockstar then left it all behind. Now Dan Houser is back with a storytelling-focused studio to take on AI-obsessed tech bros and Mexican beauty queensThere are only a ...

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Terminator 2D: No Fate review – the least bad Terminator game in a long while

When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr

State of play: who holds the power in the video games industry in 2025?

Television in titbits: the rise of the billion-dollar microdrama industry

George Osborne has a new job in tech, and it doesn’t bode well for Britain | Chris Stokel-Walker

Inside Fallout, gaming’s most surprising TV hit

Ghost jobs, robot gatekeepers and AI interviewers: let me tell you about the bleak new age of job hunting | Eleanor Margolis

Simogo Legacy Collection review – remember when phone games were this wonderful?

Musicians are deeply concerned about AI. So why are the major labels embracing it?

Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’

The US supreme court’s TikTok ruling is a scandal | Evelyn Douek and Jameel Jaffer

‘Our industry has been strip-mined’: video game workers protest at The Game Awards

He wrote the world’s most successful video games – now what? Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser on life after Grand Theft Auto

Why celebrities are loving crypto again in Trump’s second term

‘If we build it, they will come’: Skövde, the tiny town powering up Sweden’s video game boom

As AI floods our culture, here’s why we must protect human storytelling in games

Pebble’s founder introduces a $75 AI smart ring for recording brief notes with a press of a button

Horror game Horses has been banned from sale – but is it as controversial as you’d think?

‘I don’t take no for an answer’: how a small group of women changed the law on deepfake porn

The 15 best tech gifts in the US for moms, as requested by moms

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond review – Samus Aran is suited up for action again. Was it worth the 18-year wait?