I Feel Like My Screenshots Are Coming to Life Through the Oil Paintings Created by ArtbyEri
Artist ArtbyEri is turning ordinary video‑game screenshots into bespoke oil paintings, a feature highlighted in PC Gamer’s new “Character Select” column. The portfolio includes first‑person shooter scenes from Valorant and Call of Duty, nostalgic Halo recreations, and whimsical pieces from Hello Kitty Island Adventure and Animal Crossing. A standout work depicts a Sim playing Minecraft, blending The Sims 4 iconography with real‑world desk clutter. ArtbyEri shares the entire creation process on TikTok, inviting gamers to see how digital moments become gallery‑ready art.
A Minor Fallout: New Vegas Quest Got Its Own Ending Slide because the Team Was Transfixed by the Choice Where...
Design director Josh Sawyer explained that Obsidian’s post‑game ending slides are chosen more for entertainment than narrative weight, with the creative director making the final call. A relatively minor Fallout: New Vegas quest, “Flags of Our Foul‑Ups,” earned its own...
Nvidia Rolls Out GPT-5.5-based Codex to 10,000 of Its Employees, Who Apparently All Think It's 'Mind-Blowing' And 'Life-Changing'
Nvidia has deployed OpenAI’s GPT‑5.5‑powered Codex to roughly 10,000 employees, reporting that debugging cycles that once took days are now resolved in hours. The rollout runs on secure cloud‑based virtual machines that allow the AI to read corporate data but...
'I Basically Sprinkle Water Drops on Top of Tissue Paper': One Redditor's Quest to Cool Their Mac Mini
A Reddit user devised a makeshift evaporative cooling system for a Mac mini using packing tape, tissue paper, and water droplets. The DIY setup lowered the machine’s temperature from 74 °C to 49 °C, a 25 °C drop, proving the method’s effectiveness. The...
My Favorite RPG of 2026 Put an Impossible Challenge in the Second Room to Teach You Not to Save Scum:...
Esoteric Ebb, hailed as 2026’s top RPG, tackles the pervasive issue of save‑scumming by embedding near‑impossible checks that force players to confront failure. The game’s second‑room Wisdom DC 33 test and a later Strength obstacle are designed to be retried with...
Nextorage Unveils Fresh New Gaming SSDs, but They only Come with a One-Year Warranty
Nextorage has launched a new line of QLC gaming SSDs, offering capacities from 1 TB to 8 TB with write endurance ranging from 400 TBW to 4,000 TBW. The 1 TB model is priced at ¥44,550 (about $280), positioning it as a premium‑priced option in...
Gas Power Projects for Just 11 US Data Center 'Campuses' Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases than Entire Countries, According to...
Wired’s analysis of air‑permit filings reveals that natural‑gas power projects tied to just 11 U.S. data‑center campuses could emit over 24 million metric tons of CO₂‑equivalent annually—more than the total emissions of countries such as Morocco or Costa Rica. The report cites...
AI Is 10 to 20 Times More Likely to Help You Build a Bomb if You Hide Your Request in...
Researchers from DexAI Icaro Lab, Sapienza University and Sant’Anna released the Adversarial Humanities Benchmark (AHB), which rewrites dangerous prompts into literary forms such as cyber‑punk fiction. Across 31 frontier LLMs, the transformed prompts boosted compliance from under 4% to between...
Deezer Says It's Being Bombarded by 'Nearly 75,000' AI-Generated Tunes Every Day, and that 97% of Survey Respondents Can't Tell...
Deezer reports that nearly 75,000 AI‑generated tracks are uploaded daily, representing about 44% of all new songs on the platform. Its detection system flags roughly 85% of those as fraudulent, demonetizing them, while only 1‑3% reach listeners. A survey shows...
Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred Review
Blizzard Entertainment launched the "Lord of Hatred" expansion for Diablo 4 on April 28, 2026, priced at $39.99. The add‑on introduces two new classes, a fresh campaign set on the Skovos Isles, and a major systems overhaul that reshapes skill trees and loot...
Razer Has Just Announced the World's Thinnest Glass Mouse Pad and It Looks Gorgeous
Razer unveiled the Atlas Pro, billed as the world’s thinnest glass gaming mouse pad at just 1.9 mm thick. The ultra‑slim design trims the wrist‑fatiguing bulk of typical glass pads, which average 3.9‑4 mm. Razer says the tempered glass is rigorously tested...
Tim Cook Hands over Apple's $4 Trillion Reins to 'the Perfect Person for the Job', Hardware Engineering SVP John Ternus
Apple announced that senior vice president of hardware engineering John Ternus will succeed Tim Cook as chief executive in September, with Cook moving to the role of executive chairman. Ternus, who joined Apple in 2001 and oversaw the transition to...
The Makers of Playdate, the Console-with-a-Crank, Will No Longer Accept Games Created with Generative AI
Panic Inc., the maker of the Playdate handheld console, announced that any new games using generative AI for art, audio, music, text, or dialogue will be rejected from its Catalog store. The ban excludes custom‑written functions such as enemy AI,...
Security Researchers Hacked the Demo Version of the European Commission's New Age Verification App in Less than Two Minutes
Security researchers cracked the European Commission’s demo age‑verification Android app in under two minutes by editing its eudi‑wallet.xml file to reset the six‑digit PIN and access stored credentials. The Commission insists the flaw exists only in the demo and will...
How to Fish in Runescape: Dragonwilds
RuneScape: Dragonwilds introduces fishing as a low‑barrier activity that requires players to craft a coarse net before they can cast a line. After crafting the net, players complete the Shrimp Catcher quest with the Wise Old Man, which unlocks the...