A retro Starship Troopers shooter, a video store sim and other new indie games worth checking out

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. There are a whole bunch of neat new games out this week, as well as updates on some interesting upcoming projects. In cas [...]

Workday’s CTO traded his C-suite title for a technical staff role at Anthropic

In short: Peter Bailis, who joined Workday as chief technology officer in May 2025, left the company last month and has taken a role as member of technical staff at Anthropic, where he will focus on [...]

Nintendo shares a vintage SNES commercial starring Paul Rudd as he reprises the role for Switch 2

Nintendo surprised us with a little blast from the past this weekend, uploading a 34-year-old Super Nintendo commercial featuring Paul Rudd to its YouTube channel — and it’s released a sequel for [...]

The Morning After: Elon Musk’s SpaceX is buying his AI company, xAI

Like some sort of corporate Russian doll, SpaceX has announced its acquisition of xAI. The merger will “form the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth,” accord [...]

Trump calls Fed Chair Jerome Powell 'a major loser' as attacks rattle markets

In a particularly vitriolic Truth Social post on Monday, President Donald Trump labeled Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell “a major loser” and “Mr. Too Late” for not lowering interest rates � [...]

Jerry quits Ben & Jerry's in fight with Unilever

The co-founder of the ice cream brand says he is leaving since the parent company no longer allows the brand to stand behind social issues [...]

'No Tax on Tips' apparently also applies to your favorite streamer

Streamers, YouTubers and other content creators are eligible for the new "No Tax on Tips" policy in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, 2024. &qu [...]

Sony is reportedly shutting down Dark Outlaw Games, run by former Call of Duty director

Sony is shutting down Dark Outlaw Games, a first-party game studio led by former Call of Duty producer Jason Blundell, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports. Before leading Dark Outlaw Games, Blunde [...]

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards just named 18 US tech firms as military targets. The age of the civilian data centre is over.

At 8pm Tehran time on Tuesday, a new kind of front line was drawn, not through desert terrain or along a disputed border, but through the server farms, cloud regions, and corporate campuses of America [...]