PEGI ratings for game releases in Europe will be age-restricted if they contain loot boxes

European regulators are continuing to crack down on loot boxes and gaming features it classifies as "interactive risk categories." The Pan-European Game Information, better known as PEGI, is [...]

Valve defends loot boxes in response to New York's lawsuit

It must be 2017 because loot boxes are back in the news again. Two weeks after New York's attorney general sued Valve over its use of the gimmick, the company has responded. In short, the Steam m [...]

Overwatch 2's next update overhauls the game with perks and loot boxes

Blizzard is making some major changes to Overwatch 2 for its Season 15 update, including adding all new gameplay in the form of a perks system and the return of loot box rewards, on top of the new her [...]

Microsoft and OpenAI gut their exclusive deal, freeing OpenAI to sell on AWS and Google Cloud

Microsoft and OpenAI on Monday announced a sweeping overhaul of the partnership that has defined the commercial AI era, dismantling key pillars of exclusivity and revenue-sharing that bound the two co [...]

CrowdStrike & NVIDIA’s open source AI gives enterprises the edge against machine-speed attacks

Every SOC leader knows the feeling: drowning in alerts, blind to the real threat, stuck playing defense in a war waged at the speed of AI. Now CrowdStrike and NVIDIA are flipping the script. Armed wit [...]

Nvidia launches enterprise AI agent platform with Adobe, Salesforce, SAP among 17 adopters at GTC 2026

Jensen Huang walked onto the GTC stage Monday wearing his trademark leather jacket and carrying, as it turned out, the blueprints for a new kind of monopoly.The Nvidia CEO unveiled the Agent Toolkit, [...]

Black Forest Labs launches Flux.2 AI image models to challenge Nano Banana Pro and Midjourney

It's not just Google's Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 we have to be thankful for this year around the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S.No, today the Germ [...]

Overwatch will drop the '2' as Jetpack Cat and four other heroes arrive on February 10

Blizzard is running a series of showcases for several of its major franchises and on Wednesday, it was time for Overwatch to step up to the plate. That’s Overwatch, by the way, and not Overwatch 2. [...]

Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking emerges as leading open source AI, outperforming GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5 on key benchmarks

Even as concern and skepticism grows over U.S. AI startup OpenAI's buildout strategy and high spending commitments, Chinese open source AI providers are escalating their competition and one has e [...]