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A musical puzzle box, Consume Me on iOS and other new indie games worth checking out
Plus, a whole bunch of neat demos ahead of Steam Next Fest.
Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing
What’s the difference between a person, an artifact, and an ecosystem?
Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month to use xAI's data centers
Google has just signed a $30 billion AI computing power deal with SpaceX.
Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI
A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that r…
CISA Adds Actively Exploited SolarWinds Serv-U DoS Flaw to KEV Catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity security flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U multi-protocol file server software to its Kno…
AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs
Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the media library inside almost everything that…
Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories in Major Supply Chain Attack
Microsoft's GitHub repositories have become the latest to fall victim to the ongoing Miasma self-replicating supply chain attack campaign. The incident impacted 73 Microsoft repos…
EA's Star Wars Zero Company drops August 27
Star Wars Zero Company's developers released a gameplay trailer, which features a short appearance by Anakin Skywalker.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager CVE-2026-20245 Flaw Actively Exploited – No Patch Available
Cisco has warned that a high-severity security flaw impacting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, carries a C…
Stellar Blade's slick-looking sequel is officially called Blood Rain
It's raining blood, hallelujah.
Super Yooka-Laylee Kart looks like an old-school Mario Kart for the modern age
Playtonic is shifting the Yooka-Laylee series from platforming to familiar-looking arcade racing.
Party with your grandma and prevent her murder in Apple Crumble, out this year
Duck Detective studio Happy Broccoli is back with a creepy-cute mystery called Apple Crumble.
'5D' platformer Screenbound arrives on September 10
Screenbound lets you control a 2D handheld game and a character in a 3D world at the same time.
Ithaca is a mysterious road-trip RPG from Bury Me, My Love studio Pixel Hunt
Ithaca asks how far will players go to save the planet.
In co-op shooter Lazy River, peeing in the pool turns guests into zombies
Peeing in the pool is extra dangerous in co-op shooter Lazy River.
N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO threatens to revitalize 2D platforming in 2027
Metanet is bringing minimalism and precise mechanics to consoles and PC next year.
Tenebris Somnia adds live-action horror to a retro survival game on October 16
Airdorf and Andrés Borghi are making one nightmare with two styles of terror.
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation will launch across all platforms in Spring 2027
The final chapter will drop simultaneously on PS5, Switch 2, Xbox and PC.
If Vampire Survivors and Spelunky had a baby, it'd be Messhof's Blood Dungeon
Blood Dungeon is the latest project from the studio behind Nidhogg.
You can watch the Among Us animated series right now
You can watch all ten episodes of the Among Us cartoon on Paramount+.
Saw: Genesis is a 3-on-1 survival game starring the Jigsaw Killer's predecessor
Bloober Team is publishing (and also kinda helping develop) a new Saw game.
Virtua Fighter Crossroads is coming in 2027
More details on the sixth Virtua Fighter game are coming in a dedicated showcase stream.
Baby botulism outbreak: FDA still doesn't know cause—or how to prevent it
In the end, the three companies involved all point the finger at each other.
Tupac is coming to Stranger Than Heaven and we're as confused as you are
Did that Coachella appearance land him the gig?