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Riot’s new card game gets a name and format
Riot Games has announced the new name of their upcoming tradable card game: Riftbound: League of Legends Trading Card Game. Riftbound is set in Runeterra, the setting of League of Legends and Arcane — as well as some of its other tabletop games. The game will launch with over 300 cards in a set subtitled […]
Cryptic Facebook Post Ahead of Wife’s Alleged Slaying of Husband Leaves Questions of Potential Motive

Whether there were issues between Philadelphia couple Jordan and Danielle Baxter was unclear a few weeks ago. However, it was clear something went awfully wrong after Mr. Baxter was found dead outside their home. Police accuse his wife of the killing but the only information we know of an alleged motive was a cryptic…
‘Forget everything you know’: Path of Exile 2’s first major update adds a new class and over 100 items
In the question and answer session following last Friday’s reveal of the first major Path of Exile 2 early access update, game director Jonathan Rogers jokingly warned players that everything is going to feel different: “People should really be going in with the expectation that nothing they knew about how the game was balanced before […]
Sam Altman says OpenAI is planning to "release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Sam Altman says OpenAI is planning to “release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months” — OpenAI says that it intends to release its first “open” language model since GPT‑2 “in the coming months.” — That's according to a feedback form …
Helldivers 2 players prepare to return to the site of its most remembered battle
Helldivers 2 players are on the back foot in the game’s great galactic war narrative. Two planets have fallen to the Meridia Singularity, with a third about to crumble. The Automatons have created a fiery new Incineration Corps, and we’ve lost precious ground to their advance. Now, one of Helldivers’ most beloved worlds is back […]