Reuters:

New York’s attorney general sued Valve, a video game developer whose franchises include Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and Dota, accusing it of promoting illegal gambling and threatening to addict children through its use of “loot boxes.” In a complaint filed on Wednesday in a state court in Manhattan, Attorney General Letitia James said Valve’s loot boxes amounted to “quintessential gambling,” violating the state’s constitution and penal law, with valuable items often hard to win and many items worth pennies.

TPC is paying homage the nostalgic pixel art of the original Red and Blue Game Boy titles. There are already multi hour Pokémon Center queues!

Charlie Fink / Forbes:
Viture, which ranked top in XR glasses shipments in the US in Q3 2025, per IDC, raised $100M, bringing its funding in the past six months to $200M  —  Viture has closed another $100 million financing round, bringing its total capital raised in the past six months to more than $200 million …

Everyone has regrets in life, but none are as tragic as mine. I’ll never forgive high school me for selling my Pokémon games.

Cricut has announced new versions of two of its cutting machines that could appeal to crafters struggling with limited space for their hobby. The new Cricut Explore 5 is 30 percent "more compact" than the Explore 4 that launched a year ago, without reducing the size or types of materials the machine can handle. The […]