Will GenAI Change the Game? Gaming Predictions for 2025As India's gaming ecosystem sheds its reliance on real money gaming, what are the big trends that we will see in gaming in India in 2025?
Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This GoodThe gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market?
2024 Has Been an Amazing Year for RoguelikesBalatro is amazing, but there’s been a lot of other great roguelikes, too.
Olympic E-Sports Games and Made-in-India Games to Drive Indian Video Gaming and E-Sports in 2025Arguably, the biggest highlight of the upcoming year will be the Olympic e-sports Games, set to take place in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Following India’s impressive performance at the Paris Olympics in 2024, where the nation secured six medals, Indian gamers now have an exciting opportunity to add to the country’s medal tally in the rapidly growing e-sports arena.
Certain Type of Gaming Provides “Substantial Benefits” to Mental Well-BeingGamers who are free to interact with and explore a game world at their own pace are more relaxed and have improved mental well-being, according to new research. The findings could open the door to using gaming as a therapeutic tool to counter stress and anxiety.
Turn Off These Visual Effects to Make Windows Run SmootherSummary Use the Settings app to turn off animation effects. Disable visual effects through Advanced System Properties for snappier performance. Fine-tune the visual effects without compromising on usability. Windows 11 and 10 have multiple animations and visual effects for better presentability.
I changed these 6 Samsung TV settings to significantly improve the picture qualitySay you picked up a shiny new TV this holiday season. You unbox it like a kid at Christmas and prepare yourself to binge-watch Squid Game 2. You think to yourself, "This is 2024. TV technology is sizzling, and it's going to look amazing no matter what.
The psychology of fonts: how fonts make you feelWe all know words have power – but the fonts those words are written in can have just as much. Font psychology is the study of how fonts and typefaces make us feel, and while it may not be something you’ve thought too much about before, it is a huge aspect of design and branding.
Amazon’s Secret Level is a hollow anthology of video game cutscenesEver since it was announced, there has been some confusion over just what Secret Level actually is. The video game-themed anthology streaming on Prime Video — helmed by Love, Death & Robots creator Tim Miller — is a collection of animated shorts, each based on a different gaming property.
Hit Men Aren’t What You ThinkA gunman dressed in dark clothing and wearing a mask over his lower face ambushed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday morning in midtown Manhattan, where Thompson’s company was hosting a conference.
Is Politico Really That Awful of a Place to Work?Politico has always been defined by its scrappy, high-pressure newsroom culture.
"Rules" that terminal programs followThe first three (your operating system, shell, and terminal) are all kind of known quantities – if you’re using bash in GNOME Terminal on Linux, you can more or less reason about how how all of those things interact, and some of their behaviour is standardized by POSIX.
Military leaders are rattled by a list of ‘woke’ officers that a group urges Hegseth to fireWASHINGTON (AP) — Military leaders are rattled by a list of “woke” senior officers that a conservative group urged Pete Hegseth to dismiss for promoting diversity in the ranks if he is confirmed to lead the Pentagon.
‘At 98, I wouldn’t be so sharp without puzzles’: do crosswords and quizzes really boost your brain power?Miriam Raphael, 98, is a veteran puzzler. As a child, she pored over clues with her father and, later, as a teacher and mother of three daughters, it became her small daily luxury.
56 US startups have become unicorns so far in 2024: Here’s the full listDespite the tight venture capital market, unicorns are still being created every month. Using data from Crunchbase, CB Insights, and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the newly minted unicorns so far this year.