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Gamer Wearing Headphones and Playing Online GamegettyIn an international action, Europol has taken down thousands of links on gaming platforms, many used by younger players, for racist and xenophobic content.In an action on November 13, the European Union Internet Referral Unit removed 5,408 links to jihadist content, 1,070 links to violent right-wing extremist and terrorist content and 105 links to racist and xenophobic content.The Referral Action Day involved authorities in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the U.K., all of which had reported the misuse of a variety of gaming and gaming-adjacent platforms to radicalize other users and spread terrorist content online.Some of these platforms allow players to broadcast their gameplay in real-time and in...

Piper Summey  On September 5th, Silas Carpenter released one of my favorite albums of the year: a thirty-seven-minute record packed with thirteen witty yet profound lyrical explorations of love and heartbreak, dreams and nightmares, ego and insecurity, all set over instrumentals that range from moody and melancholic indie tunes to breezy-but-sometimes-gritty rock ‘n’ roll jams, pulling inspiration from pop prodigies like The Beatles and acclaimed songwriters like Elliott Smith. This recent project from nineteen-year-old Arkansas native Silas is both a testament to how he has honed his craft since beginning to make music at age twelve and a demonstration of his promising future in the underground music scene. The question is, why have I heard of this album, and you haven’t? The answer ac...

I've been watching RTX 5060 gaming laptop deals closely over the last few months. Some of the best gaming laptops from Gigabyte, Lenovo, and Acer have been threatening to drop below $1,000 for some time now, inching closer to the goal with every new sale. HP has come out the gate swinging this Black Friday, though, with the lowest price I've ever seen on the mid-range configuration.You'll find the RTX 5060 HP Omen 16 for $999.99 at Best Buy this week, a $480 discount from the original $1,479.99 MSRP. That's not only the cheapest RTX 5060 gaming laptop I've seen, but it's also the first time one of these configurations has dropped below $1,000. All that, and Black Friday gaming laptop deals are only just getting started.I've seen machines like the Gigabyte Aero X16 and Lenovo Legion 5 Gen 1...

The Mandalorian and Grogu director Jon Favreau has teased the role of a fan-favorite Star Wars character in the upcoming movie: Zeb Orrelios, who also briefly appeared in The Mandalorian season 3."Now we get to really have fun with him," Favreau said in a new interview with Empire. "He’s such a compelling character, even if you’ve never seen Rebels, between the voice, the swagger, and the physical ability."Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios is a former member of the Lasat Honor Guard who became part of the Ghost's crew of rebels because he wanted revenge against the Empire for massacring his people. He was voiced by Steve Blum in the animated Star Wars Rebels show, but his casting for the movie hasn't been confirmed yet. You may like "The Mandalorian has changed his priorities," Favreau explained. ...

Big Diesel is bringing big bass to Cowtown in March 2026. FORT WORTH, Texas — One of the biggest names in sports is bringing "the biggest bass music festival in Texas" back to Fort Worth for the third-straight year. Shaquille O'Neal's SHAQ’s Bass All-Stars Festival is returning to Panther Island Pavilion on March 21, 2026. The Hall of Fame basketball star has been making a name for himself in the music scene, performing under the alias DJ Diesel. Shaq will headline the event alongside Levity b2b Wooli and a TBA special guest. Over its last two years, the festival has drawn 30,000 attendees. This year's event combines music,...

An open-source tool for Windows PCs with Nvidia GPUs adds eye-tracked foveated rendering to a huge number of SteamVR games.Called PimaxMagic4All, the tool re-implements a feature Pimax ships in its Pimax Play software used to set up and adjust its headsets. As such, if you already own a Pimax headset, you don't need this new tool.PimaxMagic4All should work with any SteamVR-compatible headset that exposes a low-level public API to retrieve eye tracking data, or which has third-party software that does so, including: What Is Foveated Rendering? Fixed Foveated Rendering (FFR) means rendering the central area of the image at a higher resolut...

Christmas, they say, comes once a year, but “once” now lasts for days and weeks and months, as Friday’s inflatable Frankenstein’s monster becomes Monday’s inflatable snowman. The yuletide is now upon us, even before Thanksgiving, its autumnal opening act, has served its first pumpkin pie.For someone growing up in Southern California, the season was largely understood through television, and old movies on television, where snow fell and sleighs slid and no one was walking around in shorts on Dec. 25. Back in the three-network, four-network and even five-network days, one could see all the specials and special episodes and still lead a relatively normal life. But in this time of many platforms (and with ever-more recycled content swelling the pot), one can go snow-blind. And so, to help you ...

The jazz scene in my hometown of Manchester is open-minded and always evolving, but I discovered the genre while making hip-hop instrumentals and passing them to friends. I was listening to J Dilla, Madlib and Pete Rock, tracing those samples back to Ahmad Jamal, Herbie Hancock and Bill Evans. Jazz crept in that way – through the sampler. Eventually, I stopped digging for other people’s records and thought, ‘What if I could just record the thing I wanted to sample?’That idea became the heart of my new album Find a Way. I wasn’t chasing a “jazz record” or an “electronic record”; instead, I took elements from those genres and discovered that there’s a lot more crossover in improvisation and music production than I first thought.Capturing raw materialMost tracks started the same way: I’d sit ...

It's time for another November tradition, with the release of the nominations for the annual Game Awards hosted by Geoff Keighley.For the Game Awards 2025, developer Sandfall Interactive and publisher Kepler Interactive received an impressive 12 nominations, all for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The artistic turn-based adventure is an easy frontrunner, and was of course nominated for Game of the Year.Other notably nominated games include Kojima Productions' Death Stranding 2, as well as Supergiant Games' Hades 2. Xbox, as a total organization, saw a respectable 10 nominations spread out across different games like DOOM: The Dark Ages and South of Midnight. You may like Voting is now live, so players can make their opinions known by casting votes across the different categories.Ahead of t...

Sources suggest that Julia Roberts is looking forward to leaning on her beloved collaborations with Brad Pitt and George Clooney amid After the Hunt’s failure. They reveal that Roberts and her team are still reeling from the film’s lackluster performance, which earned just $9 million on a budget of $70–$80 million. Now, insiders are revealing that to revive her career, she’s focusing on what works, and for her, that includes her collaborations with Pitt and Clooney, which have delivered strong box office results in the past.Sources suggest Julia Roberts is turning to Brad Pitt and George Clooney for helpSources told the National Enquirer that Roberts and her team have been disappointed by the negative reception and disastrous box office results of After the Hunt. This is because the movie ...