Gaming

YouTube is changing how it counts public views on long-form videos, with a view soon being registered as soon as a video begins playing. The change will take effect on August 24, 2026, bringing long-form videos, podcasts, and live streams under the same exposure-based model YouTube introduced for Shorts last year. Under the new system,

Night Mode gives Mortal Shell 2 an extra layer of challenge, increasing enemy difficulty while also introducing a unique area and a merchant that only appear at night. To activate Night Mode, bring the Gloombound Flame to the top of Marrow Keep and speak with Thestus. The Shrine of Sorrows is the game’s only first-person

A South Korean man posed as a wealthy businessman and showered female streamers with donations before defrauding multiple victims of approximately $3.4 million. The man, identified only as ‘A,’ was sentenced to seven years in prison by the Suwon High Court on August 15. He previously received separate four-year and three-year sentences for two fraud

The world of Mortal Shell 2 is filled with items, equipment, and upgrade materials waiting to be discovered. Most of these can be found inside chests, which you can usually open simply by interacting with them. However, there are some chests that require a little more work, as you first need to find and interact

Screen time is often treated as something children should avoid, but a new Finnish study suggests the picture may be more complicated. Researchers who followed children for eight years found that those who accumulated more screen time tended to show better cognitive processing by adolescence. The study, part of the PANIC research project, included 260

Thanks to an indie developer’s early alert, users already know and can wishlist Steam‘s next free-to-keep game, which is an interesting Pokemon-like RPG called Dokimon Quest. Fans usually discover Steam’s free games early using tools like SteamDB, but this particularly discovery was made possible by the developer’s heads-up. Freebie hunters likely know that August hasn’t

Former Rockstar Games developer Obbe Vermeij has revealed that they had a planned feature for GTA 4 that ended up being “problematic” and needed to be cut. As we get closer and closer to the release of Grand Theft Auto 6, plenty of former GTA devs have started giving their insight on the current development

A very popular 2006 indie platformer called Knytt has received a port for modern PCs, coming to Steam and GOG as a free download. Knytt was one of the earliest indie projects to gain fame on the internet and amass its own cult following. Steam already hosted one of Knytt‘s sequels, though the original title