California lawmakers are working on a bill to preserve access to online games

Game preservation group Stop Killing Games advised on the bill.

Summer Games Done Quick returns this July, schedule out now

Who’s up for a Jak & Daxter / Half-Life hybrid?

Marathon’s future includes duo queues, more PvE modes and better onboarding

Bungie details how it plans to grow its extraction shooter.

The Analogue 3D is finally getting save states

If you’re not staying on top of Analogue 3D updates, now’s the time to start. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Analogue has released a new firmware update for its Analogue 3D console that adds the Memories save state feature. Memories, which was first introduced with its handheld Analogue Pocket, allows you […]

OpenAI keeps shuffling its executives in bid to win AI agent battle

OpenAI announced yet another reorganization Friday, consolidating certain areas and making company president Greg Brockman the official lead of all things product. In a memo viewed by The Verge, Brockman wrote that since OpenAI’s product strategy for this year is to go all-in on AI agents, the company is combining its products to “invest in […]

One of Intel’s fastest desktop CPUs is $50 off

The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus was billed by the company in late March as one of its “fastest gaming desktop processor ever.” That hype was evidently accurate, as benchmarks done by Gamers Nexus show the processor giving AMD’s pricier X3D cache-equipped Ryzen 9000-series CPUs a run for their money. The Ultra 7 270K […]

AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can’t be trusted alone

AI radio DJs demonstrated their volatile personalities. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention. Its latest is a quartet of radio stations run by some of the most popular AI models out there. “Thinking Frequencies” […]

The cute VR platformer Moss and its sequel are heading to consoles

A bundle of both games, along with some DLC, arrives this summer.

Does Trump Mobile know how many stripes are on the American flag?

The T1 Phone has the wrong number of stripes, but it does at least have 50 stars. | Screenshot: Trump Mobile Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone’s whereabouts. This week, despite our best hopes, we still don’t […]

Google updates its spam rules to include attempts to ‘manipulate’ AI

Google updated its spam policy to mark attempts to “manipulate” its AI model in search results as spam, including results in AI Overview or AI Mode in Search, as Search Engine Land reports: “In the context of Google Search, spam refers to techniques used to deceive users or manipulate our Search systems into featuring content […]