Marathon's new PvE mode, Vault Breaker, has brought about a spike in the player count on Steam, proving that it was a hit, if a temporary one
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Alan Ritchson is an industry unto himself. The Reacher star launched a hit Prime Video series that's returning next month with a spinoff in tow. Meanwhile, his upcoming revenge thriller Motor City already looks like a gritty cult classic. But it turns out that we may already know what Ritchson's biggest success of 2026 will be.
Look at the nice fellow in the featured image of this article. Look into his eyes. Look at the slightly awkward grin plastered across his face at the moment in a YouTube video on his channel that I've chosen to pause and take a screenshot. This is a man who wants you to feel "a sense of agony". To be frustrated and perplexed as to which outcome to choose. This is a man who knows you can't feed the world with a set of laser eyeballs. This is Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer, who recently made some points about RPG building that are worth dissecting in light of his reported new gig as head of Obsidian's upcoming Fallout game.
Like an Oblivion gate terrorizing Tamriel, AI slop has come to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Since the advent of LLM-generated "vibe coding," Skyrim players have found themselves deluged with new mods promising exciting features and cutting-edge graphics. The thumbnails for these new mods are slick, and the descriptions always confidently assert that they'll turn Skyrim into a new game. Once the mod is downloaded, though, fans quickly discover that it's too good to be true — if they can get it working at all.
Disney laid off hundreds of employees across its divisions on Tuesday, including National Geographic and ESPN. Animation giant Pixar was hit hard as the animation studio is estimated to have let go of a "high single percentile of its 1,100 staff," or around 100 employees, according to Deadline. TheWrap reports the number of laid-off employees is closer to 150.