AI Has Come for Serif Fonts
AI companies are using serif to project humanity. Critics are calling it “tasteslop.”
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Mina the Hollower review – squeaky fresh fun full of vintage magic
PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox; Yacht Club GamesThis brilliant adventure creates a whole world from one character with a unique abilityYou could mistake Mina the Hollower for something found on the liquid-crystal display of a Game Boy Color around the turn of the millennium. Like the pocketable Zelda and Pokémon games
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Martin Scorsese accused of ‘throwing artists under bus’ with AI storyboards
The director defends investment in and use of AI-generated storyboards, saying the immediacy of communicating his vision to cast and crew is ‘creatively freeing’Martin Scorsese’s announcement that he has invested in an AI company and uses the technology to create storyboards has triggered a backlash from fellow members of the film industry.The New York Times
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From God of War to Until Dawn – seven reveals from last night’s PlayStation event
The PS5 era has been in some ways disappointing for Sony – on Tuesday, the company revealed a slate of games they hope will change that• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up herePlayStation’s future has looked a little uncertain these past few years. Although the PS5 has sold well and been
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Redditors Are Using AI to Beat Obscene World Cup Ticket Prices
Soccer fans on r/WorldCup2026Tickets are using Claude to build DIY ticketing software, exchanging on back channels, and leaving scalpers scrambling.
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‘The CGI would have cost millions. I spent $2,000.’ Is Dreams of Violets AI slop – or the future of film-making?
It should have taken years, but Ash Koosha made a drama about Iran’s anti-government protests in weeks – and now it’s the first AI-made movie to screen at a major film festival. It could transform indie film-making, claims the directorNext week a breakthrough 75-minute drama about the brutal crackdown in Iran on anti-government protesters in
AI won’t decimate the arts. We must interrogate it, but we can collaborate with it
Opera makers have always engaged with the latest inventions while also preserving historic crafts. I believe it’s possible to look both forwards and backwards in this fast-evolving landscapeThe disquiet and distrust surrounding artificial intelligence among artists and creatives remain real and consequential, and the language used by leading arts commentators is often apocalyptic: AI will
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To YouTube and beyond: how online gen Z directors stormed Hollywood
Record-breaking box office for Backrooms and Obsession has opened the door for twentysomething YouTube creators as the industry rethinks what audiences wantAt this time last year, the idea of a wide-release feature film-maker cutting their teeth on YouTube was, if not unheard of, certainly still a niche origin story. Siblings Michael and Danny Philippou had
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Nex Playground: the family game-night gadget that revives the spirit of the Wii
Launching in the UK this month, this new pint-sized console revives the motion-controlled video game boom of the 00s – with better, safer techFor a wonderful moment in the noughties, video games became a truly universal pursuit. As I witnessed my controller-phobic aunt swing a Wii remote and nail a tennis serve, while my great-grandmother
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Ghost in the Machine review – entertaining AI polemic dives into its dark history in race politics and eugenics
The roots of AI in rightwing ideology is examined in Valerie Veatch’s enjoyable doc, including an array of colourful, often crazed, figuresDirector Valerie Veatch made her name with documentaries such as Love Child (about an online gaming-addicted couple whose child died of malnutrition) and Me at the Zoo (about American vlogger Cara Cunningham), films that