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Dan Houser on Victorian novels, Red Dead Redemption and redefining open-world games

Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Dan Houser, Games, Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto 5, Red Dead Redemption

As the Grand Theft Auto co-writer launches a new project, he reflects on his hugely successful open-world adventures and where game design might go next• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereIt is hard to think of a more modern entertainment format than the open-world video game. These sprawling technological endeavours, […]

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Spotify Wrapped is taking over our feeds, but you don’t have outsource your relationship with music to AI | Liz Pelly

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial intelligence (AI), Culture, Digital music and audio, Entrepreneurship, Music, Social media, Spotify

The streamer’s annual charts are just another version of the tech that’s alienating us from our inner lives. Hold on to your musical memories and reclaim ownership of your tasteI like year-end list season. I like an opportunity to remember and reflect on the records that stuck with me over the course of a year

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Sleep Awake review – Gary Numan cameos in an overly straightforward sleep-deprivation horror

Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Entrepreneurship, Games, Gary Numan

PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox; Eyes Out/Blumhouse GamesPsychedelic visuals and a promising premise are let down by tired game design in this first-person horror with an appearance from the synthpop pioneerVideo games have delivered a feast of singular and wondrous sights in 2025: ecological fantasias teeming with magical beasts; stunning, historically obsessive recreations of feudal Japan.

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The best science and nature books of 2025

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial intelligence (AI), Best books of the year, Books, Culture, Environment, Geography, Science, Science and nature books

From the threat of superintelligent AI to the secrets of a longer life; plus the evolution of language and the restless genius of Francis Crick This felt like the year that AI really arrived. It is on our phones and laptops; it is creeping into digital and corporate infrastructure; it is changing the way we learn,

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Metroid Prime 4: Beyond review – Samus Aran is suited up for action again. Was it worth the 18-year wait?

Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Games, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Shooting games

Nintendo Switch/Switch 2 (version tested); Retro Studios/NintendoThe bounty hunter – Nintendo’s most badass and most neglected hero – returns in an atmospheric throwback sci-fi adventure that’s entirely untroubled by the conventions of modern game designIn a frozen laboratory full of cryogenically suspended experimental life forms, metal boots disturb the frost. A lone bounty hunter in

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Nominations are now open for our global 2026 Innovators Under 35 competition

App, Artificial Intelligence, Culture

We have some exciting news: Nominations are now open for MIT Technology Review’s 2026 Innovators Under 35 competition. This annual list recognizes 35 of the world’s best young scientists and inventors, and our newsroom has produced it for more than two decades.  It’s free to nominate yourself or someone you know, and it only takes

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James Cameron says AI actors are ‘horrifying to me’

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial intelligence (AI), Avatar, Computing, Culture, Film, James Cameron, Technology

Avatar director, known for his advocacy of new technology, told interviewer generative AI performance puts ‘all human experience into a blender’Avatar director James Cameron has called AI actors “horrifying” and said what generative AI technology creates is “an average”.Cameron was speaking to CBS on Sunday Morning in the run-up to the release of the third

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Jorja Smith’s label requests share of royalties from ‘AI-cloned’ TikTok viral song

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial intelligence (AI), Culture, Jorja Smith, Law, Music, Pop and rock

Uncredited vocals on song I Run by British dance act Haven alleged to infringe copyright as impersonation of SmithJorja Smith’s record label has called for a share of the royalties from a TikTok-viral song that it claims used an AI-cloned version of the British singer’s voice.The song I Run, by British dance act Haven, went

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