Sony delays its new PS5 fight stick
Sony is delaying the launch of its FlexStrike fight stick controller for PS5 and PC, which had been set to launch on August 6th, to an unspecified dat…
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Spotify is now an AI chatbot, too
Spotify is experimenting with a new AI feature that allows Premium subscribers to play and explore music, audiobooks, and podcasts by having conversat…
EverQuest’s biggest fans are leading its revival
Live-service games and the companies that run them are in big trouble. Games and their developers are getting shut down and gutted, and publishers' hu…
States make last-ditch effort to stop the Paramount ‘media behemoth’
A dozen state attorneys general are trying to block the $110 billion merger of Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery they warn would raise movie prices …
Lorde says Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses are ‘not sexy’
Lorde was performing at the Real Cool Festival in Madrid on Thursday and took some time during her set to speak out against AI glasses. While she didn…
Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? is hypnotic, healing, and hopeful
Matmos are an incredibly accomplished duo between their own solo records like the masterpiece A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure and production class…
After years of teasing, the viral Nopia synth is ‘basically finished’
After setting the music gear corner of the internet on fire back in 2023 with the first glimpse at the Nopia, creators Martin Grieco and Rocío Ga…
Oregon’s Attorney General withdraws effort to delay Paramount and Warner Bros. merger
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield had been seeking documents from Paramount related to its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Rayfield also asked …
FL Studio head Constantin Koehncke turns to Reddit for feedback and fun
If you're a music maker of a certain age, then you probably once dabbled with a pirated copy of a little app called Fruity Loops. These days it's call…
A tasty RPG that will make you very hungry
Roleplaying games are often defined by excess. Storylines that span dozens of hours, side quests so big they could be their own game, massive worlds t…
A decade later, Pokémon Go finally made good on its original promise
When Niantic dropped the first Pokémon Go trailer in 2015, it was hard to grasp how a bunch of players could work together to catch a pokémo…
Spotify will let you fine-tune your weekly Release Radar playlist
Spotify is giving listeners control to fine-tune what gets surfaced for them in Release Radar - one of its most popular weekly playlists. The new opti…
Doom’s new expansion shows just what makes id Software special
This week should have been a celebration for Doom developer id Software. The studio just launched Revelations, a meaty expansion for Doom: The Dark Ag…
Netflix reportedly considers adding always-on channels
Netflix is thinking about adding always-on channels that would stream specific shows and movies, according to The Wall Street Journal. The move sounds…
Comcast is breaking up with NBCU. Why did it ever buy it in the first place?
Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Peter Kafka, who is chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of Channels, a podcast about the media industr…
Character.AI wants a piece of the microdrama pie
Character.AI's plan to become more than just an LLM-powered chatbot platform is going beyond interactive books, comics, and audio dramas. Today, the c…
FL Studio 2026 turns its AI chatbot into your assistant engineer
Last year, Image Line introduced Gopher for FL Studio, an AI chatbot that was basically a glorified instruction manual. You asked it how to do somethi…
Microsoft’s Xbox reset is pivoting Obsidian to make Fallout instead of Avowed
As part of Microsoft's big Xbox "reset," which includes layoffs affecting 3,200 staffers, jettisoning studios, and shifting investments to focus on "h…
If Microsoft sold off Xbox, who would even buy it?
This week, Microsoft took a huge ax to its Xbox business. The company announced that it would be laying off 1,600 workers now, 1,600 more over the nex…
The Steam Machine fits my TV, my desk, and my life
For the last couple weeks, I've been in an extremely lucky position: I've been spending a lot of time playing games on Valve's Steam Machine. We gave …
Of course viewers are giving up on Netflix shows
Even though Netflix is the world's most popular paid streaming service, the company has been struggling to keep viewers watching its series after thei…
Netflix is about to host videos from BuzzFeed, Condé Nast, and other publishers
Starting on August 3rd, Netflix's streaming library will include video content from dozens of digital media brands including BuzzFeed, Condé Nast…
ABC tells the government to get out of its newsrooms
ABC is firing back at the Federal Communications Commission after the agency opened an investigation into The View's airtime of political candidates. …
Doom developer id reportedly cut in half as part of Xbox layoffs
As part of the mass layoffs hitting Xbox, Doom developer id Software has laid off around 50 percent of its staff, according to Game Developer. One sou…
Xbox’s bold plan for the future sounds nearly impossible
It's another bad week for the video game industry. Microsoft outlined a series of layoffs on Monday that Xbox CEO Asha Sharma described as "the most s…
Former Xbox studios Double Fine and Compulsion will keep games after going indie
Microsoft is spinning off four of its Xbox game studios - Compulsion Games, Double Fine Productions, Ninja Theory, and Undead Labs - as part of the re…
Nintendo will stop selling the original Switch in Europe next year
Nintendo is making a new version of the Switch 2 with a replaceable battery in Europe - but its predecessor has a very different future. As part of an…
Can Partiful keep the party going?
One hundred dollars will buy you 8 pounds of glitter; 10 Domino's pizzas; 406 miniature disco balls from Temu; or 100 cans of Coors Light. For a frien…
Mr. Lif’s Emergency Rations EP is post-9/11 hip hop at its most daring
There was a period in the early aughts when Definitive Jux (nee: Def Jux) seemed like it was going to be the future of hip hop. While the label featur…
Xbox is a disaster
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the bleak state of the video game industr…