Month: February 2026

Burger King will soon use an AI chatbot in employees’ headsets to recommend tips on meal preparation and track “friendliness.” The Verge reported on the bot, a tool named Patty that’s powered by OpenAI, following a conversation with chief digital officer Thibault Roux. The fast-food giant says the BK Assistant […]

A new bill may see May 17 become Bruce Lee Day in California, thanks to Assemblymember Matt Haney. Assemblymember Haney is a Democrat from San Francisco — the city the martial arts movie star was born in — and he introduced bill AB 2455 to honor Chinese Americans and Lee’s […]

As our exclusive, all-February-long IGN First "cover story" on the upcoming black-and-white, hand-animated first-person shooter MOUSE: P.I. for Hire continues, we wanted to learn more about the origins of its unique 1930's rubberhose-animated style. And so we sat down with Fumi Studios CEO and Founder Mateusz Michalak as well as […]

The Legend of Zelda turned 40 years old this week — though Nintendo has sadly done little to mark the occaison. There are no new Zelda games on the horizon, no remakes or re-releases on Nintendo Switch Online, and no sniff of a trailer for next year's ambitious-looking live-action movie. […]

“Burn it all down.” For a tagline so front and center of Paramount’s marketing for Scream 7, it has very little relationship to the actual ethos of the movie. Instead, Scream 7 feels like a return to roots for the venerable meta-slasher franchise, far more interested in and effective at […]

Video game deals have been popping up all over the place lately. Alongside PlayStation’s big sale at PlayStation Direct, Woot just dropped its own video game sale, offering an abundance of deals for games on all platforms. While these games already boast solid discounts, the Amazon-owned online retailer is also […]

Surgent Studios, the developer behind Tales of Kenzara: ZAU, has unveiled its next game today, and it's…absolutely nothing like Tales of Kenzara: ZAU. It's called FixForce, and it's a chaotic cooperative "extraction platformer" about a team of robots fixing machines using random parts they find lying around. FixForce puts up […]

After 15 years at Ubisoft working on Far Cry, Splinter Cell and Rainbow Six, veteran developer Patrik Méthé fancied doing something different — and three years later, at Sony's recent State of Play, viewers were treated to exactly that: a trailer for a blockbuster open-world action RPG starring a hulking […]