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Winnie the Pooh. Popeye. Steamboat Willie. These days, it seems the instant a recognizable character becomes public domain, someone immediately turns them into a horror movie. Why is that, and what is it like behind the scenes? To get those answers, io9 spoke with Steven LaMorte. He’s the co-writer and director of Screamboat, a Steamboat … Read more

Photograph: Ryan Waniata Bravia Projector 7 (VLP-XW5100ES) With Sony’s topline Bravia Projector 8 and Projector 9 clocking in at around $16K and $32K respectively, most of us can’t come close to grabbing one. While those models are aimed at luxury or professional installs, the new Bravia 7 should be much more affordable, making it a … Read more

Google DeepMind on Wednesday published an exhaustive paper on its safety approach to AGI, roughly defined as AI that can accomplish any task a human can. AGI is a bit of a controversial subject in the AI field, with naysayers suggesting that it’s little more than a pipe dream. Others, including major AI labs like … Read more

The final game revealed at Nintendo’s Switch 2 Direct was Donkey Kong: Bananza, a new platformer featuring one of Nintendo’s stalwarts: DK himself. The trailer showed off the game’s core destruction and platforming mechanics, such as DK tearing through terrain and using it to create new paths and eliminate enemies. The game launches exclusively on … Read more

The Nothing Phone 3A Pro is cut from the same cloth as the rest of London-based Nothing’s handsets. This midrange Android phone packs solid specs and a suite of flashing LED lights and tops it off with an affordable price tag. It has a lot to offer, but competition in the midrange market has never … Read more

This week at CinemaCon movie studios are putting on a show for movie theater representatives and invited media. And at tonight’s Warner Bros. presentation, James Gunn and DC Studios closed things out with a look at this summer’s Superman. James Gunn referred to this summer as “the summer of Superman” but after the extended footage he … Read more

“It’s a very powerful idea, and it does make sense of isolation,” Thorne says. “It does make sense of that feeling inside you just like, ‘I’m unattractive. I can’t join in conversations. I can’t be the person I want to be. I feel like I’m going to be alone forever.’” Adolescence has amassed more than … Read more

Accounting software company Open Ledger has launched a new product in time for tax day.  Meet PokéTax, a game that helps make tax filing quite fun. Instead of tax forms, users take on Tax Trainers — gym leaders — representing different parts of a tax form, such as income, deductions, and credits. Each leader asks … Read more

Discord announced that its first year of Quests generated 70 campaigns with advertising partners and millions of rewards that kept gamers engaged. Speaking at the ad-focused IAB Playfronts event, Peter Sellis, senior vice president of product at Discord, said that, in the first year of Quests, Discord had found a way to make game discovery … Read more