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Resident Evil 2 surpasses RE5 as series’ best-selling game
Capcom’s latest quarterly earnings report shows that Resident Evil 2’s 2019 remake has become the Resident Evil series’ best-selling title, overtaking Resident Evil 5. This marks a notable shift in the franchise’s history, as Resident Evil 5 had long held the top spot but is often viewed by fans as the point where the series…
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Warhammer 40,000 Maker Games Workshop Confirms It Investigated ‘A Few Human Errors’ on Product Images to Make Sure Its Staff Hadn’t Used AI
Games Workshop, maker of Warhammer 40,000, has confirmed it investigated “a few human errors” in its product marketing this year to check that staff had not used AI, following fan speculation over an oddly rendered image. The row centres on official artwork for Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, which appeared to show a Space Marine with…
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Canal+ Group’s Revenue Jumps 40% as MultiChoice Deal Boosts Earnings and Subscriptions
Canal+ Group, the French media giant behind Studiocanal, reported a 40% jump in first-half 2026 revenue to €4.3 billion ($4.8 billion), driven largely by its acquisition of pay-TV firm MultiChoice, which has significantly expanded the group’s reach across Africa. The results underline how the deal is reshaping Canal+’s scale and growth prospects, with CEO Maxime…
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HYBE winds down AI voice company Supertone after investing nearly $35M
HYBE, the South Korean entertainment company behind BTS, is shutting down Supertone, the AI voice-synthesis firm it took majority control of in 2023, after ploughing in nearly $35 million (around KRW 49 billion) since 2021. Shareholders voted to dissolve the company and place it into liquidation at an extraordinary meeting on 15 July, with the…
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Recursive Superintelligence signs $410 compute deal with Amazon
Recursive Superintelligence, an AI startup focused on self-improving systems, has announced a $410 million multi-year compute deal with Amazon Web Services. The agreement provides the flexibility needed to scale up its research, which prioritises “self-improving” AI systems that automatically improve their own capabilities, an approach the company believes requires heavy computing resources rather than a…
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‘Job’ Playwright Max Wolf Friedlich Sets Next Play ‘The Holes’ With Robert Pattinson to Executive Produce (EXCLUSIVE)
Playwright Max Wolf Friedlich, who made his Broadway debut with the acclaimed thriller “Job,” is returning to the New York stage with a new off-Broadway play, “The Holes.” Robert Pattinson is executive producing the show alongside Brighton McCloskey through their company Icki Eneo Arlo, marking the pair’s first venture into theatre production and adding a…
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The Movement: Flock cameras rile up privacy-minded right
Privacy-focused conservatives are increasingly opposing Flock Safety’s networked cameras, which automatically record vehicle details and feed them into police-searchable databases. The dispute matters because it exposes a growing tension on the American right between support for law enforcement and concerns about expansive government or corporate surveillance. Critics argue that the systems can track ordinary people’s…
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‘I Thought This Would Be Drama Free, How Wrong I Was’ — Games Workshop Secured a £7.8 Million Refund on Donald Trump’s Tariffs, but Iran War Threatens Supply Chain
Games Workshop, the UK-based maker of Warhammer miniatures, has recovered £7.8 million in US tariffs after the Supreme Court ruled Donald Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose them was illegal, chief executive Kevin Rountree revealed in the company’s latest financial report. However, Rountree warned that new tariffs and global conflicts, including the Iran war,…
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True Colours Boards Venice-Bound Female Sniper Drama ‘No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman’
Rome-based sales company True Colours has picked up international rights to “No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Woman,” a drama by Norwegian-Kurdish director Halkawt Mustafa, ahead of its world premiere Out of Competition at the Venice Film Festival in September. The film centres on a female Peshmerga sniper who travels to Mosul to…
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A Two-Person Startup Has Fixed One of the Most Hated Sounds in Modern Life
A two-person sound design studio, Starling, has developed a way to replace the harsh, universally disliked beep of microwave ovens without changing any hardware. Founders Joel Corelitz and Colin Coogan, who have previously worked with clients such as Sony, Microsoft, Netflix and Ford, realised that the existing microcontroller and cheap piezoelectric buzzer found in nearly…