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Today's Google Doodle is a gloriously unlicensed Olympics tribute

A cool anime intro and an expansive 16-bit game with team leaderboards? Just don't mention the specific event in Japan this is about.

Today's Google Doodle is a gloriously unlicensed Olympics tribute
Games

Inside the making of the new Dungeons & Dragon's Magic The Gathering set

We speak to James Wyatt and Meris Mullaley from Wizards of the Coast about the art and science of bringing the Forgotten Realms to Magic.

Inside the making of the new Dungeons & Dragon's Magic The Gathering set
Art & Design

Watch the Forza Horizon 5 audio team capture awesome zoom vroom sounds

Seven minutes of behind the scenes as the Forza Horizon sound crew capture a bunch of cars hooning up and down an old track.

Watch the Forza Horizon 5 audio team capture awesome zoom vroom sounds
Big Ideas

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin's motley crew lifts off in just hours: here's how to watch

The most phallic rocket yet is scheduled for launch. Here's when and how to watch. Whatever you think of Bezos, Wally Funk is the real deal!

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin's motley crew lifts off in just hours: here's how to watch
Art & Design

Italian museums now use cameras to see which art you look at most

Visitor's eyeballs will decide how these galleries redesign their layout and which artworks are put on prime display.

Italian museums now use cameras to see which art you look at most
Games

Wild Beyond The Witchlight: Everything we know about the new D&D campaign

All the details from announcements and interviews to share the story hints, races and features we will find in 2021's new D&D campaign book.

Wild Beyond The Witchlight: Everything we know about the new D&D campaign
Games

Get on the games: we chat with Mashd N Kutcher about their gaming-themed new track

From "Get on the Beers" to a Turtle Beach mashup, Mashd N Kutcher share their love of games and details about their new videogame-inspired track.

Get on the games: we chat with Mashd N Kutcher about their gaming-themed new track
Art & Design

How the iPad Pro brings play back to art

After a few months using the iPad Pro for art, it’s clear to see why so many pros choose the device and its software.

How the iPad Pro brings play back to art
Dungeons & Dragons

D&D puts dragons where they belong with Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons finally gives dragons the sourcebook they deserve, with the very nature of reality now tied to their heritage.

D&D puts dragons where they belong with Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Media

D&D Live 2021! All the schedule details and how to watch online

This weekend watch comedy greats like Patton Oswalt, Kevin Smith, and Jack Black, wrestlers, actors and more play D&D live online!

D&D Live 2021! All the schedule details and how to watch online
Politics

Lawyers go after Sega's "rigged" skill-based arcade machines

Key Master machines are off to court for being marketed as skill-based when manuals show how their settings really work.

Lawyers go after Sega's "rigged" skill-based arcade machines
Games

Destiny lore nerds, Bungie wants you for its new 'Destiny Historian' role

In a new job listing, Bungie is seeking one lucky lore pedant to catalogue the narrative threads of Destiny and keep them straight in future.

Destiny lore nerds, Bungie wants you for its new 'Destiny Historian' role
Art & Design

Watch almost 200 Georges Méliès classic films for free online

Collected from across a wide range of YouTube sources, here's a playlist of 194 Georges Méliès classics in chronological order.

Watch almost 200 Georges Méliès classic films for free online
Technology

Diving in the world's deepest pool looks like my kind of dystopia

Sit in a waterlogged Bentley 60 metres deep in a mega pool in Dubai? Is this a theme park or social commentary?

Diving in the world's deepest pool looks like my kind of dystopia
Technology

A movie just launched 91,000 NFTs to pro– nope, I'm not doing this...

Digital artists getting paid thanks to NFTs is great. Movies and companies creating NFTs to score some free promotional value suck.

A movie just launched 91,000 NFTs to pro– nope, I'm not doing this...
Computers

Dell takes DSLR inspiration for its 4K UltraSharp Webcam

There's a few 4K webcams under $400 already, but this UltraSharp Webcam puts a big lens on a long barrel for to chase great performance.

Dell takes DSLR inspiration for its 4K UltraSharp Webcam
Big Ideas

Branson, Bezos, and the Kármán line: how everybody wins this month's space race

Billionaires posturing over commercial spaceflight is the ultimate cockfight, but with Virgin below 100km up everyone gets to say 'First!'

Branson, Bezos, and the Kármán line: how everybody wins this month's space race
Culture

Two new Lego sets let you chill with buds like Thor and Seinfeld

New Lego sets are coming with the apartment set from Seinfeld as well as Thor's bachelor pad in New Asgard. The cleverness is in the details.

Two new Lego sets let you chill with buds like Thor and Seinfeld
Games

A Sega R360 dead in an Irish field is one of the saddest things I've ever seen

One of the classic circa 1990 free moving flight sim arcade cabinet, only 200 ever made, was found in lying in a field in Northern Ireland.

A Sega R360 dead in an Irish field is one of the saddest things I've ever seen
Technology

Study shows free divers can drop heart rates as low as 11 beats per minute

New research shows elite free divers incredible control puts them in the same oxygen management league as dolphins, seals and whales.

Study shows free divers can drop heart rates as low as 11 beats per minute