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How a 15-Year-Old Gamer Became the Patron Saint of the Internet

After being named a “Servant of God” in 2013, Acutis reached the second rung on the ladder to sainthood when he was venerated by Pope Francis in 201…

When word got out that thousands of gamers were already playing Valve’s “secret” shooter Deadlock on Steam back in August, the first reaction fro…

Nearly every survey of the podcast industry in 2024 agrees on one point: Chat podcasts are king. As video rises in popularity (33 percent of US p…

“Goodbye Meta AI ” is the most recent Facebook copypasta to go viral online. A chunky wall of text pasted against a hazy orange-yellow gradient bac…

Palworld , colloquially known to fans as “ Pokémon with guns ,” is in hot water. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company announced Thursday that they’ve fi…

On May 16, the gaming and entertainment news site Dexerto tweeted an image from the forthcoming game Assassin’s Creed Shadows featuring one of its…

YouTuber Preston Jacobs wasted no time when he started his House of the Dragon after-party livestream : “I’m going to say right up [top], I think …

This year also marks the first time that the opening ceremony will be open to all and free of charge—well, almost. Spectators won’t need to show a t…

Every summer, the Spanish Twitch streamer Ibai Llanos hosts a livestreamed boxing tournament called La Velada del Año (The Evening of the Year). I…

Alex English should be on summer break when I call him on a Thursday afternoon, but instead he’s fresh off of two stand-up sets in New York City, a…

Admittedly, our testing artists did push Jen beyond the boundaries of what a “normal” person might ask in a query, veering more toward a “record st…