Sega Universe just announced anniversary projects for nine classic IPs at once — OutRun, NiGHTS, Streets of Rage, Sakura Wars, and more. This is not a nostalgia play. It's a franchise strategy.

Iron Galaxy laid off up to 90 people this week and explicitly said they're "accepting current market conditions as permanent." Leenzee dissolved the entire team behind Wuchang: Fallen Feathers. The industry is still contracting.

The Stanford AI Index 2026, published in Nature, found that the best AI agents perform at roughly half the level of PhD-level human scientists on complex tasks. That number deserves more attention than it's getting.

The Duffer Brothers' first post-Stranger Things show stars elderly heroes in a New Mexico retirement community facing something supernatural. The cast alone says they mean business.

Anthropic built a model that autonomously finds thousands of zero-days in production systems, then launched a private coalition to patch them before releasing it publicly.

Seventy-five thousand AI-generated tracks are uploaded to Deezer every single day. Artists are losing streams, royalties, and identity — and no one's keeping up.