Culture

Fallout co-creator would have gone in a different direction than Bethesda

Fallout has changed drastically since Interplay Entertainment's original two isometric CRPGs. After Bethesda acquired the franchise, it steered the series toward a first-person, open-world approach. Game Informer recently spoke with three developers who were instrumental to Fallout's creation — lead programmer Tim Cain, art director Leonard Boyarsky,

Sports

Arsenal host Sunderland as Wolves face Chelsea

All roads lead to north London as Arsenal host Sunderland, with a full Premier League programme that also includes Wolves v Chelsea, Burnley v West Ham, Bournemouth v Aston Villa and Fulham v Everton. Early results have started to come in: Manchester United 2-0 Tottenham (full-time), Norwich City 2-0 Blackburn

Culture

Danganronpa Creator Says Lying to Your Bosses Helps Get Games Made

Danganronpa and The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy are the types of games it’s hard to get a big company behind. Kazutaka Kodaka, the lead on both these projects, explained how he gets games like this out the door, and it sounds like the key to getting a teenage

Culture

Cold Storage Gives Liam Neeson His Best Rotten Tomatoes Score in a Decade

Cold Storage, starring Joe Keery, Georgina Campbell and Liam Neeson, turns a containment scenario into a horror-comedy. A parasitic fungus escapes from the titular cold storage unit, forcing Keery's Teacake and Campbell's Naomi to try to contain the mutating menace. They recruit Neeson's retired

World

Russian Strikes Pummel Ukraine’s Power Grid

Russia struck Ukrainian energy infrastructure on Saturday night with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles, forcing emergency outages across the country and prompting Kyiv to request emergency electricity assistance from Poland. The bombardment hit high-voltage transmission lines that form the backbone of the national grid, along with power plants

Culture

Severance Production Set to Begin in July as Views Close Gap with Pluribus

In an interview, John Turturro said production on Severance Season 3 will begin this July, giving fans fresh confirmation that the series is moving forward after months of uncertainty. That news sent viewers back to Apple TV, bolstering the show's numbers and narrowing the lead held by Pluribus.

Health

Deafening, draining and potentially deadly: are we facing a snoring epidemic?

When Matt Hillier was in his 20s a friend told him she was shocked by the snoring coming from his tent. He delayed seeking help until he woke one night with a racing heartbeat; a recording and further tests revealed moderate sleep apnoea. His condition was classed as supine, meaning

Sports

Tottenham captain Cristian Romero sent off for reckless foul on Casemiro

Cristian Romero was dismissed before the half-hour mark at Old Trafford after launching into a reckless challenge on Manchester United midfielder Casemiro and crunching down on the Brazilian's ankle. While opinion was divided on the decision itself, Tottenham fans were left universally fuming following yet another red card

Business

Inside a luxury Texas tiny-home village for retirees

Liberty Tiny Village is a resort-style, 55-and-older tiny-home community in Aubrey, North Texas, founded in 2022 on 7.5 acres between master-planned subdivisions and family farms. Owned by Melissa Hayes and her husband, Phillip, the village has 11 occupied lots and markets itself to retirees and soon-to-be retirees looking to

Business

The best HR software of 2026: Expert reviewed

HR teams often drown in spreadsheets, payroll runs slip, and compliance headaches pile up. Those problems can lead to real risks: regulatory exposure, dissatisfied employees, and operational breakdowns. Picking the right HR platform can simplify global hiring, steady payroll, and improve employee experience. Top pick Deel addresses global complexity by

Culture

Melissa McCarthy Sings in SNL's Broadway All-Star Halftime Sketch

Back in Season 39, Melissa McCarthy hosted on February 1, 2024 — the night before Super Bowl XLVIII, when the Seattle Seahawks were playing the Denver Broncos and Bruno Mars and The Red Hot Chili Peppers were set as the halftime performers. SNL opened the show with "Broadway's

Culture

Entertainment picks: From Lord of the Flies to Deftones

Cinema highlights include 100 Nights of Hero, in which Maika Monroe plays a woman shut up in a castle while Nicholas Galitzine’s seductive best friend wagers he can tempt her; Emma Corrin’s sharp‑witted maid tries to foil his schemes in Julia Jackman’s fairytale fantasy with Charli

Culture

Dylan Walsh flabbergasted by Heated Rivalry's popularity

Dylan Walsh, who plays Shane Hollander’s dad in Heated Rivalry, says he’s been blown away by the Crave/HBO Max series’ success. After nearly forty years of acting, he described times when “I’ll do something, I think, okay, this is going to move the dial,” and nothing

Culture

Overwatch Jetpack Cat abilities and perks explained

Jetpack Cat is a new support hero arriving on Tuesday, February 10, 2026, alongside Anran, Mizuki, Domina, and Emre. Piloting a flying mech, she heals allies and can tow teammates across the map. She has 225 HP and is classified as a Tactician, so excess ultimate charge carries over to

Science

NASA sets coverage for SpaceX Crew-12 launch, docking

NASA will stream live coverage of prelaunch, launch, and docking activities for the SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff is targeted no earlier than 6:01 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Feb. 11, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, with

Culture

Three movie masterpieces buried on Hulu

Disney has signaled that, at some point this year, the 19-year-old streaming service Hulu will shut down and be absorbed into Disney Plus. Before that happens, it’s worth checking the service’s movie library; beyond its well-known original series, Hulu has been a strong home for films that may

Culture

Horses dev says Epic made 'provably incorrect' comments

Italian developer Santa Ragione has called out an Epic Games executive for making what it calls "provably incorrect" comments about Horses, a surreal horror game that was banned on multiple storefronts late last year. Steam blocked the game's release, and the Epic Games Store got similarly

Crypto

Tether freezes $544M tied to Turkish illegal betting probe

Tether has frozen $544 million in cryptocurrency at the request of Turkish authorities, blocking funds tied to an alleged illegal online betting and money‑laundering operation. Prosecutors in Istanbul announced the seizure of approximately €460 million in assets belonging to Veysel Sahin, who is accused of operating unlawful betting platforms

Tech

Epic Calls ‘Jeffrey Epstein Is Alive’ Fortnite Conspiracy a Hoax

Epic Games shot down rumors that a Fortnite account sharing the same username as a YouTube account owned by Jeffrey Epstein belonged to the deceased financier. The company called it a "ruse" apparently orchestrated by random Fortnite players attempting to spoof the alias leaked in last week’s

Culture

This ‘Summer House’ Star Loves to Eat Like a Child

Ciara Miller returns for the 10th season of Summer House and jokes that she “has the diet of” a toddler. When she first joined the Bravo series, the coronavirus pandemic kept the cast together for six weeks straight; now, five seasons in, she says she has found her stride. She

Crypto

China widens crypto ban to choke off stablecoins and asset tokenization

China’s top financial regulators have expanded the country’s cryptocurrency ban to cover stablecoin issuances and the tokenization of real-world assets. The directive targets offshore branches of domestic firms and foreign entities, aiming to protect monetary sovereignty and prevent capital flight. A joint notice released Feb. 6 by eight

AI

Mathematicians Put A.I. to the Test with First Proof

A group of mathematicians has launched First Proof, an experiment that uses genuine, unpublished research questions to measure how well large-language models handle research-level mathematics. Each contributor supplied a test problem drawn from work they had underway; the solutions were encrypted online and are due to be released on Feb.

Culture

Darren Lynn Bousman and Lauren LaVera on Twisted's practical horror

Twisted unfolds like a deliberate genre bait-and-switch: what begins with the slick, mischievous energy of a heist movie tightens into something darker and more psychologically brutal. The film follows two millennials who flip New York apartments they don’t own until they encounter an apartment owner with a dark secret.

Sports

Emery urges Liverpool to remove Elliott purchase clause

Aston Villa manager Unai Emery has urged Liverpool to change the terms of Harvey Elliott's loan, saying a clause that forces a £30 million permanent transfer if he reaches 10 appearances has left the midfielder in limbo. Elliott has made seven appearances this season and Emery admits the

Business

Prediction Markets and Casinos Clash Over Sports Betting

In eight years sports gambling in the United States has grown from an illegal enterprise to a business that processes $220 billion in bets each year; this weekend alone some $1.8 billion is set to be wagered on Super Bowl LX. That expanding pool has intensified competition among FanDuel,