House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman James Comer is summoning the CEOS of Discord, Steam, Twitch and Reddit to Washington. A full committee hearing is scheduled for Oct. 8, at which Comer and the committee will ask Discord CEO Humam Sakhnini, Valve president and cofounder Gabe Newell, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy, and Reddit CEO Steve Huffman “explain what actions they will take to ensure their platforms are not exploited for nefarious purposes,” .

The hearing “will examine the radicalization of online forum users, including instances of

Florida attorney general James Uthmeier has filed two lawsuits targeting companies that make, distribute, and process payments for porn video games. on Monday that he’d filed lawsuits against both Lusty Heroes, which hosts a porn game of the same name, and its payment processor Segpay in one complaint and PornHub owner Aylo, which runs porn game platform Nutaku, in another.

Uthmeier claims in a news release that the companies are “openly violating Florida’s age verification law” that requires websites to ask users to verify their age

Remember the mimics from Prey , those creepy masses of tentacles that could disguise themselves as shoes and coffee cups so they could get the drop on you? is kind of like that, except of using its everyday objects for jumpscares, it uses them to tell a story about the value of play.

It’s never explained why the game’s titular character is just the top half of a human head, or why they have the power to jump inside the objects around them. There’d be ample opportunity to

Humans are smart, so we know deep down that every attempt we make to classify the things we create is fraught with peril, because so much of what we create evades strict definition. But humans are also humans, meaning we can't resist doing it anyway.

Few examples of this are more annoying to people into video games than video games , where genre labels are constantly being stretched, and we feel the need to cram years upon years of the medium's history into the easily-digestible idea of console

As a fan of everything animation and an occasional doodler, I’ve seen my fair share of superb art, whether it’s the emotional climax of my favorite ship finally sharing a kiss or heroes riding in to save the day on their noble steeds. One burning question I’ve had during my 28 years of watching anime is whether it’s harder for artists to draw kissing scenes or the anatomy of a horse. So, taking advantage of my privilege as an off-diary writer, I asked

Despite what , One Piece is as political as its ongoing and are long. So, it’s no surprise that the Straw Hat pirates’ flag is being used as a real-life political symbol.

The One Piece flag initially appeared this summer in , where some flew it as a against President Prabowo Subianto’s calls for Indonesians to display the nation’s flag. It appeared again in Nepal in September, where, in a stunning display of Gen-Z political power, the country erupted in mass protests

I didn’t watch last night’s Emmys, where Apple TV’s comedy show The Studio with a record-breaking number of awards. I did, however, watch the entirety of that show while lying around on my couch exhausted from a morning long run. As its reviews and praise from my peers noted, it’s pretty good.

The Studio follows film executive Matt Remick, played by Seth Rogen, as he’s catapulted into leading Continental Studios after his previous boss is unceremoniously fired. Matt

Due to what they call “recent events,” the moderators of the r/Helldivers subreddit have temporarily closed the community. Meanwhile, the moderators of r/Helldivers2 have decided to keep theirs open.

At around 11:30 eastern, the moderators of r/Helldivers, which has 1.2 million members, locked the community, meaning that moderator approval is required for all new posts and all new comments on posts. They pinned a message to the subreddit explaining the decision.

“Due to recent