Articles by William Chan
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Party Animals Studio Recreate Games Loses Steam "Very Positive" Rating in Under 24 Hours Over $75,000 AI Video Contest
Recreate Games, the studio behind the physics-based party brawler Party Animals, is navigating a reputational collapse this week after announcing a $75,000 contest that required players to use generative AI tools — and discovering that its own community regards AI promotion as a dealbreaker.
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Forza Horizon 6 Lands a 92 on Metacritic as Microsoft Bans Leakers Until the Year 9999
Playground Games' Forza Horizon 6 opened to a Metacritic score of 92 on May 14. Microsoft had accidentally leaked an unencrypted 155 GB build of the game to Steam five days before paid early access began, then responded by issuing hardware bans expiring December 31, 9999 to anyone caught playing the pirated version.
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The Boys' V-One and Telepathy Plotlines Track Real Biotech and Neural-Privacy Crises Unfolding Now
Amazon's The Boys dropped its penultimate Season 5 episode on Prime Video on May 13, 2026 — the same week U.S. senators advanced a bill to study federal protections for neural data and a federal appeals court reopened the landmark CRISPR patent dispute between the Broad Institute and UC Berkeley.
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NASA's Real Titan Science Collides With Apple TV's 'For All Mankind' As Season 5 Races Toward Its Finale
A March 2026 study published in Science Advances by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers Tuan Vu and Robert Hodyss has found that acrylonitrile does not self-assemble into the cell-like structures scientists had hoped for, dealing a blow to one of astrobiology's most provocative ideas just as Apple TV's For All Mankind.
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TenSura Season 4's "Greed" Villain Mirrors Real AI Misalignment Research — and the Stakes Are Not Fictional
On Friday, May 15, 2026, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4 — the hit isekai anime streaming on Crunchyroll — released Episode 6, titled "The Demon Lords," in which a power-hungry antagonist driven by a single obsessive objective threatens to upend an entire political order.
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Dr. Stone's Final Season Uses Real Engineering History to Explain Its Most Unsettling Device Yet
One day after episode 31 of Dr. Stone: Science Future dropped on Crunchyroll millions of viewers in over 100 countries watched the Stone World's first-ever television broadcast, an in-show milestone that doubles as a compressed history of applied physics spanning nearly a century of real-world engineering.
