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Archives for April 2026

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Stream your slop while you drive.

Suno is available on Android Auto, and CarPlay support is in the works. Now you can stream all your illicit AI covers on your road trip from Hell. According to a post in the Suno Discord, features are limited, with only search, library and explore support, plus playback control.

Suno on Android Auto.
Suno on Android Auto.
Image: Suno
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Analog horror masters Local 58 take on our modern AI apocalypse.

The Thought Research Initiative is a known entity in the Local 58 universe. But a new video and website bring the TRI from the 80s into the 2000s, with its new breakthrough — Qualiaform Intuition. It brags that it’s “taught, not trained” and “genuine, not generative,” hinting at the horror behind the scenes.

Two Japanese movies that confront what it means to be alive

Sho Miyake has been celebrated for his quiet, careful character portraits in his home country. Now his two latest films are available stateside.

Robyn Kanner
Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
The critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV is coming to the Switch 2.

Square Enix just announced a bunch of news for its MMO, including an expansion called Evercold, an Evangelion crossover, and a port for Nintendo’s new console in August. The Switch 2 version will get a month-long (free) early access period, though it sounds like it will have its own separate subscription.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Baldur’s Gate 3 books are coming soon.

The main highlight is a prequel novel, Baldur’s Gate 3: Astarion, by T. Kingfisher, coming September 29th, plus a notebook, coloring book, and a cookbook, which are all coming out this year.

Publisher Random House Worlds says it plans for the initiative to continue with more titles next year.

The cover of Baldur’s Gate 3: Astarion.
Image: Random House Worlds
Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
Video game movies have become a battlefield.

If we’re getting a Call of Duty movie, I guess it only makes sense that we get a Battlefield one as well. According to the Hollywood Reporter, EA’s shooter series is being adapted into a film with longtime Mission Impossible director Chrisopher McQuarrie at the helm, and Michael B. Jordan attached as star.

How Project Maven taught the military to love AI

A new book shows how the controversial Silicon Valley partnership has accelerated the pace of war.

Joshua Dzieza
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Spotify is finally bringing playlist folders to its mobile apps.

Organizing playlists into folders was introduced in 2010, but only available on the desktop app. Now it’s reportedly rolling out to mobile users. Tap the + icon in your library, and you should see a new “folder” option. You can even play an entire folder of playlists, or shuffle them.

Screenshots of the Spotify iOS app showing the ability to organize playlists using folders.
Screenshot: FN-1708 via Reddit
Saros is pure action nirvana

Returnal developer Housemarque is back with a PS5 exclusive that delivers a euphoric, trance-inducing experience.

Lewis Gordon
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
DirecTV is streaming TV directly into Meta Quest headsets.

DirecTV now supports mixed reality with its new app for the Quest 2, 3, 3S, and even Pro headsets. There’s live TV for subscribers, plus on-demand and ad-supported content anyone can watch, available in the app store or through the Horizon TV hub Meta launched last year.

A person watching The Pitt on DirecTV with a Meta Quest headset
Image: DirecTV
Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
Are you ready, kids?

Ubisoft just officially unveiled its Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag remake, and you’ll be able to live out your Jack Sparrow fantasies pretty soon: it’s launching on July 9th. Here’s a gameplay trailer for a little more detail.