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A new cold war is brewing over rare earth minerals

China has implemented new export controls for rare earth minerals and magnets. The changes could upend the shift to electric vehicles.

Abigail Bassett
Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired

Ripping off content to train AI wasn’t going to fly with either MAGA populists or MAGA media.

Tina Nguyen
With FBC: Firebreak, Remedy wants to tell a different kind of story

The studio behind Control and Alan Wake expands into co-op shooters, but doesn’t give up its narrative ambitions.

Andrew Webster
Expedition 33’s big twist was designed to ‘inflict the pain on the player’

Warning: major spoilers ahead.

Jay Peters
The enduring cool of skateboarding games

2025 looks to continue the great run.

Jay Peters
Poker Face’s formula wasn’t broke, so Rian Johnson didn’t want to change it

For Rian Johnson, the fun of Poker Face season 2 was figuring out how to give its lie-detecting lead new relationships.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Jazz legend Kamasi Washington was influenced by anime, and now he’s making music for one

More than anything else, Shinichirō Watanabe wanted Kamasi Washington to trust his musical instincts.

Charles Pulliam-Moore