Jay Peters

Senior Reporter

Jay PetersJul 13

Kingdom Hearts will be featured at Disney’s big D23 expo in August.

The RPG franchise will have a Saturday session and is mentioned in the first paragraph of a blog post about the event’s schedule. Perhaps we’ll finally get a Kingdom Hearts 4 release date?

Here’s what the session, set for August 15th at 7:30PM ET, will be about:

Join us for a journey through light and darkness as we commemorate 25 years of KINGDOM HEARTS. Discover how this saga united Disney, Pixar, and Square Enix, with insights from the creative minds, character voices, and more behind the magic.

Jay PetersJul 13

SGDQ 2026 raised $2.4M for Doctors Without Borders.

If you catch just one run from Summer Games Done Quick, watch this all-timer Balatro run.

But GDQ had to deal with some controversy shortly after the weeklong marathon ended: following community backlash, it canceled a stream sponsored by SNK, a company that’s majority owned by the Saudi crown prince’s foundation, as it was happening, Kotaku reports.

GDQ Quickly Cancels Metal Slug Anniversary Stream After Fan Outcry

[Kotaku]

Jay PetersJul 11

OpenAI’s Greg Brockman will keep heading up product at the company.

Brockman had taken over product when Fidji Simo went on medical leave, and he’ll continue those responsibilities now that Simo is stepping down from her full-time OpenAI job and becoming a “part-time advisor,” CNBC reports.

OpenAI power consolidates under co-founder Greg Brockman ahead of prospective IPO

[CNBC]

No, Flock isn’t threatening people for debating surveillance

Jay PetersJul 11

Meta turns off the Instagram feature that let users make AI deepfakes of public accounts

Jay PetersJul 10

Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets

Jay PetersJul 10

Can you speedrun pinball? Yes, apparently.

Great run out of Summer Games Done Quick.

Jay PetersJul 10

A hopeful message from id.

The studio, which was hit hard by this week’s Xbox layoffs, says that it still has “the crew we need to build the games and tech we’re known for.”

On that note, I really recommend that you check out the new Doom expansion that launched this week — it shows just what makes id special.

A social media post from id Software. It reads: “Thank you all for the support this week. While our studio was impacted, those changes were spread across teams. We still have the crew we need to build the games and tech we’re known for. The team today is about the same size we were when making DOOM (2016). We have always had a flat studio where everyone is a maker, and we will remain true to that philosophy moving forward. We are focused on supporting each other and the team members impacted. We’re going to keep building the great games and tech that have defined us for the past 35 years, and we’re looking forward to seeing you at QuakeCon this August.”

Image: id Software

Jay PetersJul 10

Elon Musk postponed a planned CNBC interview.

He had been set to talk to CNBC’s Julia Boorstin at 12PM ET, but a little over 10 minutes past the hour, Boorstin reported that “we just got word that he has to postpone.” Right now, we don’t know if or when the interview may actually happen.