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Torchlight: Infinite Season 12 arrives three months after its all-time player peak

Torchlight: Infinite Season 12 arrives three months after its all-time player peak

There is a specific kind of pressure that follows a live-service game’s best moment. Torchlight: Infinite is now living inside it. Season 11 — Vorax, launched in January — brought the game its highest-ever concurrent player count on Steam, briefly putting it in the same conversation as Diablo 4 and Path of Exile 2 as […]

Susan Hill

IU and Byeon Woo-seok’s royal rom-com Perfect Crown arrives on MBC and Disney+

IU and Byeon Woo-seok’s royal rom-com Perfect Crown arrives on MBC and Disney+

Molly Se-kyung

When federal arts funding collapses, fifty curators ask what public engagement still means

When federal arts funding collapses, fifty curators ask what public engagement still means

Lisbeth Thalberg

Movies & TV

Mudborn

Mudborn on Netflix uses a cursed doll to map what care costs a woman

China’s TV regulator orders drama industry to reject beauty worship and embrace state cultural doctrine

Analysis

People are scrolling past perfect images to find proof a human made them

Tech giants are buying the voices no one owned

The Luxury of Being Human: Music’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Authenticity

Art

Full Moon H by Yiannis Moralis (1916-2009) (estimate: €250,000-350,000)

Parthenis arrives in Paris, and the price of a Greek canon

There is a painting by Constantinos Parthenis that refuses to resolve. Poésie (Annonciation) presents a young woman at the center of its composition — seated, calm, gesturing toward an angel above while holding a scroll that might contain sacred text or poetic verse or both. She is, simultaneously, the Virgin Mary and Poetry itself. The […]

노상호 NOH Sangho, HOLY, 2026, oil on canvas, 116.9 x 91 cm_nohsangho

Korean contemporary art turns inward at ARARIO GALLERY’s ART OnO booth

Arturo Mallmann, Holding the Silence. Mixed media on panel

Craighead Green Gallery Explores Environmental Perception in Three Concurrent Exhibitions

Anicka Yi, 0þR†KLñ†0W£ (The Particle and The Wave

How a century of portraiture and industrial stone challenges the digital void at Art Basel Hong Kong

Autumn Knight, M_ _ _ ER, 2018–ongoing. Performance: MCA Chicago, 2022. Courtesy the artist and the MCA Chicago. Photo: Jeremy Lawson

Performing Conditions at MIT: Why the Most Powerful Art of 2026 is Quitting

Music

Evanescence

Evanescence announces new single Who Will You Follow from upcoming album

Olivia Rodrigo announces third album out June 12, hints at tour

Mark Lee exits NCT and SM Entertainment after 10-year contract

Theater

Copenhagen

Power, Physics, and the Past: Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen Returns

Griff Rhys Jones as Jim Hacker and Clive Francis as Sir Humphrey Appleby in I'm Sorry, Prime Minister (credit Johan Persson)

The Bureaucracy of Legacy: Yes, Minister Confronts the Passage of Time

Bill Kenwright Ltd Mounts Major Revival of Cy Coleman’s Barnum Starring Lee Mead

Technology

SpaceX filed for the largest IPO in history — $75 billion at $1.75 trillion

SpaceX filed for the largest IPO in history — $75 billion at $1.75 trillion

Shor’s algorithm resource requirements for RSA-2048 fell by an order of magnitude in under a year

Shor’s algorithm resource requirements for RSA-2048 fell by an order of magnitude in under a year

Science

Strain-engineered La₃Ni₂O₇ thin films reach 40 K superconductivity without extreme pressure

Strain-engineered La₃Ni₂O₇ thin films reach 40 K superconductivity without extreme pressure

Oxygen mapped across 4,546 points in NGC 1365 reconstructs 12 billion years of galactic evolution

Oxygen mapped across 4,546 points in NGC 1365 reconstructs 12 billion years of galactic evolution

Health

Why your body taxes every drink differently after 40 — and what the science demands you do about it

Why your energy system is your most valuable professional asset

Ultra-processed food is quietly dismantling your cellular architecture

Business

Women’s exclusion from AI is draining the next wave of global GDP growth

When the cloud hits the ground: AI’s energy crisis and the return of geography

The Two-Speed Economy: When AI Turns One Worker Into a Million-Dollar Asset

More News

Thrash Netflix

News

Thrash on Netflix pits real sharks against a flooded town and plays every second for keeps

Turn of the Tide Netflix

Series

Turn of the Tide on Netflix ends by asking if a community can make its own justice without becoming what hurt it

18th Rose

Movies

18th Rose on Netflix asks what a girl owes the version of herself she planned to become

Big Mistakes Netflix

Series

Big Mistakes on Netflix cannot stop being a family comedy, even under gunpoint

Bandi - Netflix

Series

What Bandi on Netflix understands about eleven Martinican siblings that crime drama usually refuses to examine

Trust Me: The Fake Prophet

Documentaries

A cult researcher secretly recorded a prophet describing abuse. Police waited seven months to call the FBI

The Boys Season 5 - Prime Video

Series

The Boys on Prime Video ends with its satire already proven right

Documentaries

Chess Mates on Netflix exposes the power struggle that neither chess nor Carlsen could admit

Rebirth (重生 / Chóngshēng)

Series

冰湖重生 on iQIYI is the Princess Agents sequel nine years of C-drama fans have been waiting for