For nearly three decades Super Mario 64 fans have been trying to beat the game with the least number of A-button presses, which controls Mario’s jumps. But now, Twitch streamer Marbler finally whittled that number down to zero during a run on the Wii Virtual Console — a feat that took 86 hours to complete.

Embracer Group says its headcount dropped by 27 percent over the past financial year, alongside closing 44 studios and 80 in-development projects. That’s 4,532 employees, more than Riot’s roughly 4,300-strong workforce.

Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors says the restructuring program is now “successfully finalized” and has “created a stronger foundation for improved profitability, cash flows and long-term value creation.”

The announcement could come as soon as Thursday. Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, calls itself “the largest producer of live music concerts in the world.” It’s one of many agents of consolidation that drastically reshaped music.

Gretchen Krueger, a policy researcher at OpenAI, announced her departure on Wednesday, saying she shares the same concerns as Jan Leike and Ilya Sutskever, who quit the company last week citing safety concerns.

In her thread, she voiced concerns about tech companies disempowering those seeking to hold them accountable or challenging their power, highlighting a well reported rift within OpenAI.

Senua’s Saga arrived on Xbox and Windows on Tuesday the 21st — and also GeForce Now. It’ll even accept a PC Game Pass subscription as proof of ownership.

In 2023, Nvidia promised it’d release new Microsoft titles “day-and-date or as close to day-and-date as we can with the PC release of the games.” It’s happening?!

Sales jumped 262 percent in Q1 2025 to hit a record $26B in revenue, of which nearly three-quarters ($19.4B) was data center compute — especially its Hopper GPUs for training LLMs and generative AI apps, says Nvidia. Gaming only accounted for $2.6 billion revenue this quarter.

Nvidia’s expecting record revenue again next quarter — $28B. Shovels in a gold rush, people.

According to Bloomberg, Meta has established a new advisory group that will periodically meet with Meta’s management team to provide guidance on the company’s advancements in artificial intelligence. The (noticeably all white, male) council: Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, and former Microsoft exec Charlie Songhurst.

I called the Claw an embarrassment, but there are now two sets of performance-enhancing updates since my tests — MSI now claims “average 26% better performance than competitors in the top 100 most popular Steam games” (albeit with upscaling on).

I gave the Steam Deck and ROG Ally a second chance, so I’ll do the same for the Claw.

3DMark Steel Nomad is a rasterized bench designed to replace Time Spy. It works on Windows on Arm, Android and iOS, with Linux on the way. It sounds potent: Guru3D benched 25 GPUs against it and only four broke 60fps!

It has “Easter eggs referencing the last 25 years of 3DMark Benchmarks” in its Explorer Mode, too. It’s a free update to 3DMark, which costs $35.

Shazam now supports live activities on iOS, as spotted by 9to5Mac. If you have an iPhone with the Dynamic Island, you’ll see a helpful icon there once you invoke Shazam, indicating that it’s listening. This works even without the dedicated Shazam app.

You already knew your iPhone has Shazam built in, right? Putting that shortcut in the Control Center is one of my favorite iOS hacks.

Marvel says What If...? – An Immersive Story will have viewers (players?) casting spells, fighting battles with Marvel characters, and using the infinity stones. Judging from the trailer, that means making Doctor Strange’s magic sparks with your hands.

This edition of What If...? will be “free for a limited time” when the app is available on May 30th.