Hira Anwar, 14, lived in two contrasting worlds in New York, where she was born and raised. Outside her home, she was a typical American teenager, laughing with friends, posting videos on TikTok and dreaming of a boundless future. Inside the home, her reality was very different. Her parents, Pakistani immigrants who had settled in […]

Two passengers on the American Airlines jet that crashed into the Potomac River on Wednesday night were world-class ice skaters who worked as coaches in the United States. The skaters, two champions from Russia, shared a partnership both on the ice and in marriage. The Skating Club of Boston confirmed in a social media post […]

After porting a few of its first-party titles to PlayStation and Switch last year, the first multiplatform move for Xbox in 2025 has been revealed. Playground Games and Turn 10 Studios have announced that Forza Horizon 5 will be racing to PlayStation this spring. The PS5 version will be developed by Panic Button, whose previous […]

The long-running tabletop mech game BattleTech has spawned numerous video games, including MechWarrior, MechAssault, and 2018’s BattleTech, but if you’ve ever wanted to get into the board game that started it all, now is the perfect time. The game recently celebrated its 40th birthday with a new 40th Anniversary Edition of the core box, and […]

Among the Palestinians released on Thursday in a hostage-for-prisoner swap between Israel and Hamas was Zakaria Zubeidi, who over the past two decades has been a militant, a theater director and an escaped prisoner whose flight stunned Israelis and Palestinians alike. Mr. Zubeidi, 49, rose to prominence as a militant leader during the Second Intifada, […]

Fans of Control may want to take note that there’s a new third-person action-RPG that blends magic and gunplay. Nesting Games has announced The Directorate: Novitiate, a game that puts players in control of Kana Luna. By day, Kana is just a normal young woman living in Los Angeles in 2006. But by night, Kana […]

If you’ve held off on adding BioWare’s latest RPG to your collection, today might be the day you’ll want to change that. Dragon Age: The Veilguard is on sale for only $25 at Amazon and GameStop. The massive $45 discount is by far the best deal yet for the new role-playing game. The Veilguard released […]

President Trump’s sweeping executive order to halt foreign aid threatens to freeze a U.S. program supporting security forces inside a notorious camp in the Syrian desert that holds tens of thousands of Islamic State members and their families, Syrian and U.S. officials said. The order has also wreaked havoc on another U.S. organization in Syria […]

Tomb Raider fans have been eagerly awaiting a new game in the series since 2018’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider. But since it’s anyone’s guess when Lara Croft’s next adventure will arrive, players may have to be satisfied by the return of one of her spin-off games. Feral Interactive has announced that Lara Croft and […]

Hamas released eight hostages, including three Israelis and five Thais, on Thursday as part of a hostage-for-prisoner exchange, more than a year after they were taken captive during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Agam Berger, an Israeli army soldier, was released first in a highly choreographed ceremony in northern Gaza. […]