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Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Lego is teasing a new Donkey Kong collaboration.

Proving the toymaker can still keep some of its plans secret Lego released a short video on Instagram teasing another Nintendo collaboration focusing on Donkey Kong. The barrel-throwing gorilla was already featured in a Lego Super Mario expansion set, but could finally be getting his own entire theme.

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A screenshot of the Lego and Donkey Kong logos appearing in a teaser video.
Screenshot: Instagram
Musk v. Altman: Much ado about nothing
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We sent Liz Lopatto to Musk v. Altman and all we got was this episode of Decoder

Nilay Patel
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Games on Ubisoft’s store are getting new accessibility tags.

The tags, introduced as part of the cross-company Accessible Games Initiative effort, will initially show up on listings for four games, including Rayman Legends, Ubisoft says. The tags will be added to more games throughout 2026 “and beyond.”

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Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Stern’s new Transformers pinball machines have a ball-blasting Megatron.

The animatronic leader of the Decepticons is joined by Soundwave who captures and launches pinballs from his opening cassette deck. The machines also feature clips from the ‘80s animated series, custom recordings from Peter Cullen (Optimus Prime) and Frank Welker (Megatron and Soundwave), and Stan Bush’s “The Touch.”

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
I’m sorry, Avatar. You may be confused.

There is no war in Ba Sing Se in the new trailer for season two of Netflix’s live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series. But there are plenty of action shots showing off how much more intense the elemental bending will be when the season premieres on June 25th.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Sony’s other PS Plus plans are going up in price too.

When it announced price hikes this week, Sony focused on the cheapest Essential tier. As we suspected though, now the new prices are live, Extra and Premium have gone up too. Extra now starts at $16.99 per month, while Premium is $19.99.

Andrew J. Hawkins
Andrew J. Hawkins
Flytrex will build drones in Texas for pizza delivery.

With imports from China effectively blocked, Israeli drone company Flytrex is opening a new “manufacturing and maintenance facility” in the Dallas-Fort Worth area with the capacity to produce “thousands” of drones annually. The company says the new facility is key to its plan to open 60 new delivery sites across DFW by mid-2027. Flytrex currently operates a drone delivery service with Uber Eats and DoorDash, with some of its drones capable of delivering a couple pizzas at a time.

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Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
CapCut editing is coming to Gemini.

CapCut announced on X that users will “soon” be able to edit images and videos directly within the Gemini app using CapCut’s editing capabilities.

“As creative workflows become more connected and seamless, we believe the future of creation will be more conversational, intuitive, and intelligently integrated across tools and experiences.”