Back to School Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Say More Look Up Trending Now Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age Creator Playbook Switch Off Mashable Voices Safety Net Versus All Series The sale includes Ruggable collabs with Star Wars, Marimekko, Junaglow, and more. Lauren Allain is a freelance journalist covering deals at Mashable. She graduated from Western Washington University with a B.A. in journalism and holds an M.B.A from Webster Leiden. You can find more of her work online from publications including Reader's Digest, U.S. News & World Report, Seattle Refined, and more. When she's not writing, Lauren prefers to be outside hiking, bouldering, swimming, or searching for the perfect location for all three.

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Gear Gaming Console Gaming Walmart's video game clearance sale drops popular titles for Switch, PS5, and Xbox by up to 50% Grab a copy of Stellar Blade, Lego Star Wars, the latest Assassin's Creed, or pretty much any game you've been waiting to buy for the lowest prices of the year. Never run out of stuff to play. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Walmart is running a big video game sale right now with discounts on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and accessories. There are nearly 100 deals live at the moment, with some of the best cuts landing on recent big-name releases -- is down to $37 (from $70), is $24.84 (down from $60), and is just $29.

New Year is a time of reinvention. In that spirit, I would like to shake up this preview of 2026's best sci-fi and science-related TV with a radical act: including a series that started last year. That may seem strange, but the second season of Fallout (Amazon Prime Video) aired in only mid-December, so, for my money, it counts. Set in a retrofuturistic US, generations of humans have lived inside radiation-proof bunkers sold to them by the shadowy Vault-Tec corporation. Last season, former vault-dweller Lucy (Ella Purnell) went surface-side to find her missing father, encountering cowboys and cannibals along the way.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won nine awards, including game of the year, while newly announced games at the show include the next project from Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios New titles were announced, celebrities appeared, and at one point, screaming people were suspended from the ceiling in an extravagant promotion for a new role-playing game. Acclaimed French adventure Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 began the night with 12 nominations - the most in the event's history - and ended it with nine awards. The Gallic favourite took game of the year, as well as awards for best game direction, best art direction, best narrative and best performance (for actor Jennifer English). Elsewhere, Hades II took best action game, Hollow Knight: Silksong won in best action/adventure and Arc Raiders won best multiplayer. There was a decent showing for the new(ish) Nintendo Switch 2, with Donkey Kong Bananza taking best family game and Mario Kart World scorching across the line with best sports/racing game.

Casey Hudson is returning to space for a brand new project. The Game Awards kicked off with a bang, showing the world premiere of . It's a brand new action role-playing game that will be directed by Casey Hudson, who previously headed up several notable BioWare games you probably know like and . There's not much to go on in the trailer, but the game simply existing is a pretty great surprise and this cinematic trailer sure looks shiny. Hudson is working with Arcanaut Studios on this project, which is described as "an epic interactive adventure across a galaxy on the brink of rebirth where every decision shapes your path towards light or darkness."

Disney has agreed to invest $1bn (£740m) in OpenAI as part of a deal which will let people use many of its iconic characters in the chatbot ChatGPT and video-generation tool Sora. It is the first major studio to license parts of its catalogue to the tech giant, in a move which could have major implications for the studio's future plans. It means fans will be able to generate and share pictures and videos of more than 200 characters from Disney's franchises, including Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars. The move comes as OpenAI faces mounting questions about how its rapidly advancing tech is used - and as anxiety in Hollywood increases over the impact of AI on the creative industries. According to a blog post announcing the news, the list of eligible characters include those from Disney films Zootopia, Moana and Encanto - as well as characters like Star Wars' Luke Skywalker and Marvel's Deadpool.

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We write a lot about robots here at New Scientist – the latest cutting-edge developments, the newest technology. But we also have a great deal of fondness for them in fiction, whether that's the super cute likes of WALL-E and BB-8, or the darker side of the robotic family, from the Terminator to Ava from Ex Machina. Last month, Sierra Greer's novel about the rebellion of a robot designed for intimacy, Annie Bot, won this year's Arthur C Clarke award, the UK's top prize for science fiction. It was described by judges as "a tightly-focused first person account of a robot designed to be the perfect companion who struggles to become free". Greer's win felt like the right moment to ask New Scientist staff to nominate their own favourite fictional robotic beings, from page or screen. After a bit of quibbling about what constitutes a robot, and a lot of people plumping for various Star Wars droids and Futurama creations, here, in no particular order, they are.