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For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with accessory company TUO to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win a HomePod mini and a Matter-compatible TUO Smart Button to go along with it. Priced at $34.95, TUO Smart Button is a simple accessory that is able to activate any of your home automations with the press of a button. TUO is the first Matter-certified Smart Button that supports Thread. With Matter integration, it can be added to a HomeKit setup so long as you have an Apple Matter hub, wh...

A new Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 dev diary has been released, and it's showing off the incredible ways in which the facial capture system works.

Obsidian Entertainment design director Josh Sawyer has said that he'd be well up for making a new Pillars of Eternity RPG, given a budget on par with Baldur's Gate 3. Specifically, he'd like to build on Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire's combat system, and use a "scripted 3D camera" that avoids some of the fuss of exploring the world and navigating the interface of Larian's game.

We're in the awkward stretch between Amazon's October Prime Day sale and Black Friday, but if you can't wait a few more weeks to start your holiday shopping, there are a few notable tech deals you can take advantage of today. Premium TVs like Samsung S90C and TCL QM8 are both down to new all-time lows, for instance, as is the budget-level Hisense U6K. If you want a new set of wireless earbuds, the Lightning version of the AirPods Pro is $60 off Apple's list price, while the wallet-friendly Jabra...

Things probably aren't going to get cheaper than $199 for a 170Hz panel.

At Maze Theory, we get excited about storytelling in virtual reality. We think about how VR feels –using your hands to interact with the world, looking characters in the eye, gazing up at vast buildings–and use those feelings to immerse players in a story. For Peaky Blinders: The King’s Ransom Complete Edition–a new, standalone story...

Wibble wobble. The squishy physics driver/platformer series, JellyCar, wobbled its way onto Switch last year with the release of JellyCar Worlds. Today, developer Walaber is giving us yet another blast from the past as it adds the levels from the WiiWare / DSiWare sequel, JellyCar 2, to the proceedings. For those who have never stumbled across the wacky yet wonderful concept of JellyCar before, let us bring you up to speed. This is a classic car platformer but with the twist of all the surfaces ...

Let loose and celebrate the most ostentatious fake holiday on the calendar.

The release of the Intel Core Ultra Meteor Lake lineup is closer than ever, and the brand-new Core Ultra 100H series chips are beginning to be spotted, debuting within some brand-new pieces of PC gaming hardware. A recent discovery online, has spotted that Emdoor is entering the portable PC gaming market with its own Intel Meteor Lake handheld, which is sporting the upcoming processor.

Valorant's newest agent Iso has received his first gameplay trailer, and he looks like the perfect choice if you want to prove yourself one-on-one.

Corsair is behind some of the best peripherals a PC gaming setup can have, from gaming mice, keyboards, and now, since owning the Elgato brand, some of the best webcams and streaming hardware too. While the brand appears to have its hand in every area of the PC hardware market, it was only recently it decided to stretch its remit into actual furniture for PC gamers, with the launch of the Platform: 6 modular computer desk, which is now available to order.

Remember way back when in the depths of 2021 when we last redesigned the RPS homepage and a good number of you asked if you'd ever be able to personalise what you saw there so you didn't miss the stuff that really mattered to you? WELL. Have I got some good news for you. Today, our tech team have launched our brand-new "For You" section on the RPS homepage, which shows the latest articles about any topics you've followed on the site. Give it a try! We'd love to hear what you think of it.

Microsoft has finally managed to make Xbox massive, in a very literal way, by displaying a giant ad on the famous Sphere venue in Las Vegas. 

Mic modeling has come a long way in just a few years, and modern software plugins, to these ears, get quite close to the real deal. Universal Audio has been at the forefront of this technology for a while and now the company’s released a new condenser microphone that integrates with its equally new Hemisphere mic modeling plugin. The SC-1 is a large diaphragm condenser microphone, operating as part of the company’s Standard Series that also includes the pre-existing SD-1 and SP-1. The SC-1 launc...

Detective Pikachu Returns... Again. Detective Pikachu Returns has been out on Switch for a couple of weeks now and it's... well, just as sweet as we would expect, actually. While it wasn't on any of our 'Nintendo 2023' bingo cards, it looks like the team behind the game sees room for future entries in the series (thanks, VGC). This news comes from a recent Famitsu interview with Creatures Inc. managing director Hiroyuki Jinnai and Pokémon Company president Tsunekazu Ishihara. The former noted th...

Celebrate every era of the web-slinger with these gift ideas.

Developer Poncle also shared some updates on sussing out the Unity problem.

Esports team FaZe Clan has been acquired by holding company GameSquare, and the days of that $725 million valuation seem long gone.

Soulbound, Wrath & Glory, and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay are all included.

YouTuber Luke Miani joins us on this week's episode of The MacRumors Show to discuss the new Apple Pencil with USB-C, the direction of the iPad lineup, and Vision Pro. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos We talk through our immediate thoughts on Apple's newly announced ‌Apple Pencil‌ model featuring a USB-C port for pairing and charging, leading us to contemplate how to clean up the ‌iPad‌ lineup as a whole. We compare Apple's Vision Pro headset to the ‌iPad‌ and consider ...

Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunners are still trying to see how quickly they can have sex in the game, and today one player managed to break the two minute barrier. This brisk performance was achieved by Mae, a known speedrunner in the Baldur's Gate 3 community. Mae previously managed to complete a Sex Any% speedrun in just under eight minutes, and has been whittling that time down ever since. "After just over two months, the Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunning community has finally peaked. The two minute bar...

Set in a dark-fantasy timeline version of the Roman Empire, Ludus Mortis is a dungeon crawler like the classics but with plenty of modern touches now in Early Access with Linux Support and Steam Deck playable.

Did this Sonic 'Trip' up? Sonic Superstars marks Sega's grand return to the world of '2D' Sonic after the highly acclaimed Sonic Mania back in 2017. We thought it was pretty darn good here at Nintendo Life and awarded it a score of 8/10 in our review, stating that "this is the first original 2D Sonic game that feels truly authentic to the Genesis titles without aping the classic pixel-art style".

Twitch relies heavily on unpaid labor to create and manage its storied community.

Cities Skylines 2 performance on PC is causing worry for fans of the giant Paradox city builder. While its new features and tools are all welcome additions, and it offers a much greater scale and creativity than the original Cities Skylines, CS2 struggles on even the strongest gaming rigs, with our own Cities Skylines 2 review citing numerous issues. If you’ve got concerns about the upcoming sequel, but still want a great new building and management game, Cities Skylines 2’s closest rival, Highr...

Whether you’ve played Don’t Starve or not, now is a great time to jump into one of Steam’s highest rated co-op survival games. A spooky Don’t Starve Together update, Host of Horrors, has arrived with new mutations to fight, items to craft, and even more secrets. A Steam sale also means that if you’re a fan of Valheim, Terraria, Rust, Sons of the Forest, Astroneer, No Man’s Sky, or even Minecraft, you owe it to yourself to discover why Don’t Starve is so beloved.

Paradox's space 4X strategy game Stellaris is getting a new Astral Planes expansion, in which you send ships through rifts to "completely different realms of existence, where fundamentals that were certain at home may not always be true". I've read a few sci-fi novels in my time, and have come to the conclusion that tunnelling into other dimensions is seldom a wise move, but there's no turning back at the threshold when you're nurturing a mighty galactic empire, I guess. Find a trailer below in ...

Apple this week announced a new lower-cost Apple Pencil compatible with all iPad models equipped with a USB-C port. It launches in early November and will be sold alongside the original Apple Pencil and the second-generation Apple Pencil. Key Facts About the New Apple Pencil It has a similar design as the Apple Pencil 2, but with a USB-C port hidden under a sliding cap for charging and pairing over a USB-C cable. It is compatible with all iPad models equipped with a USB-C port. It attaches magne...

Complete the Search Party in W2 Fluff-Puff Peaks.

Hexarchy takes the best bits from 4X games and deck builders and blends them together to create a fast-paced, strategic experience guaranteed to entice fans of both genres. Construct a deck to suit your own playstyle, then use it to build cities, grow armies, and learn technology as your civilization expands across a procedurally generated hex map. Do you prefer to send your military units to decimate any other civilization you come across, or engage in diplomatic duels with trade routes and res...

A board built for demanding 14th Gen processors.

Netflix’s new series isn’t really an adaptation of the Far Cry spinoff, so what gives?.

Remedy has revealed the worldwide Alan Wake 2 launch timings, giving you an idea of when you'll get to check out this horror sequel.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 released today, with a storyline that developer Insomniac has said will take, on average, about 15 hours to complete if you just stick to the main story missions. If players decide to delve deeper, and complete side missions and collectables, that gameplay time could be extended to around 40 hours. When it first came to light that Spider-Man 2's main story could be wrapped up in a relatively short amount of time - especially when compared to the likes of this year's Baldur'...

A newly-discovered glitch in EA Sports FC 24 is doing the rounds for both looking very silly and managing to break the beautiful game. The "calf dribble", as it's been dubbed by some in the FIFA community, allows dribblers with the Trickster Playstyle to attach the ball to their calf and then simply run into the opposition's net to score. As funny as it is to watch, that's definitely not how it's meant to work, in video game or real-life football.