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When you cast your mind back to the year 2000, the defining RTS games of the era are likely names such as Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2, or the slightly earlier StarCraft: Brood War. But if you had a PlayStation at the time, you might have been playing classics such as Team Buddies. Originally developed by Psygnosis, if you want to get your hands on an original copy via eBay today, you’ll be looking at a price tag of more than $100. But out of nowhere, a listing for a full remaster of Team Bu...

NetEase is reportedly pulling back on its international game investments.

Kanto blight. With a Pokémon Presents on the way soon, our foolish hearts have begun hoping for something a bit special. While Nintendo fans twiddle their thumbs awaiting the full reveal of Switch 2, an entire year without a Pokémon game releasing on Switch has helped us regain our appetite for console-based catchin'. It was a much-needed break, too. For perhaps the first time, it seemed that fan reaction to Scarlet and Violet's technical issues may have given The Pokémon Company pause, forcing ...

"I'm looking forward to finding out."

This week saw Apple introduce the newest member of the iPhone 16 family, the iPhone 16e, as a new low-cost option to replace the iPhone SE. The iPhone 16e delivers a number of key improvements as well as Apple's first custom cellular modem. Apple also began seeding the first beta versions of its next round of operating systems, and there are a number of tweaks and improvements in iOS 18.4 while visionOS 2.4 will bring Apple Intelligence to the Vision Pro headset, so read on below for all the det...

Wine 10.2 is the latest development released with new features now available for the Windows compatibility layer, plus they also recently put up vkd3d 1.15. This is a huge part of what makes Proton able to run Windows games on Steam Deck and other Linux platforms.

Amazon this week has Apple's AirTag 4-Pack for $69.99, down from $99.00. Amazon introduced this all-time low price back in January, and it's been reappearing throughout the month of February. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. Amazon provides an estimated late February delivery date for most residences in the United States, and you won't need to clip an on-page coupo...

Valve have released a fresh update to the special Proton Hotfix to fix up issues on Steam Deck / Linux across Marvel Rivals and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

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As we near the end of another month, it’s once again a great time to make a watchlist of movies that are leaving streaming services in the next few days. To help make sure you don’t miss anything, we’ve put together a list of some of the best options to consider. This month’s selection includes...

Nightingale has had a rocky first year. Its gorgeous ‘gaslamp fantasy’ world invites you to travel across realms and fight all manner of weird and wonderful creatures as you create your dream estate. But its launch was hampered by a lack of direction, clunky tutorials, and restrictive build limits. Since then, however, developer Inflexion Games has been making regular improvements to the survival game including a brand-new campaign and dramatic upgrades to your construction capacity. Now, as it ...

The extraction shooter boom has been more of a poot than an explosion as of late. Creative Assembly’s Hyenas laughed its last in late 2023, while Ubisoft’s The Division Heartlands had a stake driven through it last year. Upcoming efforts Marathon and ARC Raiders have avoided the chop so far, but the lack of games making it to market, alongside the failures of those like Rainbow Six Extraction, proves this isn’t an easy genre to nail. This hasn’t deterred Vampire the Masquerade Bloodhunt develope...

Why didn't the zombie survivor go to the ball?

A new League of Legends update has just hit the PBE, and it features some rather severe changes aimed at putting a stop to lane swaps. The strategy has long been a point of contention in the MOBA, allowing teams to grab an early lead by moving their champions into other lanes to take advantage of the extra numbers. Now, Riot Games is taking a firm stance, rolling out a patch that lead gameplay designer Matt ‘Phroxzon’ Leung-Harrison calls “heavy handed by necessity,” admitting that it will lead ...

Always blame the bugs.

Catching them ALL?? In this economy?? Howdy partners! Welcome back to another edition of What Are You Playing. Switch 2 may still feel like a long way away, but there have been some Nintendo rumblings this week to keep us busy, all the same. The annual Pokémon Presents showcase was announced for next week (surprising no one), we got some leaked info on the upcoming Game Boy LEGO set, and Nintendo started to make preparations for the end of Gold Points and Switch Game Vouchers.

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing this week. This week, Tom O chickens out of the Dead Space Remake because it made his baby gate scary, which is an odd thing to type; Tom Phillips reunites with Garrus but in a very different world; and Jim goes full circle by returning to Pillars of Eternity after playing Avowed, and delights in the unwitting references already visible back then.

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The king of January. To help get 2025 underway Nintendo revived its Wii and 3DS title Donkey Kong Country Returns for the Switch. Circana's executive director and industry analyst Mat Piscatella has now shared US chart data for the month of January - revealing how exactly the game performed on the local charts. Donkey Kong Country Returns HD debuted in 8th spot and was the only new entrant on the charts for January. It was just below EA Sports College Football 25, with Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 ...

Young people want stories about friendship more than romance, say researchers and industry execs.

My Loyal Shield is one of Avowed‘s easier treasure maps and one that doesn’t send you to the most dangerous places in a region to find its reward. You can buy this map, and the secret to finding the treasure this time consist of finding a back door and pressing a secret button. That’s it!...

The Blade that Hungers is one of Avowed‘s most difficult treasure maps, thanks to general clues that give you almost nothing to go on and a visual trick that makes deciphering those even more challenging. It’s worth the trouble, though. The weapon at the end is one of the most useful in the game, especially...

The Ancient Arrowhead treasure map is Avowed‘s welcome to the Galawin’s Tusks region — a map protected by a beetle army and a gigantic, tier-five monster, culminating in a reward perched on a cliff with a drop that leads to certain doom. Yay… You can get in and out quickly, without much bother, though having...

California Governor Gavin Newsom this week recommended former Apple CEO Steve Jobs for the $1 American Innovation Coin for the State of California that will be minted by the U.S. Mint. Each state is able to create a unique coin recognizing an innovation or innovator from their region as part of the Innovation Coin Program that was launched in 2018. Newsom said that Steve Jobs "encapsulates the unique brand of innovation that California runs on."Jobs' legacy spans industries and products: Jobs wa...

With its retro visuals and auto battler combat, you may perceive He is Coming to be a rather basic, simple experience that will fill your headphones with some nostalgic, old-timer sound effects as you idly watch encounters unfold. Well, you’d be wrong. The next exciting project from indie publisher Hooded Horse, He is Coming weaves in roguelite elements to create unpredictable playthroughs, 30 challenging bosses, and hundreds of items. Now, you can experience it yourself with a new demo for the ...

The new iPhone 16e includes Apple's first custom designed modem chip, the C1. To promote the new chip, Apple invited several YouTubers and journalists to Apple Park, including Andru Edwards. Edwards got a first-hand look at Apple's modem testing labs, and he was able to speak to Apple engineers about the C1. According to Apple, the C1 is the most power efficient modem that's been included in an iPhone to date, and that's the edge that the C1 has over Qualcomm's modems. The ‌iPhone 16e‌ has the l...

You find the perfect, idyllic spot to set up camp. You take a relaxing walk down to the river to fish. You gun down your fellow villager with an assault rifle. Wait… what? Ah, don’t worry, that’s just Longvinter, the genuinely decent-looking survival game and life sim hybrid that, for some reason, gives you military grade weapons. If Palworld was 'Pokémon with guns,' then this is certainly the Animal Crossing equivalent.

Each week on Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home. This week, Venom: The Last Dance, the latest in the Tom Hardy superhero franchise, slithers its way onto Netflix. There’s loads more in terms of new...

OpenAI has banned the accounts of a group of Chinese users who had attempted to use ChatGPT to debug and edit code for an AI social media surveillance tool, the company said Friday. The campaign, which OpenAI calls Peer Review, saw the group prompt ChatGPT to generate sales pitches for a program those documents suggest was designed to monitor anti-Chinese sentiment on X, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and other platforms. The operation appears to have been particularly interested in spotting calls...

And who can blame him, really?

What is the best Fisch rod? It's a complicated question. You can't just jump from the beginner rod to the arguably best reeler around, so you'll often have to make do with the best rod for your current level of progress and skill. However, some are obviously only for collectors. So there's reason to pick out a few choice sticks. We'll break down the best Fisch rods into tiers - efficient progression paths to the best rods in Fisch. It's important to check back here as you play the game. New rods...

Ne Zha 2 features a combat sequence that has to be seen to be believed. The Chinese movie, which recently passed the $1.5 billion mark at the box office to become the biggest international animated hit of all time, is built around shows of immense power, leading up to a conflict between godlike forces and...

It's not clear that anyone was asking for a company to build a muscular, sinewy robot or to see a video of it dangling, helpless from a hook, but life is full of surprises and this YouTube video of Clone Robotics' "Protoclone" is here all the same. The Protoclone appears to be a prototype version of the "Clone" robot the aptly named Clone Robotics is working to build. The video shows the Protoclone flexing its arms and legs, with visible artificial muscle fibers moving underneath its white "skin...

More than six years on from Obsidian’s last Pillars of Eternity game, Avowed has finally landed, transporting us back to Eora with your choice of a third-person or first-person perspective. Some revere it as another brilliant Obsidian RPG with scintillating combat and exploration, while others are more critical of its main storyline and forgettable companions. No matter where on that scale you sit, it certainly hasn’t been the total flop that many doomsayers predicted it would be. In fact, Obsid...

Tarkir: Dragonstorm, perhaps the most metal name for a Magic: The Gathering expansion since Aether Revolt, arrives on April 11. As the name suggests, the new set returns to Tarkir, a dimensional plane where dragons live alongside five rival houses, each with their own ideologies and relationships to the chaotic and occasionally benevolent reptiles. The...