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Balatro, the highly-acclaimed card-based roguelike from developer Local Thunk, is now available via Xbox Game Pass. It arrives alongside a new free bit of DLC featuring collaobrations from Dead by Daylight, Rust, Civilization 7, Fallout, and more.

Nintendo Life used Detect! Much like the Mad Titan Thanos, the arrival of a Pokémon Presents showcase on Pokémon Day was inevitable. With the date now official and our faux surprise subsided, it's time to start laying down some predictions. To address the Phanpy in the room: yes, Pokémon Presents showcases can be a little dry. But aside from the updates and event drops for Pokémon Sleep, Café ReMix, Masters EX and a bunch of other apps that we have to remind ourselves exist, previous years have ...

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It’s a quieter week in television — new television, anyway. You can easily watch Netflix’s new show Running Point from Mindy Kaling (which is always a pretty safe bet; Kaling has quite the resume in terms of solid sitcoms), all before the Dragon Ball Daima finale on Friday. But don’t fret! Like I said, there’s plenty...

Google is planning to end support for SMS-based two-factor authentication in Gmail, Forbes reports. Sending a code to your personal phone via text message has long been an option Google offered to verify your identity, but it has unavoidable security issues the company wants to address. The goal is to "reduce the impact of rampant, global SMS abuse," Gmail spokesperson Ross Richendrfer tells Forbes, and the solution, at least for now, is QR codes. Instead of entering your number and receiving a ...

It’s been well over two years, but the wait is almost over. The second season of Andor hits Disney+ on April 22. The platform just dropped a juicy trailer to get all of us Star Wars fans pumped and ready. The footage shows plenty of cool stuff, including the return of Rogue One’s chief antagonist Orson Crennic and the beloved droid K-2SO. The Death Star makes an appearance, which isn’t surprising given the ending of the first season. Mon Mothma also attends an extravagant “let them eat cake” typ...

It hardly matters that the version of Bongo Cat I downloaded before work this morning is a demo. It feels like the full game, because the game is simple: let this cat sit on your desktop while you type and click around, and earn points for every letter you input. There’s incentive beyond the cat’s...

Pokémon Go’s “Road to Unova” event is a lead-in to the upcoming Go Tour: Unova event, and it’s a big one. The event runs from Feb. 24 until March 1 (until Go Tour: Unova starts at 10 a.m. in your local time) and features a whole ton of Legendary Pokémon, Timed Research, and other perks...

Apple last week seeded the first iOS 18.4 beta to developers for testing, but the software update has been pulled for some devices due to issues. According to MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris, the first iOS 18.4 beta is no longer available for installation on any of the iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, or iPhone 12 Pro Max models, along with select older iPad Air and entry-level iPad models. The first iOS 18.4 beta was causing some iPhone 12 models and other affected devices to experi...

Valve has launched Steam Next Fest, another good opportunity for you to jump in and test some upcoming games that runs through until March 3rd.

Bossa is now focusing on the development and launch of its co-op survival game Lost Skies.

Some folk have all the luck.

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The creators of Balatro, voted Best Independent Game at last year’s Game Awards and Polygon’s 2024 Game of the Year, have successfully appealed European rating board PEGI’s decision to slap an 18+ label on the indie darling. “The Complaints Board concluded that, although the game explains the various hands of poker, the roguelike deck-building game...

Disney Lorcana, the popular trading card game from Ravensburger, continues apace with its seventh new set of cards in March titled Archazia’s Island. Polygon had an early look at the two new starter decks, and while the mechanics are interesting, neither feels particularly potent right out of the box. Additionally, the game’s narrative feels as...

Apple today seeded the first public betas of upcoming iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, macOS Sequoia 15.4, watchOS 11.4, and tvOS 15.4 updates, allowing public beta testers to try out the new features in the software ahead of its public launch. The public betas come a few days after Apple provided the beta updates to developers. Public beta testers can download the updates from the Settings app on each device after opting into the beta through Apple's public beta testing website. The new software for iPho...

Apple plans to ramp up its US hiring and investments. On Monday, the company said it will hire around 20,000 workers and spend over $500 billion in the US over the next four years. In 2021, several months after former President Biden took office, Apple said it would invest $430 billion domestically over the following five years. Bloomberg notes today's announcement marks an added $39 billion in spending and an extra 1,000 jobs annually over its previous numbers. The newly announced package will ...

To a T stars a teenager named Teen who has an "extraordinary posture."

I like to think that, having been supplanted by autoshooters and twig-picking survival games as the Steam Next Fest genre du jour, 2D puzzle-platformers can circle back from ubiquity to becoming cool and clever again. In any event, I’ve definitely enjoyed As I Began To Dream, a charmingly hand-drawn side-scroller that delivers its puzzles with a tactile clickiness straight out of your childhood toolbox. The demo is out now.

Pokémon Go is trying something new: a battle pass-like progression system called the “Go Tour Pass.” The pass only lasts for a week, leading up and through the huge Go Tour: Unova event, but with the pass comes a ton of questions on how it works and if it’s worth buying the deluxe upgrade. Below...

I adore the premise of DoubleWe: you’re given a randomised appearance, dumped in a cramped sci-fi shithole full of dodgy-looking NPCs, and forced to find kill your identical clone before he can emerge from the crowd and shank you first. There’s a demo for Steam Next Fest, and it’s provoked in me some of the most pulse-quickening paranoia since the days of DayZ.

The demo for Kaizen's Promise Mascot Agency throws a lot of ideas you, but at its heart, it's just a game about being a good boss.

At least on AMD systems like Steam Deck and my Desktop Linux install, it seems like the demo of RoadCraft from Saber Interactive / Focus Entertainment is quite broken.

Apple's chip factory planned for Houston, Texas will manufacture AI servers that are equipped with high-end M5 chips, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said today. Apple is working with Foxconn to open a 250,000 square foot server manufacturing facility in Houston in 2026, with the hardware produced at the location set to be used for AI. While Apple did not provide any insight into the servers that it will be making, Kuo says that the servers will be equipped with TSMC's high-end M5 chips, which are se...

Developer Dragon Box and publisher Coffee Stain have revealed the Early Access release date for apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder As We Descend.

So there’s this silly new co-op game you have to check out. You and your friends play as a bunch of little guys wearing oversized helmets. You have to rescue a princess. By the way, it’s 2008, this game is called Castle Crashers, and life is good. #yolo! Wait, I’m so sorry, I have some...

4X games like Stellaris and Sins of a Solar Empire have long transfixed me. Their massive scale is not only a battleground, but a storytelling canvas. The only problem is that they take forever. If you are an adult with an actual life, how can you find dozens of hours to give to building a space superpower? Luckily, Hyper Empire is here to fill in the gap, promising all the tactical decision-making and strategic mind games of a classic 4X in 40 minutes or less. The full release will come later t...

My dream of a Sayonara Wild Hearts sequel might never be fulfilled, but the sudden arrival of an enhanced version for PS5 just filled my heart on a dreary Monday. Publisher Annapurna Interactive announced the upgrade for the 2019 rhythm action game during its latest showcase. The PS5 edition includes support for 4K visuals, 120 fps gameplay and haptic feedback via the DualSense controller. There's also a new unlockable mode called Remix Arcade that's only available on this PS5 version. Here, you...

Hey, everyone! At Annapurna Interactive, we’re fortunate to work with some of the world’s best development teams around the world, supporting them to help bring unique game experiences to PlayStation. Today, we premiere a new Annapurna Showcase, highlighting some of these teams, sharing exciting news and updates about previously announced games that are coming very...

This would include Pokémon GO.

The third and final volume in The Art of Destiny series published by Bungie is now available from the Bungie Store for $49.99. The 272-page, hardcover, coffee table book features an expansive collection of concept art for weapons, characters, environments, and enemies from the live-service shooter with accompanying commentary from the development team. Regardless of...

We’re still a month out from the Assassin’s Creed Shadows launch on March 20, but an X user by the name of Danny Stevens has spent the last day or so sharing impressions, images, and gameplay clips from a physical PlayStation 5 copy of the game that they were somehow able to acquire online. The...

An unusual Steam Deck conversion has just been unveiled online, turning the popular handheld gaming PC into a very small console. This ultra-thin design removes the screen and battery from Valve’s handheld, incorporating the motherboard and fan into a cleverly designed, 3D-printed chassis. The Steam Deck remains the best gaming handheld PC you can buy right now, with the emphasis on the word handheld, because removing the screen and battery turns this Deck into a very different Steam-powered gam...

Publisher Annapurna Interactive held its big annual games showcase on Monday, during which it revealed much more about its upcoming slate. That includes new release dates for games like to a T from Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi and Skin Deep from Blendo Games, as well as new looks at Wheel World (née Ghost Bike)...

Blendo Games' latest installment of interactive weirdness, Skin Deep, is due to hit Steam on April 30, after nearly seven years of development. Skin Deep is a first-person sci-fi shooter, but it doesn't look (or smell?) like any of the dramatic space operas or realistic, precision-based games that generally flood this genre.  Skin Deep takes place on a futuristic cargo starship managed by an insurance corporation and filled with its clients' valuables, and you're the cryogenically frozen securit...