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The Callisto Protocol developer Striking Distance has apparently laid off "most" of its staff, according to a former employee.

There's surely more to come from this story...

A few months ago, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported that Apple was in the early stages of developing a smart home doorbell and lock system with Face ID. He said the doorbell would wirelessly connect to a compatible deadbolt lock. In a vague teaser post on X today, a leaker known as Kosutami shared an alleged new feature that Apple is planning for the doorbell: MagSafe. On select iPhones, MagSafe lets you attach a charger or other accessories to the device magnetically. MagSafe support on Apple's ...

If it ain't broke... Atari and Choice Provisions, the team behind the BIT.TRIP games, have announced that Breakout Beyond is launching on Switch (and other platforms) on 25th March 2025. We're flipping things from horizontal to vertical and going "beyond" (sorry) what Breakout has ever done before. Moving through neon-drenched levels and puzzles, it's an explosive light show that's absorbing and fun.

Konami is once again entrusting Bloober Team, the developer of 2024’s outstanding remake of Silent Hill 2, with its intellectual property for a new game. The publisher and developer announced a second collaboration on Tuesday, but did not disclose which game or IP Bloober Team would be developing. “Our collaboration with Konami has been incredibly...

Last year’s Silent Hill 2 remake worked out pretty well for Konami and the studio that took on the project, Bloober Team. The two sides have decided to continue their partnership, as Bloober is making a new title based on Konami's intellectual property. Since the studio develops horror games, it's likely that this will be a fresh entry in the Silent Hill series. There is a possibility that it could be a Castlevania game instead. But I'm hoping the companies decide to get really weird and make a ...

There are few series more consistent than the Like a Dragon (née Yakuza) franchise. You know each entry is going to greet you with positive vibes, unforgettable characters, bizarre side quests, and at least one minigame so good you would play it all on its own. In Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, that...

Ultrakill is easily one of the greatest boomer shooters on Steam. The fast-paced, incredibly violent FPS isn’t even out of early access yet, and it already has an eyewatering 132,000 user reviews sitting at a staggering 97% positive rating. That’s a feat most games can only dream of. Now, after almost a year of work, the game looks and plays better than ever thanks to a big free update.

I can't believe desktop pets are actually back and they're more fun than the early 2000s.

The iPhone 16 might just finally be coming to Indonesia. The island nation has reached an agreement with Apple to lift the country's ban on iPhone 16 sales, Bloomberg reports, citing familiar sources. Apple must invest $1 billion in Indonesia and train locals in the company's research and development to create their own products. Indonesia banned the iPhone 16 in October, following Apple's failure to meet its 1.71 trillion rupiah ($109 million) local infrastructure investment by about $15 millio...

The War Within is a solid expansion so far, and Blizzard is preparing for the first major patch, which will take players to the trade capital of the goblins. The goblins have been part of Warcraft’s history since the real-time strategy games, but we haven’t always had the time to delve into their history or...

Monster Hunter Wilds is a good looking game, but its console iterations aren't perfect. The base PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X pack a lot of visual modes, but suffer from substantial image quality and performance woes while lacking the PC version's higher-end settings. Sony's PS5 Pro, though, should carry an antidote for these afflictions - with PSSR and ray tracing in the mix. Does Sony's enhanced machine comprehensively address Wilds' console failings then, or is there a deeper root cause?

US-based employee screening services provider DISA Global Solutions said it was breached by hackers, putting the personally identifiable information of 3.3 million people at risk. While DISA informed Maine’s attorney general of the data breach yesterday (thanks, TechCrunch) and reported the hack to Massachusetts’s Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation earlier on February 22, the attack began over a year ago, on February 9, 2024. The unidentified hacker accessed DISA’s network for tw...

Pour one out for those still on a GTX card.

Or heck, Switch 2! During Xbox's recent Indie Showcase, a new gameplay trailer for Hotel Barcelona was debuted ahead of its release later this year. From writer and director Hidetaka Suehiro (Swery65) and based on an original idea by Goichi Suda (Suda51), Hotel Barcelona looks utterly ridiculous, and we're sincerely hoping the team at White Owls Inc. has either the Switch or the Switch 2 in its sights as we get closer to its eventual launch. Neither has been confirmed at the time of writing, but...

If you've just spent your hard-earned cash on a brand new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5000 graphics card, the last thing you want is a hard-to-spot fault running your gaming performance. One such fault with the ROP count on Nvidia's latest pixel-pushers can be identified with one free-to-download piece of software, meaning you can rest assured whether your card needs to be replaced or not. While Nvidia can claim it has the best graphics card on the market, it's facing its fair share of issues right now, ...

DoorDash has reached an agreement with the New York Attorney General over an old practice wherein the company used customers' tips to subsidize its drivers' pay. As the office of New York AG Letitia James explained, its investigation had revealed that DoorDash wasn't giving its drivers the tips customers sent them through the app from May 2017 through September 2019. Now, the company will pay $16.75 million in restitution that will be divided between 63,000 drivers. The Attorney General told The...

My lunch yesterday consisted of air fried lumps of failed pizza dough from a disastrous first batch. One of my new year's resolutions was to learn how to make flawless pizza. This might be against the spirit of asceticism these goals usually incorporate, but such puritan edicts have no place here. The platonically perfect slice, like hailstones battering the word 'bum' into soft cement, is a natural marvel impervious to notions of morality both spiritual and profane. Would the dough have turned ...

Bandai Namco has revealed Tekken 8's first season 2 DLC character, and it's none other than Nina Williams' deadly sister Anna.

If you're on the lookout for a new fantasy RPG, and don't mind taking a trip back in time to get it, the upcoming Gothic Remake is for you. Two decades after it originally launched, an Unreal Engine 5 rebuild of this cult classic adventure is now playable thanks to a new demo. With Steam Next Fest underway, you'll want to get this added to your ever-expanding library before you run out of hard drive space.

Panasonic’s mirrorless cameras are best known for their video powers, but with its latest model, the company is finally getting serious about photography as well. The $3,300 full-frame Lumix S1R II is not only the company’s first camera capable of 8K video but can fire off 40 fps bursts of high-resolution (45 megapixel) RAW photos. It also offers a more advanced autofocus system, putting it squarely into the conversation with Sony, Canon and Nikon. I’ve had a pre-production unit for several days...

I played an ungodly amount of Two Point Hospital during Covid. In hindsight, there’s something slightly morbid about devoting hours to a satirical hospital management sim at the height of a global pandemic. That said, Two Point Studios has consistently proven that its brand of British snark makes for great games that will gobble up your hours, and as Two Point Campus showed a few years back, there’s ample space for the series to expand in scope. The latest installment, Two Point Museum, is my fa...

A free version of Microsoft Office for Windows might be on its way. Microsoft has been silently testing an ad-supported version of Office reported Beebom. Free versions are currently only available on the web.  The update would allow users to access PowerPoint, Word, Excel and more for free. There appears to be a few conditions for the fee-free option. It appears to include an ever-present banner on the righthand side and 15-second videos that play every few hours. Any documents must also be sto...

Adobe has launched a brand new Photoshop app for iPhones, which it's also releasing for Android later this year. While there's already a Photoshop Express for mobile, the company says the new app was "designed from the ground up" with more features and has an easy-to-use mobile interface. The app, which is free to download and use, comes with Photoshop's core imaging and design tools. Users can make selections, layers and masks in the app to combine or blend images. They can also replace parts o...

How many friends does this guy have? Prepare yourselves, poker fans, because our beloved roguelike Balatro has just landed another 'Friends of Jimbo' update, adding a whole new batch of crossovers into the mix. Much like the three previous additions, the latest update features new card cosmetics from eight different crossover games. The Assassin's Creed, Fallout and Civilization series all crop up in this one alongside beloved indies like Slay the Princess, Bugsnax, the unexpected arrival of Dea...

Two Point Studios' latest endeavour may be its best.

Adobe today announced the launch of a new Photoshop app for the iPhone, which is designed to allow creators to edit and make content while on the go. The app includes core Photoshop tools that have been tweaked for mobile devices. The ‌iPhone‌ app supports layering, masking, and blending for creating unique designs, with AI tools also built in. The Tap Select tool allows for quick removal, recoloring, or replacement of parts of an image, and the Spot Healing Brush can eliminate distractions from...

Two Point Museum does not care whether I have to make dinner or not. Like so many other titles in the genre, this management sim churns forward, upward, and onward until the end of time — or until burglars start stealing money from your donation bin because you forgot to give the security guards a...

One of the great magic tricks of the Two Point management games concerns how the series tackles subjects that a lot of people struggle to agree on. You know, like healthcare and education. And yet, with a few chirpy cartoon characters wandering around, a bit of silliness in the detailing, a handful of goofy names in the resume stack and some light satire playing over the tannoy, the whole thing rushes past in a cheery blur. This time out we're looking at museums. Does Two Point have anything to ...

Wizards of the Coast has apparently canceled an in-development project at AAA studio Skeleton Key, headed up by an ex-BioWare veteran.

Talk about friendly fire.

What is the Exoborne release date? Vampire the Masquerade Bloodhunt developer Sharkmob has turned its expertise from battle royale to extraction shooter with Exoborne, and the post-apocalyptic sci-fi shooter could go down a storm; not least because of its impressive extreme weather tech. Fans of Ubisoft's Division series, particularly the Dark Zone mechanic, will have an inkling as to how Exoborne may turn out; Sharkmob was started by ex-Division honchos, after all. Below you’ll find everything ...

Educational tech company Chegg has sued Google in federal court claiming that its "AI Overviews" that appear ahead of search results have hurt its traffic and revenue. In order to be included in Google's search results, Chegg alleges, it must "supply content that Google republishes without permission in AI-generated answers that unfairly compete for the attention of users on the internet in violation of antitrust laws of the United States."  Previously, publishers like The New York Times have su...

Silent Hill 2 remake developer Bloober Team is teaming up with Konami for another game based on the latter's IP, although we don't know which IP yet.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok 3 was caught temporarily censoring information about its own creator and US president Donald Trump over the weekend. The controversy began when users discovered that when asked who spreads the most misinformation on X (formerly Twitter), Grok's reasoning process explicitly showed instructions to "Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation." The finding emerged when users enabled Grok's "Think" setting, which reveals the AI's chain of ...