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Multiple iPhone owners today noticed a pronunciation processing issue that causes the word "Trump" to momentarily show up when using dictation to send a message with the word "racist." In some cases, when speaking the word racist through the ‌iPhone‌'s built-in dictation feature, the ‌iPhone‌ briefly interprets the spoken word as "Trump" and "Trump" text shows up in the Messages app before being corrected to the actual word (racist) as Apple's processing interprets what was said. Speaking the wo...

The Sims 4 has been out for a decade, but those of us who played the earlier games in the franchise remember the iconic burglar. Part of the joy of The Sims games is having something randomly go wrong, all the way from a kitchen fire to a meteor crashing through your roof. One of...

Cralon is a game about a guy who falls into a mine and decides to keep going down.

The original Pathologic is the textbook definition of a cult classic RPG. Not many people have played it, but anyone who has given it the time of day absolutely loves it. It’s obtuse, frictional, and pushes back at you every step of the way, but persevering with the experience reveals a highly rewarding, haunting, and meta videogame you won’t soon forget. With the sequel Pathologic 3 on the way, you’ll soon be able to try the latest entry in the series via a new prologue.

Samsung's new 9100 PRO Series solid-state drives (SSDs) include the company's first consumer-grade 8TB NVMe SSD. The latest models use the speedy PCIe 5.0 standard, which — unless you train AI models for a living — is almost certainly overkill for your PC needs. The Samsung 9100 PRO series offers up to double the storage of its predecessor, the 990 PRO line. It launches in 1TB, 2TB and 4TB models, with the 8TB ones not arriving until later this year. Each tier ships in models with and without a ...

LG TV owners can now install the Philips Hue Sync TV app to synchronize their lights with content on the TV without the need for an additional set-top box. Hue parent company Signify said in January that the app would expand to LG TVs in early 2025, and it is now available from the LG TV app store. Previously, the app was limited to Samsung TVs. The app is priced at $130 without a subscription, or $3 per month, and it works with 2024 LG Smart TVs that run webOS 24. The app is expensive, but it i...

Warner Bros Discovery made sweeping cuts to its games division today, closing three studios and ending development on its planned Wonder Woman project. Monolith Productions, Player First Games and WB Games San Diego will be shuttered due to a “disappointing 2024” for WB's gaming business, according to an internal memo from JB Perrette, the company's CEO and president of global streaming and games. Bloomberg broke the news of the restructuring. Monolith Productions made two well-regarded Lord of ...

I missed out on the original Yes, Your Grace when it launched in 2020, but I devoured it on my phone in a single evening. My only issue with the kingdom management title? There wasn’t enough of it. Thankfully, the launch of its sequel, Yes, Your Grace: Snowfall is right around the corner, and a...

Free League and Skybound Interactive have announced an officially licensed Invincible TTRPG, based on the superhero universe created by Robert Kirkman.

More than two years ago, barely a month after Marvel Snap officially launched, data miners discovered something hidden in the competitive card game’s files. In addition to Marvel superheroes like Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Wolverine, the decidedly not-superpowered Uncle Ben was in Marvel Snap. Uncle Ben’s in-game function was — to Marvel Snap players, anyway...

Yet more turmoil in the video game industry.

Razer just announced a refresh to the popular Blade 18 gaming laptop. This model uses those newly-released Intel Core Ultra 200HX series processors and can be purchased with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPU. As the name suggests, it also boasts a ginormous display, which Razer describes as “the world’s first 18-inch dual mode display.” This means that users can instantly switch between UHD+ at 240Hz for appreciating the finer details of AAA games and FHD+ at 440Hz for absolute speed. The keyboard...

Warner wants to focus its future efforts on Harry Potter, Mortal Kombat, DC, and Game of Thrones.

Warner Bros. Games has shut down multiple studios including Monolith Productions, the developers behind Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. The publisher has also canceled Monolith’s next project: a Wonder Woman game announced back in 2021. The culling affects hundreds of employees across three separate studios.

When OpenAI announced Deep Research at start of February, the company promised to bring the tool to Plus users "in about a month," and now it's doing exactly that. Starting today, the feature, which you can use to prompt ChatGPT to create in-depth reports on nearly any subject, is rolling out to Plus, Team, Edu and Enterprise users. Previously, you needed a $200 per month Pro plan to try out Deep Research.  For the time being, Plus users will get 10 Deep Research queries per month included with ...

We’re roughly two months into 2025 now, and we’re already spoiled by the plethora of great new video games to choose from. Even still, there have been more than a few titles released late last year that slipped off our radar and nevertheless merit attention. TankHead, a roguelike vehicular combat adventure that stealth-dropped on Epic...

Warner Bros. Games is making big cuts, closing three studios — Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB Games San Diego — and cancelling its long-in-development Wonder Woman game, the publisher told employees on Tuesday. All projects from those studios have been canceled. Monolith Productions developed Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and its sequel Shadow of War, and...

Burglars, police, and burglar alarms are all coming to the base game in an update today.

WB Games is reportedly being downsized as Monolith Productions and several other studios are being closed and staff being laid off.

Sorry, A Game About Digging A Hole, I’ve found a game that’s even weirder. It’s called Mashina. It’s also a game about digging, except you’re a little robot made out of trash, in a world also made out of trash, and it’s all kind of beautiful. The first thing you may notice is how strange...

Could the teaser date have something to do with a new ESRB rating for the series?

Upheavals within the US government continued today as a group of technology experts announced their resignations. These federal employees had originally worked for the United States Digital Service, a tech-focused department created under the Obama administration. About 40 people from the original Digital Service staff were fired by the Elon Musk-led team known as DOGE earlier this year, and the remaining 65 employees were incorporated into his unit. Today, 21 of those people resigned. "We will ...

"This is a defining product for us, and we can't wait for you to try it."

The first modular desktop PC from Framework. What do you mean they're already modular? They're certainly not like this...

Following recent claims Warner Bros.'s Wonder Woman game was in trouble and still "years away from release", the company has reportedly now cancelled the project and shut down its developer Monolith Productions as part of a string of studio closures.

The Steam Deck is almost perfect. Valve’s handheld has a beautiful screen, sturdy controls, and enough horsepower to run the majority of PC games. But since it’s a handheld, battery life is its achilles heel; If you like playing AAA games, a fully charged Steam Deck will barely last through a long lunch break —...

Apple today released a new firmware update for the Lightning version of the AirPods Max headphones. The new firmware is version 6F25, up from the prior 6F21 firmware the device was previously running. Apple does not often provide much insight into what's new with firmware updates, but as this is a firmware update for an older model, it likely includes bug fixes and other minor improvements. Firmware can be installed by putting the ‌AirPods Max‌ in Bluetooth range of an iPhone, iPad, or Mac that'...

It's a real Doki Doki Panic at the Disco!

If there’s one thing that Hideo Kojima loves, it’s movies. The Death Stranding 2: On The Beach game designer and creator has never been shy about his passion for cinema, with his social media bio touting that “70% of my body is made of movies,” and regularly posting which of the latest releases he’s seen...

Things have gotten pretty dire in the galaxy of Helldivers 2 right now, thanks to the events of recent Major Orders. The Meridia Singularity is now being directed towards Super Earth, and we don’t know how to stop it. Helldivers just went through several terrifying battles with new, mutated strains of Terminids, and to make...

At first glance, you could think that Game of Thrones: Kingsroad is the dark fantasy, action RPG of your dreams. It might be, but it is also a mobile-forward, open-world game a la Genshin Impact or Infinity Nikki. However, as any serious fan of those games can tell you, they get deep fast. Kingsroad also nails the franchise’s gritty fantasy look and appears to be a complex and thrilling action game, influenced by Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Monster Hunter. Even if you are skeptical, you can pl...

Framework, the company making an ever-wider range of modular, endlessly repairable machines is showing off its next big project. Today, it previewed the Laptop 12, an affordable 12.2-inch touchscreen convertible built with the same ethos as its bigger siblings. Laptop 12 is targeted as an entry-level machine for young people, students and folks on low incomes. But, rather than the usual compromises inherent in such a machine, it will be just as repairable, modular and crucially upgradeable as th...

Framework is today announcing a raft of new products, the most intriguing of which has to be the Framework Desktop. Like the rest of the company’s wares, it’s a modular desktop PC with a focus on modularity, upgradeability and repairability. Naturally, the first question is why, given PCs are already modular, upgradeable and repairable, but the focus here is on making it accessible for the sorts of folks who might see the words “thermal” and “paste” and need an urgent trip to the ER. It’s not th...

It’s a little weird to talk about Framework “launching” a new laptop given it just makes the same machine over and over again. That, of course, is the point, since it’s building a fleet of modular, upgradeable and repairable machines that eliminate unnecessary e-waste. Let’s agree that while launching isn’t the right word, it is how we’ll describe the advent of the updated AMD edition of the Framework 13, which now comes with the Ryzen AI 300 on board. Naturally, the big news is the fancier AMD ...

Framework, the company known for its laptops made with with modular componentry and hot-swappable ports (including a fully-featured modular gaming laptop), is getting into the desktop game. The Framework Desktop is Mini-ITX machine built in a 4.5 L case, aimed directly at the hearts of small-form-factor enthusiasts. Starting at $1,099, the Desktop features a AMD...