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Season 3 of Call of Duty Black Ops 6 has been shaping up to be a big one - but ironically, it’s more so for its free-to-play brother, Warzone, as the long-awaited return of its day-one map Verdansk seems likely to happen at the start of the season. However, in a surprise announcement, Activision has announced that Black Ops 6 and Warzone Season 3 has been delayed by two weeks.

Ember rufflizards are a kind of endemic life in Monster Hunter Wilds. You’ll need to capture them as part of a side quest, “Dareel’s Research Report (Cont.),” for Dareel at the Windward Plains base camp. This is third side quest in Dareel and Samin’s ongoing feud — you’ve already caught a tracktail lizard and a...

Rockstar Games announced on March 1 its acquisition of the Sydney-based Video Games Deluxe. The studio will henceforth be known as Rockstar Australia. “After working together closely over many years, we are excited to have Video Games Deluxe join the team as Rockstar Australia,” Rockstar head of publishing Jennifer Kolbe said. Video Games Deluxe was...

Could the beloved series entry be making a comeback?

Do a (kick) flip! In what is quickly becoming one of the worst-kept secrets in the biz, a blurred image of what appears to be the key art for the as-yet-unannounced Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 remaster has leaked online (thanks for the heads up, Push Square). Shared to Twitter by reliable leaker @billbil_kun (who previously correctly called the Super Mario Bros. Wonder Switch OLED bundle, amongst other things), the art shows a skater in purple, assumed to be The Birdman, pulling off an areal tr...

Beloved 8-bit isometric puzzle-platformer Head Over Heels is back and (not for the first time) getting the remake treatment, bringing "colourful modern visuals" and "refined gameplay" when it comes to PC and Switch later this year.

The second iOS 18.4 beta that Apple released today adds new Apple Intelligence features to Control Center, providing some quick access options to select ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features. There are dedicated Control Center buttons for activating Siri so you can speak to the personal assistant and activating Visual Intelligence, with these features joining the prior option for activating Type to ‌Siri‌. Note that Type to ‌Siri‌ has been moved to the ‌Apple Intelligence‌ section instead of the ‌Siri‌ ...

In the second iOS 18.4 beta that Apple released today, there are a selection of new emoji characters, including bags under eyes, fingerprint, leafless tree, root vegetable, harp, shovel, and splatter. The emojis are part of the Unicode 16 Standard that was released in September 2024. It often takes Apple several months to create artwork for new emoji characters that are approved, so it is no surprise that we're not seeing the September 2024 emoji until now. Apple last added new emoji with the iO...

At one point in the late 1990s, now-defunct studio MediaX was developing an inexplicable video game sequel to 1984, George Orwell’s celebrated text about the dangers of authoritarianism. The game, titled Big Brother after the symbolic leader of the novel’s dystopian society, was canceled in 1999 and considered lost media until a demo appeared online...

With the visionOS 2.4 update, Apple is making some major enhancements to the Vision Pro, and that includes a new Spatial Gallery app that's available in the beta as of today. The Spatial Gallery houses spatial photos, spatial videos, and panoramas from artists, filmmakers, and photographers. Apple is offering a range of content featuring sports, culture, arts, lifestyle, nature, travel, and entertainment, with plans to continue offering additional content in the future. Apple says it plans to pr...

It’s a real murderers’ row of new TV this week. I know I say this a lot of weeks (I’m in charge of TV coverage; what can I say, I love it!), but this week really doesn’t have any misses. Whether you’re interested in sports documentaries, superheroes, sci-fi drama, religious comedy, or murder mysteries, there...

Mobile World Congress is taking place in Barcelona this week, offering manufacturers an opportunity to show off new gear without needing to hold their own splashy event. So far, we've learned about some new laptops and phones, as well as upcoming AI updates to Android. Here's a look at everything announced at Mobile World Congress that caught our eye. We'll update this story throughout the week. Lenovo Among the bigger-name manufacturers, Lenovo has arguably had the busiest MWC so far. The compa...

Apple today released a new Vision Pro app for the iPhone, which is installed automatically for Vision Pro owners who upgrade to iOS 18.4 beta 2, the latest beta that also came out for developers this morning. The app was announced two weeks ago, and it is designed to make it easier to find and download content to the Vision Pro when the headset is not in use. There is a "My Vision Pro" section that has information like serial number and visionOS version, along with a user guide and tips for usin...

In a game about fighting giant scary monsters, Monster Hunter Wilds’ arachnophobia mode fails at its most important job. It’ll turn little spider-like creatures into slimes, but it doesn’t touch the massive ones you fight for several minutes at a time — one of which shows up only a few hours into the game. PC...

"We had to reassess and restructure the project". A brand new blog post from Level-5 has revealed some of the development woes its upcoming title Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time. Namely, the game's producer — Keiji Inafune, who is perhaps best known as the man who designed Mega Man — left the company in mid-2024. This also means that Level5 comcet, which was created after Level-5 acquired Inafune's studio Comcept, has also been shuttered, with all projects transferred over to Level-5's ...

With the second beta of iOS 18.4, Visual Intelligence is available for the iPhone 15 Pro and ‌iPhone 15‌ Pro Max, two devices that did not previously support the feature. Until now, ‌Visual Intelligence‌ has been a feature limited to the iPhone 16 models, but it will now be available on all iPhones that support Apple Intelligence. Since there is no Camera Control button on the ‌iPhone 15‌ Pro Max, ‌Visual Intelligence‌ can be activated through the Action Button or through a Control Center option...

Frogwares, the Ukranian studio best known for its long-running series of Sherlock Holmes deduction adventures, is launching a Kickstarter campaign this Thursday, 6th March, to crowdfund development of its Lovecraft-inspired survival horror sequel, The Sinking City 2.

The iOS 18.4 beta that Apple released to developers today is available for the iPhone 12 models, which means those devices can once again be updated to iOS 18.4. After Apple released the first betas of iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, the updates caused some ‌iPhone‌ 12 models and some older iPads to get stuck in a boot loop. Apple ended up pulling the iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 updates for these devices, preventing them from being updated to avoid bricking them. The error has presumably been fixed, beca...

Apple today provided developers with the second beta of an upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.4 update for testing purposes. The new beta is available two weeks after Apple released the first beta. Registered developers can opt-in to the ‌macOS Sequoia‌ beta through the Software Update section of the System Settings app. An Apple ID associated with an Apple Developer account is required to get the beta. ‌macOS Sequoia‌ 15.4 brings Mail Categorization to the Mac for the first time, reorganizing the Mail a...

We already suspected that Apple was planning to announce a new MacBook Air in March, and now we have it from the horse’s mouth. Company CEO Tim Cook took to social media to post a tease-heavy video, along with the caption “this week.” The video itself plays music as the text “there’s something in the air” crawls along the screen. Finally, a tell-tale ultra-thin swoosh interrupts the text. It’s incredibly likely that the swoosh is being used to represent the forthcoming M4 MacBook Air. We don’t k...

Apple today seeded the second betas of upcoming iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming two weeks after Apple released the first betas. iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 can be downloaded from the Settings app on a compatible device by going to General > Software Update. With iOS 18.4, Apple is adding the Priority Notifications Apple Intelligence feature, which is designed to determine which of your notifications are the most important, highlighting t...

I’m convinced that New Line Cinema will continue to release new collector’s edition box sets (with exceedingly outrageous price tags) of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy until the sun sets on the age of man. But, there’s really only one box set you need you need to own, and right now, you can...

Apple today provided developers with the second betas of upcoming visionOS 2.4, tvOS 18.4, and watchOS 11.4 updates for testing purposes. The software is available two weeks after Apple seeded the first betas. The betas are available to registered developers, and can be downloaded from the Settings app on each device. Of the three new software betas, the visionOS 2.4 update is the most notable because it brings Apple Intelligence to the Vision Pro for the first time. ‌Apple Intelligence‌ feature...

NSO-go. Well, it finally happened: the first game to be delisted from Nintendo Switch Online will disappear on 27th March. For years, the numbers have only gone up, and the total NSO game-count sits at an impressive 182 at the time of writing - with 109 more if you subscribe at the Expansion Pack tier. NSO was a slow starter, but the value has grown enormously with its vintage game catalogue since October 2019. The threat of games being removed always lingered — and that's the reason we've calle...

While plenty of iconic Counter-Strike maps have been beautifully recreated in CS2 already, one worshipped arena has sadly been absent. However, thanks to one of its original creators, it’s finally blessing the tactical shooter. Fresh from Shawn ‘FMPONE’ Snelling’s Steam Workshop, an enhanced version of Cache is now available in Counter-Strike 2.

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Reference designs help ensure prices around MSRP, and we've seen from Nvidia's latest launch how bad things can get without them.

From research and discovery to patient care and administrative tasks, AI is showing transformative potential across nearly every part of healthcare and life sciences. For example, generative AI can be used to help automate repetitive, time-consuming tasks such as summarizing and creating documents and extracting and analyzing data from reports. It can also aid in Read Article

"PicoChat" brings a nostalgic experience from the Nintendo DS to Apple's iMessage (via Overkill). iMessage already includes built-in drawing via Digital Touch, but PicoChat recreates the distinct aesthetic and interaction style of PictoChat. PictoChat was a built-in messaging application preloaded on the Nintendo DS, Nintendo DS Lite, and Nintendo DSi. It allowed users to communicate using text and drawings over a local wireless connection, functioning as a LAN-only chat service. Messages could ...

AMD has officially stated that there is an RX 9060 series and that it will be arriving in Q2 of this year. That means an AMD Radeon RX 9060 and potentially an AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT will be available by the end of June, with the cards even potentially breaking cover as early as April 2025. With AMD's hugely anticipated RX 9070 series gaming GPUs going on sale later this week, and Nvidia also primed to unleash its RTX 5070 in the next few days, the fight for the best graphics card that doesn't cos...

Where does the time go? It seems an almost impossible notion to consider, but with the Nintendo Switch celebrating its eighth birthday today, it's now merely two years away from being a decade old. A decade. That's simply absurd. It would be oh-so easy to remark on how the console is an ageing relic at this point that's in dire need of an upgrade, but heck, we know said upgrade is coming later this year in the form of the Nintendo Switch 2. So instead, we'd like to briefly focus on how utterly i...

The first trailer for Doctor Who’s new season introduces a new companion for Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor, with Varada Sethu (Andor, Jurassic World Dominion) in the role of Belinda Chandra, quipping that if he’s the Doctor, then that makes her “the Nurse.” Now, the rest of the trailer is light on Chandra’s backstory, so it’s possible...

When you think of the most renowned FPS games on PC - Half-Life, Doom, Cyberpunk 2077 - they’re all about power. It’s big guns. It’s loud music. It’s lots and lots of kills. But the two Condemned games, from esteemed and sadly recently departed FEAR and No One Lives Forever icon Monolith, are different. Firstly, these are ‘shooters’ where actual shooters are rare - most of the combat is melee-based. Secondly, you never feel strong. Condemned and its sequel are terrifying, and you spend most of y...

Samsung Galaxy S25 smartphones are on sale for record-low prices, making this a great time to upgrade. The standard S25 is down to $700, which is a discount of $100. The slightly-beefier S25+ now costs $800 instead of $1,000. Finally, the S25 Ultra has been discounted to $1,100 from $1,300. All of these deals are available via Amazon. This is Samsung’s latest and greatest smartphone line, having just released back in January. We appreciated the base S25 in our official review, calling out the so...

Scalebound director Hideki Kamiya is calling on Xbox head Phil Spencer to help him bring the action RPG back, years after it was officially canceled. The PlatinumGames title was originally going to be released in 2017, with Microsoft Studios set to publish, but it ultimately never saw the light of day. Kamiya is now working at Clovers on an Okami sequel, but has taken to social media in the hope that Spencer and Microsoft might bring the game back to life.