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The Connections puzzle in the New York Times on Friday contains a little Easter egg for fans of a popular TV show airing new episodes this spring. Connections is a daily puzzle where you find the hidden association between groups of words on a grid. For many people, it’s a part of a daily rotation...

One of the best things about Apple upgrading one of its devices is that you can find better deals on older, still very capable models. Just days after the company announced the M4-powered MacBook Air, a version of the laptop with the M2 chipset has dropped to a new record low of $699. That’s $300 off the regular price. This is a variant with 16GB of RAM rather than the base model’s 8GB. That's really the bare minimum of RAM you should be looking for these days (and we were pleased to see Apple s...

“Forged of Star-Stuff” is a side-quest in Avowed that requires you to find a blacksmith capable of using starmetal fragments. Each time you interact with a blacksmith, they’ll tell you the only blacksmith who can craft a weapon using the material is in the Solace Keep in Galawain’s Tusks. However, Galawain’s Tusks is the last...

Amazon this week has Apple's AirPods Pro 2 for $169.99, down from $249.00. This is the lowest price that we've tracked so far in 2025, and Amazon is providing an early March delivery estimate for most residences in the United States. 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. Although we saw a better deal over the holiday season, it's very unlikely that all-time low price wi...

Developer Teyon delighted us with the recent news that 2023’s RoboCop: Rogue City is getting a standalone expansion this summer. It’s called Rogue City – Unfinished Business, and while it’s labeled as an expansion, you won’t need to own Rogue City to play it. However, you most definitely should own Rogue City, as it’s packed...

FragPunk codes grant you free bonus rewards like gold and original pop cans, which function as gacha currency. FragPunk is a 5v5 tactical hero shooter that changes every round with the addition of cards. The card system ensures that every game is slightly different by providing you and your teammates with different abilities or hindering...

Spelunky 2, the super challenging and mega clever roguelike 2D platformer, first came out on PlayStation 4 in 2020 and was therefore is also playable as a backwards compatible game on the PlayStation 5. But on Thursday, the game suddenly got an official PS5 version, which can be downloaded as a free upgrade to anybody...

Even if Steven Spielberg were involved. With the news in 2023 that Nintendo would be working on an official Legend of Zelda movie in collaboration with Sony Pictures Entertainment, you can bet that we had to scoop our jaws from off the floor. Even with the success of the Super Mario Bros. Movie, a Zelda adaptation just didn't seem all that feasible to us, and it sounds like Nintendo was of the same mind for many years. According to the Video Game History Hour podcast with ex-Nintendo "marketing ...

Two parents, on behalf of their children, are suing Epic Games in a proposed class action lawsuit over “deceptive practices employed on a massive scale in one of the world’s most popular video games,” — that’s Fortnite — per the complaint. The lawsuit, which Polygon has reviewed, was filed Wednesday in a San Francisco court;...

Retailers are reportedly canceling Radeon RX 9070 XT pre-orders, then subsequently raising the price of the cards. AMD's chief architect of gaming solution and marketing Frank Azor confirmed that the company is working with AIBs to replenish stock while "MSRP pricing (excluding region specific tariffs and/or taxes) will continue to be encouraged." In our RX 9070 XT review, we praise the new GPU as one of the best graphics cards, capable of beating the RTX 5070 "at just about everything, includin...

"There are horror stories of people having external producers saying, 'Look, you just need to make fewer bugs'."

Now that Apple has announced its new more affordable iPhone 16e, and new MacBook Air and Mac Studio models with M4 and M3 Ultra chips, we thought we'd provide a quick recap of what else we are expecting from the company in the summer months ahead. There are at least three product categories that we are hoping to see some movement in before summer is over, but of course, nothing is guaranteed. Keep reading to learn what they are. Smart Home Command Center Apple is working on a new Home accessory ...

Company of Heroes 3 didn’t make the initial splash Relic Entertainment was hoping for. Its 2023 launch was met with a mixed response owing to limited map selection, underwhelming enemy AI leading to a lack of tactical nuance, and visuals that didn’t feel like a big step up from its beloved predecessor. The WW2 RTS game has just received a serious upgrade, however, and you can check out how far it’s come right now thanks to a free weekend on Steam. If you like what you see, there’s even a 50% dis...

60-minute makeover.

It’s obvious that Apple products are some of the most sought-after in the tech world — that means sales are fewer and farther between than other gadgets, and they’re often the first things to sell out when discounts do arrive. But it would be a mistake to assume you’re doomed to always pay full price on things like iPads and Apple Watches. Apple deals do exist, if you know where to look. Engadget keeps track of deals like these on a regular basis, so we can help you there. Below, we’ve collected...

The post Next Week on Xbox: New Games for March 10 to 14 appeared first on Xbox Wire.

There are few firm rules in comics reading, but Never trust an inter-brand tie-in comic could be one of them. The business interests are too involved to expect big creative swings, the licenses too fleeting to expect the books to be long-lived.  And sometimes, even when a book is genuinely good, a panel of it...

In a move that probably won't make headlines but should delight detail-oriented Mac users everywhere, Apple has quietly corrected a 26-year-old design inconsistency on its keyboards. The Mute key, a staple on Mac keyboards since the PowerBook G3 'Lombard' debuted in 1999, has finally received a logical redesign on the new MacBook Air with M4 chip. As spotted by iCulture, the key now displays a speaker with a strike through it – matching the actual on-screen indicator that appears when you press ...

I, for one, absolutely do not welcome our new AI overlords.

When you think of realistic and tactical shooters, you might think of fidelity, high-detail visuals, and big, plausible environments. The grounded, slow-paced military games of today are Arma, Ghost Recon, and, to a greater or lesser extent, Escape From Tarkov and Hell Let Loose. But although it’s low-budget, pixelated, and played entirely from the top down, Intravenous manages to be tougher and more intense than these triple-A spiritual peers. An homage to classic Splinter Cell and Deus Ex game...

So I’m lying there with a spear in my chest after tapping a big mounted knight on the shoulder and I realize the designers of Elden Ring: The Board Game – Realm of the Grafted King know exactly what they’re doing. Nobody stepped out onto the grassy plains of Limgrave in Elden Ring, the video...

It turns out everyone likes to share their music suggestions, even monarchs. Apple Music has announced a new show called The King's Music Room, hosted by King Charles III at Buckingham Palace. Yes, we know you've been dying to discover the getting ready playlist he made for the coronation that cost taxpayers £72 million ($93 million).  The show's March 10 release coincides with Commonwealth Day and the playlist reportedly features artists from across continents — the release calls out artists su...

GTA 5 has received a significant dose of the shinies.

The future is bright(er). If our hopes of some Monolith Soft Switch 2 goodness weren't already high enough, today, they reached a new peak as we learned that the team has added a fresh cutscene director to its ranks with a pretty beefy portfolio to his name. As brought to our attention by Stealth40K on BlueSky, the Nintendo-owned studio signed Daisuke Honda to its freelance staff late last year. One glance at the cutscene director's LinkedIn page reveals names like Square Enix and NetEase games,...

Atomfall, the new game from Sniper Elite developer (and 2000 AD owner) Rebellion, is set in the Lake District in northwestern England in an imagined version of the 1960s. It’s a world of stark mountains, creepy moorland, homely village pubs, and eccentric country folk. It’s also a quarantine zone where clanking, retrofuturistic mechs patrol a...

From John, Evan and David Szymanski - names you might know from the likes of DUSK, My Friendly Neighborhood, Kyle is Famous, Butcher's Creek, Squirrel Stapler and more is a thoroughly chaotic and ridiculous game about toppling an evil crime syndicate hidden beneath a prestigious wizarding school.

Dei gratia, rads.

SpaceX has lost another Starship, as the vehicle's eighth test flight ended in an explosion just like its seventh. The first few minutes of the flight went according to plan: SpaceX launched the Starship rocket from its Starbase facility in Texas at 6:30PM Eastern time on March 6, and its first stage Super Heavy booster flew back down and was successfully captured by the launch tower's "chopstick" arms. The event marked the third time SpaceX was able to capture the booster with the tower's mecha...

The post Atomfall’s Unique Approach to Quests Makes You a Post-Apocalyptic Rural Detective appeared first on Xbox Wire.

In my opinion, the best kind of games are the ones that leave you with plenty of stories to tell. Our old editor-in-chief Tom Bramwell coined the phrase 'anecdote factory' when he reviewed Far Cry 3, and this is the perfect expression to describe my time with Atomfall. I was given 90 minutes with Rebellion's upcoming radioactive RPG at a recent hands-on event and I probably came away from it with about 90 different stories to tell, each one just as unexpected and entertaining as the last.

EA has released the first entry in a new series of dev diaries looking at the next Battlefield's development, and this one is about gunplay and movement.

That sounds 'encouraging', but will it be enough?

From inception to launch. Balatro developer LocalThunk has released a complete timeline of the game's development, from its inception in 2021 to its eventual launch on 20th February 2024. You can read the whole thing on LocalThunk's website, but the developer states that the intention behind the post was due to "constantly forgetting major moments in development or milestones". As such, this was a way to present fans with the full development timeline (or at least as much as possible), while ens...

You had to be super quick to nab one of these at MSRP.

While we are all here frothing at the mouth in anticipation for more Grand Theft Auto 6 news, developer Rockstar is casually sharing a trailer for a Danny Dyer-fronted film instead.