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Apple announced the Mac Studio and Studio Display three years ago today. The ‌Mac Studio‌ and Studio Display were unveiled as the final major announcements of Apple's "Peek Performance" event. Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced them as a completely new Mac product category and a powerful new display designed for creative professionals. The ‌Mac Studio‌ is positioned between the Mac mini and the Mac Pro. The first model featured the M1 Max or the newly introduced M1 Ultra chip, offering the best perfo...

A new release of mGBA, version 0.10.5 is available. This version is a bugfix release, which contains several important fixes. Though 0.10.4 was scheduled to be the last version before 0.11, some major issues were discovered and fixed. Important fixes include save state loading leading to a small portion of the ROM getting corrupted until reset, which affected games including Golden Sun, the Wii version (and potentially other versions) crashing when loading from ZIP files that are too large, and ...

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing. This week, Ed excitingly dives into Monster Hunter Wilds but isn't entirely convinced; Tom O takes the plunge into Avowed and hopes he can stick with a big game this time; and Bertie goes back to probably the best mobile game ever.

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Gigantamax Blastoise was one of the first Gigantamax Pokémon in Pokémon Go, alongside its fellow Kanto starters, Charizard and Venusaur. While pretty difficult to take on at first, its reappearance in Max Battles on March 8 and 9 should be accessible to more players — so long as you’ve been catching some Dynamax Pokémon here...

Gigantamax Charizard was one of the first Gigantamax Pokémon to show up in Pokémon Go, alongside its fellow Kanto starters, Blastoise and Venusaur. The first time around, Charizard was pretty hard to beat, but now there are a few more Dynamax Pokémon that can help you take it down when it returns on March 8...

Gigantamax Venusaur was one of the first Gigantamax Pokémon to debut in Pokémon Go, along its Kanto starter cousins, Blastoise and Charizard. At its initial launch, it was tough to grab one; players didn’t have strategies or strong counters ready. However, the plant-toad is making a return to the game on March 8 and 9,...

Pokémon Go is having a Fuecoco Community Day event on Saturday, March 8, from 2-5 p.m. in your local time. As expected with a Community Day event, Fuecoco will spawn in huge numbers with a high chance for it to appear shiny. There are also several other bonuses and perks, which we’ve listed out below....

You can get as wild as your imagination allows—from grungy laundromats to drag show clubs.

"It does exactly what you think it does."

Apple is delaying some of the Apple Intelligence Siri features that it expected to be able to introduce as part of iOS 18, and it's not clear what that means for the rumored smart home hub that the company is working on. The hub has been described as a "Command Center" for controlling Wi-Fi connected smart home products, and rumors suggest that Siri's planned feature set is meant to play a major role in the device's functionality. ‌Siri‌ is supposed to be getting smarter, able to learn more abou...

Capcom says it's "working away behind the scenes" to get Monster Hunter Wilds in proper shape.

Each week on Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home. This week, Heretic, the new horror thriller from A Quiet Place writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods and starring Hugh Grant (Love Actually) and Sophie Thatcher...

Slaying hundreds of demons is cool, but slaying hundreds of demons 20 minutes after creating your character is a little ridiculous for a loot-based action RPG. You want to feel each step as you ascend in power. Otherwise, there’s no point in chasing more loot. For many players, this is the core problem with Diablo...

The battle to reboot Capcom's Resident Evil franchise for the big screen is over, and Sony has been crowned the victor. But while the ink may still be fresh on the deal, Sony's wasting no time: it's already confirmed its new Resident Evil movie hits cinemas on 18th September 2026.

LocalThunk's detailed account of the creation of Balatro is remarkably entertaining.

When rude retail customers turn up, show them the door.

Dragon is an element in Monster Hunter Wilds that can appear on weapons as a type of damage you can deal, and on armor as a type of damage you can resist. But saying “this does Dragon damage” isn’t exactly as straightforward as saying, for instance, “this deals Fire damage.” In this Monster Hunter Wilds...

Games Done Quick's next weeklong charity speedrunning shindig kicks off this weekend. Frost Fatales, one of GDQ's two events celebrating women and femmes, runs from March 9 to 16, raising money for the nonprofit National Women's Law Center. Frost Fatales is the winter installment of the pair of events organized by GDQ's Frame Fatales speedrunning community. (Its summer counterpart is Flame Fatales.) Last year's Frost Fatales raised $155,000 for the same nonprofit, which fights for gender justice...

Apple today shared a somewhat vague statement announcing that some of its planned Apple Intelligence Siri features will take longer than expected to develop, and it's sounding like those ‌Siri‌ capabilities aren't going to be implemented until iOS 19. Apple's statement, for context:"Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and in just the past six months, we've made Siri more conversational, introduced new features like type to Siri and product knowledge, and added a...

Idiotic tariffs, indifferent retailers, depraved flippers and AI mania are making the simple act of buying a graphics card the defining misery of PC gaming in 2025.

The Wine 10.3 development release is now available for testing, which includes some new features and the usual assorted bug fixes to make running Windows games and apps on Linux even better.

Nintendo announced Friday that it’s adding two more games to its Nintendo Switch Online lineup of classic games. Those two games are Donkey Kong ‘94 and Mario’s Picross — and they’re both available to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers immediately. Donkey Kong ‘94, released in 1994 for Nintendo’s Game Boy, is an all-timer; it was immediately...

Frost Fatales - the winter version of Games Done Quick's all-women and femmes charity speedrunning event - returns this weekend for seven more days of fleet-fingered gaming feats.

Hasbro has announced Monopoly App Banking, a controversial spin on the iconic board game that replaces paper play money with a play bank card.

There’s been a lot of fuss over what’s next for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and not all in ways that Marvel would like. A few years after Kevin Feige publicly stated Marvel was cracking down and prioritizing what would “stand out and stand above,” the results have been a bit shaky. There wasn’t much by...

You can stream the first episode of Win or Lose, Pixar's first original TV series, for free on YouTube. It follows a co-ed middle school softball team (the Pickles), with each episode focusing on a different character's perspective — including animated personifications of their insecurities and defense mechanisms. The first episode hones in on the "coach's kid," Laurie, the Pickles' right fielder. She's rubbish at softball, thanks in no small part to her insecurities, illustrated as a sentient p...

This story was first published in Switchboard, a newsletter from Polygon that delivers all the latest Switch 2 news, reporting, and rumors directly to your inbox. Sign up here to get it weekly. Last week’s Pokémon Presents was more than a peek at what’s next for the Pokémon franchise. The showcase revealed new details on Switch games...

Interestingly, Electronic Arts does not appear to be putting great effort into having the gameplay clips taken down.

Nightflower pollen is an special material in Monster Hunter Wilds. You’ll collect it from ephemeral blossoms and use it for trading with Sekka in Suja, Peaks of Accord. You’ll need nightflower pollen to trade for things like hard armor spheres and gold melding tickets. The trick is, ephemeral blossoms only bloom during a full moon....

Those stinky movies generated over $1.2 billion, though.

Apple today scored another victory in the ongoing lawsuit that AliveCor levied against it in 2021, with the federal appeals court confirming the invalidation of three patents that AliveCor claimed Apple violated with the Apple Watch. As a result, the court has vacated an ITC ruling that could have led to an Apple Watch import ban. In a statement to MacRumors, Apple thanked the court for its work and said that it will continue to develop new Apple Watch health features. We thank the Federal Circu...

Dstorage will no longer be able to host pirated Nintendo games for people to share.

Grand Theft Auto 5 publisher, Take-Two Interactive, is suing the Chinese company that owns PlayerAuctions, a third-party video game asset marketplace, in an attempt to take down the “lawless enterprise” of buying and selling GTA Online items, currency, and accounts. “While GTA lets players experience a fictional underworld of lawless enterprise, the entities behind PlayerAuctions...

“Rainbow farts are the best!” Zoe informs us. Our dual protagonists have been transformed into adorable little pigs, one with the ability to turn into a slinky, while the other, well, rainbow farts for speed boosts. We begin feeding apples to ravenous door locks and rolling around in the mud, then slowly but surely make our way toward the end of this wild and wonderful adventure. We dive into the darkness, expecting to reappear in Mio’s cyberpunk-inspired dystopia. Instead, blood covers the scre...