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It sounds like this prequel isn't a total bummer.

Apple recently shared photos of its revamped store at Trafford Centre, a shopping mall located outside of Manchester in the United Kingdom. The store features Apple's latest retail design, with lots of wood paneling. There is a combined Genius Bar and Apple Pickup station with counters set at varied heights for improved accessibility, a seating area for customers to demo the Apple Vision Pro, and more. Apple's original store at Trafford Centre opened in 2005. Its replacement opened March 1. As s...

Combining DnD-style dungeon crawling with a wide range of classes and a roll-based combat system in the vein of Dicey Dungeons, turn-based roguelike Dice and Fold has brought me a lot of joy. Developer Tinymice Entertainment has found that perfect sweet spot, creating a card-battling game that brings sufficient strategy to keep me hooked on the numbers while also staying light enough that it’s an ideal accompaniment to watching something on your second monitor. Now, the fourth free content drop ...

Diablo 2 Resurrected Season 10 is underway, and that should be cause for celebration. The iconic ARPG built on Blizzard’s first outing and set the standard for basically every game that followed in its dungeon-crawling, loot-hauling footsteps. It might be a little clunky by modern standards, but there’s a special sauce to its brand of Sanctuary that still tastes sweet to this day. Despite going to the trouble of a full remaster, however, Blizzard has let D2 fall silent since the launch of Diablo...

Echo Point Nova is easily one of the coolest FPS games I’ve ever played. Developed by Greylock Studio, who also brought us the excellent Severed Steel, it’s an open-world movement shooter designed for co-op that also happens to feature a hoverboard and grapple hook. It has a profound sense of scale, incredible pace, and some of the slickest mobility the genre has ever seen. If you yearn for the Titanfall 3 that might never come, this is easily the next next thing.

Amazon this weekend has major discounts on a few AirPods models, including the return of the all-time low price on the AirPods 4. You can get the base AirPods 4 for $99.99 on Amazon, down from $129.00. 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. Amazon also has the AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation for $148.99, down from $179.00. We did track these at a lower price dur...

Hey man, I thought Warrior was bad, too.

Here's what you can expect. Capcom outlined the changes to its Capcom Fighting Collection 2 last September and now it appears to have provided an update on select games in this new package. This covers not only changes but also additional settings and much more. Here's the rundown via Capcom's official website:

We won’t know what The Fantastic Four: First Steps is really about until it hits theaters this July. Or… won’t we? I’m Polygon’s resident comic book expert, and I’m ready to place some bets.  I may not know the plot of Marvel Studios’ big swing on Marvel’s First Family, but I bet I can predict...

Apple has pushed back the launch of its rumored smart home hub due to delayed Siri features, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Gurman no longer expects the home hub to launch this month, but he has not provided a revised timeframe for the device's release. "At one point, the company had hoped to announce this product in March," he said, in his Power On newsletter today. "But because the device, to an extent, relies on the delayed Siri capabilities, it has been postponed as well." In the mean...

Creators always feel extra pressure when adapting work by their favorite authors. That pressure only multiplies when that author’s other work led to one of the most celebrated and popular television series ever. That was the test Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich faced with In the Lost Lands, their new dark fantasy Western movie,...

A different kind of buzzkill.

It’s not been long since Shiro Games launched its most recent DLC for medieval fantasy RPG Wartales, but the indie studio has been hard at work since then on a wealth of additional improvements for the strategic mercenary sim based on community feedback. With more than a million sales of the base game and a Steam user score sitting at 90% positive, Shiro says it has “been extremely happy to read what you had to say about our latest DLC, The Skelmar Invasion, and Wartales in general.” Its latest ...

If you’re always on the lookout for a new Vampire Survivors style roguelike, Rogue: Genesia is worth your time. It’s one of the most beloved takes on the genre available on Steam, with a 92% positive rating from over 5,500 user reviews, and it just got even better. The 1.0 update is finally here, with plenty of new mechanics, quality-of-life-changes, and even more to get stuck into. Best of all, you can grab the game at a third off right now too.

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach will cost £70/$70/€80 for the standard edition and $230 for the collector's edition, according to a new leak, with "several physical editions" also teased.

It may be a while still before we see the smart home hub Apple is rumored to be working on. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company has postponed the announcement of the upcoming product due to the issues it’s run into developing its “smarter” Siri. Gurman reported last month that the release of Apple’s upgraded Siri may be delayed, and Apple confirmed as much in a statement to Daring Fireball last week, saying it expects to roll out Siri’s more personalized features “in the coming yea...

Better, faster. In the same round of Switch 2 filings at the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) in the US, it seems Wi-Fi 6 support has been confirmed. As highlighted by The Verge, Wi-Fi 6 translates to "faster Wi-Fi in your Switch 2" - with the outlet expanding on what to potentially expect on this front (and what Nintendo's new hardware won't seemingly support):

Avowed is simply brimming with lore. A bundle of fantasy nations, a pantheon of gods, crystals of magic soul energy — it’s a lot to learn if you haven’t already played Obsidian’s two Pillars of Eternity games and their associated expansions. Luckily, Avowed is designed to make learning that lore as accessible and optional as...

Forza Horizon 5 players will require a Microsoft account to play the racer on PS5.

We all love the excitement of a new launch, but coming to a great game after the fact might be even better. You can pick them up cheaply, often with all the DLC included, and they’re much more likely to run smoothly with any major bugs ironed out. Right now, the two best Fallout games are heading up a bundle that includes more apocalyptic favorites such as Frostpunk and Wolfenstein, along with plenty of other excellent games. This ‘special editions bundle’ from Fanatical gives you the choice of ...

Bong Joon Ho’s latest movie, Mickey 17, is a lot of things. It’s a story about work, cloning, colonization, inequality, first contact, and the evils of capitalism. It’s a satire, a slapstick comedy, and a sci-fi epic. It also belongs to one of the rarest and strangest subgenres of film: doppelgänger movies. Robert Pattinson plays...

"I am freaked out by how much might actually have been accurate."

Mario Day, otherwise called Mar10 Day or just March 10, is nearly here. This is a yearly celebration to commemorate Nintendo’s iconic plumber. It’s not his birthday or anything, but rather a totally random day that sort of looks like his name when spelled a specific way. It’s just like how Star Wars Day falls on May 4. The main feature of Mar10 Day is deals, on both Nintendo consoles and Mario-themed games. Walmart is selling a Nintendo Switch OLED bundle for $349 that comes with a digital downl...

Event runs until March 16.

Developer LocalThunk, the anonymous individual who made Balatro, recently published an extensive breakdown of how they made the game. The post, which details all the milestones involved with launching the indie game, goes deep on personal experiences, from self-doubt and disbelief at his success to serious health concerns and anxiety attacks. It’s also about the...

There's a lot riding on the next Battlefield game. EA's flagship military shooter has been struggling ever since Battlefield 2042 came out, but the developer has some big plans in place to try and rescue the FPS. To start with, the series' gunplay and movement are getting a huge overhaul, as EA is testing even the smallest mechanics to figure out what works and what doesn't.

As we creep ever closer to 13th April, HBO has dropped an all-new teaser for the second season of its critically-acclaimed series, The Last of Us.

I’m faced with a dilemma. Arabella, a little Tiefling child, has stolen a precious idol from the local druids at The Grove. She's now facing death at the fangs of acting First Druid Kahga’s serpent, Teela. You have several options, some meaning Arabella will live, others meaning Arabella will die. On every other playthrough, I’ve talked Kagha off the ledge, but there’s a fresh Dark Urge option here: flick your eyes toward the cave entrance, and urge the girl to run. It’s over in a flash. Fangs p...

MGS2 and 3 have definitely "improved". Last November, the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 for the Switch was bumped up to Version 2.0.0 and now Digital Foundry has taken another look at the current state of the game on Nintendo's platform. Focusing on MGS2 and 3, the Switch version has notably "improved" since the launch build. In its current state, it still runs at a native 720p resolution but has "practically no anti-aliasing" and lacks texture filtering, resulting in an "all-round ...

The perfect murder mystery is a rare thing to come by these days. Procedurals are a dime a dozen, of course; for FBI agents alone there’s a whole universe. But the art of a murder mystery is something more specific. Plenty of episodic procedurals borrow the idea and contain each investigation to a single episode;...

Grab Anno 1800 for a fiver.

If you're looking for a more cozy take on the MMO formula, the upcoming BitCraft Online is for you. Instead of the twisting narrative of FF14, or the two decades of history in WoW, this take on the genre is all about a player-driven world. Whatever you do will end up leaving a mark, and it's coming to Steam Early Access incredibly soon.

The mid-90s were an incredible period for the best JRPGs. Final Fantasy was on an incredible streak with FF6, FF7, and FF8, and the likes of Chrono Trigger and EarthBound remain all-time classics to this day. Alongside them, if you were really in the know, and could manage to pronounce it, were Suikoden 1 and 2. While they didn’t catch on quite as hard as some of their peers at the time, the pair gradually grew an audience, earning a well-deserved reputation as beloved cult classics that remain ...

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A Baldur’s Gate 3 and Stardew Valley crossover just makes sense. The prospect of watching a little pixelated Gale tend to crops, or observing Wyll patrol Pelican Town’s virtual cobblestone streets, brings me a profound sense of joy. These are dreams I didn’t know I had until I learned about a mod that aimed to bring the idea to life, and now it’s finally here. So if you’ve been itching to get back to Stardew, or just want another way to romance Astarion, your prayers have been answered.