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Amtrak on Wednesday announced that it has redesigned its iOS and Android apps to provide more convenient access to train status, tickets, and more. Amtrak, the national passenger rail company in the U.S., operates more than 30 train routes throughout the country and into Canada. Here is what is new in the app, according to Amtrak:A passenger can now view their train's status and schedule adjustments right on their reservation, within 24 hours of an active trip. A new station-to-station train tra...

Firefight - a mode that was initially introduced all the way back in Halo 3: ODST - is making its return in Halo Infinite.

The H9 Elite looks glorious, but with an RTX 5090 plus AMD's 9950X, it makes for a toasty little number.

The number one Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown fan (me) is back to tell you about this month’s new additions to the PlayStation Plus gaming catalog, of which The Lost Crown is one. This Ubisoft game sold one million copies, a metric that’s either a success or a failure depending on which CEO you...

Mountaintop Studios has announced that its shooter Spectre Divide, as well as the studio itself, will be shutting down in the next few weeks.

"Mr Conroy gave an amazingly nuanced performance."

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has determined that the country's mobile browser markets are "not working well for consumers and businesses" and "holding back innovation." Most of the watchdog's ire is directed at Apple for policies such as requiring mobile browsers to use its engine, WebKit and, thus, limiting competitor's abilities to differentiate from Apple. The report also points out that Safari has received access to key functions of WebKit and the operating system, earlie...

And it's around the corner. Publisher PM Studios and developer Pocket Trap have announced that Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo is coming to Switch on 28th May 2025. Plus, a free demo will be available on the eShop... today! Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo stakes its claim to being the "world's first yoyovania", boasting over 1000 unique screens, more than 40 equippable badges to provide buffs and skills, and 20 passive abilities to assist in exploration.

In theory (if not always in practice), the superhero genre is founded on clear-cut morality. Sure, there’s plenty of scope for costumed adventurers to grapple with power and responsibility, and their lawbreaking adversaries sometimes have a point. But in the average DC or Marvel joint — hell, arguably even in edgier fare like The Boys...

WhatsApp never waits long between updates and this time it's reportedly changing how replies look. According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is currently working on a feature that would put all replies to the same message in one thread. A look at it appeared in an Android update available through the Google Play Beta Program.  Right now, WhatsApp allows users to reply directly to a message and shows the original on top of the new message. However, users have to click through each response to see any ear...

Final Fantasy XVI sales are apparently sitting at somewhere around 3.5 million since the game's launch in 2023, according to a new report.

Snapchat's future includes generative AI video Lenses, wherein users can watch themselves cuddling with virtual animals on screen. The first three Lenses the app has launched include the Racoon and Fox, which animate the animals into a Snap. Meanwhile, the third one called Spring Flowers will generate a bouquet of flowers and use a zoom-out effect to reveal who's holding it. All three Lenses, as well as future ones Snapchat releases, are powered by a generative video model the company built in-h...

Ubisoft has announced that Assassin’s Creed Shadows will be supported on Steam Deck at launch, despite previously saying that Valve’s handheld was not powerful enough to run the upcoming blockbuster. In a post on the official Assassin’s Creed X (formerly Twitter) account, Ubisoft said, “Many of you have been asking about Steam Deck. We are...

Only alchemy could make a title that long. The catchily-titled Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land is set to land on Switch next week on 21st March, but ahead of that, Koei Tecmo has revealed a new gameplay trailer and the promise of an upcoming free demo. We'll start with that freebie. The demo is heading to the Switch eShop on 17th March and will let you play through the prologue to an early quest, 'Pioneering the Ligneus Region'. And yes, all your save data will car...

Neural rendering might be the name of the game in future.

It looks very much like Advance Wars. LAVABIRD and First Break Labs have announced that Warside is set for launch now on April 14th.

The Sims players among us have been gazing cautiously at inZOI, a new neighbourhood and life management game from Krafton. I am cautious for essentially two reasons. One is that the game makes use of live generative AI: you can stuff its jaws with text, images and video to create items such as outfits and animate your pet humans, here known as Zois. Your Zoi's "actions and thoughts" are also based on "small machine learning" tech, which as the name implies is a teenier species of generative AI t...

So, combined it sold more of four different GPUs than a single $1,600 card.

Stardew Valley truly pioneered the cozy game genre. It has everything from crafting to farming, and from dynamic villager relations to fully-rounded romance. As a result, it feels like every life game has to have those exact same elements - realistically, we all just want to smooch our favorite villagers. Mirthwood, a farming sim that transports Stardew's traditional mechanics into a hand-drawn, Fable-esque world, has sadly been lacking in the marriage department, but not anymore. Rejoice, my ho...

Soon you’ll be able to don Gordon Freeman’s HEV suit in full ray-traced glory, smashing your trusty crowbar into headcrabs with realistic shadows and reflections, as Nvidia has just announced that a playable Half-Life 2 RTX demo will be available to download in March 2025. Not only that, but if you already own Half-Life 2 (and sort that out if you don’t), the demo will be a free download. The launch comes as Nvidia announces that RTX Remix is now officially out of open beta, with a host of new n...

PC game modding is massive, with over 5 billion mods downloaded annually. Mods push graphics forward with each GPU generation, extend a game’s lifespan with new content and attract new players. NVIDIA RTX Remix is a modding platform for RTX AI PCs that lets modders capture game assets, automatically enhance materials with generative AI tools Read Article

AI is leveling up the world’s most beloved games, as the latest advancements in neural rendering, NVIDIA RTX and digital human technologies equip game developers to take innovative leaps in their work. At this year’s GDC conference, running March 17-21 in San Francisco, NVIDIA is revealing new AI tools and technologies to supercharge the next Read Article

Bundle up — GeForce NOW is bringing a flurry of Blizzard titles to its ever-expanding library. Prepare to weather epic gameplay in the cloud, tackling the genres of real-time strategy (RTS), multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) and more. Classic Blizzard titles join GeForce NOW, including Heroes of the Storm, Warcraft Rumble and three titles from Read Article

Samsung is changing its revenue-sharing policy and reducing its cut for certain apps so that developers and publishers can get more money from sales. As part of its announcements ahead of this year's upcoming Game Developers Conference (GDC), the company said that it's implementing an 80/20 revenue share model for games on the Galaxy Store. Previously, Samsung had a 70/30 sharing model, wherein it took 30 percent of an app's revenue. The new model also applies to games built on the company's clo...

It's time to dust off the ol' crowbar.

We’ve all been there: playing an RPG in a fictional world when suddenly you’re lost in a swamp of made-up proper nouns. Where is that place? What is that faction’s whole deal again? And what exactly is going on in this side quest that I started a week ago? Avowed has a surprisingly elegant solution....

Pocketpair have announced that sometime real soon you'll be able to team up with players across different platforms in the popular monster catcher Palworld.

Just announced from Red Thread Games (Dreamfall Chapters, Draugen, Dustborn) is Hello Sunshine, a mysterious survival game where you're following a truly massive robot and keeping to their shadow to not get fried by the sun.

At WWDC 2024, Apple announced Swift Assist, an AI-powered coding companion integrated into Xcode 16 that's designed to assist developers by generating code from natural language prompts. At the time, Apple said Swift Assist would be coming "later this year." We're now three months into 2025, and it's nowhere to be seen. Swift Assist (Image: Apple) Unlike Apple Intelligence, Swift Assist never appeared in beta. Apple hasn't announced that it's been delayed or cancelled. The company has since rele...

The Mac Studio is Apple’s ultimate performance computer, but this year’s model came with a twist: It’s equipped with either an M4 Max or an M3 Ultra processor. The latter might seem like a step backward, since nearly all Macs (except the Mac Pro) are now equipped with M4 chips. However, the M3 Ultra is indeed Apple’s best-performing processor, which makes the new Mac Studio its fastest computer ever. While the M3 Ultra model appears highly capable for creative pros and engineers, it starts at $4...

Looks like an engineering sample.

I love a game that features some kind of cooking element, so I was quite pleased yesterday when Humble Games revealed they're publishing Town Of Zoz, a new action RPG that's all about fighting off rats from eating your crops, taking down baddies to gather up ingredients, and using said ingredients and crops to make some tasty meals. It's got wonderfully vibrant art and animation. The announcement trailer quickly won me over with the choppy, almost stop-motion-like quality of certain character mo...

That's a lotta Rings. If you cast your mind back to last year's arrival of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 in cinemas, you might remember that SEGA created an all-new Genesis cart as a neat bit of promotion. The cart itself didn't contain anything too special (character images, posters and a small minigame), but it was a working cart and it was rare. So you know what that means... Yep, one of these promotional carts has now popped up on eBay with an eye-watering $28,000 price tag attached. The seller, grj4...

The Warhammer 40k Space Marine 2 PTS has arrived, and you can get an early look at some of the big beats of patch 7.0 right now. The new public test server lets anyone dive in and try the next Space Marine 2 update either solo or in multiplayer. To start with, Saber Interactive is trialling its upcoming overhaul, which includes a new PvE map, adjustments to weapon restrictions and perks, PvP matchmaking improvements, and a new secondary weapon, the iconic 40k Inferno Pistol.

Sony has quietly expanded the cloud streaming feature on its PS Portal handheld to include a number of games from its Classics Catalogue.