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LiDAR or "light detection and ranging" is a way of working out and picturing the distance to an object by shooting laser beams at it, and timing how long it takes the laser to bounce back to the scanner. It's been used for a bunch of Hard Science-y purposes, from mapping cave systems to measuring changes in the Amazon forest canopy. It's also become popular among artists, who use it to create high-fidelity yet abstractly coloured and ethereal visualisations of, for example, rivers. Now here's Li...

Start the countdown! Nintendo Music is a fun little app, but you need to have an active Switch Online subscription if you want to use it. It seems Nintendo will be slightly adjusting this in the future, with an update planned for "around October 2025". This update will allow users of this mobile app to access "some" Nintendo Music functions going forward, even after you've cancelled your membership.

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Waka waka waka! Following its release on the Switch last June, Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble is still getting all sorts of new content and game updates. The latest one bumps the game up to Version 2.20 - adding a new Robot Smash stage (Floral Ring), stability improvements and all sorts of bug fixes. Perhaps most notably though is the release of the new DLC Pac-Man. Yes, Pac-Man is now able to roll around in Banana Rumble.

The "entire team" is back less than a year after the closure. As you might recall, last week the US publication Game Informer was spotted teasing a possible return less than a year after its closure and today it's been made official, with the "entire team" back. The outlet is now backed by the blockchain developer Gunzilla Games after GameStop ended its 33-year run in 2024. Gunzilla is the developer behind the upcoming NFT battle royale 'Off The Grid' and also the blockchain platform Gunz.

Spring to life in this new update. Following Minecraft Live 2024 last week, Mojang has now rolled out its new 'Spring to Life' update which is now available across all platforms including the Nintendo Switch. Here's the full rundown from the official Minecraft feedback page:"The Spring to Life drop brings more reasons to explore both near and far! Warm winds have swept across biomes, bringing new mob variants, ambient sounds, and lush plants for you to discover. Befriend fluffy pigs, marvel at g...

As part of its latest financial earnings report, developer CD Projekt has shared progress updates on its numerous Witcher and Cyberpunk projects, as well as confirmed a partnership with Saudi-back mobile developer (and new Pokémon Go owner) Scopely to create a game.

Whether you’re an ambitious indie dev or a triple-A studio with a mammoth budget, making a new fantasy RPG stick the landing in the current climate is a tall order. Fairly recently, Avowed gave it a good crack, but if it let you down, then maybe Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon could pick up the pieces. Having been in early access for around two years now, it’s just received a huge new update that will be its final stepping stone towards 1.0 later this year. Oh, and you can now see exactly what...

PlayStation Store’s Spring Sale begins tomorrow, Wednesday March 26. For a limited time* you can enjoy deep discounts of up to 75% off across a wide selection of games and add-ons. That includes Elden Ring (40% off), Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 – Cross-Gen Bundle (30% off), Baldur’s Gate 3 (20% off) and many...

The iOS 19 mockup images that leaker Jon Prosser shared today are not representative of the actual iOS 19 design, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said on social media. According to Gurman, the images that are "floating around" are based on "very old builds" or "vague descriptions," and are lacking key features. Gurman says that we can "expect more from Apple in June." Gurman made the same comment about Prosser's mockups in his Power On discord channel. "He either has very old screenshots or hasn't seen ...

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Apple's 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference will primarily be hosted online so that all developers worldwide can attend and interface with Apple employees, but there is an in-person component in the form of a special event at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California. Apple is hosting a keynote viewing party that some developers and students will be able to attend. The event will include the keynote and Platforms State of the Union, plus attendees will be able to meet with Apple experts in...

Fancy a bit of Left 4 Dead in your Warhammer 40,000: Darktide? Oh, well that's convenient, as the game's Nightmare and Visions update just dropped today, adding in Mortis Trials, a new wave-based game mode. The wave-based nature really is what it says on the tin: scores of enemies come after you round after round, but in this mode you'll get Indulgences, which is just lorespeak for upgrades you can unlock on different runs.

There are a lot of mods for multiplayer horror game REPO, some adding quality-of-life changes or enhancements to multiplayer and some completely changing how you may play the game. Pretty much all of the REPO mods are hosted on Thunderstore, and you can use either the Thunderstore app or the r2modman mod manager to easily...

Leaker Jon Prosser today shared a "first look" at Apple's upcoming iOS 19 update, providing mockups of what different apps and features will supposedly look like. Prosser claims the mockups are based on "the real deal" version of ‌iOS 19‌ that he has seen, but says he is sharing replica images in order to prevent his sources from getting into trouble. Confusingly, Prosser's video features some design changes that are "real," and others that he made up as a joke. He includes a Home Screen view wi...

The launch of the new Assassin's Creed has gone pretty well, but there are always things to do.

The studio may look into gen AI if and when the legal landscape becomes clearer, but for now it's staying away.

The ducks are back, and they've brought friends.

When unveiling the WWDC 2025 dates today, Apple said that it will announce this year's Swift Student Challenge Winners on Thursday, March 27. The Swift Student Challenge tasks students with creating an innovative coding project using Swift Playground or Xcode. This year's event began on February 3, and Apple accepted submissions for a three-week period before judging began. Apple plans to select 350 winners for the 2025 challenge, all of whom will be eligible to attend the June 9 Special Event f...

While everyone is obsessing over the glorious chaos of Space Marine 2 these days, the allure of Warhammer 40k Darktide remains as strong as ever. While I absolutely love hacking my way through hordes of Tyrannids, tearing Nurgle's minions apart sounds just as enticing. While the game has taken a while to find its feet, if you've been looking for a reason to revisit Tertium, now's the perfect time. Darktide's latest DLC, Nightmares and Visions, adds a vicious new Call of Duty Zombies-esque mode, ...

Thanks for the fun, Ragnarok Battle Offline.

Back in 2020, co-founder and former CEO of Blizzard Mike Morhaime formed Dreamhaven, essentially Blizzard 2, albeit a bit more explicit in the fact that it has different studios working under it. One of said studios, Secret Door, is currently working on co-op strategy game Sunderfolk, and today as part of a showcase presented by The Game Awards, the other studio Moonshot Games revealed its first title: Wildgate, a sci-fi shooter that sees you piloting ships around space looking for loot as you f...

The US magazine was reopened by Gunzilla, a game developer and blockchain operation co-founded by film director Neill Blomkamp.

"Nothing's happening at the moment," John "Bucky" Buckley said, though he added: "We're still always thinking about these things."

Gaming journalism stalwart Game Informer has risen from the ashes. More than thirty years after its debut issue back in August 1991, the media outlet was officially shut down by parent company GameStop in August 2024. Since then, the rights to Game Informer were acquired by Gunzilla Games and, in an all-to-rare win for today's media world, the entire team that worked for Game Informer at the time of its closure will return to their jobs. Editor-in-Chief Matt Miller posted the details about how t...

A new report has highlighted the "havoc" Grand Theft Auto 6's lack of a release date is causing among game publishers, as they attempt to draw up launch plans for their titles that won't put them on a collision course with Rockstar's all-consuming sequel - with one executive reportedly saying, "We don't want to be anywhere near that."

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Armor is your primary means of staying safe (and stylish!) in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. You’ll expand both Naoe’s and Yasuke’s wardrobes as you play, through a mix of natural main story progression and exploration. Each armor piece can improve each character’s health and other stats, while some also feature powerful passive perks. As such, it’s...

Tranq bombs are a hunting item in Monster Hunter Wilds that allow you to capture monsters instead of killing them. Monster Hunter Wilds gives hunters the option to capture monsters without killing them. For certain quests, like “New Ecosystems,” the game requires you to catch a monster instead of slaying it. To learn how to...

“The Stray Dogs” is the final quest you’ll need to complete to recruit Yaya the monk as an ally in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. In it, you need to find a Kanzashi that was stolen by a guy named Tetsuo. In this Assassin’s Creed Shadows guide, we’ll give you a full “Stray Dogs” quest walkthrough, including...

Helldivers 2 players have had to make some tough choices in the past few months, and the Meridia Singularity is continuing to advance on Super Earth, consuming whatever unfortunate planets lie in its wake. The Galactic War continues apace, but Arrowhead has encountered one problem: Players aren’t interested in fighting the game’s third faction, the...

As it turns out, including a reporter in your national security leader group chat about military strikes isn't the only way to compromise sensitive information on Signal. NPR reported on Tuesday that, days after the Trump administration's preposterous and dangerous national security fumble, the Pentagon issued a warning against using the messaging app due to a phishing vulnerability. "A vulnerability has been identified in the Signal messenger application," a department-wide email obtained by NP...

If you're a fan of Diablo-style dungeon crawlers, tabletop RPGs, and adorable pixel graphics, then Dark Quest 4 is for you. Set to release this fall, the ARPG, which is heavily inspired by TTRPG Hero Quest, has just been announced, and its new trailer showcases the game's stunning visuals and in-game mechanics.

If you have been craving some good witch content, look no further. Magical romantic comedy anime Witch Watch is all about a Nico, a young witch in high school. Sure, there’s a dire prophecy hanging over her foretelling some cataclysmic events… but that just means she gets to move in with her handsome childhood friend...