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When the AirPods Max arrived in late 2020, there wasn’t much spatial audio content for Apple’s high-end headphones. What’s more, there wasn’t any support at all for lossless audio. The company hadn’t added Dolby Atmos and lossless tunes to Apple Music yet, but even when those arrived, Apple still hadn’t solved my biggest problem with the $549 headphones. With iOS 18.4 and a firmware update for the AirPods Max with USB-C, Apple has finally put the finishing touches on its only headphones with los...

Mouse minigames! Nitrome, the developer behind the excellent Shovel Knight Dig, has announced Mouse Work for the Nintendo Switch 2, a game heavily inspired by the likes of Pico Park and Part Time UFO. There's no release date at the time of writing, but Nitrome is hoping to get its latest title out shortly after the launch of the Switch 2 on 5th June 2025. The game makes full use of the console's new mouse controls with a selection of whimsical minigames in which you control teeny-tiny mouse char...

Hoo boy, is there a lot of new TV this week. Basically everywhere you turn you will find exciting new TV premieres and finales (this is technically true all the time, but we’re talking about more curated stuff for the week). It’s hard to go wrong with any of the options this week. Perhaps the...

Movie Games SA says it doesn't want to stop the sale of Schedule I but has a "legal obligation" to look into alleged infringement.

A smart watch that's promising to take users into "the future of retro gaming."

While massive demonstrations in opposition of the Trump regime raged across the globe this weekend, a very different type of protest was taking place in Path of Exile 2 against its most infamous “player,” billionaire Elon Musk. Musk went live on X (formerly Twitter) the afternoon of April 5 with an “airborne continuity test” of...

Going it alone. It's one of those things that we sort of forget is a big deal, the whole achievement aspect of video games as they are in modern times. Xbox has them, PlayStation and Steam too, and gamers really do embrace them as part of the culture, as a way to express and signify their passion for certain games, and so on. And yet, sticking to its guns, Nintendo has once again decided against including trophies or achievements, at least on a system-wide level, with Switch 2.

In My Little Universe, you’re the architect of your own cosmos. Armed with three trusty tools (pickaxe, axe, and sword), you’ll brave nine unique planets, each filled with mysteries, resources, and monstrous threats. Every hex of land you summon unlocks new biomes – from misty grottos to towering mountains – each holding secrets and challenges waiting […] The post My Little Universe: the Explorer’s Survival Guide appeared first on Xbox Wire.

Ubisoft has released another patch for Assassin's Creed Shadows, and it's the game's most substantial update yet, introducing a range of fan-requested features alongside the likes of enhancements to improve visual fidelity on PS5 Pro.

A Minecraft Movie isn’t exactly indelible cinema for the ages, but it’s a massive box office hit — and a charmer, in large part due to Jack Black’s endlessly frantic energy and Jason Momoa’s absolute go-for-broke willingness to be the butt of every joke. It’s aimed both at an audience that grew up with Minecraft...

With the tactical encounters of games like XCOM and Final Fantasy tactics, roguelike twists a la Hades, and some serious dedication when it comes to its pixel art visuals, DeathTower sounds like a promising RPG project. To give it a big push, developer Headbang Club set up a Kickstarter, and today it’s announced that the fundraising goal has been smashed. Oh, and to celebrate, its free Steam demo has just received an update that delivers loads more content.

The Hugo Awards began honoring video games for the first time back in 2021. This week, the organization revealed the list of six finalists for the 2025 awards ceremony. It’s a cornucopia of critically-acclaimed titles from the past year or so. Let’s go over the nominations. Two AAA titles are up for the award. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Echoes of Wisdom changes up the franchise formula, casting players as the titular Zelda. The gameplay involves summonin...

Slimes to the left of me, zombies to the right. Canadian developer Brace Yourself Games first hit the spotlight with Crypt of the NecroDancer, a rhythm-based roguelike, all the way back in 2015. Dungeon crawling to a relentless beat became the new dance craze sweeping the nation, and it was warmly welcomed into the Switch indie canon with the 2019 Zelda tie-in Cadence of Hyrule. This time, Brace Yourself has teamed up with Tic Toc Games for a fun spin-off that trades dungeon crawling for guitar ...

Ahoy there, Cassette Beasts players! The new version 1.8, Sunshine Update, which launches today, brings several new features to the island of New Wirral that will enhance the adventure for both new and returning players! Sunny days ahead! Fan-favourite character Sunny, who appears in the game as part of the main story, finally carves her […] The post New “Sunshine Update” Available for Cassette Beasts appeared first on Xbox Wire.

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The next popstar joining Fortnite is Sabrina Carpenter, the Grammy-winning artist behind Espresso, Taste and Please Please Please.

Apple today released a new app for managing an immersive video library on a Mac. Apple Immersive Videos are 3D videos recorded in 8K resolution, with a 180-degree field of view and Spatial Audio. For example, recent performances by singer The Weeknd and heavy metal band Metallica are available in the format. The new Apple Immersive Video Utility app allows you to import, organize, package, and review Apple Immersive Video files on a Mac. Then, you can connect one or more Vision Pro devices and r...

The research, folks, the research. Absolutely not the frame rate. I hope.

What are the best InZOI mods? Though you can do practically anything you want in InZOI, people always want more. Thankfully, the devs have given the community the green light to create mods for the simulation game, opening up a world of possibilities. The InZOI release date won’t be arriving until the early access period ends, and that likely means we’ll be waiting until late 2026 at the earliest. Judging by the InZOI roadmap, there are plenty of helpful features on the horizon, but until then, ...

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Where's our Hyrule theme park, eh? Ever since the reveal of Super Nintendo World's Mushroom Kingdom, we have wondered how long it'll be before Hyrule gets the theme park treatment. Donkey Kong is clearly next on the cards for most branches, but the Orlando site's stained-glass windows have us wondering whether something Zelda-y could be in the pipeline. As brought to our attention on Twitter by @insideuniversal, Zelda references have begun popping up in Universal Orlando ahead of the park's Supe...

Who are the Death Stranding 2 voice actors? While the long-awaited sequel to the original Death Stranding is set to retain many of its leading lights, some new faces are joining its star-studded cast. With the Death Stranding 2 release date now locked in, Kojima Productions has dropped more info on the Death Stranding 2 cast list, which looks to dwarf the glitziness of its open-world predecessor. Just like in the original game, the Death Stranding 2 actors not only provide the voice for their ch...

Dead by Daylight’s Blood Moon event is back, but this time it comes with all-new surprises. The annual celebration is all about earning, and spending, the most Bloodpoints possible, which means faster progression for new, returning, and longtime players. This time, however, Behaviour Interactive has an ace up its sleeve, in the form of an entirely new type of generator.

There are some RuneScape quests that are just built different. There's One Small Favor (of course), While Guthix Sleeps, and Darkness of Hallowvale, each of which revolutionized the game in their own, unique ways. Return to the Desert, the next chapter of the long-running Desert Quest series that began in 2005, is hoping to cement itself in the MMORPG's hall of fame, and it's well on its way to doing so. The second part of the three-part quest, Pharaoh's Folly, has just arrived in-game, bringing...

A deep dive into Nvidia's recent GPU driver woes by Gamers Nexus has revealed that many of the reported issues are possible to replicate in the right conditions. These issues typically trigger game crashes, and this testing also links the issues to core Nvidia features such as DLSS, frame generation, and even G-Sync. In our RTX 5090 review, we identify this powerful new Nvidia GPU as the best graphics card for 4K gameplay, but these ongoing driver issues have caused problems for gamers who spent...

It’s important to start with the fact that there’s only so much you can say about The Last of Us season 2. After all, its reputation precedes itself: The Last of Us Part 2, at the time of its release in mid-2020, became a bit of a lightning rod for every opinion one could have...

Google is bringing AI Mode to more people in the US. The company announced on Monday it would make the new search tool, first launched at the start of last month, to millions of more Labs users across the country. For uninitiated, AI Mode is a new dedicated tab within Search. It's essentially Google's answer to ChatGPT Search. It allows you to ask more complicated questions of Google, with a custom version of Gemini 2.0 doing the legwork to deliver a nuanced AI-generated response. Labs, meanwhil...

HBO’s The Last of Us took a riveting action game bolstered by intimate human moments and made a richly human drama supported by terrifying action. In returning for season two, and now using the sequel game as source material, showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann had quite a bit more work cut out for them. The first season greatly expanded the emotional depth and breadth of Joel and Ellie’s cross-country journey while also fleshing out the stories of many others they meet along the way, and...

But new tariffs is "something we're going to have to address.". The Nintendo Switch 2 is a little pricier than many were expecting. The console will cost USD $449.99 / GBP £395.99 for the console itself, or USD $499.99 / BGP £429.99 bundled with Mario Kart World. For many, that's a lot, and when initially revealed last week, it brought to mind the slew tariffs introduced by the current Trump Administration. But President of Nintendo of America Doug Bowser has told The Verge and Wired that these ...

I thought I was immune to the shiny stuff, but even I want a pair of these mega-sticks.

Reburn's posh-looking near-future shooter La Quimera now has a release date - April 25th 2025. Which is mighty soon for an FPS project we first heard about this very February, though nothing to be alarmed by - it's been in development since around 2020. In case you missed it, Reburn are a rebrand of Metro studio 4A Games Ukraine - they're not to be confused with 4A Games in Malta, who are still working on the Metro series. La Quimera doesn't look much like Metro. I compared it to Call Of Duty: A...

"The Death Stranding movie is taking a direction that nobody has tried before with a movie adaptation of a game."

Sorry fans of the Nintendo shop music circa the Wii era, but we won't be getting a catchy jingle to shop along to on the Switch 2's release this summer. And it doesn't seem likely the music will be coming back in the future either.

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Farm this godlike monster for its weapons and gear.