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Have you been eagerly awaiting your acceptance letter to Hogwarts? This month, you can finally step into the magical world of the wizarding school and its spellbinding surroundings with Hogwarts Legacy. Or, you could investigate a mysterious shifting manor filled with puzzles in Blue Prince, continue the nostalgic narrative adventure of Lost Records: Bloom &...

With a bunch of Nvidia Shield TV talk, too. For many of us, GameCube games on Nintendo Switch Online kind of felt like the holy grail. Granted, it very much depends on your age and which systems you happened to grow up with, but with the GameCube playing host to some of Nintendo's finest games of all time, its inclusion on the Switch 2 is a pretty big deal. The folks over at Digital Foundry have done a deep dive on the emulation used for GameCube on Switch 2, looking at how the games – Zelda: Wi...

Breaking: Brain chips might one day be useful and not existentially terrifying.

Bonus: It might not require you to remortgage your home, either.

There’s a big Xbox showcase event scheduled June 8 at 1PM ET. This is happening the same weekend as Summer Game Fest, which begins on June 6. Xbox has typically held these kinds of live presentations alongside Summer Game Fest ever since E3 was sent to a farm upstate to live with other discontinued industry conferences. We don’t know what will be shown at the annual Xbox Games Showcase. The company says it will bring us a "look at upcoming titles from across our first-party studios, in addition ...

Ubisoft responded to California gamers’ The Crew shutdown lawsuit in late February, filing to dismiss the case. The company’s lawyers argued in that filing, reviewed by Polygon, that there was no reason for players to believe they were purchasing “unfettered ownership rights in the game.” Ubisoft has made it clear, lawyers claimed, that when you...

If Claude Plays Pokémon is supposed to offer a glimpse of AI's future, it's not a very convincing showcase. For the past month and counting, Twitch has watched Anthropic's chatbot struggle to play Pokémon Red. Across multiple runs, Claude has failed to beat the nearly 30 year old game. And yet for David Hershey, the project's lead developer, the showcase has been a success. "I wanted some place where I could understand how Claude handles situations where it needs to work over a very long period ...

The first images from Murderbot, Apple TV’s adaptation of Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series, lacked personality. In retrospect, this makes a certain amount of sense; the titular cyborg of the books is, after all, only just learning to express its personality in the first place. In hindsight, this also makes sense because the first...

We finally have the trailer for Murderbot, the Apple TV+ show based on Martha Wells' seven book series, The Murderbot Diaries. It features Alexander Skarsgård as a security unit that is less interested in protecting humans and more excited about catching up on its favorite soap operas.   As Sarsgaard says in the trailer, "I was built to protect and obey humans. And humans are idiots. But now that I've hacked my programming, I can do whatever I want. As long as they don't find out." But, things t...

There are several ways to my heart. Chocolate, esports shirts, pretty DnD dice, and dystopian, steampunk RPGs with cyberpunk flair. While the first three are relatively easy to come by, the latter, not so much. While BioShock has the steampunk, it lacks the cyberpunk, and while CD Project Red's magnum opus oozes neon, it's grounded in real-life. Welcome to Brightville, a brand new indie from Contrast Games, blends BioShock's contemporary feel with Night City's neon-bathed grime and Avowed's fant...

It takes a special kind of puzzle game to gently inform you that you’re baffled without defining the edges of that bafflement - a subtle waft of confusion, a hint of feeling stumped, a sense of deja vu. Blue Prince is an exploding riddle with a delayed fuse, and it blew me away.

Calm before the storm. Last week's Switch 2 blowout was always going to cool Switch 1's software sales a little as all eyes get fixed firmly on what's next. Well, that's exactly what we're seeing in this week's UK charts. As ever, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe keeps Nintendo in the running by holding firm at sixth, and Minecraft continues to perform well — thanks, in no small part, to the movie's box office success, we imagine. You have to scroll a looong old way to catch wind of Nintendo's latest, Xenobl...

In an incredibly shocking turn of events, more generative AI features are coming to the Google Workspace suite of productivity apps by way of Gemini. Docs, Sheets, Chat, Meet and newcomer Vids are among the tools that are getting new AI capabilities that perhaps some folks will find useful. Google is taking a cue from audio overviews in NotebookLM to bring new Gemini-powered audio features to Docs. You'll soon have the option of listening to full audio versions of your documents or just the high...

Geoff Keighley has revealed the date on which the upcoming Xbox Games Showcase in summer will air, and it'll feature more info about The Outer Worlds 2.

"I am an adventurer, boys". The mouse is out of the bag — Disney Illusion Island will no longer be a Switch exclusive; but the game is getting a free update on the same day it lands on other consoles, 30th May 2025. And that free update brings everyone's favourite money making uncle Scrooge McDuck to the game (thanks, Gematsu). We don't know much about the aptly-named C.A.S.H. update yet, but according to the trailer shared by retailer GameStop, you'll be going on a "cave adventuring scavenger h...

What are the new Hunters codes? In the world of Hunters, you take on hordes of enemies and dangerous encounters in mystical dungeons to become king of the humans. Does that sound fun? These free Hunters codes can help you on your way, redeemable for crystals which can be used to spin for better gear and weapons for those tough battles. Hunters is a new Roblox game and there are already redeemable Roblox codes to aid you on your adventure. If you're working your way through the best Roblox games,...

They’re slow, they’re stupid, and - provided you have the right weapon - they’re easy to kill. But what makes zombies frightening is their sheer numbers. It’s the horde, the relentless, unresting, amorphous horde. One of the most wishlisted survival games on all of Steam, Into The Dead is built around this specific type of terror. You can stockpile supplies, fashion weapons, and recruit new survivors, but the writhing ocean of zombies is always biting at your heels. If you’re a big Project Zombo...

Today Sony is adding a bunch of new features to the PlayStation Portal's Cloud Streaming option. The beta platform is getting updates such as the ability to sort games by recently added, name in standard or reverse alphabetical order or release date.  Then there's the pause feature, which will stop the game if you open the PS Portal quick menu. Gameplay will also pause if you click the power button. Be warned, you will get disconnected from the cloud streaming session if more than 15 seconds go ...

OWC kicked off a new "Spring Savings Celebration" this week, offering solid discounts on a variety of USB-C docks, memory cards, external drives and enclosures, and Mac accessories. Many of these deals won't be applied until you add the items to your cart, at which time an automatic coupon will be applied to your order. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with OWC. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. There are a few...

Some video games aim to pull originality from the ether, and some video games try to accomplish it by theatrically amassing a bunch of rad parallels and sort of crushing them together until the molecular boundaries give way, and a new Element is produced. This is the vibe I get from Welcome To Brightville, a new "emergent immersive sim" that reminds me instantly of Thief, Dishonored, Bioshock and recent soulslike Lies Of P. The setting blends "industrial Victorian architecture, neo-baroque extra...

Can't be side-tracked with cheap Minecraft potions.

Use these classic console commands to cheat your way through the Oblivion Crisis.

A lot has happened to Daredevil in the first season of Born Again. Foggy died; his nemesis ran for mayor of New York and won; his attempts to go straight have hit some roadblocks; he dealt with a serial killer who targeted two people he knew personally. Also, he got a girlfriend.  The fact that...

Announced during the Nintendo Switch 2's big reveal, GameCube games will be officially be added to the roster of classic titles available with a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. 24 years and four console generations on, Nintendo is finally able to tap into a truly rich, much-beloved catalogue on its new platform. The long wait to see GameCube games appear is a surprise though. Both because it is a Switch 2 exclusive feature, and also given that Nintendo has had official Wii emulation - essen...

Today, Universal Studios announced a new theme park will be coming to the UK in 2031, with the deal closed by UK prime minister Keir Starmer after years of planning.

Microsoft has locked in the date and time for its annual June announcement extravaganza, the Xbox Games Showcase, and revealed that The Outer Worlds 2 will be getting a dedicated deep dive directly after.

Did I just say 'holy smokes'?

Analyst predicts it would take years to move even a small fraction of iPhone production to the USA.

DKK Wrap. For all the excitement of last week's Direct, Nintendo's Switch 2 pricing has gone down like a cold cup of something nasty. £75/$80 games, a sizeable bump in cost for the system itself, current economic conditions, and tariffs have melded into the perfect storm, with the once-affordable Nintendo now appearing a little more out of reach. It's a problem around the world, but Switch fans in Scandinavia are feeling particularly hard done by the pricing after the region's main distributor h...

Blizzard has released the 2025 roadmap for Diablo 4, and while there's lots on the way, much of what's being added won't be sticking around.

Samsung's Ballie will go on sale in the US and South Korea this summer, the company announced today. What's more, through a partnership with Google Cloud, the diminutive robot will ship with a Gemini AI model.  Samsung didn't state the specific system that powers Ballie, but in combination with the company's own proprietary language models, it says the robot has multimodal capabilities, meaning Ballie can process voice, audio and visual data from its sensors. According to Samsung, Ballie can als...

The Witcher spin-off studio The Molasses Flood has been absorbed into parent company CD Projekt Red.

It's almost time for The Triple-i Initiative, a gaming showcase for indie publishers and developers. You can watch the stream on The Triple-i Initiative's YouTube channel at 9AM PT / 12PM PT on April 10. It's also available on Twitch, Bilibili and Steam. This presentation is the second annual edition and, based on the teaser video, it looks like we will see an interesting range of games.  The 45-minute or so showcase should include looks at Enshrouded, V Rising and Deep Rock Galactic. Poncle, th...

Apple supplier Luxshare is weighing the possibility of manufacturing some products in the United States as it seeks to address the implications of new tariffs on goods exported from China, Reuters reports. The comments were made by Luxshare chairwoman Wang Laichun during a telephone call with analysts, the transcript of which was seen by Reuters. Luxshare is one of Apple's key suppliers and plays a major role in the production of high-end iPhone models, AirPods, Apple Watches, and the Vision Pro...

The warm weather is here, which means saying goodbye to gym memberships and hello to exercising in the fresh air. Without machines measuring your progress, a fitness tracker can ensure you're staying on top of your workout. Now is a great time to pick on up, with the Fitbit Charge 6 down to $120 from $160.  This 25 percent discount brings our favorite fitness tracker down to its lowest price of 2025. We've given the Charge 6 this accolade thanks to features like a more accurate heart rate monito...