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A former Concord developer has commended Bungie for taking a risk with Marathon, saying the game “isn't proven, nor guaranteed to succeed.” The Halo and Destiny maker unveiled new gameplay for it's highly anticipated extraction shooter over the weekend, with many potential players questioning the studio’s wider pricing and content decisions. Bungie is launching Marathon as a premium but not “full-priced” game with a battle pass, which has led to some calling it a potential ‘Concord 2.0.’ Now, a ...

In iOS, the Control Center can be used to quickly take a picture, jot down a note, turn on the lights, control your Apple TV, and much more. It's useful and convenient because you don't even have to unlock your iPhone or iPad to use it. However, with that convenience comes a potential security issue. If you use Control Center to create Instant Notes, for example, you might not want anyone to be able to get at them just by picking up your device and swiping on the Lock screen. If you're concerned...

Does Marathon have crossplay? Bungie’s take on the extraction shooter finally lands this year, treating you to a bold, vivid take on graphic realism alongside the graphic reality of sending round after round of ammunition into a biosynthetic skin suit. But will you be able to revel in its team-based loot hoarding with whoever you want, whenever you want, regardless of platform? Marathon sets you and your homies down in the lost colonial world of Tau Ceti IV, where you’ll have to put your FPS gam...

The United States’ tariff circus continued over the weekend, with the U.S. government announcing, via the Customs and Border Protection agency, tariff exclusions for the technology sector that cover devices such as computers and smartphones. But what’s not included in the carve-out is video game consoles, which fall under a trade classification for toys, not...

The power of a button or in this instance, several hundred people pressing other buttons.

Goodbye, free time. I hardly knew ye.

You can't have it all for under $100, but the Air Pro 4 earbuds show you can get quite close.

"I agree," notes Musk, kinda saying the quiet part out loud.

Devolver Digital and DeadToast Entertainment's Shotgun Cop Man has a release date, so prepare to arrest Satan starting from next month.

GSC Game World has released a new Stalker 2 roadmap, detailing some of the improvements that are coming to the FPS in this quarter.

If you've been playing Blue Prince and thinking, ah, this could really benefit from having approximately 16.7 million fewer colours and a couple more homicidal husks in diving suits, may I usher you wincingly towards Repose. It's a moodalicious, monochrome dungeon-crawler in which you get 50 in-game steps to search hideously dishevelled techno-crypts for oxygen cylinders, before you die of exhaustion. More likely, you will die of getting shot by a zombie astronaut. Here's a trailer.

The new game releases this week stretch your palette and your palate. There’s an adventure game, a photography sim, an MMO sim, a retro RPG, and more. If you want bright high fantasy, you’re covered. If you want grimy, colorful horror, you’re covered. Side-scrolling platformer? You got it. Soulslike? Of course. Erenshor kicks off the...

Cyberpunk 2077 is a once-in-a-generation kind of game - perhaps the Crysis of its day, the ultimate benchmark title. Yes, you can play it on PS4 or Xbox One with varying levels of effectiveness, but it scales up to challenge even the most powerful PC hardware of the era, up to and including the mighty RTX 5090 - which makes its debut on Switch 2 absolutely fascinating. We've known it was coming for some time and it was great to see it feature (albeit somewhat briefly) in Nintendo's Switch 2 Dire...

Looking for the Schedule 1 Pawn Shop location? New for the April update is a place that’s just as sketchy and suspect as your Hyland Point tax return. Manned by Mick (sometimes), it’s a great place to offload any legitimate goods clogging up your inventory. Just be ready to get into a bit of a shouting match to get a decent deal. Just moved into Hyland Point? Use our Schedule 1 map to get familiar with all of the key locations in Schedule 1. Getting around the management game's world can be conf...

"It's only official when we share it."

MacRumors readers have a chance to get 20 percent off a collection of Anker's best chargers, power banks, cables, hubs, and docks this week. In order to get this deal, head to Anker's website and add an accessory to your cart, then enter the code Ankermacrumors2025 at checkout to see the discount. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Anker. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. Our exclusive 20 percent off code wo...

Apple has confirmed that it will be permanently closing its retail store in the heart of Bristol, England, and there is no replacement in sight. Apple Bristol in 2023 Apple Bristol will be closing its doors on Saturday, August 9, due to redevelopment plans at the Cabot Circus Shopping Centre, and the adjacent Bristol Shopping Quarter. According to news reports, and a building application, the owner of the property is planning to reconfigure the retail space along Philadelphia Street, where Apple...

Named and specced to meet Nvidia's RTX 5060 Ti head-on.

If you don't hear from me much over this week (or for the rest of this month), it's because I'm dedicating my time to playing GNOMES. A new tower defense roguelike hybrid from developer DYSTOPIAN with ever-expanding biomes to battle through.

Between The Elder Scrolls 6 and the long-rumored Oblivion remake, the future of Bethesda’s fantasy RPG series can’t come soon enough. While we wait, though, there are plenty of ways to stay busy. Whether it’s the incredibly ambitious year that Elder Scrolls Online is about to have, or the myriad Skyrim mods that keep reinventing the land of the Nords, there’s always something happening in Tamriel. Bet you never thought you’d see Oblivion implanted into Doom though, right?

I distinctly remember the outcry when Metroid Prime was first revealed on the GameCube. "Metroid isn't a first-person shooter!" the people cried, comparing it to Xbox's Halo that released a year prior. Metroid Prime was a first-person adventure. It didn't need twin-stick controls. It had a lock-on instead!

A Lunar landing. Love and miracles. These are two words that get thrown around a lot when talking about video games, particularly our childhood favourites. But with the Lunar Remastered Collection, these are two words that feel more than appropriate. A combination of rights disagreements between co-developers Studio Alex and Game Arts and the passing of Game Arts co-founder Takeshi Miyaji in 2011 meant that many thought the Lunar series was lost to time, aside from a PSP and mobile port of the f...

The Last of Us is all about big action. Disgusting zombie attacks. Failed protective acts. Successful ones that cost too many lives. But in the season 2 premiere, The Last of Us managed to give us its best scene yet with the smallest of gestures — and, in the process, tell us more about Joel...

The price of a PlayStation 5 is going up again in some territories, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced Sunday on its PlayStation Blog. Sony’s latest price increases went into effect on Monday, and affect customers in Europe, the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand. Sony blamed “a backdrop of a challenging economic environment, including high inflation and...

I cannot remember any of Death Stranding’s bosses, so it’s perhaps for the best that Death Stranding 2: On The Beach will let us skip right past them – skip right past them like children who think video games are just Instagram montages and that the Power of Choice is a Christian rock band. Kojima Productions’ forthcoming open world off-Reeder will apparently give you the option to bypass bossfights after your defeat, with information about the character then fed to you in the form of image and ...

Sony is raising PS5 prices in certain regions due to a "challenging economic environment" informed by "high inflation and fluctuating exchange rates".

Valve is quietly backtracking on the Steam Deck rating for Spider-Man 2 after it was controversially upgraded to Verified in February. More embarrassing is that the reason for this demotion is exactly what the community fed back within hours of the game being Verified. While some of the best Steam Deck games don't necessarily run at a buttery smooth 60fps with high graphical settings, there is an expectation that Verified games don't require tinkering of any kind. When Spider-Man 2 was Verified ...

There are some great keyboard attachments for Apple's iPad but, sometimes, you just want to physically write things down with a "pencil." While the Apple Pencil lineup can be confusing (see our helpful guide here), there are two great options currently on sale.  Take the 23 percent discount on the Apple Pencil Pro, for instance. The markdown drops its cost to $99 from $129, only $10 more than its all-time low price. Apple released this top-end model last year and it's certainly the best of the b...

Looking to get a skateboard in Schedule 1? If you're strapped for cash, shredding around town on a double-kick bit of wood is one way to speed up your drops, dodge the cops, and even knock over pedestrians if that's what you want to do. Elsewhere in the management game, you may also have trouble navigating the Schedule 1 map. Schedule 1 can be a complicated game, so being familiar with all the key locations will help you a lot.

That melted cable looks awfully familiar...

Which object will you go for?

To celebrate 10 years of the Apple Watch's Activity ring feature this month, Apple today revealed a limited-edition "Global Close Your Rings Day" award. Apple wants users to "do something they love, push themselves further, or try something new" with an Apple Watch workout, and share what they did using the hashtag #CloseYourRings. The original Apple Watch launched on April 24, 2015; Activity rings were a feature from day one. Apple's press release today highlights the impact of the Apple Watch ...

Two households, both alike in development (in fair BioWare, where we lay our scene).

Bungie has revealed the release date for upcoming extraction shooter Marathon, as well as the game's first gameplay footage.

The first episode of Don’t Nod’s narrative adventure, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, ended with a hell of a cliffhanger: a massive discovery of something unknown, possibly malevolent, and a devastating revelation about one of the story’s central figures. As the second episode, or tape, of this player-choice-driven, nostalgia-powered story aims to draw things to...