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As part of their ongoing celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th anniversary, NASA and ESA have shared a new image of the Eagle Nebula, specifically a "spire of cosmic gas and dust" that's in a region last captured by the telescope two decades ago. The tower in the image is 9.5 light years tall, according to NASA and ESA, and only a portion of the larger Eagle Nebula, which is considered a "nursery" for young stars. The tower's unique mix of oranges and dark blues is thanks to a combina...

The Apple Sports app just introduced a new feature called Game Card Sharing. This lets users generate digital game cards that carry information about a specific match. The cards can be generated for upcoming, live and completed games. In the latter two cases, the score will be displayed. The cool part about these cards is that they are shareable across iMessage or via social media platforms. I could see this being useful in a group chat with friends, as a handy way to keep track of an ongoing ma...

Apple TV+ is currently available at a much lower price than usual, but time is running out if you want to take advantage of the offer. In the U.S., new and qualified returning customers can subscribe to Apple TV+ for just $2.99 per month, for three months. Afterwards, regular pricing of $9.99 per month applies. The offer is available in the Apple TV app, and at tv.apple.com, through April 24. Unfortunately, existing subscribers are not eligible to receive the discount. The promotion is running i...

More than a decade ago, Assassin's Creed 3 came out, serving as the follow-up to a trio of well-received games featuring fan favorite character Ezio Auditore da Firenze. Set during the American Revolution and featuring a more stoic protagonist, far removed from the previous games' roguish Ezio, AC3 garnered a reputation among many players for being a series misstep. Approached with fresh eyes and many years of hindsight, though, it's easier to see that Assassin's Creed 3 is perhaps the strongest...

The results are in: A lot of us really like Blue Prince. The game about solving puzzles in an ever-shifting manor takes a bit to get going, but once you’re in, you’re in. Data from Steam players — where the game seems to be the most popular — backs this up, according to a LinkedIn...

Baldur's Gate 3's new subclasses make my latest run feel as fresh as my first.

The folks behind Skyblivion, a fan project focused on porting The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion to the Skyrim engine, will continue development in the face of continued rumors about an Oblivion remaster supervised by Bethesda itself. “We are on track for our planned release later this year,” the Skyblivion team said on Bluesky. “The prospect...

You got a star! Sorry, everyone! We were a little distracted by yesterday's Mario Kart World Direct and had to push the latest numbers from Famitsu aside for a little while. But have no fear, we're back to provide the latest look at the Japanese charts. Much like last time, it has been a pretty quiet week in the wake of Nintendo opening the floodgates on Switch 2, but Super Mario Party Jamboree has still managed to find itself on top with an additional 6,146 sales — just imagine the numbers once...

Back in 1987, Microprose put out Airborne Ranger, a military action game that included light strategy elements. In the decades that followed, its combination of tactics and direct combat were picked up and spun off into different strategy subgenres, resulting in everything from Firaxis' XCOM games and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint to Insurgency: Sandstorm and Arma 3. Now, Microprose is returning with Airborne Ranger: Fightout, which reboots the original game with a new design framework tha...

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Just in time for the start of the NBA and NHL playoffs this weekend, the Apple Sports app has received a new Game Card Sharing feature. With this feature, Apple Sports users can generate and share game cards for all supported leagues, whether the matchup is upcoming, live, or completed. The game cards can be shared via iMessage, on social media, and elsewhere. In addition to the NBA and NHL, the feature will be available for MLB, MLS, Formula 1, and more. Apple's example screenshots show a game ...

An announcement at TerryPratchett.com revealed today that the estate of the late fantasy author, one of the UK’s all-time bestselling writers, is opening up the “Discworld graphic novel universe,” a planned series of comics adaptations of Pratchett’s Discworld books that will come from different publishers, writers, and artists. Pratchett’s Discworld setting was the basis for...

Start your engines. Well folks, it looks like Nintendo is officially off the start line with its Mario Kart World marketing in Japan. The upcoming racer has just scored three new trailers, showcasing some of the new characters, courses and tricks you'll be able to see in action from 5th June. A lot of the footage might not seem all that new after yesterday's Direct, but there are a couple of fresh shots thrown into the 30-second ads for good measure. It all focuses on the standard racing (rather...

The Shrine is an Outer Room in Blue Prince that’ll provide you with a blessing at the cost of some of your gold coins. Shrine blessings are powerful boons that will assist you as you’re exploring the estate and uncovering more of its secrets. If you draft the Shrine as your Outer Room, all you...

To celebrate the release of Lunar Remastered Collection, out today for Xbox One (compatible with Xbox Series X|S), I sat down with our Senior Graphic Designer, Amy Nguyen, and talked to her about how this remaster’s logo came to be. I asked her about her inspirations, her design process, and more! Hi Amy! Thank you […] The post Lunar Remastered Collection: How Its Stellar Logo & Package Design Came to Be appeared first on Xbox Wire.

Some of my favorite horror games are set in familiar places: coastal towns, sleepy suburban streets, a quiet family home. Many classics pull on the American zeitgeist, which provides a level of stability and security before the horror kicks in. In recent years, I’ve been delving more into horror games set in different parts of...

Tesla is facing a proposed class action suit over allegations that it has been speeding up odometers so its vehicles will fall out of warranty faster, according to a report by Reuters. This would make it easier for the company to get out of paying for repairs. Nyree Hinton, the plaintiff in the case, alleges that Tesla odometer readers are designed to change with energy consumption, driver behavior and mysterious predictive algorithms, and not actual mileage driven. He said that the odometer on ...

Oblivion is a game about weirdos. How will they look in the remaster?

The European Commission (EC) reportedly delayed regulatory penalty announcements against Apple and Meta this week as it accelerates its push for a trade deal with the US. On Friday, the Wall Street Journal said the move led to concern from European Parliament lawmakers that political factors are influencing the body's regulatory decisions. The EU is said to have initially planned to announce cease-and-desist orders against Apple and Meta on Tuesday and reportedly told at least one of the compani...

Blizzard teased two “new IP collabs” for Diablo 4 back on April 8, and it didn’t long for them to reveal the first: A crossover with legendary manga series Berserk. Details on the collaboration are scarce, but the announcement video is evocative as hell. It opens with a shot of Berserk’s foreboding and narrative-shifting eclipse...

Blue Prince is an incredible puzzle game. Set in a lonely mansion with impossible architecture, it’s layered in mysteries, conspiracies and family drama. The mansion, Mt. Holly, officially has 45 rooms, but in order to collect your inheritance, you have to find the 46th. Every day you’re given a set number of steps, and you have to literally build the manor (and the game) as you go, drawing from a pool of floorplans to create a new layout with each run. This is the foundation, but it goes so muc...

Okay... what? Just when we thought we were starting to get a grip on what would and would not be on Switch 2 cartridges, publisher Marvelous comes in with another bombshell (thanks for the heads up, @Wario64). In a recently published Q&A section regarding the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 edition of Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, Marvelous started to unpack what the game's physical copy actually entails. According to the site, the red Switch 2 cart contains the full Switch 1 game and the Switch ...

FBC: Firebreak is looking just as surreal as the game it's spun off from, with none of the seriousness.

In the near future, massive new RPG games like Elden Ring Nightreign, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and Lost Soul Aside are set to come out and demand plenty of their players' free time. Each one of these is still a little ways out, though, which makes now the ideal moment for the launch of Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree, another sprawling action RPG that launched yesterday on Steam to fairly positive user reviews.

"It's nice when marketing comes back to you and says 'yep, we underestimated our high-level success.'"

Despite the huge March update, it's not slowing down this month.

The developer of Autonomica should be very, very happy right now. This sci-fi sandbox survival game launched on Kickstarter yesterday, and it's already smashed through its funding goal. With nearly a month left, the dev's biggest problem could be coming up with new stretch goals.

We're long overdue for an overhaul of the Steam Deck game rating system. What was initially a great idea has now become somewhat controversial, and the Unsupported, Playable, Verified ratings are no longer carrying the same weight they once did. Instead, Valve needs to bring in the community to offer greater context and a more accurate depiction of how games run on the popular handheld. Many of the best Steam Deck games don't have Verified ratings, and some aren't rated at all. This is because t...

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"I'm interested in the darkness...". If you owned a PlayStation in the mid-'90s to early 2000s, you'll likely be aware of PaRappa the Rapper. This wacky rhythm game from musician Masaya Matsuura sees you play as a hip-hop hound trying to win the love of his life, a humanoid flower (yes, really). It's often considered the title that kickstarted the rhythm genre and, if our brief description hadn't teased it already, it was properly weird. The question is, why are we talking about this classic PS1...

Last week, we asked you embark on Joel, Ellie, and Abby’s full journey in The Last of Us Complete using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: Wulfsychic shares Joel walking away from the guitar, in focus in the foreground ​​ FranTGP shares a detailed shot of Ellie’s iconic tshirt PattyGnand shares Ellie making funny...

Shinichirō Watanabe has never done something quite like Lazarus before.  Sure, the 59-year-old anime director of Cowboy Bebop, Space Dandy, and more isn’t new to science fiction, nor is he a stranger to suspense thrillers like Terror in Resonance. But a globe-trotting, sci-fi spy thriller about a secret task force assigned to apprehend a brilliant...

If you've been hanging onto an older Apple Watch for a few years or you're an iPhone user who perhaps wants to pick one up for the first time to better track your activity, here's a deal for you. The Apple Watch Series 10 is once again on sale. It has dropped back down to $299, which matches a record low price. The smartwatch usually retails for $399. This deal is for the 42mm GPS version of the Apple Watch Series 10 with a Sport Loop strap in various colorways (there's no LTE connectivity in th...

Daring Fireball's John Gruber joins us on this week's episode of The MacRumors Show to discuss Apple Intelligence and the future of the company. Subscribe to The MacRumors Show YouTube channel for more videos We talk through the reaction to John's influential "Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino" piece on Daring Fireball, which pointed out that Apple's credibility has been "damaged" by the delay in releasing key ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features such as personalized Siri. Subsequent report...

While many of us look forward to the warm days and sunshine of spring after a long winter, there's still a lot of appeal to trudging through snow and withstanding the cold in a videogame. This certainly seems to be the case with upcoming survival FPS Frostrail, which blends the snowy landscapes of The Long Dark and the monster shooting and train travel of Metro Exodus. Though it was only revealed a week ago, the game's premise and pedigree has attracted plenty of attention from Steam players, wh...