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The closed alpha for Marathon is soon due to roll out to players who signed up, meaning Bungie's colourful futuristic servers are warming up. Sadly, we weren't invited - the alpha is only open to North Americans. But, aha, something went awry today and the game became available to play early for those on Xbox. And one quick-witted player streamed a full hour of the game before the servers clamped shut once again.

If you've been waiting to pick up Apple's latest MacBook Air M4 then your patience has paid off. Right now, the 13-inch model is down to $939 from $999 — a six percent discount. It's an all-time low price for the 13-inch MacBook Air M4, dropping to $10 less than it cost during Amazon's Spring Sale. The deal is available for the laptop in Starlight, Midnight and Sky Blue, so just not Silver.  Apple only released the MacBook Air M4 in Mid-March and it's already our pick for 2025's best MacBook ove...

If there's one thing XCOM and Darkest Dungeon have in common, it's forcing you to make incredibly tough decisions. Whether you're choosing who lives, dies, or leads your team, both games push your tactical RPG limits to new heights. This is something the upcoming Prelude Dark Pain understands well, as it gives you plenty of opportunities to win, but will always find a way to punish your mistakes. Ahead of an imminent Kickstarter launch, I got to try the strategy game for myself, and it's one to ...

You've heard of direct drive, but how about direct axial drive?

Looking to pick up an iPad for carrying out basic tasks like watching shows, catching up on reading and handling some email? The latest base model might be the way to go, especially if you’re a budget-conscious buyer. The A16 iPad is now on sale at a record-low price. It has dropped by $29 to $320. The discount is available for most colorways. The deal is for the entry-level configuration with 128GB of storage, 6GB of RAM and Wi-Fi 6 connectivity. The A16 iPad, which Apple released earlier this ...

It's time for a Cyrodiil homecoming.

A compact case with a lot of hidden features and designed from the ground up for Corsair's own ecosystem.

L-l-l-lava. Ch-ch-ch-chicken. Steve's Lava Chicken is tasty as hell.

The latest update to Sid Meier's Civilization VII from Firaxis Games is out now with version 1.2 bringing some major new features, and a whole lot of enhancements to make this latest game in the series feel just a bit more finished.

That old Nintendo magic is back. After four hours spent playing as many games as they could at the Switch 2 Experience held in London, the beautiful brains over at Digital Foundry have weighed in on a whole bunch of interesting aspects of the upcoming console. You can check out the full article and video over at Eurogamer as it goes into more detail, but the overall impression from the experts is that Nintendo has positioned itself very well, with what DF calls a "future-looking" console.

One gaming handheld maker is pausing shipments to the United States due to U.S. President Trump’s 145% tariffs on products imported from China. Anbernic, which makes the popular Anbernic RG35XX Plus, announced it’s suspending all orders of its handhelds sent from China to the U.S. The company joins Retroid Pocket in the tariff chaos; that...

The Washington Post is partnering with OpenAI to bring its reporting to ChatGPT. The two organizations did not disclose the financial terms of the agreement, but the deal will see ChatGPT display summaries, quotes and links to articles from The Post when users prompt the chatbot to search the web. "We're all in on meeting our audiences where they are," said Peter Elkins-Williams, head of global partnerships at The Post. "Ensuring ChatGPT users have our impactful reporting at their fingertips bui...

Amazon has a few discounts on Apple's 11th generation iPad this week, including a return of the all-time low price on the entry level model. Prices start at $319.99 for the 128GB Wi-Fi iPad, down from $349.00. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. This sale is available in Blue and Yellow, while the Silver model is at a second-best price on Amazon. Although this is just...

What’s the single scariest moment in videogame history? The dogs jumping through the windows in the original Resident Evil - that’s the most common choice. Horror connoisseurs might also point to the Mr. Tibbits screamer in Condemned Criminal Origins, or the hospital rooftop in 2001’s Silent Hill 2. Personally, I still lose sleep over the Working Joes in Alien Isolation, when you’re running away and they grab your ankle. But The Outlast Trials gets under my skin. Any time the lights go out and t...

Ash, the new sci-fi horror from multi-hyphenate director-musician Flying Lotus, comes to video on demand this week following its theatrical premiere in March. Eiza González (3 Body Problem) stars as Riya, a would-be colonist who wakes up on an alien planet to discover that all of her fellow crewmembers have been brutally killed, except one:...

Firstly, a big thanks to Amerzone The Explorer's Legacy for making journalists seem cool as hell. Going from first-day-at-the-office nerves to crash-landing into a snake-infested swamp in the middle of a murderous dictatorship is something I’ve (thankfully) never had to experience, but it's certainly a reputational aura boost for us all.

Today is Earth Day, and Apple is celebrating the occasion in five ways. First, Apple has updated its home page to highlight its ongoing Apple 2030 initiative. Apple is aiming to become carbon neutral across its entire business, manufacturing supply chain, and product life cycle by 2030. Last week, Apple announced that it surpassed a 60% reduction in its global greenhouse gas emissions compared to 2015 levels. More details are available in the company's 2025 Environmental Progress Report. Second,...

Sega has taken a look at the Sonic movies' box office earnings and decided that, yes, it would like to make several hundred million dollars please.

Intel is reportedly planning to move to yet another new socket for its upcoming next-gen gaming CPUs, meaning you would need a whole new motherboard to upgrade again. According to information found in shipping documents, the Intel Nova Lake platform will see the new Intel CPU ranges use the LGA1954 socket, rather than the LGA1851 socket used for its existing Arrow Lake CPUs. That’s potentially bad news if you’ve already bought the best gaming motherboard you can afford for a new Intel Arrow Lake...

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At some point in their development of the most recent trilogy, someone at Id Software apparently decided that the most interesting thing about their FPS was the character of the Doom Slayer himself - an odd though not entirely disastrous decision that I'd argue is mostly responsible for the design shape of Doom Eternal. I'm a big fan, even despite this misplaced fascination with its unnecessarily fleshed out gun-numpad-with-legs. I'm hoping to be a fan of Doom: The Dark Ages too, but based on th...

Bend Studio has announced "most" of the new accessibility features arriving with Days Gone Remastered are coming to PC as well.

"We sold 592,000 copies of the game."

I have no idea what actual genre LOOTPLOT belongs in, or how to properly describe it. You go through rounds of sorting through your inventory and expanding it, trying to create crazy synergies and keep increasing your points needed to beat each level.

Grid and bear it. It has been a long old time since we've seen a Madden game on a Nintendo system (you have to go right back to the Wii U's Madden NFL 13 to find the last one, in fact), but this week, that all could change. As reported by VGC, the rumour mill has started a-churning about this year's entry in the American football series, suggesting that a release date will be revealed this week. Normally, this wouldn't interest us Nintendo fans, but let's not forget that EA has promised the seri...

OutRun is the next video game to be reportedly getting itself a movie adaptation.

Sony and Bend Studio have described some of the impressive accessibility features coming to Days Gone Remastered when it launches later this week.

Where to get the Riju, Sidon, Yunobo & Tulin amiibo. Just when you thought Nintendo had called time on its addictive line of NFC figurines, a new lineup of Zelda amiibo goes and pull you back in. That's right, there's a fresh bunch of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (and Street Fighter) amiibo launching alongside Switch 2 on 5th June, with fan-favourites Riju, Sidon, Yunobo, and Tulin being joined by (at a later date) a larger amiibo of Mineru's Construct.

The Insta360 X5 ($550) is the company’s latest 8K 360 action camera and, while it remains a different proposition to traditional action cams, it is more powerful, more reliable and easier to use. The X5 has a larger 1/1.28-inch sensor compared to the X4's 1/2-inch sensor, ensuring more detail and a notable boost to low-light performance. The issue with wide-angle camera capture is that detail gets lost, especially in low-lit settings. The specification upgrades this time around reduce that subst...

Google Messages has started rolling out sensitive content warnings for nudity after first unveiling the feature late last year. The new feature will perform two key actions if the AI-based system detects message containing a nude image: it will blur any of those photo and trigger a warning if your child tries to open, send or forward them. Finally, it will provide resources for you and your child to get help. All detection happens on the device to ensure images and data remain private.  Sensitiv...

Last Friday, Blizzard released a teaser trailer for its upcoming collaboration between Berserk, the acclaimed dark fantasy manga created by Kentaro Miura, and Diablo 4 and Diablo Immortal. On Tuesday, Blizzard revealed more details regarding the crossover event, which is set to launch on May 1 for Diablo Immortal and May 6 for Diablo 4....

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, the third Fire Emblem game developed for the Game Boy Advance, is now available on Nintendo Switch Online.

About 15% of the world’s population — over a billion people — are affected by neurological disorders, from commonly known diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s to hundreds of lesser-known, rare conditions. BrainStorm Therapeutics, a San Diego-based startup, is accelerating the development of cures for these conditions using AI-powered computational drug discovery paired with lab experiments Read Article

Traditionally, data centers have relied on air cooling — where mechanical chillers circulate chilled air to absorb heat from servers, helping them maintain optimal conditions. But as AI models increase in size, and the use of AI reasoning models rises, maintaining those optimal conditions is not only getting harder and more expensive — but more Read Article

Whether at sea, land or in the sky — even outer space — NVIDIA technology is helping research scientists and developers alike explore and understand oceans, wildlife, the climate and far out existential risks like asteroids. These increasingly intelligent developments are helping to analyze environmental pollutants, damage to habitats and natural disaster risks at an Read Article