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Facebook owner Meta has reportedly cut over 100 jobs at Reality Labs, the division responsible for its virtual reality and augmented reality software and hardware, including Quest.

The fashion-forward adventure Infinity Nikki is finally coming to Steam on April 29, complete with its iconic photo mode. The Steam version launches alongside a major update called Bubble Season that brings some new features to the game on all platforms. First and foremost, Bubble Season will introduce co-op play. This two-player mode lets a pair of friends explore the entire game world. There will be unique co-op puzzles and new escort missions. The update brings a new area and, of course, a wh...

An unexpected and (as of the time of writing) unannounced update to The Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion Remastered is causing frustrating issues with some players’ graphics settings. A smattering of reports claim that since this new Oblivion Remastered update dropped, graphics settings have been reset or, in some cases, entirely removed.

The Legend of Ochi feels like a film that shouldn't exist today. It's an original story, not an adaptation of an already popular book or comic. It's filled with complex puppetry and practical effects, something many films avoid because CG is simply easier to deal with. And it evokes some of the scarier children's films of the '80s and '90s, like the nightmare-inducing adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Witches. According to Isaiah Saxon, the film's writer and director, it was a struggle to get The L...

Close Encounters of Every Kind. Square Enix is bringing Bravely Default: Flying Fairy to the Switch 2 on the console's launch day via an HD Remaster, and we're pretty happy to see the first entry in this delightful series make the jump to home consoles. But it's being launched as a Game-Key Card game, which has definitely put a bit of an asterisk on what should be a celebration. Now, there might be another wrinkle to contend with, as a Square Enix blog post has highlighted a number of new and re...

A closed beta test earlier this month was also delayed, and apparently did not go very well.

Boox, a company that makes E Ink gear ranging from palm-sized devices to desktop monitors, has a new pair of ereaders. The Go 7 and Go Color 7 (Gen II) combine a Kindle Oasis-like form factor with Android 13. For the first time in this lineup, they support handwriting, courtesy of a $46 stylus. And since the E Ink tablets ship with the Play Store, you can use any ebook storefront you like. The Boox Go Color 7 (Gen II) uses E Ink Kaleido 3 tech, also found in the Kobo Libra Colour and Kindle Colo...

“Wisdom of the Ages” is a side quest in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered that challenges the hero to be faithful to the teachings of Julianos. By speaking with Sir Henrick, the hero can go to Fort Bulwark and retrieve the Shield of the Crusader — a powerful early-game shield. But you’ll have to...

Google has announced that it will no longer be bringing new Nest Thermostats to Europe due to the "unique" requirements of heating systems in the region. The company launched its redesigned fourth-generation Nest Learning Thermostat in 2024. "Heating systems in Europe are unique and have a variety of hardware and software requirements that make it challenging to build for the diverse set of homes," Google says. "Therefore moving forward we’ll no longer launch new Nest thermostats in Europe." The...

The last few weeks have been hell for Strategist players in Marvel Rivals. Healing is hard enough on its own, but try doing it while a Spider-Man player drops in from another planet to uppercut you back to spawn. In a meta where the fastest heroes are also the strongest heroes, Strategist players are working...

All confirmed Switch 2 Game-Key Card games. For Switch 2, Nintendo has introduced a different type of physical release: Game-Key Cards. They've proven controversial amongst gamers as they contain no actual game data. Instead, once the game is downloaded, they function as a key that must be inserted into your Switch 2 to access the game stored in the console's internal memory (or on a microSD Express card).

For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Lululook to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win a 13-inch iPad Air and a Lululook Foldable Magnetic Charging Mount to go along with it. Lululook makes all kinds of stands and accessories for the iPad and other Apple products, and its $100 Foldable Magnetic Charging Mount is not quite like other stands you've seen. It's a desk stand that clamps on to the edge of a desk or a table, with an adjustable arm that can be tilted and angled to get the pe...

One for the history books. We've heard all kinds of predictions about the Switch 2 and its potential launch sales in recent months, from the optimistic to the 'Nintendo's so doomed' pessimistic. The latest take, however, doesn't just suggest that the hardware's opening numbers will be good, it reckons they'll be record-breaking. Earlier this week, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa announced that the company won't be able to meet the Switch 2 demand in the region via the My Nintendo Store alon...

You’ll need help from followers in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered if you plan on exploring its subaquatic dungeons and fighting its evil necromancers. Regardless of how some bits were modernized or graphics were improved, the dangers in Tamriel are still the same as they were in 2006. There are temporary followers who can...

"The amount of stuff that's been lost about Fallout and its early development saddens me," Tim Cain says.

Will-o-the-Wisps can be a challenging enemy type in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered as they’re only susceptible to magic-based attacks. Will-o-the-Wisps are floating balls of light that are surprisingly tanky and have the ability to absorb your health and magicka on touch. Pairing that with their immunity to normal attacks, and you’ll find Will-o-the-Wisps...

Email us at [email protected]! Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or download here Hey, everybody! Sid, Brett, and Tim are back this week to discuss the release date reveal and new trailer for Ghost of Yōtei. This episode also includes interviews with Doom: The Dark Ages Director Hugo Martin and Days Gone Remastered Creative and Product...

Almost a year since Microsoft announced its controversial Recall feature, and after several delays, the company has finally started bringing it to Copilot+ AI PCs today. The launch comes just a few weeks after Microsoft started testing Recall broadly with Windows Insiders. There are also a few other AI-powered features coming along with this release, including an improved Windows Search and Click to Do, which lets you quickly use AI features from within your existing apps. As usual, the release ...

Part 10 - The saga continues. Welcome to the tenth instalment of our 'Games We Missed' series. Twice a year we round up a bunch of stragglers, many of which we had on our list to review but just couldn't get to due to the sheer number of games launching every week, some of which totally slipped through the net.

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Dune: Awakening launches on 10th June, but there'll be another chance to experience the promising sci-fi survival game ahead of its arrival. Developer Funcom has confirmed it'll be holding the game's "largest beta yet" in May, with keys being made available to "tens of thousands" of players.

I really didn’t expect at the start of this week that anything would come close to drawing my attention away from the Oblivion Remaster. Yet here I am, sitting here with my jaw on the floor at just how big the launch of Clair Obscur Expedition 33 has been. The debut game from French studio Sandfall Interactive, this gorgeous turn-based RPG is firmly in the conversation for Game of the Year - but great quality doesn’t always translate into great sales. However, Sandfall appears to have achieved b...

Resident Evil 9 will surely mark some kind of reimagining of Capcom’s stalwart survival horror series. RE7 was a worthy experiment - I personally didn’t like it, at all, but at least it was trying something. Village on the other hand was a mess, and proof proper that Resident Evil needs stripping down again. We have to go back to basics: city, zombies, T-Virus. The rumored Code Veronica remake could be good, but RE needs fresh stories. Based on a new video from Capcom to mark the sales of RE4 Re...

Want to know the best Overwatch 2 Stadium support builds? The Stadium game mode has taken the Overwatch 2 player base by storm, but there’s quite a big learning curve to past, even for seasoned veterans. Not only can you play from a third-person perspective, but you also need to think about your character-specific build. Overwatch 2 Stadium support builds are here, and you need to carefully pick your weapons, items, and abilities while considering your economy. Support characters keep the team a...

How many consoles does one ship need? Pikmin were collecting retro games before it was cool. The PNF-404 natives saw the way the market was heading and decided to load up on as many consoles and accessories as possible before eBay sellers started asking astonishing prices for them. Not a bad understanding of economics for a species that regularly accidentally stumbles into deep water, naked flames and electrical currents, eh? We've helped these little guys pick up consoles in almost every series...

As ever, its appeal will be all about pricing.

We thought that AMD’s new RDNA 4 gaming GPU range was going to top out at “9070” when it comes to model numbers, but a new leak claims that there’s a new AMD Radeon RX 9080 chip coming. There’s a catch, though, which is that the rumored chip’s full name is the Radeon RX 9080M, and it’s reportedly a laptop GPU. What’s more, the core spec looks identical to that of the desktop Radeon RX 9070 XT. That’s a good start, though, as I was really impressed by the performance of the new AMD RDNA 4 archite...

Easy on there, Hugo.

How do you take down beings so unknowable and powerful that their mere presence drives you to despair? That’s the task presented to you by Starless Abyss. This new space roguelike brings together Slay the Spire’s deckbuilding, FTL’s space adventure, Into the Breach’s positional combat, and Darkest Dungeon’s Lovecraftian horror, and was built by Egyptian developer Konafa Games with consultation from Nuclear Throne and Luftrausers co-creator, Rami Ismail. Following near-universal praise for its de...

Will they even notice?

Music has always been instrumental in Shinichirō Watanabe’s anime (pun intended). More than just merely background music, every soundtrack featured across Watanabe’s body of work is inextricable from the identity of each of his series, from the big band jazz and rock of Cowboy Bebop to the lo-fi boom bap beats of Samurai Champloo. Lazarus,...

Last week, we asked you head to the great outdoors (inside your favorite games) and share nature-filled moments using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: Mur4dQ shares Astro Bot and a cow napping in a meadow PattyGnand shares the girls of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage dangling their legs over a lakeside overlook  Amianan_NiRaGuB...

"I what…?". If you've entered the lottery to get a Switch 2 in Japan, then you may well be hearing back from Nintendo relatively soon. Many have been receiving emails from Nintendo to confirm that they've been successful in securing a Switch 2 pre-order over the past day, with one of the successes coming from none other than Smash and Kirby creator Masahiro Sakurai. Highlighted to us by friend of the site and NL contributor Andrew J. Rue, Sakurai tweeted just under three weeks ago that he'd ente...

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