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Apple will likely manufacture its 20th anniversary iPhone models in China, despite broader efforts to shift production to India, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In 2027, Apple is planning a "major shake-up" for the iPhone lineup to mark two decades since the original model launched. Gurman's previous reporting indicates the company will introduce a foldable iPhone alongside a "bold" new iPhone Pro model that makes greater use of glass in its design. Writing in his latest Power On newslette...

The UK's Children's Commissioner is calling for a ban on AI deepfake apps that create nude or sexual images of children, according to a new report. It states that such "nudification" apps have become so prevalent that many girls have stopped posting photos on social media. And though creating or uploading CSAM images is illegal, apps used to create deepfake nude images are still legal.  "Children have told me they are frightened by the very idea of this technology even being available, let alone...

They're, uh, adopted.

Forza Horizon 5 is the entire reason I have an Xbox Series S. I’m not really a car guy in real life — if money, practicality and burning through fossil fuels were less of a concern, I’d get a fun hot hatch with a stick, for sure. I don’t care about luxuries or exotics, and I drive a 12-year-old Prius C in real life. But Forza Horizon 5 so skillfully melds open-world exploration, intense competition and replayability while also letting me try out dozens of cars I’ve daydreamed about driving that ...

Who do SKU think you're kidding? An Emmy award-winning audio engineer has taken to social media in order to call out his local GameStop store, which he claims has been attempting to force expensive Switch 2 bundles on its customers in an attempt to cash in on the high demand for the console in the US. As first reported over at The Shortcut, Elea Tsentzelis, who has worked as an audio engineer on the likes of MTV's recent Family Legacy, and won an Emmy as part of a sound team on 'The Daily Mail',...

A long time ago in, well, this galaxy, actually, Quantic Dream announced that they were making Star Wars Eclipse, a cinematic adventure from the High Jedi era in which everybody can die. Alice Bee (RPS in peace) poured soothing oil over the flames of hype by saying it was probably going to be rubbish, citing reports of abusive working conditions. NetEase acquired Quantic Dream in 2022. Then, nothing was shown for many years. The world froze in anticipation like Han Solo doing jazz hands through ...

Until Dawn is the latest video game to get itself a film adaptation, having made its cinematic debut on 25th April. At the film's close, its credits acknowledge the game it is inspired by, but no individual developer credits are highlighted.

What's wrong babe, you've barely touched your green milk.

It's a beaut. Nintendo has released a new video via its Nintendo Today! app which showcases the features and form factor of the new Switch 2 Pro Controller (thanks, Stealth40k). If you've already got the original Switch Pro Controller, then you might be looking at the latest iteration and wondering what's actually different. Well, there are a few things. For starters, we've now got two additional buttons on the back of the device labelled 'GL' and 'GR' which can be mapped to whichever input you ...

It’s not like we’re struggling for survival games. Between old reliables like The Forest and Rust, and more recent upstarts such as Bellwright and Pacific Drive, if you want a pseudo simulation of hunting, crafting, and struggling for your supper, you’re spoiled for choice lately. Originally released back in 2017, The Long Dark is about to reach its end - Wintermute episode five is coming, as well as The Long Dark 2, also known as Blackfrost. But even after eight years and all this new competiti...

Hello and good New Week to ye, traveller! And my, my - what a New Week it is. We're taking the desperate toil of feeding the Maw to strange new places. I'll spell that out in a separate post to come, once I've caught up on emails during my absence last week and in general, remembered how to do my job, but you may already notice certain sinister adjustments to the format. I welcome any feedback and wanton abuse. In the meantime, here are some new PC games.

Keep an eye out for the digital release. 'Switch 2 Edition' is a phrase that we've got used to throwing around over the last few months. Heck, we're going to throw it out there again now, but not in the sense of the upcoming lineup of enhanced games. Yes, Nintendo has announced that its official magazine is getting a 'Special Edition' all about Switch 2. The mag is usually reserved for a seasonal release, covering all the games Nintendo had released in the months before, but new hardware feels l...

It'll only take around five minutes to complete.

If you've read my review of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, you'll know I loved it. It's pretty handily my game of the year so far, and an all-timer RPG besides. It's a hugely impressive piece of game magic, and I'm certainly not trying to diminish that. However, the culture being what it is, I keep seeing the game's quality weaponised against the state of game development in general. Even celebrations are often accompanied by some variation on the phrase "made by just 30 developers". It's good to ...

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition has been beaten by a player with early access to the company's unreleased console.

The third episode of The Last of Us season two has aired, and we returned to Jackson to see the aftermath of last week's assault on the settlement.

Faster than a Ganon-ball. It's no secret that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild can be beaten pretty quickly if you know what you're doing. Thanks to the open-ended nature of the game, skilled players can skip basically everything after The Great Plateau and leg it straight to Hyrule Castle to face the final boss. At a recent Switch 2 Experience event in Tokyo, Japan, that's exactly what speedrunner Ikaboze managed to accomplish with the new Switch 2 Edition of the game (thanks, VGC). Well...

Celestial Guardians is an upcoming expansion for Pokémon TCG Pocket that will add more than 200 cards to the game. Celestial Guardians focuses on Pokémon from the Alola region and features the legendary Pokémon Solgaleo and Lunala. You can look forward to collecting cards like Alolan Raichu ex, Oricorio, and Alolan Marowak. The trailer also teased supporter cards like...

Return of the posting dead.

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Just like the season before it, The Last of Us season 2 walks a line between faithfully adapting its source’s already cinema-inspired material and expanding on that material to meet the medium of television. And so, as players watched in 2020’s The Last of Us Part 2 and viewers watched a few weeks ago in...

Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.

Picture this: you’re zooming through space in a torpedo-shaped ship doing the dangerous job of salvaging material in a planet’s cluttered orbit when some giant, alien cousin of a fangtooth fish pops up out of nowhere and starts chomping at your tail. Pretty stressful day at work if you ask me. One might even be forgiven for, ahem, accidentally crashing the ship in such conditions. In the Playdate game Suborbital Salvage, though, your supervisor isn’t so sympathetic. Slam into an asteroid or dron...

Swen Vincke sees mods for what they are—a vital part of the gaming community

Pre-orders are now live. Although Nintendo's first-party titles for the Switch 2 won't take up much space, it seems the early batch of third-party games will. Following details about multiple file sizes for a bunch of games earlier this week, Nintendo's official website has now listed the game file size for EA SPORTS Madden NFL 26 and it's apparently 62 GB.

Oblivion Remastered's shadow drop surprised no-one given that it was among the worst kept secrets over the last few weeks, but what did surprise was the sheer extent of its visual overhaul. Described by creative director Todd Howard as keeping the bones - the core logic - of the original 2006 game intact, it's fallen on developer Virtuos to use Unreal Engine 5 to re-work the visual layer. It's a much needed move, and the remaster gives us the works, deploying the full suite of UE5 features as a ...

Larian Studios is amping up its narrative department and it has me even more excited for "Excalibur"

Meta’s AI chatbots were caught having sexual roleplay conversations with accounts labeled as underage, which sometimes involved its celebrity-voiced chatbots, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. In test conversations conducted by WSJ, both the Meta AI official chatbot and user-created chatbots would engage in — and even steer towards — sexually explicit conversations. The fantasy sex conversations continued even if the users were said to be underage or if the chatbots were progra...

"I hope that definitely five years from now I can tell you about it."

Ganadosh.

While there's been a lot of chatter about The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered since it stealth-dropped earlier in the week, Oblivion isn't the only Elder Scrolls game getting some love this week - The Elder Scrolls Online has confirmed its Scribing system is coming for free to all players.

4chan, the infamous forum known for its anonymous user base posting unhinged material, has made its comeback. A post on the website’s official blog, titled “Still Standing,” detailed the timeline of events that led to 4chan’s shutdown earlier this month. According to the site’s own status checker, the boards and front page are up, but posting and images are still down. The 4chan blog post explains that moderators shut down the servers on April 14 to prevent any more damage after a serious databa...

Is Wikipedia spreading propaganda? Don't ask Ed Martin

More Doom than you can shake a chainsaw at.