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As Meta’s first-ever generative AI conference gets underway, the company is also previewing a significant update on its plans to bring AI features to WhatsApp chats. Buried in its LlamaCon updates, the company shared that it’s working on something called “Private Processing,” which will allow users to take advantage of generative AI capabilities within WhatsApp without eroding its privacy features. According to Meta, Private Processing is an “optional capability” that will enable people to “leve...

Just in time for May 4th. For those of you looking to kick off your Star Wars Day celebrations a little bit early, Nintendo is lending a bit of a helping hand to those with a Nintendo Switch Online subscription — at least in North America, anyway. From 30th April 10 am PT / 1pm ET to 6th May at 11:59 pm PT / 7th May at 2:59am ET, Nintendo is allowing NSO members to dive into Star Wars: Bounty Hunter and Star Wars: Episode I: Jedi Power Battles at no additional cost via its Game Trial incentive. ...

The Skeleton Key is an extremely useful tool in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered — it’s an unbreakable and reusable lockpick. Getting the Skeleton Key is no easy task as you’ll need to complete a quest to receive it, and, not only that, you’ll need to be level 10 to begin the quest, which...

Gaming controller and peripheral company 8BitDo is suspending shipments from its Chinese warehouse to United States-based customers, per a notice on its website. The temporary pause on shipments to the U.S. is due to the Trump administration’s new 145% tariffs on imports from China, as well as its decision to end de minimis exemptions for...

Helldivers 2 doesn’t have a traditional campaign; instead, the story is told through military campaigns and orders sent from Super Earth. Each Major Order advances the story, with both successes and failures leading to new developments. Some threats manifest and sit there for months, like the galactic spore cloud known as the Gloom. But others...

There’s a new animated Star Wars show coming soon and it’s set to actually premiere in the game Fortnite. Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld will be available to watch in-game starting on May 2 at 10AM ET. This is two full days before the show streams on Disney+. Viewing will take place in a new in-game location called Star Wars Watch Party Island. Epic Games says that this area was built using Unreal Editor for Fortnite and uses official assets to create a "breathtaking environment inspired by ...

Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment have announced that two of its incubation projects have been cancelled, leading to what it calls a number of "target team adjustments across Apex Legends and Star Wars Jedi." You may notice that this language is particularly obtuse, in that it doesn't refer to these adjustments as layoffs. However, according to a report from IGN, layoffs have occurred, though just how many is currently unknown.

Eric Barone's got a plan for getting Haunted Chocolatier across the finish line—or at least an idea.

Altered, the trading card game that broke records on Kickstarter with a $6.2 million crowdfunding campaign in 2024, recently launched a live beta of its most novel feature called “print on demand,” or POD. Players can now order up additional copies of any card in their collection directly through the game’s online storefront. It’s a...

With EA’s slate of new and ongoing games underperforming last year, we’ve already witnessed cuts and reorganizations at stalwart studios like BioWare. Now, Respawn Entertainment is in the firing line. In a statement, the studio has confirmed that two “early-stage incubation projects” have been scrapped and that "adjustments" are being made to the teams working Apex Legends and the next Star Wars Jedi game - and that all means that layoffs are likely on the cards.

The Sims 4 is about to get a little messier - and marginally more fashionable for those in a certain generational bracket - as it prepares to launch a fresh wave of newly announced Kit DLC.

Fowl play. Duck Detective: The Secret Salami passed a lot of people by when it arrived on Switch last year, which is a shame, because this daft detective game about a case-cracking duck solving office drama was absolutely cracking quacking. Fortunately, if you did miss out, there's another case right around the corner as developer Happy Broccoli Games has today announced that a spooky sequel, Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping, will waddle onto Switch on 22nd May.

Mozilla recently updated the Firefox browser to add support for tab groups, a feature that Firefox users have been wanting for years. According to Mozilla, tab groups have been the most requested idea on the Mozilla Connect community platform, and it was actually the first request that Mozilla received when launching Connect in 2022. With the Firefox tab group implementation, users are able to drag and drop tabs into organized groups and label them by name or color, with groups listed in the rig...

Titanfall and Star Wars Jedi developer Respawn has been hit by more layoffs, and two unannounced projects have been canceled as well.

The Nintendo Switch 2 won’t be in our hands for over a month yet (sigh), but a speedrunner has already reached the credits of the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. As reported by VGC, the Japanese speedrunner known as Ikaboze posted a video of his handiwork on his YouTube channel after attending a Switch 2 preview event in Tokyo. Attendees were able to play a 10-minute demo of the souped-up original Switch launch game, but Ikaboze only needed seven minutes of ...

It's breathtaking. Nintendo has dropped the latest video in its Creator's Voice series, which shines a spotlight on the third-party developers working on Switch 2 games. This week, it's CD Projekt Red's turn; most famous for the Witcher series, it's now bringing its huge futuristic first-person RPG Cyberpunk 2077 to the Switch 2 as a launch title. And the team, particularly studio head Adam Badowski and lead engine programmer Charles Tremblay, are very proud of the work that went into the upcomi...

The post Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Warzone Season 03 Reloaded: All the Details appeared first on Xbox Wire.

Gearbox Software will host a Borderlands 4-specific State of Play presentation on April 30 at 5 p.m. ET. The broadcast will be shown on the PlayStation Twitch and YouTube channels. The developer expects to spend more than 20 minutes on “developer-guided gameplay, including missions, killer weapons, and exciting Action Skills, new and returning characters, and...

If you haven’t already sussed it from my ramblings here on PCGamesN, I’m a big FPS guy, so take a guess at what my most anticipated new multiplayer shooter is this year? Bungie’s Marathon? Nope. The next Call of Duty, rumored to be a spinoff of the iconic Black Ops 2? Nuh-uh. Remedy’s surreal FBC Firebreak? Wrong again. It’s Splitgate 2. Very soon, you’ll all have the chance to try it out for yourself and join me in my portal obsession. The release date for the new Splitgate 2 open beta have bee...

Meta is releasing a new tool it hopes will encourage developers to use its family of Llama models for their next project. At its inaugural LlamaCon event in Menlo Park on Tuesday, the company announced the Llama API. Available as a limited free preview starting today, the tool gives developers a place to experiment with Meta's AI models, including the recently released Llama 4 Scout and Maverick systems. It also makes it easy to create new API keys, which devs can use for authentication purposes...

Multiplayer fantasy war game We Will Be Gods enters public pre-alpha in May, and will be free-to-play when it launches this year.

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Those making headway into the puzzle game Blue Prince might be wondering how many in-game days you need to roll credits — and if it’s possible to finish the game in a single day. In Blue Prince, you explore and construct a sprawling mansion estate room by room using a series of randomized blueprints. There’s...

If a Splinter Cell remake fell in the woods, would over the top industry secrecy and NDAs even allow us to hear it? That's the million dollar question literally no one is asking, because who phrases things that way, but enough about that game that may or may not exist at this point in time, we've got a different Splinter Cell to talk about: Blacklist. Yes, the, technically speaking, most recent entry in the series just received a little update on Steam yesterday which… adds achievements into the...

Meta didn't wait for Tuesday's LlamaCon keynote to unveil its first big AI announcement of the week. The company launched a standalone app that competes with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and other multimodal AI chatbots. Sticking to the company’s roots, the app also includes a social feed and the ability to draw on info from your profile and posts you’ve shared. The Meta AI app offers similar features to rival chatbots, including text and voice chats, live web access and the ability to generate and e...

"I don't think they ever really liked DK 64 that much". If you cast your mind back to 2023 and the release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, you may recall that composer extraordinaire Grant Kirkhope was rightfully bemused upon finding out that he didn't get a credit at the end of the film, despite his 'DK Rap' playing a pretty prominent role in its contents. As it turns out, Nintendo did eventually provide an explanation for its exclusion, though it still doesn't make a lot of sense. In a recent ...

Want to know the best Overwatch 2 Stadium DPS builds? With over 30 different options to pick from to improve your weapon, survivability, and abilities, it's difficult to know which ones you should focus on. Our Overwatch 2 Stadium DPS builds will save you from a headache by highlighting the best options for your characters. With the right Overwatch 2 Stadium DPS builds, you can transform your Overwatch 2 characters to make them almost unrecognizable, both in terms of sheer damage output and thei...

If you want to upgrade your video call setup without buying an external webcam, your iPhone can help. With macOS Ventura or later, Apple’s Continuity Camera feature allows users to turn their iPhone into a high-quality, wireless webcam for Mac. Whether you’re joining a meeting on Zoom, recording a presentation or creating content for YouTube, using your iPhone as a webcam can provide a sharper image, better low-light performance and useful extras like Center Stage and Desk View. Here’s how to se...

Is Borderlands reverse delaying to avoid stepping on Marathon's toes? Or is it avoiding something even bigger?

Apple today launched a new page that highlights content from popular music artists, actors, and athletes across three of its biggest services. The new "Snapshot on Apple" page has a scrolling carousel of celebrities, including Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick Lamar, Ariana Grande, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, Brie Larson, Shohei Ohtani, Lionel Messi, Stephen Curry, Serena Williams, and many others. There are also pages for the bands Coldplay and BTS. Each page includes so...

Chess. MMOs. As far as games go, they're nothing alike. But what if they were? That's the central thesis of One Million Chessboards, the brainchild of a single developer where you and hundreds of other players engage in simultaneous games of chess. This is less a mass board game, however, and more of an outlandish social experiment where you interact with others like passing ships in the night. Either way, you absolutely need to try it for yourself.

There’s nothing like diving into a new RPG, and even if Bethesda's 2006 game may be nearing 20 years old, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered’s fresh coat of paint, quality of life improvements, and gorgeous visuals help make this classic experience feel new. Whether you’re someone who’s waiting to explore its beautiful world of Cryodill for the first time or a fan who just hasn't picked up a copy yet, you may be able to get it for just $1 / £1 with Fanatical’s Mystery Egg bundle.

We have all ridden the emotional rollercoaster of thinking that we're smart and patient enough to play a dedicated stealth game, then realising that we're inept and bored and just want to bonk things with a big axe. Still, I'm moderately enthused by this here release date trailer for The Siege And The Sandfox, a 2D metroidvania in which you clamber steadily out of a huge, opulent dungeon. It launches on 20th May, and puts me in mind of Prince Of Persia, Animal Well, Vagante and Blasphemous. Obli...

Ubisoft surprised Far Cry fans on April 29 by releasing a 60-frames-per-second patch for Far Cry 4 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. Far Cry 4 first launched for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC on November 18, 2014, making this most recent patch more than a decade in the...

The humble Minecraft leash, used for collecting stray mobs and leading them back to your homestead, has already been totally retooled. But now, with new and returning fans flocking to Mojang’s monolithic builder thanks to the Minecraft movie, one of the most key - but often overlooked - pieces of gear in the entire blocky world has once again been reimagined. Courtesy of the latest Minecraft update (or Snapshot 25w18a, to give it its full name), the leash recipe has been made a lot more accessib...