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Meta this week sent out an email (via The Verge) to Meta Ray-Ban customers informing them about upcoming privacy changes to the smart glasses, which will increase the amount of data that Meta is collecting by default. Meta says that voice recordings are stored by default when using Meta AI, and used to improve Meta products. Meta has eliminated the option to disable voice recording storage, and recordings need to be manually deleted in settings. Further, unless Meta AI is disabled on the Ray-Ban...

Wreak havoc across the dangerous new planet Kairos when Borderlands 4 launches on September 12, 2025. I’m Graeme Timmins, Creative Director at Gearbox Entertainment—and today, the team and I are thrilled to give you our deepest ever look at some explosive, carnage-filled gameplay, all running on PlayStation 5 Pro. We’re showing off two of our...

The official Roll20 Demiplane integration features are now in beta, granting users the benefits of both virtual tabletop platforms.

Respawn hit hardest, along with staff working on Apex Legends and the Star Wars: Jedi games.

Ubisoft today revealed the year one update roadmap for open world weather-appreciate-em-up Assassin's Creed Shadows. It includes a steady drip feed of new quest and story updates, some fan requested features like NG+, and a few additional quality of life bits. However! None of this matters. Shoo, less important details. The real headline here is that the series built around making jumping between rooftops feel good is making jumping between rooftops feel even better. Excellent news.

Ubisoft is promising more Assassin’s Creed Shadows updates than you can shake a bo at, with plans to deliver “free updates on the regular” that will add items such as a new game plus mode, new quests and story expansions, and community-driven improvements, the publisher announced Wednesday. As previously announced, Shadows’ first expansion, Claws of...

The Minecraft Marketplace is awash with excellent blocky creations, and to celebrate May 4, it’s slapping a generous discount on some Star Wars-themed content packs. From character skins to iconic locations from the Star Wars movies and spinoffs like The Mandalorian, there’s plenty on offer. Plus, Mojang is giving away a free item while its Star Wars Day event is running.

Drop into just about any card shop here in the United States and you’ll find the same set of resources for protecting your cards lined up behind the counter. Brands like Dragon Shield, Upper Deck, and Gamegenic are the most common in my experience, but by and large they offer very similar solutions — especially...

Every house (or castle) in Cyrodiil is a fantasy fixer-upper.

The XDefiant producer and former face of Call of Duty has some thoughts on CoD's live service shift.

The “Rayquaza ex Drop Event” in Pokémon TCG Pocket allows you to battle against computers for a chance to get a Rayquaza ex card and a handful of other promo cards. The event — which started on Wednesday, April 30, and will run through Tuesday, May 13 — offers a chance to get promo cards like Rayquaza...

Pokémon TCG Pocket is currently featuring an event where players can get a stunning free full-art Rayquaza ex card. Released on Wednesday, the new Celestial Guardians update adds more than 200 new cards to the virtual card-collecting game and in-game events. A new special event celebrating the six-month anniversary of the game will allow you...

God, I love patch day.

YouTube is testing a new feature that will blur the thumbnails of videos that appear in search results that "frequently include sexual themes," the platform announced in the Community section of the YouTube Help Center. The experimental feature is currently being tested on a small percentage of users, Youtube says. The hope is that by blurring thumbnails, YouTube can provide search results that include videos that technically abide by its Community Guidelines, but protect users from seeing conte...

EA has announced the end of its partnership with the World Rally Championship, saying it's "pausing development" on all future rally games.

Borderlands 4’s release date has been pushed up to Sept. 12 from the previously announced date of Sept. 23. One theory says it’s because of Grand Theft Auto 6 — specifically, to give more gamers more time to potentially play Borderlands 4 before they get sucked into GTA 6. That absolutely isn’t the case, says...

A refreshed crop. Natsume is bringing Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley and Harvest Moon: Skytree Village to Switch on 3rd July 2025 as a double-pack. Pre-orders are open now for the physical edition of Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley & Skytree Village, which will also net you an adorable little acrylic standee featuring a host of cuddly farm animals. This is only available online via The Natsume Store.

The recent round of layoffs at Respawn parent company EA reportedly lead to around 300 to 400 job losses, plus cancellations of two incubation projects. It's since come out that one of those projects was likely an extraction FPS set in the Titanfall universe, codenamed 'R7'. This joins an unannounced single player Titanfall game cancelled in 2023, alongside the perpetually rumoured but yet-to-materialise Titanfall 3. It has, in brief, been a rough forever to be a fan of Respawn's exciting mix of...

The FIA says it's going in an "ambitious new direction" with future WRC game releases, but for Codemasters it's the end of an era.

As any experienced World of Warcraft player will tell you, WoW addons have become an essential - some may say, necessary - asset when it comes to taking on certain aspects of the MMO. These third-party mods and tools come in all shapes and sizes, but those that assist players in high-difficulty combat encounters are among the most popular and widely used. Despite there being many years of acceptance from Blizzard about the use of addons, today the developer has revealed that it’ll be changing ta...

"After your Expedition, check out The Hundred Line". Goodness gracious, RPG fans have been spoiled over the past few years, right? In fact, let's point to last week specifically. In the space of two days, three huge RPGs launched across various platforms — Oblivion Remastered, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and, for those of us with a Switch, The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. Those latter two launched on the same day, with Expedition 33 seemingly getting the lion's share of the attention on ...

The chess puzzle in Destiny 2 is just the first piece in an all-consuming puzzle the Destiny community is rapidly trying to solve ahead of the The Edge of Fate expansion reveal for Destiny 2 on May 6.  If you don’t complete this chess puzzle, released in the twilight of the “Heresy” episode, you can’t...

Apple this week sent out notices to people who may have been targeted with government-sponsored spyware attacks, reports TechCrunch. An Italian journalist and a Dutch activist said that they received notifications from Apple via iMessage and email. Apple detected that you are being targeted by a mercenary spyware attack that is trying to remotely compromise the iPhone associated with your Apple Account. This attack is likely targeting you specifically because of who you are or what you do. Altho...

The Forever Winter is far and away one of my favorite games I’ve played in 2025. Since publishing my review in March, Fun Dog Studios has continued to roll out several quality of life improvements and content additions. A recent update includes several new character animations, map variants, and a new unlockable questline designed around...

Virtual Game Cards! System transfers! More!

Saber Interactive has confirmed the takedown is intentional, but won't say why.

There’s an item duplication cheat in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered. This is obviously a bug or a glitch and is, technically, a way to cheat. With all those items, though, you can sell them for infinite money. Our Oblivion Remastered guide will tell how to do the item duplication cheat for infinite money....

There are a lot of diseases in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered. You’ll pick up diseases from things like enemy attacks or even just fighting certain enemies. Each disease affects your character differently. Mostly, diseases drain attributes or skills, making your character worse at whatever it drains, so it’s always a good idea to...

Plus over 80 TTRPGs, 26 books, over a dozen comics, and a few soundtracks on the side.

Google and the United States Justice Department are back in court to fight over the remedies that will be implemented to address Google's search monopoly, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai today took the stand to defend Google. The DoJ wants Google to divest its Chrome browser, refrain from making search engine agreements like the one Google has with Apple, and share "critical portions" of its search data with competitors at a "marginal cost," including how it ranks search results and query understan...

French studio Sandfall Interactive is enjoying a well-deserved victory lap as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the company’s first game since its founding in 2020, sells like hotcakes — though maybe crepes would be the more appropriate baked good — and garners positive reviews and word of mouth. A lot of this success revolves around its...

Ra Ra Boom is coming to Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One this summer, as part of what we consider the summer of beat ‘em ups. As beat ‘em up fans, we can’t wait to play some of the great titles that will make this probably the biggest year for beat ‘em ups since Castle […] The post Ra Ra Boom Celebrates Couch Co-Op with Some New Twists appeared first on Xbox Wire.

A Dead By Daylight-style asymmetrical horror game entrenched in Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead universe? Sounds like a winning formula. Sadly, Evil Dead The Game never really found any long-term stability, and content updates were halted last year. After mysteriously disappearing from some console and PC storefronts this week, it has now been officially confirmed that the game is being pulled, and that includes being delisted from Steam.

There are some cool games coming to PlayStation Plus in May, including one modern classic. This month’s titles include the universally-beloved Balatro, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun and Ark: Survival Ascended. All three games will be available to PS Plus members beginning on May 6. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve likely heard of Balatro. It’s sort of a sequel to poker and sort of a roguelike. It’s also utterly hypnotic and addictive. I’ve yet to find a human who didn’t become entrance...

Ding ding, it is AI-slop-alypse-O-Clock. Time for another helping of doom-ridden commentary upon the technologies that are busily scraping and remaking all the wit, lore and gibberish accumulated over 30 blessed years of the internet. Here's a cut from a Mustard Plays interview with Fortnite product management director Dan Walsh, in which he comments upon the issue of Fortnite players using latter-day generative AI tools to conjure up thumbnail images for their profiles. While Epic aren't, Walsh...