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Tick off another friendship quest for Mirabel.

If you want to sideload a dodgy seeming Trombone Champ emulator, GameHub is pretty good.

Though he's optismistic about general preservation efforts. Game-Key Cards for the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 have been incredibly controversial amongst the community, with more and more third-party studios seemingly opting to utilise the technology instead of including the full game data on the cartridge. Now, in speaking with GamesIndustry,biz, Nightdive Studios' CEO Stephen Kick has expressed his own opinion on the move, stating that Nintendo embracing Game-Key Cards is "disheartening".

Gearbox and 2K have announced that the release date for Borderlands 4 has moved up to September 12th and there's a new gameplay trailer to go along with it.

Fortnite maker Epic Games is celebrating an enormous US court decision that forces Apple to allow alternative payment options on iPhone.

In a scorching ruling against Apple, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on Wednesday accused an Apple finance executive of providing false testimony under oath during the company's ongoing legal battle with Epic Games. The judge stated that Alex Roman, Apple's vice president of finance, gave testimony that was "replete with misdirection and outright lies" regarding when Apple decided on its controversial 27 percent commission fee for purchases made outside the App Store. "Contemporaneous business docu...

Throes of the Watchmaker, the much-anticipated DLC for retro RPG Sea of Stars, will release later this month on 20th May.

These gamer mice have that Microsoft Office aesthetic.

Squirreled Away released back in March and looks absolutely adorable, and soon it will work better on Steam Deck with the developer working towards getting it fully Steam Deck Verified.

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Cyber Knights: Flashpoint from Trese Brothers has another huge update out now, and players are enjoying the game so much it's now hit an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam.

RISC-V fans will be interested in this one. felix86 has been announced as a new project with a first release available that enables you to run x86-64 Linux programs on RISC-V processors on Linux.

Evil Dead: The Game from Saber Interactive / Boss Team Games, LLC is getting delisted from all stores (Steam purchases are already gone), although you will be able to continue playing it if you wish.

New gen, new look. Since announcing the Switch 2, Nintendo has been updating its services, storefronts and even merch to reflect this new generation. Now, in the latest update, Switch to eShop cards are reportedly getting a "visual refresh". Some of these new eShop cards have apparently already been shared on social media and it seems Nintendo will be releasing different-priced eShop cards with some updated character art. Noticeably, this also includes Donkey Kong's new look.

Genshin Impact is one of Hoyoverse’s many games, which means that there are tons of codes revealed via social media channels to redeem in exchange for free loot. These codes can reward a plethora of goods, from food that’ll buff or heal your characters to the premium currency, Primogems. Below we list out the currently...

Here's what you can expect. Nintendo's partnership with LEGO continues to grow and it looks like we've now got the first details of the next batch of sets. This includes sets for the Super Mario, Mario Kart and the Animal Crossing line. Some of the highlights include a Mario Kart set with the Mario figure included as well as a new set for Captain Toad. More animals will be joining the Animal Crossing LEGO series as well.

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Another 3DS banger. Nintendo Music has rolled out another update this week and it adds the Mario Kart 7 album dating back to the 3DS generation. All up, this soundtrack includes a total of 66 songs with a runtime of 2 hours and 9 minutes. You'll be able to relive races like Toad Circuit, Shy Guy Bazaar, Daisy Hills, battle courses, and even the Mario Kart Channel music.

Apple plans to change its U.S. App Store rules in accordance with a ruling from the U.S Northern District of California, Apple said in a statement to MacRumors. The company does plan to appeal the decision, though. "We strongly disagree with the decision. We will comply with the court's order and we will appeal," reads Apple's statement. Apple was found to be in violation of a 2021 injunction that targeted its anti-steering ‌App Store‌ rules, and the company has been ordered to comply with that ...

The fun begins with Undertale. Nintendo's Switch Online game trials aren't always the biggest reveals, but in Japan this month, Nintendo will be doing something a little bit different. Between 2nd May until 25th May, there'll be four surprise trials released. The first one has been revealed as Toby Fox's Undertale game, with his next lot of chapters for Deltarune recently confirmed to be arriving this June. This first trial for May will run until the 4th and will be followed by the next three ga...

Today's ruling finds that Apple knowingly violated a 2021 injunction, and says that one Apple exec "outright lied under oath."

But it might make one game "more difficult". We're still finding out new details about the Switch 2 and one other little update that's recently been discovered is tied to the new Joy-Con 2 controllers. On Nintendo's backwards compatibility page covering the Switch games that will play on Switch 2, some more information about the Joy-Con 2's 'HD Rumble' feature has been revealed. Underneath a segment about Everybody 1-2-Switch! it's mentioned how the volume of force feedback vibrations has been r...

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney today said that Fortnite will return to the U.S. App Store next week, and he offered a "peace proposal" with a pledge to bring Fortnite back to iOS worldwide if Apple follows certain steps. "Epic puts forth a peace proposal: If Apple extends the court's friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we'll return Fortnite to the ‌App Store‌ worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic," Sweeney wrote. Earlier today, Apple was found to be willfully v...

The Flash game aesthetic lives on in this fast-paced action-platformer.

Borderlands 4, as we learned this week, is now arriving earlier than expected - but definitely not because of GTA 6, oh no. And with its revised 12th September release date now out there, developer Gearbox has shared more of its latest looty shooter in a new PlayStation showcase.

Servant of the Lake will be "a classic single-player Rusty Lake point-and-click adventure."

In a victory for Epic Games, Apple was today found to be in violation of a 2021 injunction that required it to allow developers to direct customers to third-party purchase options on the web using in-app links. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers, who has been handling the Apple vs. ‌Epic Games‌ dispute for the last five years, said that Apple is in "willful violation" of the injunction she issued to prohibit anticompetitive conduct and pricing. "Apple's continued attempts to interfere with competition...

Fresh from announcing that its release date has been brought forward - yes, forward - Borderlands 4 has just shown off loads of gameplay footage and released some new info during a PlayStation State of Play livestream. With new movement mechanics, a new weapons system that lets you mix and match manufacturers, and a lineup of new abilities for its Vault Hunters, things are looking pretty good. However, today’s showcase also addressed one of the biggest complaints from Borderlands 3 - the drop ra...

One day after Meta rolled out its standalone AI app, Mark Zuckerberg has shared more about how the company plans to eventually monetize its generative AI assistant. During the company’s first quarter earnings call, Zuckerberg said Meta AI could one day show ads and product recommendations. He also hinted at plans for a subscription component for those who want a more “premium” version of the assistant. "I think that there will be a large opportunity to show product recommendations or ads, as wel...

Borderlands 3 "devalued" legendary items, so in Borderlands 4 they'll "truly be special events."

Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser that was first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ to allow users to test features that are planned for future release versions of the Safari browser. ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ 218 includes fixes and updates for CSS, JavaScript, Lockdown Mode, Rendering, SVG, Web API, Web Extensions, Web Inspector, and WebRTC. The current ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ release is compatible w...

Google has announced that it's helping to financially support the electrical training ALLIANCe (etA), an organization formed by the National Electrical Contractors Association and the International Brotherhood of Electricians. The goal is to train "100,000 electrical workers and 30,000 new apprentices in the United States" to meet the growing power demands of AI. Using AI will unlock unspecified, but positive economic opportunities, Google's new white paper, "Powering a New Era of American Innov...

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Microsoft has shared its financial earnings for the third quarter of its 2025 fiscal year, and there's good news for Xbox - with gaming revenue up, despite hardware revenue continuing to fall.

Mark Zuckerberg says he believes most of the Meta's code will be written by AI agents sometime within the next year-and-a-half. Zuckerberg made the prediction during an hour-long interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel.  "I would guess sometime in the next 12 to 18 months, we'll reach the point where most of the code that's going towards these efforts is written by AI," said Zuckerberg, referring to the company's efforts to build internal AI agents. "And I don't mean like autocomplete... I'm tal...