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May 13, 2025: This piece was originally published August 18, 2016 as part of our 'most important PC games' series. We've republished it for Doom: The Dark Ages' launch. “The Citizen Kane of videogames” gets thrown around a lot in the modern ‘games as art’ discussion. And it’s a term that can mean different things, depending on the commentator. Alex Steacy and Cameron Lauder put forward Half-Life as the Citizen Kane of videogames in their Twitch show, Talking Simulator, on the grounds that it had...

If only every random scroll through Reddit was as productive as the one that changed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead writer Jennifer Svedberg-Yen’s entire life.  Not too long after ditching the finance world to pursue creative dreams, but in the thick of the COVID-19 lockdown, Svedberg-Yen was wasting away an afternoon on the community forums...

Stellar Blade is set to launch on Windows PC on June 11, a leaked trailer for the game revealed Monday. With it comes a bevy of PC-specific features and — you guessed it — new costumes for Eve. Included in the PC version of Stellar Blade will be AI upscaling and frame generation (for Nvidia DLSS 4...

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has a distinctive French style from its Montpellier-based developer Sandfall Interactive, but originally it was very different.

Big bytes. One of the biggest talking points out of the Switch 2 reveal has been Nintendo's new Game Key Cards. For those who missed it, these physical cartridges don't contain the game itself, but rather a download key to access the title digitally. We've already seen this format confirmed for the likes of Street Fighter 6, Split Fiction, Star Wars Outlaws and many more titles, and now, a new leak may explain why (thanks, Gizmodo). Last week, Dexerto reported that Guilty Gear Strive developer A...

Yet another big release this year has been delayed until 2026; this time, it’s Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, the World War II-era action game co-starring Captain America and Black Panther. Developer Skydance Games explained the delay in a statement posted to X, noting that the development team wants to add some polish to its...

Remember the discourse surrounding a proposed Switch Pro? Rumours of an upgraded Switch model began as early as 2018, but it wasn't until 2020 that the Pro's attributes including "more computing power and 4K high definition graphics" were reported on by Bloomberg. Simultaneously, it was understood that the Pro would also feature a seven-inch OLED panel. Of course, the OLED upgrade happened for the original Switch but the Pro did not. However, recent coverage of the Switch 2's main processor may ...

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Half a faction no more. Helldivers 2’s newest threat, the Illuminate, just got a big upgrade. Developer Arrowhead Game Studios added three new Illuminate enemy types on Tuesday, alongside a major new weapon customization update and sweeping balance changes. In addition to the existing Voteless, Overseers, and Harvesters, Helldivers will now face a more diverse...

After dropping a rare photography-oriented camera recently with the S1R II, Panasonic is going back to its creator roots. The company just unveiled the S1 II, a 24-megapixel full-frame mirrorless camera with a partially-stacked sensor (like the Nikon Z6 III) that can capture 6K ProRes RAW video internally with minimal rolling shutter wobble. At the same time, Panasonic is pitching it as a relative value next to full stacked sensor cameras. With the same body as the S1R II, the S1 II is considera...

Mullet MadJack, the latest title from Hammer95, hit Game Pass in early March and has since held it down for the boomer shooter genre on the jam-packed subscription service. Mullet MadJack is a game that thrives on linear action — a throne that most games have since abdicated. While most shooters nowadays offer tremendous customization,...

The project was once called "We Lost", and it looked… interesting.

Skydance Games has delayed its WW2 superhero game, with the Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra launch date now set for early 2026. Originally scheduled to be release sometime this year, the developer says that it needs to take extra time to polish Marvel 1943. Produced and written by Amy Hennig, the creative director on the original Uncharted trilogy, Marvel 1943 was poised to be one of the biggest games of 2025.

Earlier this year the Black Panther(‘s voice actor) suggested that Skydance New Media’s Marvel 1943: Rise Of Hydra would release in Christmas 2025. We all slept a little easier that night, knowing that King T'Chanda himself had all but rubber-stamped the WW2 action game’s launch window. Well, it turns out the Black Panther was lying to us. Skydance have just announced that it’ll now release in early 2026.

A few years ago, Apple introduced a Personal Voice feature that allows those at risk of losing their ability to speak to create a synthesized voice that sounds similar to their actual voice, so they can continue to communicate with others. The feature debuted on the iPhone with iOS 17, and it will be getting even better on iOS 19. Apple today announced that Personal Voice will be faster and easier to use on iOS 19, thanks to advancements in on-device machine learning and artificial intelligence....

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Skydance has announced that upcoming action-adventure period piece Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra has been delayed to sometime next year.

As the manufacturing industry faces challenges — such as labor shortages, reshoring and inconsistent operational strategies — AI-powered robots present a significant opportunity to accelerate industrial automation. At Automate, the largest robotics and automation event in North America, robotics leaders KUKA, Standard Bots, Universal Robots (UR) and Vention are showcasing hardware and robots powered by Read Article

Amazon has confirmed that a third season of Fallout has been greenlit, and you can expect the second season to air in December.

Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra has been delayed into next year.

As far as senators are concerned, it's all about beating China.

Sony's smartphones probably haven't made much money in a long time, but they do provide a showcase for the company's latest camera and AV tech. A case in point is the new Xperia 1 VII flagship, a model that borrows Sony's Alpha camera and Bravia TV tricks and now features Walkman audio technology for the first time as well.  On the camera side, Sony introduced a new 48-megapixel ultrawide camera (16mm full-frame equivalent) with a good-sized 1/1.56-inch sensor, significantly improving the specs ...

"We don't feel like we're fighting the system". Nintendo has published a new Creator's Voice video looking at the upcoming release of Borderlands 4 on the Switch 2. It's pretty much what we've come to expect from these videos at this point, with Gearbox developers Randy Pitchford and Randy Varnell hyping up the new console and explaining how it's helped with game development.

Capcom has revealed that it's still on its record-breaking profits and sales streak, thanks in large part to Monster Hunter Wilds.

Apple is planning to allow users to natively control iPhones, iPads, and other devices using brain signals later this year, The Wall Street Journal reports. The initiative involves a partnership with Synchron, a neurotechnology startup that produces an implantable brain-computer interface (BCI) device called the Stentrode. The Stentrode enables users with severe motor impairments, such as those caused by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), to control Apple devices using neural signals detected ...

The Precinct wants to make you feel like a real cop. It doesn’t necessarily want that feeling to involve just replicating the larger-than-life car chases and shootouts of an action movie, the intensive crime scene investigation of a detective, or the mundane aspects of filing paperwork at a station desk. Instead, it aims to simulate the working life of a cop by blending all of the above into a lumpy mixture of boring and exhilarating - something that’s meant, in its heightened recreation of the ...

xMEMS has launched the Sycamore-W, which it claims is the "world’s thinnest speaker designed specifically for wrist-worn wearables." The Sycamore-W is only 1 mm thin and weighs only 150 mg, making it approximately 70 percent smaller than the speakers typically used for smart watches. xMEMS took the micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology used in cell phones' microphones and developed drivers based on it for use in earphones instead. Last year, it launched the Sycamore speakers, based o...

Notion is coming for Otter.ai. On Tuesday, the company announced an update for Notion AI, the suite of generative AI features available through its popular note-taking app. Among the new tools included in the package is AI Meeting Notes, a feature that can transcribe and summarize any conversation directly within Notion. No need to turn to dedicated software like the aforementioned Otter.ai. If you use Notion Calendar, your meeting notifications will include the option to start an AI Meeting Not...

Spotify's AI DJ is taking requests. Starting on Tuesday, Premium subscribers can ask it to play something that fits the mood. Although the company added a Spanish-speaking version last year, requests are only available in English at launch. The AI DJ will respond to verbal requests for a specific artist, genre, mood or something that fits an activity. Spotify suggests phrases like "DJ, morning motivation needed ASAP," "Surprise me with some indie tracks" or "Play me something with a Y2K vibe." Y...

In Iceland, when the mists descend, perspective is scrambled. Robbed of context and references, the very small can be mistaken for the very large. A boulder becomes a mountain. A stream becomes a river. With a camera in hand, it's a pleasant task to wander around the pitted black earth and hunt for these instances. Frame things just right, leaving out the tell-tale stakes of a fence or a tentative spreading of moss, and you can create your own Himalayas. The eye is eager to be tricked. The brain...

A week after Palworld developer Pocketpair removed the ability for players to glide using Pals in response to Nintendo's ongoing lawsuit, a modder has restored the feature on PC. That's as Pocketpair confirms Palworld's Terraria collaboration will launch this "summer".

A new Helldivers 2 update is here, bringing new Illuminate enemies to fight, a brand new weapon customization system, and more.

Apple today previewed a wide range of new accessibility features coming later this year on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. The announcement comes two days ahead of Global Accessibility Awareness Day. These features are expected to debut across iOS 19, iPadOS 19, macOS 16, watchOS 12, and visionOS 3, which will be unveiled during the WWDC 2025 keynote on Monday, June 9. Following months of beta testing, the software updates should be released in September, bringing the n...

Saleblazers is an Early Access survival game that seems to be a little more on the unique side, with it adding in a shopkeeper element and now it should play better on Steam Deck and perhaps from your sofa on a living room PC too.

It looks like that Stellar Blade PC release is set for June, if a recently-uploaded (and hastily deleted) trailer is anything to go by.