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The adventure game Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra has been delayed until 2026, according to a statement by publisher Skydance Games. The title was supposed to come out sometime this year. What's the reason for the delay? The publisher says it's to "add more polish," which is never a bad thing. I'd rather a fully-finished game upon release than a buggy mess. The company does say it'll be available in the early part of 2026, so that isn't too long to wait. Still, it's disappointing news for eager Marv...

You can now rent the blockbuster (haha, blocks, get it) on Prime Video or Apple TV.

Monte Cook Games has launched a crowdfunding campaign for Invisible Sun: Electric and Indigo, a reprint of the TTRPG with a new supplement and VTT support.

TikTok hasn't shoved generative AI features into every corner of its app the way Meta has with Instagram, but the company has still experimented with the tech in some interesting — if slightly unsettling — ways. Now, TikTok is introducing a new AI-powered feature that feels even more meme-worthy. It's called AI Alive and it allows users to create short, stylized video clips from a static image. Right now, the feature only exists for TikTok's Stories feature, so it's meant for more ephemeral shar...

The update will also bring new Pals and islands.

Arc Raiders recently wrapped up an extremely popular playtest that, judging by the reaction from players and press, went over rather well. Now, the publisher behind the game has confirmed it was a resounding success. As the Escape From Tarkov challenger gears up to take on the king of extraction shooters and fend off fellow newcomers like Marathon, Nexon says that Arc Raider's second tech test "exceeded our expectations" considerably.

President Donald Trump's administration has undone one of the last regulations set by his predecessor. Today, the Department of Commerce rescinded the AI Diffusion Rule implemented by former President Joe Biden, a policy that restricted the export of US-made AI chips to select international markets. The rule was introduced by Biden's administration in January and slated to take effect on May 15. Trump had previously walked back the broader AI guidelines adopted by Biden in October 2023 as part o...

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 might be the most fun I’ve had playing a role-playing game since 2023’s Baldur’s Gate 3. Its turn-based combat is more engaging than at first blush, and defeating powerful enemies provides the same elation that taking down a boss in a FromSoftware game does. It also offers some of the more...

In an increasingly competitive EV landscape, Toyota hopes its newly redesigned and renamed Toyota bZ can stand out. As brands from Subaru to Volkswagen continue to expand all-electric offerings, Toyota is placing its bets on a single EV model for the American market. The change in name may be partly in hopes of distancing the new model in consumers’ minds from the original bZ4X, which began stateside sales in 2022, only to be met with recalls and buybacks. Toyota, for its part, states in a press...

The UK's House of Lords just voted to add an amendment to a data bill that mandates that tech companies disclose which copyright-protected works were used to train AI models, as reported by The Guardian. The amendment faced government opposition but resoundingly passed with 272 votes to 125. The vote came just a few days after hundreds of artists and organizations joined together to urge the government not to "give our work away at the behest of a handful of powerful overseas tech companies." Th...

With each passing generation, technology enjoyers around the world breathlessly await the arrival of a new id Software game. While the id of today is far removed from its origins, the mission remains the same - to produce beautiful, state of the art visuals at blistering frame-rates. The studio's latest work is no exception. Doom: The Dark Ages marks the arrival of id Tech 8 and with it, a massive slate of impressive tech arrives. From its reliance on ray tracing to its robust physics simulation...

A YouTube livestream event on Tuesday, featuring Andor creator/writer/showrunne​r Tony Gilroy and star Diego Luna, along with various stars of the series, inevitably touched on one of the entire series’ most devastating moments. One of the series’ running villains, civil servant and general catspaw Syril Karn, has a key confrontation in episode 8. Addressing the...

Fruit Battlegrounds is a One Piece-inspired PVP game in Roblox. Players collect different fruits similar to the devil fruit and equip them to gain incredible abilities in arena combat with other players. Unlocking the best fruit, however, will require a lot of spinning for gems, rebirths, and boss drops. Some fruit can be unlocked through...

Google I/O 2025 is still a week out, but Google shared a taste of the updates planned for Android and the larger Android Ecosystem it has in store this year in a separate event, dubbed The Android Show: I/O Edition. Engadget followed along with the announcements as they happened in our liveblog, but for an overview, here are the changes Google has planned for Android, its visual design and Gemini. Material 3 Expressive is making Android and Wear OS more fun Material Design, Google’s design langu...

A former Call of Duty developer is wondering the same thing you are: if the franchise — which has released 21 mainline installments since 2003 — has run out of ideas. “It’s almost like The Simpsons — it’s been around so long that it feels like they’ve run out of ideas at times. It kind...

The tvOS 18.5 update that Apple released yesterday adds support for synchronizing Dolby Atmos playback to speakers over AirPlay or Bluetooth, according to Apple's release notes for the update. The feature could help address some persistent syncing issue that some Apple TV users have encountered when trying to play audio with Dolby Atmos. There are multiple complaints on Reddit and the Apple Support forums about Dolby Atmos audio syncing issues with sound bars and speakers, including those connec...

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Last week, Nintendo predicted it would sell 15 million Switch 2 consoles in its current financial year. This would actually be a fantastic result — equalling Switch, and just about any console you care to mention — but analysts called the figure “conservative” and “on the low side.” That’s just how high the expectations for...

Steam Early Access has been tough on Path of Exile 2 so far. While Grinding Gear Games' sequel has proved incredibly popular, plenty of the studio's changes have also been controversial. PoE 2's endgame has been under constant surveillance, as it evolves alongside the rest of the ARPG. Now, with update 0.2.0h, GGG is introducing some game-changing improvements, and they should be here very soon.

Well, the leaks were right. Google is updating the look of Android and Wear OS to make its mobile and wearable operating systems more visually expressive and animated. Google has dubbed its new design system Material 3 Expressive, and plans to introduce it when Android 16 and Wear OS 6 launch later this year. Material 3 Expressive builds on the Material You design changes Google made with the introduction of Android 12 by adding "more natural, springy animations," a greater sense of depth, updat...

This summer's Android 16 release will add several new and updated security measures that should make it more difficult for criminals to scam Android users or take advantage of stolen Android phones. After introducing AI features in March that detect fraudulent messages based on common language patterns, Google is working on teaching its models to recognize a wider range of text scams, such as those unpaid road toll scams you've probably seen this year. It's also adding faster pattern analysis to...

Google is bringing Gemini to more devices. During Tuesday's airing of The Android Show: I/O Edition, the company said its family of AI models would soon power the conversational experiences on Android Auto, Wear OS, Google TV and beyond. I know what you're thinking: don’t those platforms already come with Google Assistant? They do, but Google is promising Gemini will make every device it comes to more conversational. For instance, once Gemini arrives on Wear OS, Google says you won't need to get...

More than two years on from Microsoft's last mass round of layoffs, the company is laying off a huge amount of staff once again. As reported by CNBC, the tech giant is laying off 3% of employees across the entire company, meaning all levels, teams, and geographies. While nothing has been directly confirmed as of yet, this does include the possibility that some games studios it owns will be affected too - we'll provide an update if there is one. In a statement provided to CNBC, a Microsoft spokes...

In a world where I’m constantly wincing in pained surprise at the age of some of my favorite games, Marvel Rivals actually feels like the opposite. I forget, due to the amount of content in the game and its popularity, that it’s only been around for a matter of months. NetEase has just reminded me of the hero shooter’s infancy by announcing a new event that marks the one year anniversary of its closed alpha - the first time players went hands-on with the game publicly. To celebrate, it’s doing s...

Disney isn't quite ready to reveal exactly when you'll be able to start using ESPN's long-awaited standalone streaming service, but it has announced some key details. For one thing, the company isn't rocking the boat in terms of branding. The service will simply be called ESPN. That was the best and most obvious option, especially considering that the unlimited plan includes all of ESPN's offerings, albeit via the internet instead of satellite or cable. "As we thought about the name, we kept ret...

Atlus’ new Persona-related teaser on social media is getting a ton of attention — but it’s not a teaser for Persona 6 (or a Persona 5 remake). Instead, it’s a tease about its Persona 5 mobile game spinoff, Persona 5: The Phantom X. On Monday, Atlus released a teaser on X with an image featuring...

That's on top of 10,000 lost in 2023, plus at least 2,600 last year.

Sometimes you just want to relax. Whether it's after a rough day of League of Legends ranked, or a long day at the office thinking about League of Legends ranked, there's no better feeling than kicking back and chilling out. There's a whole slew of relaxing games out there; Stardew Valley regins supreme, of course, then there's the likes of Disney Dreamlight Valley and Palia. As we wait for titans like Witchbrook and Haunted Chocolatier to finally appear, new life sim Pixelshire is the perfect a...

An Intel GPU partner is reportedly working on a custom Intel Arc B580 graphics card that chains two of the gaming GPUs together, like the old SLI graphics cards of yesteryear. Not only that, but it reportedly has a whopping 48GB of VRAM - even more than the mighty RTX 5090. Multi-GPU setups for gaming have been tried and tested in the past, but they’ve never really caught on, and we weren't expecting this tech to raise its head again in 2025, especially with an Intel GPU. The best graphics cards...

Black Mesa is mostly lauded for its reimagining of Xen, but I prefer Crowbar Collective’s take on the opening Anomalous Materials section. The reception area with the chunky, CRT security monitors. The changing room with the HEV suit. That iconic little cafeteria area, where you blow up Magnusson’s casserole. The original Half-Life has a distinctive, generational aesthetic - the sights and sounds of Valve’s shooter are etched into the collective memory of an entire epoch of PC players. But Black...

We finally have some actual footage of the upcoming Spider-Noir series, thanks to a teaser trailer. This is a real boon for fans of the original Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, as the show brings back Nicolas Cage as Spider-Man: Noir. It's also live action, so we get to see a real-life Nic Cage kicking butt as a down-on-his-luck private detective that's bitten by a magical spider. You can likely guess what happens to him after that. Amazon says that the character will be "forced to grapple wi...

It’s officially been a year since Marvel Rivals took the PvP hero shooter world by storm with its Closed Alpha Test, and to thank the fans, the devs have announced the return of its Season 0 Battle Pass. NetEase Games, in its recent dev diary entry, said following the May 15 update, they’re dropping a...

Microsoft will reportedly lay off 3% of its total employees, and while that doesn't sound like much, it amounts to thousands of staffers.

Nvidia is reportedly raising the official prices of all of its GPUs in an effort to “maintain stable profit performance” in the face of trade barriers and rising manufacturing costs. A new report is suggesting that Nvidia is facing “multiple crises” affecting its earnings and is already raising prices, with chips such as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 seeing the biggest cost hikes, thanks to their popularity for AI workloads. If you want to own the best graphics card from Nvidia, you are already ex...

Logo redesigns can be costly, and for a company the size of Google? The mind boggles.