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There's finally a way to gift games purchased on the Epic Games Store. Epic has announced that it's now possible to gift digital games through the Epic Games Store, provided the person you're sending them to has an Epic Games account. On a game's store page, you'll now see a Gift button under the normal Buy Now button. Clicking it will prompt you to log in to your Epic account if you haven't done so already, and then ask you to enter the Epic account of whoever you're sending the game to, pick o...

It's a fair question.

"There was clearly a lot of excess investment, but none of us would question whether the internet was profound."

The Game Awards is almost upon us, and while Silent Hill f bagged three nominations, Game of the Year wasn't one of them

Waymo is launching in five new cities across Texas and Florida. Autonomous vehicles in Miami, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando will begin accepting rides next year. The Alphabet-owned company said operations (sans passengers) will begin on Tuesday in Miami. The other cities will follow "over the coming weeks." This phase is where the vehicles drive around town without anyone inside. That gives the company a chance to spot local quirks and adjust the driving algorithm accordingly. Waymo ...

A new study has revealed that the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, and iPhone Air achieve significantly faster average Wi-Fi speeds compared to the iPhone 16 series, thanks to Apple's custom-designed N1 chip. The study was conducted by Ookla, the company behind the popular Speedtest website and app. It said the results are based on global, crowdsourced Speedtest user data collected from September 19 to October 29 of this year. Ookla said Apple's N1 chip is a "substantial upgrade," wi...

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director Guillaume Broche of Sandfall Interactive would very much like to play a remaster of Lost Odyssey, the mournful 2007-released Xbox 360 RPG from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi and development studio Mistwalker. He feels the game was cruelly dinged by reviewers of the era for adhering to certain conventions. He also reckons it’d have done better if it had released for hardware other than the Xbox 360, which was trying to make in-roads among Ja...

Hypixel Studios has officially purchased the license to Hytale from Riot Games, according to a report by Game Developer. This means that development will continue just months after Riot shut everything down and cancelled the project. The developer is also rehiring 30 staffers that were laid off as part of the cancellation. We write so often about layoffs in the industry, so it's always a distinct treat to cover the opposite. We did it. Hytale is saved. We have acquired Hytale from Riot Games.— S...

Like in previous years, The Game Awards 2025 nominees for best RPG makes show how inefficient the category is to handle the different types of RPG.

Meta has successfully avoided what was once the biggest existential threats to its company. A federal judge has sided with the social media company in a landmark antitrust case, ruling on Tuesday that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had not proven that Meta is a monopoly. The FTC filed antitrust charges against Meta, then known as Facebook, in 2020 during President Donald Trump's first term. The government had argued that by acquiring its one-time rivals, Instagram and WhatsApp, the company h...

Apple today provided public beta testers with the third beta of an upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.2 update for testing purposes. The public beta comes a day after Apple provided the beta to developers. After signing up for beta testing on Apple's beta site, public beta testers can download the updates using the Software Update section in the System Settings app. macOS Tahoe 26.2 beta 2 adds an Edge Light feature for video calls. Edge Light provides a light border around the edges of the Mac's display, ...

Apple today provided public beta testers with the second releases of upcoming iOS 26.2, iPadOS 26.2, tvOS 26.2, and watchOS 26.2 updates for testing purposes. The second public betas come two weeks after Apple seeded the first betas, and a day after Apple provided developers with the third iOS 26.2 beta. After signing up for beta testing on Apple's beta site, public beta testers can download the updates using the Software Update section in the Settings app on each device. iOS 26.2 adds a Liquid ...

Players are flocking to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Hades 2 despite huge fall releases and holiday sales.

After getting the official title and an epic teaser video, we still don't know much about the plot of Varanasi. Or do we?

Blue Beetle is light on spectacle, but it's a slick, extremely likable superhero movie from the DCEU's waning days, and it's great on streaming.

Just ahead of the 30th anniversary of Toy Story, The Steve Jobs Archive has shared a "never-before-seen" video of Steve Jobs discussing Pixar. The interview is from November 22, 1996 — exactly one year after Toy Story debuted in theaters, as the world's first entirely computer-animated feature-length film. In the video, Jobs reflects on Pixar's early success, business model, and more. For those unaware, Pixar was born after Jobs purchased the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm, and spun it ...

Facepunch spied some suspiciously familiar C4 in Delta Force's most recent trailer.

Check out the first trailer. Netflix's animated series, Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, is returning to the streaming service next month, with season two kicking off on 11th December. And look, we even have a trailer! This second and final season, which once again stars Hayley Atwell in the titular role, sees Lara and co. race across the globe to get their hands on some ancient masks that pack some mysterious powers. There's an uber-rich "techno-visionary" trying to hunt the relics down t...

Those with Switch consoles who have had a hankering to play Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition - that is to say, the remaster of 2013's Tomb Raider reboot - but have been unable to do so due to its lack of availability, well I have good news for you.

It might not be designed specifically to fit your iPhone 16, but there's no doubt Razer's Sneki Snek Reusable Bag will have room for it.

Audentes fortuna iuvat, you know.

This might be my favorite map yet.

You don’t have to spend a ton to get your hands on quality tech, thanks to Black Friday. We’re already seeing lots of tech deals — many for under $50 and some hitting the best prices we’ve seen all year. Many of the discounts apply to accessories — the chargers, hubs, cables and drives that play supporting roles for smartphones and laptops — but plenty of other small electronics are on sale, too. We rounded up smart speakers, portable speakers, streaming devices, smart plugs and Bluetooth tracke...

Fresh off a reorganized deal with OpenAI, Microsoft is diversifying its AI investments. The company says it will invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic. Meanwhile, NVIDIA has pledged up to $5 billion in the Claude maker. The three-way partnership, which includes various other commitments, could be seen as further evidence that an AI bubble is about to burst. As part of the deal, Anthropic has committed to buy $30 billion of Microsoft Azure cloud computing capacity. Anthropic says it will also con...

80 Days and A Highland Song developers Inkle once pitched a Doctor Who game to the BBC, narrative director and writer Jon Ingold has revealed in a Bluesky post. While the BBC never responded to their overtures, the pitch became the basis for Inkle's very excellent and bodacious astral archaeology sim Heaven’s Vault. I consider this a cool thing to know, and so do our friends at Eurogamer. They’ve just published an interview with Ingold, which includes tantalising details of a forthcoming Heaven’...

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Even scarier than the Queen.

AMD gaming GPU prices are being hit by rising RAM costs, just as we were starting to actually see the RX 9070 XT hit its supposed MSRP.

I wrote elevators in the headline for the benefit of my American brothers, but from this point on it's strictly lifts.

"Why do the models give these attackers what they want 90% of the time but the rest of us have to deal with asskissing, stonewalling and acid trips?"

A new Marvel game, Banishers, The Crew Motorfest, and more all join Xbox Game Pass in late November and early December.

A list of all the voice actors and cast in the latest Call of Duty Black Ops 7 campaign and all the new and returning characters.

Sinners director Ryan Coogler has confirmed he's directing Black Panther 3 for Marvel Studios, possibly coming in 2028.

Snapchat has introduced a new feature called “Topic Chats,” which allows users of the social network to participate in public conversations about popular trends. By its own admission, Snapchat has previously focused on private conversations, but says the growth of its TikTok-like Spotlight feature made it clear that people want to comment publicly about topics they’re interested in. Topic Chats, which are coming to Canada, New Zealand and the US first, will appear in different areas of the Snapc...

There's a bit more excitement than usual, even among veteran car-watchers like me, for next year's F1 season. You see, the series is bringing in some new rules governing what its cars will look like and how they'll perform, meaning there's more potential on paper for serious changes to the established pecking order. Given that, I'm a bit unsure how to feel about EA and Codemasters having announced they're not making an F1 26, instead skipping ahead to 2027 with a DLC to fill the gap.