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Plug and play? Not on your life, but it might just be the best laptop I've ever tested.

2B or not 2B? Nintendo released its latest firmware update for Switch 2 last night, ushering in a handful of general improvements for the console. Alongside these tweaks, the update also appears to have coincided with some compatibility fixes, including one title we've been waiting to see up and running for a while: NieR:Automata The End of YoRHa Edition (thanks for the heads up, My Nintendo News). Square Enix and PlatinumGames' sci-fi ARPG has long been sitting in a pretty bad way on Switch 2, ...

The BlackShark V2 Hyperspeed packs 2.4GHz wireless, Bluetooth, and great sound quality, all at an amazing 54% discount right now.

Treyarch made some big promises to fans about Astra Malorum, and now new details about the next Black Ops 7 Zombies map have emerged.

Spotify will raise subscription prices for users in the United States in the first quarter of next year, according to the Financial Times, citing sources familiar with the matter. The report links pressure from major record labels on both Spotify and Apple Music to raise subscription prices. They argue prices have lagged inflation, while subscriptions remain cheap compared to video services such as Netflix. Wall Street analysts say the price increase is critical to Spotify's stock, as the compan...

Surreal skateboarding sim Skate Story - in which you play as a demon in an Underworld made of "glass and pain" who has been tasked with skating to the moon and swallowing it - will arrive in a little over two weeks time, on 8th December.

Yes, it’s Tuesday, but the Black Friday sale bonanza continues to start earlier (wielded by even more retailers) each year. Our team was, is and will be curating the best Black Friday tech deals for this year’s retail push and with less than a week to go, plenty of the best offers are already live.  One surprise: PlayStation 5 discounts, with $100 off all the versions of the console . That brings the PS5 Digital Edition down to $399, the standard PS5 to $449 and the new PS5 Pro to $649.  It’s al...

Valve's deal on its entry-level PC handheld brings it in under $320, less than half the price of the premium 1 TB OLED model.

The upcoming “Home Sweet Home” update adds Ultrakill skins and weapons to Palworld

Noah Hawley and Rob Mac are teaming up to give viewers a Far Cry anthology series that will embrace the franchise's chaotic roots.

The original 256GB LCD version of Valve's Steam Deck is 20% off till 1st December, knocking it down to around $319.20 or £279.20 in the UK. It's all part of this year's Blackening of Friday, whereby whimpering price tags are shoved partway into sausage machines for the benefit of the first Xmas shoppers. "That's a chunk of cheddar," whistled our new editorial director Julian, a choice of words I choose to take literally, mostly because he's just ruined my sausage machine analogy. According to th...

We were given this whole planet, and look what we've done with it.

Huawei's just-announced Mate 80 lineup is attracting attention in China today thanks to a display spec that easily sees off the competition in the premium smartphone segment. The company claims the OLED panels in its latest phones can reach up to 8,000 nits of peak brightness – a figure that, if independently verified, would make the Mate 80 series the brightest smartphones on the market. Huawei says all four models – the Mate 80, Mate 80 Pro, Mate 80 Pro Max, and Mate 80 RS – achieve this peak ...

You can game Where Winds Meet's AI chatbot NPCs by simply telling them what they want to hear, and players are abusing this power.

One of the biggest events of the year for game developers is here, with the nominations now open for the 2025 Steam Awards.

Ubisoft has announced an in-game crossover quest between Assassin's Creed Shadows and Attack on Titan (no, I wasn't expecting this this morning, either). This is a time-limited event, which will be available from today (25th November), until 22nd December.

Those doughnuts sure do look familiar. If you've been paying attention to the recent trailers for Pokémon Legends: Z-A's Mega Dimension DLC, you'll no doubt know that doughnuts have a pretty big role to play in the dimension-hopping — what did you expect, it's Pokémon! The Pokémon Cafe's new menu looks set to bring these sweet treats into the real world, but it also might be teasing that a pair of legendary 'mon will make their return in the DLC. Yep, we live in a world where Pokémon spoilers ca...

ZOOM Platform Media just gave the classic racers FlatOut and FlatOut 2 some more free upgrades, nice to see them continued to be supported.

"Credits are basically a free space."

The undisputed king of integrated graphics when it works.

Reus 2 from Abbey Games recently had a big upgrade, and now it's Steam Deck Verified / SteamOS Compatible with full support from the developer.

Solo Leveling Arise Overdrive is a new and improved version of Netmarble's 2024 game, and it ditches its gacha mechanics entirely.

Yet another Nier Automata crossover has been announced, as 2B continues her journey to guest in as many different video games as possible. This time, she'll be pulling up to Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis as a boss fight, and bringing fancy cosmetics with her.

ChimpUP! is an upcoming chaotic multiplayer climbing game about monkeys trying to collect bananas, where each player has independent grapple hooks for arms.

Fortunately, we live in a time when most information can be recovered from another device or the cloud. Now, iPhone users can add another app to that list. Signal has announced that secure backups are now available for iOS devices. It follows a similar launch for Android devices in early September. The company shared the news on X and linked to the previous Android blog post for all additional information. At the time, Signal noted that secure backups would be an opt-in feature and available in ...

For those of you still rocking xorg rather than Wayland, there's a new release out that should hopefully fix up some issues you may have been seeing.

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is reportedly running low on cash, following investments into projects in financial distress.

The Switch 2 exclusive has been a long time coming. The Duskbloods, being that it's a FromSoftware joint and all that good stuff, is certainly high on our list of things we're very excited about arriving on Switch 2 in the near future. However, given that it's a multiplayer-typed deal in the same vein as the studio's divisive Elden Ring: Nightreign, we understand that there's a little more trepidation surrounding it, or at least that's how it's felt. Solo FromSoftware efforts get a big thumbs up...

Poland's antitrust regulator is investigating whether Apple is restricting competition in the mobile ads market through its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework, reports Reuters. Introduced in April 2021 with the release of iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5, Apple's ATT framework requires that all apps on ‌iPhone‌ and ‌iPad‌ ask for the user's consent before tracking their activity across other apps. Apps that wish to track a user based on their device's unique advertising identifier can only do so ...

Saudi Arabia's conquest of the games industry continues apace, but whoops, the country's Public Investment Fund appear to be running out of money. In the sense of being reportedly down to a mere pocketful of billions, anyway.

Activision has announced the full suite of new additions coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 in its Season One update, which looks to be bringing a vast spread of new toys across all three game modes on the 4th December. It'll also let players skip the single player campaign and jump into the Warzone-style Endgame mode immediately.

Promising half-vampire, half-human role-playing game The Blood of Dawnwalker used AI during development to test spoken lines before hired actors came in to record them. Game director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz - formerly director of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Cyberpunk 2077 - told me this during a recent interview, in which he shared a fairly balanced take on AI use in general.

Encrypted messaging platform Signal now offers secure backups on iPhone, letting users save and restore messages if they lose access to their device. There are free and paid versions of Signal's secure backups. The free version lets users store up to 100MB of text messages, including photos, videos, and files from the last 45 days. The paid version costs $1.99 per month and can back up all text messages, along with up to 100GB of media which can be older than 45 days. The end-to-end encrypted ba...

Far Cry is set to be turned into a live-action TV series on FX, something Ubisoft reportedly let slip back in August, but has now been formally announced by the publisher in a post that's yet to be randomly zapped into the ether.

An anthology series based on Ubisoft's Far Cry games has been announced.