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Out of this world. Nintendo continues to promote its latest game releases with new events in its mobile runner Super Mario Run, and next up is a collaboration with Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2.

If you were hoping to create some silly images this long holiday weekend with Google's new Nano Banana Pro model, I have some bad news: the company is restricting free usage of the AI system. In a support document spotted by 9to5Google, Google notes free users can currently generate two images daily, down from three per day previously. "Image generation and editing is in high demand," the company writes. "Limits may change frequently and will reset daily."  It would appear Google is also limitin...

Nobody on the team saw this coming.

While generative AI systems cannot be considered inventors under US patent laws, the US Patent and Trademark Office has updated its guidelines on how they can be used in the process of creating innovations. The agency's director, John Squires, said in a notice obtained by Reuters that the USPTO deems genAI to be "analogous" to other tools that inventors might use in their process, including lab equipment, software and research databases.  "AI systems, including generative AI and other computatio...

We've been focusing on deals on physical products over the past few weeks, but Black Friday is also a great time of year to purchase a streaming membership. Some of the biggest services have great discounts for new and select returning members this week, including Apple TV, Disney+, Hulu, Paramount+, Peacock, and more. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running...

Apple's online store is going down for a few hours on a rolling country-by-country basis right now, but do not get your hopes up for new products. Apple takes its online store down for a few hours ahead of Black Friday every year to tease/prepare for its annual gift card offer with the purchase of select products. The store already went down and came back online in Australia and New Zealand, and the gift card offer is now live in those countries as expected. The store is down in the United Kingd...

Beyond creative mode.

The Lost Chapter: Yuki's Revenge teaser is here, and it's very strange.

Two top NFC teams will face off in a Black Friday showdown airing on Prime Video. The Philadelphia Eagles will host the Chicago Bears this Friday afternoon. The Eagles faced some setbacks this past week, dealing with a surprising loss to the Dallas Cowboys who came back from a 21 point deficit to win last Sunday and a potential season-ending injury for rookie safety Drew Mukuma, who fractured his ankle in that game. The Eagles are still ranked No. 2 overall in the NFC, and the Bears are right be...

If you've been patiently waiting for Assassin's Creed Shadows on Switch 2, your time has nearly come: it slinks onto the console next Tuesday, 2nd December. And ahead of its arrival, Ubisoft has shared a bit of a deep-dive detailing some of the technical jiggery pokery it used to make it work on Nintendo's platform, alongside some of its exclusive features.

This Black Friday will feature an NFC showdown between the Chicago Bears and the Philadelphia Eagles. Both teams are 8-3 this season, but the odds for the Black Friday NFL game favor the Eagles to win. The Chicago Bears vs. Philadelphia Eagles game will stream live nationally on Amazon Prime Video on Friday at 3 p.m. ET. Keep reading to find out what you need to know about Friday's game and the rest of the Week 13 schedule.  How to watch the Chicago Bears vs. Philadelphia Eagles game: Date: Frid...

If the project gets enough backers, that is. C'mon, show your support, Speccy people.

The Fortnite Zero Hour Chapter Finale live event will send off Chapter 6 with a cinematic experience featuring iconic collaborations.

Ricksy business. We are back with another look at the Japanese physical software sales chart, courtesy of Famitsu, and we can't even be surprised by this week's champion. Kirby has proven his absolute dominance in the region once again, with Kirby Air Riders getting off the start line in style with a sweet 195,594 sales under its belt. It's nothing compared to the 380,000 debut that The Forgotten Land mustered back in 2022, but for a game as niche as Air Riders, it ain't bad going!

Captain Wayne - Vacation Desperation is the destination.

Assassin's Creed Shadows probably won't get a second major DLC expansion on the scale of Claws of Awaji, Ubisoft's associate game director Simon Lemay-Comtois has revealed. It's a blow to fans who are accustomed to getting a couple of major expansions per Assassin's Creed, and a boon to people who haven't even played Shadows yet, let alone the 10-hour-long Claws of Awaji, and are getting dry heaves from FOMO. It's me, I am people.

Ubisoft continues to catch up with overdue business on Steam.

Here are 6 things the 1984 fiasco, which bombed at the box office and with critics, actually does better than the acclaimed 2020s movies

Last Epoch's Orobyss expansion will be free for existing players, though its paid DLC class has players reaching for their pitchforks.

If you have a Pixel 10 phone that you use for turn-by-turn directions in lieu of a dedicated GPS device, Google has an update that might be right up your alley. A Google Maps power-saving mode is now available for Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL and Pixel 10 Pro Fold. The company announced this feature earlier this month as part of its November 2025 Pixel Drop. Power-saving mode is only available in portrait orientation and it works on your lock screen. If you tap the power button while ...

The Final Masterpiece. Well, here's a welcome surprise! Hot off the back of Silent Hill 2 and Cronos: The New Dawn, Bloober Team has shared with us the next project that it's working on for Switch 2, and it's none other than an all-new Layers of Fear package. Layers of Fear: Final Masterpiece Edition will arrive on Switch 2 on 19th December, bundling together Layers of Fear, Layers of Fear 2, every DLC expansion, and brand-new chapters into one spooky edition fully optimised for the new system.

Everyone will upgrade any day now, right?

Behaviour reveals DBD Stranger Things Chapter 2, making it just the second franchise to get multiple pieces of DLC in the horror game.

This wasn't quite the outcome I was expecting.

Madeleine L'Engle's classic science fantasy novel A Wrinkle in Time has parallels with Vecna and the Mind Flayer

Just the tip of the... AI apocalypse.

"Sorry it's taken us so long. We've only been making the largest free content video game ever". What's your favourite Timesplitters game? Did you say TimeSplitters 2? Future Perfect? Or even the first one, aptly named "Timesplitters"? Good, we're gonna get along just fine!

A couple of weeks after arguing that generative AI shouldn't be considered in videogame reviews, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney is calling for Steam and digital storefronts generally to stop requiring generative AI disclosures. Sweeney's argument is broadly that all videogames will use generative AI tools at some stage, so you and I might as well stop hearing about it. He thinks tagging things as made with generative AI is only necessary when there's a formal need to prove legal authorship, or help buyers...

Laura Bailey has a clear love for all her Critical Role characters, but it's only now that she's playing her dream one.

The legendary duo behind FPS classics Timesplitters and Goldeneye 007 have dropped new Balatro-style puzzle game, and you can try it now.

Things are heating up in Arc Raiders.

"[Our players] don't want to chase a simple number that goes up."

The Switch's Joy-Con grip let me play in docked mode when a Pro Controller was out of budget, it's far more comfortable anyway

"We tried to knock at Marvel's door really early on". Shortly after Tribute Games and Dotemu released TMNT: Shredder's Revenge back in 2022, attention turned to what the dev/publisher duo would work on next. Tribute teased that other licensees had come a-knocking with proposals, but what franchise do you turn to if you want to 1-up the Turtles? The answer, it seems, is Marvel. We got our first glimpse of Marvel Cosmic Invasion back in the March 2025 Nintendo Direct, and it looked awesome. The ol...