Get them while you can! Nintendo has released all sorts of unique icons for Switch Online subscribers in 2025, and to go out with a bang, it’s once again bringing back select designs that you may have missed.
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A proposed bill could see the Danish government ban VPNs from July 2026 onward, which is bad news for anyone who values online privacy.
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A new limited-time farm strat just dropped.
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The State of New York will now require social media platforms to display warning labels similar to those found on cigarettes. The bill was passed by the New York Legislature in June and signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday. It will apply to any platforms that feature infinite scrolling, auto-play, like counts or algorithmic feeds. The labels will caution those on the platform about potential harm to young users' mental health. Social media companies will be required to display these wa...
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Noah Schnapp talks about his emotional reaction to Stranger Things' ending and Will's arc coming full circle
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2025 was the year of Peak.
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If streaming services’ year-in-review campaigns have shown us anything, it’s that we’ve spent a staggering amount of time drowning out the hum of everyday life with music, podcasts and audio series. And with some incredible new releases this year, we were really eatin’ good. Here are some of the Engadget team’s favorite things we listened to in 2025.Spiritbox - Tsunami SeaI became aware of Spiritbox in late 2024 shortly before the band dropped its latest album, Tsunami Sea. At the time, I was in...
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Fanatical is offering Monster Hunter Stories 3 Twisted Reflection at a cheaper price than you'll find it anywhere else, with all versions of the upcoming RPG seeing decent discounts.
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Sweet spell of success?
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Arc Dream Publishing has announced an official public playtest for their upcoming The Black Company Roleplaying Game.
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"We resolved to move forward with our original vision". As you'll know if you've read our review, we adored Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, and consider it to be one of the highlights of the Switch 2's library. However, with a Metacritic rating of 79 at the time of writing, it's clear that Samus' latest adventure didn't strike the same chord with many players.
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Compile's DiscStation series went far beyond the basic demo disc.
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Gilligan and his Pluribus team weigh in on a simple question with big implications.
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The gacha's first villain became a meme earlier this year.
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Money, money, money.
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Tormented souls. Switch owners already have access to Layers of Fear: Legacy and its sequel, but Bloober Team is back with a new port for Switch 2. Utilising Unreal Engine 5 to achieve some truly impressive visuals, Layers of Fear: The Final Masterpiece Edition is neither a sequel nor a remake, but rather the definitive vision of the series so far, packaging both titles into one enhanced experience. The result is mixed. Although this is new for Switch 2, it launched elsewhere in 2023, before the...
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Take your time. All of it.
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Five Nights at Freddy's star Matthew Lillard recognizes how special playing a role in Scooby-Doo is.
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Sega and Atlus sat down with PC Gamer to talk all things P5X.
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Get ready for a game-changing launch of GGMods, the platform that aims to redefine the future of modding.
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A Google support page in Hindi says the ability to change your Gmail address is on the way. The feature would allow you to replace your current @gmail.com address with another. Your old address would remain active as an alias on the account, and all your data would stick around, unaffected. The support page (translated) says that "the ability to change your Google Account email address is gradually rolling out to all users." The change was first spotted on a Google Pixel forum on Telegram and wa...
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LG has revealed a new lineup of gaming monitors just ahead of CES. The UltraGear evo displays offer 5K visuals. Many incorporate on-device AI upscaling, taking some of the burden away from the GPU. LG says the tech will let consumers skip out on some card upgrades. This could end up being extremely beneficial because the AI boom has been impacting GPU prices. There are three displays in the lineup so far, with more to come down the line. There's a 39-inch OLED (39GX950B) that includes the afore...
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Madden stars Nicolas Cage as NFL legend and video game pioneer John Madden in a biopic coming to Amazon's Prime Video in 2026.
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Paul called the Pokémon card the "rarest and most valuable" in the world, and is putting it up for auction in January 2026.
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2025 was the year of the ninja, thanks to new Ninja Gaiden and Shinobi games, and the arrival of Assassin's Creed Shadows.
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This was the kind of year that felt 100 years long, so who could blame us for leaning into a bit of escapism? Some of us buried our noses in books in 2025, and thankfully, there were plenty of good reads to get lost in. Here are some of the Engadget team’s top picks from the year.Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghyWild Dark Shore pulls off a magnificent balancing act of telling an intimate, personal story coupled with the backdrop of impending climate disaster. A father and two children are l...
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Yes, a humble mouse pad.
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Love thy neigh-bour
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Mario Kart World has passed 2.5 million sales in Japan, thus making it the fastest-selling game in the series, according to new sales data.
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Some of the year's biggest video games were developed during the height of the pandemic, and it shows
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Baldur's Gate 3's Lae'zel is one of gaming's most recognizable characters, so I ask actor Devora Wilde if she's worried about being typecast.
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Polygon ranks of the 10 best seasons of science fiction and fantasy television this year.
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I basked in validation as a book-loving gamer getting to recommend my own favorite reads to my fictional customers.
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That's the long and short of it.
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With 25 years' worth of paid add-ons, just how many of them do you actually remember?
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