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PlayStation Store Festive New Year promotion comes to PlayStation Store on 4 February*! Enjoy up to 70% off on a huge range of incredible games until 25 February. Highlighted titles include Battlefield™ 6, Black Myth: Wukong, SILENT HILL f and Forza Horizon 5. Head to PlayStation Store to enjoy savings now! PlayStation Plus Players who...

Despite calling Bluepoint Games "an incredibly talented team" full of "technical expertise" which has "delivered exceptional experiences for the PlayStation community", Sony has decided to shut the studio down.

An edition within an edition! It's edition-ception!

What a surprise! Just like clockwork, The Pokémon Company has announced that its annual Pokémon Presents showcase will once again arrive to celebrate the series' birthday on 27th February. The Presents is scheduled to kick off at 2pm GMT / 3pm CET / 6am PT / 9am ET, and you'll be able to watch along on The Pokémon Company YouTube channel. Here's the precise time that the event will get underway in your region:

Coming next week. Nintendo has seemingly revealed Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen for the Switch earlier than planned, as a whole bunch of eShop listings are now live on the eShop (update: the reveal has now been made official). Priced at £16.99 / $19.99 each with a launch date of 27th February (Pokémon Day, of course), the release has bypassed Nintendo Switch Online entirely, meaning you can own the games digitally à la carte. At the time of writing, there's no confirmation that a physical releas...

If you’re looking to pre-order the upcoming Resident Evil Requiem, you can get it at a discount with Fanatical - and score a free game or coupon, too.

Beat 'em up with "Bimmy & Friends". The 2D pixel beat 'em up Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons continues to add new characters, and in the "largest character update yet", it's added four more fighters. Each character in this "Bimmy & Friends DLC" brings a new face, new personality, and a new fighting style to the city - allowing players to experiment with "powerful tag-team" combos. Here's the rundown about each character in this free DLC update and you can see each one in action in the ...

Starting with Zapdos next week. Ahead of the 30th anniversary of Pokémon and the annual celebration Pokémon Day, the free-to-play MOBA Pokémon Unite has confirmed the next trio of playable Pokémon coming to the game. It's the legendary birds Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres, which featured in the original Pokédex. Zapdos will be arriving on 27th February 2026 (aka Pokémon Day), with the other two to follow this Pokémon at some point in the future.

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You have to think like a whale to catch a whale. I'm pretty sure Herman Melville said that.

Here's the official trailer. Level-5 has been updating Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road on a regular basis since it arrived on the Switch and Switch 2 last November, and it's now announced the game's third major (and free) update. It's officially titled 'Orion & Lumen DLC' and will be arriving next week on 25th February 2026. Here's the full message, and you can see it in action in the official trailer at the top of the page.

Ariane is a scientist through and through.

Don't miss them! Nintendo has this week surprised Xenoblade fans with a Switch 2 Edition of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition. There is also a paid upgrade for existing owners.

"AI is going to be like the asbestos of the internet and the computer industry."

Six skiers who survived the avalanche near Lake Tahoe on Tuesday used the Emergency SOS via satellite feature on the iPhone to get help, reports The New York Times. Emergency SOS via satellite lets ‌iPhone‌ users communicate with emergency responders via text when a cellular or Wi-Fi connection is not available. The skiers were able to stay connected to the Nevada County Sheriff's Office for several hours while rescue efforts were coordinated. "One of my personnel was communicating with one of t...

"These money people need numbers to know they will make their money back, which kind of conflicts with the nature of experimentation and trying to push the boundaries of the medium."

How the nearly 9,000 players on the Distant Worlds 3 expedition are contributing to the birth of something new.

Formula 1 has been receiving star treatment from Apple for awhile, and now the racing series will literally be getting even bigger. Apple is partnering with IMAX to show five races from the 2026 season. The Miami Grand Prix on May 3, the Monaco Grand Prix on June 7, the British Grand Prix on July 5, the Italian Grand Prix on September 6 and the United States Grand Prix on October 25 will be aired live at select IMAX theaters in the US.  Apple landed a five-year deal for the US broadcast rights t...

Apple's older MacBook Air with the M1 chip is now out of stock on Walmart's website in the U.S., amid rumors of a new lower-cost MacBook coming soon. A colorful MacBook (concept) Walmart first began selling the MacBook Air with the M1 chip for $699 in March 2024. The price later dropped to $649, then to $599, and briefly to as low as $549 during a Black Friday sale last year. However, we just noticed that it has been out of stock for a while now, and there is no indication if it will ever be ret...

Meta is formally sectioning off Horizon Worlds, the closest thing it has to a metaverse, from its Quest VR platform, according to a new blog post from Samantha Ryan, Meta's VP of Content, Reality Labs. While the decision runs counter to Meta's original plan to own an immersive virtual world that could serve as the future home for all online interaction, it fits with the recent cuts it made to its costly Reality Labs division, and Mark Zuckerberg's public commitment to focus the company on AI har...

Balance patches that tweak guns and spells can enrage players. What if what you're re-balancing is their romantic partner?

Also, beards.

Google has added three new features to the Chrome desktop browser, including split view for multitasking, PDF annotations, and a Save to Google Drive option. Split view for Chrome is a built-in tool that supports using two tabs at the same time side-by-side. Google says that it provides a more streamlined, flexible way to work. There is a split view icon in Chrome that can be clicked to enter the new view. With PDF annotations, the Chrome PDF Viewer can be used to highlight text, insert signatur...

This whole thing is becoming a much bigger deal than anyone expected.

I know there are probably bigger priorities, but come on.

Developer Manavoid Entertainment has announced Rainbow Billy: The Book of Fears, an investigative adventure set in a summer camp where things just don't feel right.

Opus Magnum is a puzzle classic, and soon it's getting DLC that's "around half the length" of the original campaign.

Reigns: The Witcher is being made in collaboration with CD Projekt Red.

The post How Soulslinger’s Indie Team Brought Custom Mocap to Xbox appeared first on Xbox Wire.

Aphelion is a new sci-fi game from Don't Nod, set 50 years in the future on the surface of our solar system's ninth planet. We we hands on.

Don't tell Blizzard!

Super Mega Raids for Mega Victreebel and Mega Malamar will debut a Pokémon Go Tour Kalos, with new features, Niantic reveals.

Apple has inked a deal with EverPass Media to bring Apple TV sports content to EverPass customers in the United States. EverPass is a company that bundles premium sports content for restaurants, hotels, casinos, sports bars, and other businesses that want to air sporting events. EverPass will now be able to offer Formula 1, Major League Soccer, and Major League Baseball content to its customers at no additional cost through the main EverPass Core content package. That package also includes Param...