NewsFeeder

It's Wednesday, March 11 in Australia and New Zealand, which means it's the official launch day for all of the products Apple introduced last week, including the new low-cost MacBook Neo, the iPhone 17e, the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro models, the Studio Display, the ‌Studio Display‌ XDR, the M4 iPad Air, and the M5 MacBook Air. Apple fans who purchased one of the new devices will start receiving their orders in the next few hours, and will soon share photos and first impressions of the new ‌M...

The inspector general's office of the Social Security Administration is investigating allegations of a security breach by a member of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency operation spearheaded by Elon Musk. A whistleblower has claimed that a former software engineer from DOGE said he possessed two databases from the SSA, "Numident" and the "Master Death File." The person reportedly asked for help transferring the databases from a thumb drive "to his personal computer so that he coul...

Developing Dispatch meant ignoring investors and publishers who insisted it was doomed.

Clair Obscur developer Sandfall Interactive has settled matters with Olivier Gay, author of French comic L' Académie Clair-Obscur.

While the MacBook Neo achieves a breakthrough $599 starting price, that of course comes with some compromises, and one of them is slower SSD speeds. The Verge today said the MacBook Neo had up to 8× slower sustained SSD read and write speeds in a benchmark test compared to the new MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. The site did not mention which tool it used to measure SSD speeds, but it was likely Blackmagic's Disk Speed Test or AmorphousDiskMark. Here is a comparison of sustained...

Chris Cocks says Hasbro designers use AI tools to help create toys, but the tech is not used in creative pipelines for D&D or Magic.

Dragon Quest Builders 2 is like Pokopia, but even bigger with more ways to build and more complex quests to tackle

Sonos today launched two new speakers, the Sonos Play and the Sonos Era 100 SL. Sonos says that the additions to its lineup "reflect a renewed focus on strengthening the Sonos system" after a disastrous 2024 app redesign damaged customer trust. The Sonos Play is a versatile speaker that can be used from room to room, and like most Sonos products, multiple speakers can be paired together. Sonos Play speakers connect to WiFi and can be grouped across multiple rooms or paired up for stereo sound. T...

The SAG-AFTRA union has issued a "do not work" order against the upcoming Mega Man: Dual Override.

AI companies have been spending a lot of time in court arguing copyright cases over the past year and the latest plaintiff is Gracenote, the metadata company owned by Nielsen. Axios reports that Gracenote is suing OpenAI for the unauthorized and unpaid use of both its metadata and its framework for connecting that information. Gracenote specializes in entertainment metadata, creating descriptions and identifiers for content that clients such as TV providers use to help their own customers with d...

You never know where things will lead.

The post Screenbound: Getting Our Heads Around the Brain-Breaking “5D” Platformer appeared first on Xbox Wire.

Lego and Super Mario fans have been begging for classic Mario minifigures, and Nintendo is finally giving them what they want.

A magical, misbehaving key indeed.

Our Pokémon Pokopia lists all the fossils available in the game and explains where to find fossils.

All active Catch and Tame codes for keeping your critters fed.

Rusty Quill has launched its The Magnus Archives Mysteries Kickstarter. The board game adaptation reached its initial funding goal in 10 minutes.

Along with some new sets. Who wants more MAR10 news, specifically more Lego news? Nintendo and Lego have announced that we're getting some brand new Mario sets in 2027. But the big news here is that at last, we're getting a proper Mario minifigure. We've been stuck with the chunky guy for such a long time we never thought this would actually happen. Why did it take you so long, Lego?

After receiving a wave of backlash last year, AI 'actor' Tilly Norwood is back with a song championing how great AI is (no thanks!).

The post At Fate’s End: Hands-On with Thunder Lotus’ Gorgeous New Action-Adventure appeared first on Xbox Wire.

The real world price of impulse-buying Fortnite skins is going up, Epic has announced. Not because skins themselves are getting more expensive on paper, but because V-Bucks, Fortnite's digital currency, is. The same prices you paid for bundles of V-Bucks in February will now effectively earn you fewer bucks starting on March 19, along with several other Fortnite-related pricing changes. Epic will still offer bundles of V-Bucks starting at $8.99 and running all the way to $89.99, but with a new "...

Video games are weird little things. It's pretty rare for films to get scrapped part way through production, even if these days some production companies opt to use even finished projects as tax write offs. But games can frequently get canned, disappear for a bit, and even return after many years of silence. Enter SiN Reloaded, the Nightdive-made remaster of the classic boomer shooter, that is alive once more!

While NVIDIA continue working on the new 595 Beta series, they've just released driver 580.142 for Linux as the latest recommended stable driver

Our Pokopia interactive maps show you where to find the recipes, human records, and other collectibles around the various areas.

Amazon has secured a temporary win in its fight with Perplexity over the use of AI shopping bots. Bloomberg reported that a San Francisco federal court has determined that Perplexity must stop using its Comet web browser's AI agent to make purchases for users on Amazon's marketplace. The AI company will have a week to appeal the decision, otherwise it has been ordered to stop accessing any password-protected areas of Amazon's systems and destroy its copies of Amazon's data while the two companie...

The Early Access release is a little too nostalgic.

If you want to know what items you'll need for the "Do the... Team Initiation Challenge?" quest in Pokopia, we list them all in our guide.

Sensu is a gorgeous Rummy-inspired card game where players build intricate Japanese fans. Simple rules and elegant design make it easy learn.

Josh Wardle had a hell of a tough act to follow. His last game, Wordle, became incredibly popular thanks to its blend of simplicity, clarity and shareability. Over four years (and a seven-figure sale of Wordle to The New York Times) later, Wardle has released his follow-up game.  Like Wordle and its myriad clones, Parseword offers up one puzzle per day. It taps into the mechanics of cryptic crossword clues. So it might ask you to replace one of the words with a synonym, reverse it or find a homo...

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is nearly upon us, as the hotly-anticipated sequel arrives in theaters on April 1. Nintendo recently dropped the final trailer for the film, which is filled with quick visual gags and nods to the source material. There aren't too many actual reveals in this footage, as it covers a lot of the same ground as previous trailers. However, it does show that fan favorite Lumalee is returning as a prison guard of some sort, reversing the storyline from the original film in w...

To pay for an MMO subscription is to unfortunately know that you will eventually have to pay more than you'd like to because prices never go down, now do they. Today, the MMO in question is RuneScape, with Jagex announcing an increase for both monthly and yearly subscriptions, the second price increase in under two years.

Do you need to buy StS2 if you own and love Slay the Spire? The Early Access version on Steam is already as good with more options.

The post Replaced Is Finally Almost Here – We Take Another Look at the Cyberpunk Action-Platformer appeared first on Xbox Wire.

Pass me the weed killer. It's that time of the year again when we Brits squint at our DAY / MONTH / YEAR calendar formation and try to see the 'MAR10' hidden inside. Yes, MAR10 Day is once again here, and it's a particularly noteworthy one this time, being the 10th year that Nintendo has marked the occasion and the series' 40th anniversary. Nintendo's celebrating in an unexpectedly flashy way with a couple of new trailers for Super Mario Bros. Wonder - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition and Yoshi and the...

Customers planning to get a new MacBook Neo tomorrow will need to install a day one update. Apple today released macOS Tahoe 26.3.2, which is available for the new Mac. According to Apple's release notes for ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.3.2, it includes bug fixes and security updates. Apple will likely require the software to be installed during the ‌MacBook Neo‌ setup process. As of yesterday, there is also a version of the ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.4 beta that's compatible with the ‌MacBook Neo‌, and also Apple's ...