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Apple TV aired the first Formula 1 race of the 2026 season last weekend following an exclusive streaming rights partnership for five years, and Apple senior VP of services Eddy Cue is already calling it a win for the company. Cue told The Hollywood Reporter that viewership for last week's Australian Grand Prix was up year over year compared to the 2025 race, which aired on ESPN. "The 2026 Formula 1 season on Apple TV is off to a strong start, with fans responding positively and viewership up yea...

One Slay the Spire fan who took it upon themselves to "draw badly" until the release of Slay the Spire 2 has created an art book cataloguing their works. With the game now released, they've revealed this lovely creation to the world.

Bandai Namco has announced a new Little Nightmares game, this time for virtual reality. Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes is developed by Iconik and not by Tarsier Studios, but it’s still connected to the beloved titles Little Nightmares I and II. Remember Dark Six, the protagonist Six’s dark doppelganger from the previous games? Well, in this installment, you will control her as she goes on a journey to reunite with the actual Six in order to reunited with her and become whole. The adventure...

For as long as there have been age-ratings on games, one series more than any other has been used to represent the dangers of under-age gaming in our society: goon-to-kingpin gangster series Grand Theft Auto.

Cursed Words is a word-building roguelike that also deals with fractions, and the void - it’s a fun twist on what has become a bit of a stale genre.

Apple has announced it is lowering App Store developer fees in China from March 15, with commission rates for standard in-app purchases (IAPs) set to change to 25%, down from 30%. In an update on its Developer blog, Apple also said the commission rate for qualifying IAPs under the App Store Small Business Program and Mini Apps Partner Program (and auto-renewals of IAP subscriptions after the first year) will be 12%, down from the current 15%. Apple said the changes are a result of "discussions w...

Marathon’s neon-oozing aesthetic, combined with Bundie’s brilliant FPS gunplay, makes this extraction shooter tick all of the right boxes in my brain.

Host Sam Maggs also named several canceled games that will never see the light of day.

New 'Challenge Mode' update also available. If you're a fan of the video game icon Lara Croft and happen to own a Switch 2, we've got some good news! Her collection Tomb Raider I-III Remastered is now available on the Switch 2. This version of the game includes 1440p at 60fps docked and 1080p at 120fps in handheld mode. The good news is this upgrade will also be available to existing owners of the Switch version "at no extra charge in a free update "coming soon". According to a response from Asp...

Including details about performance. Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition is on its way to the Switch 2 at some point this year, and ahead of its arrival, we've got a new round of previews from GDC. These latest impressions are based on a 15-minute demo of a newly optimised build of the game. Overall, this latest previews seem mostly positive and there is a lot of focus on the game's performance. FromSoftware's title will apparently run at around 30fps on Nintendo's new hybrid hardware on both the hand...

Fixes for progression bugs and more. The relaxing life sim Pokémon Pokopia has got off to a tremendous start, with The Pokémon Company yesterday reporting the game's sales had already surpassed 2.2 million units globally in just four days. With the launch patch out of the way, the development team has now announced the next update will be arriving soon. Based on a rough machine translation from Pokopia's Japanese website, the main takeaway here is that this next update will address multiple issu...

Two locked doors, two surprisingly funny and nuanced dialogue puzzles.

Physical pre-orders open alongside the digital launch. Last month, Limited Run Games announced it was teaming up with Marvel and Konami to revive six classic titles in the Marvel Maximum Collection. It was mentioned how this superhero-sized collection was "coming soon" to the Switch and multiple other platforms, and we've now got an official update, fresh from GDC. The collection will launch digitally on 27th March 2026, with pre-orders for the standard physical edition opening on the same date.

Long-in-the-works colony sim MMO Seed is shaping up into something that looks like EVE Online for RimWorld fans.

The post A New Glimpse at Dave the Diver’s Upcoming DLC, Launching June 18 appeared first on Xbox Wire.

The devs behind Moonlighter are already back with something new. While they're still tinkering away with the early access release of Moonlighter 2, at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase they revealed another roguelike entirely: ReVamp, a tower defence spin on the genre that pits you as Dracula himself protecting his castle.

Anthropic's Claude chatbot has been updated with support for inline visual content that will help it provide clearer answers. Claude can now create custom visuals like charts, graphs, and diagrams. Visual content will be used when it better conveys an answer than plain text, and visual aids can also include real-world data like weather and recipes as long as web search is enabled. The visuals that Claude creates are distinct from Artifacts, and use HTML and SVG rather than image generation. Clau...

Many of us remember the halcyon days of being a kid in the ‘90s, spending a weekend afternoon with remote control in hand and a seemingly endless well of stuff to watch on TV. Now you can relive the experience thanks to the appropriately named Channel Surfer web app. It's essentially a YouTube discovery tool that surfaces interesting videos, but presented in a retro homage to the cable channel screen.  Channel Surfer is the work of developer Steven Irby. He has 40 channels on the app right now, ...

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union that covers warehouse workers, drivers and a diverse collection of other laborers, has come out against Paramount Skydance's merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. In a press release, the Teamsters announced that it has submitted a report to the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division outlining its concerns about the impact of the deal, and is urging the DOJ to intervene in the merger. "This merger threatens the livelihoods of the very wor...

Video games are such funny things, because I think if you were to tell someone unfamiliar with them that there is genuine enjoyment to be had in pushing some blocks around in a virtual space they'd look at you as if you'd told them there's genuine enjoyment to be hand in pushing some blocks around in a virtual space. And yet it's true! It's one of the classic puzzle game genres, going way back to 1982 with Sokoban. And here we are now, many years later, with a new entry to the genre in the form ...

The playtest is scheduled to run until Shadowstone launches into early access.

The newly verified X account for Iran's supreme leader could be putting the company on the wrong side of US sanctions, according to a watchdog group. The Tech Transparency Project, which last month published a report on X granting premium perks to sanctioned officials in Iran, now says that the verified account for the country's new leader raises fresh questions about the issue.  The TTP notes that the X account for Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, appears to be paying for an X premi...

Somebody does have to make the next one, after all.

This map's so nice I'll run it twice

Adobe's long-time CEO has shared that he plans to step down. Shantanu Narayen has been the chief exec at the tech company for 18 years, a tenure where he led Adobe in the major shift to become a software-as-a-service provider. The exact timeline for his exit is still up in the air, as Narayen will depart when the board of directors names his successor. He will remain on the board as its chair after leaving the CEO post.  While Adobe was not the first to take the SaaS route, it was one of the fir...

Ex-Blizzard game designer Jeff Kaplan left Blizzard in 2021. In a new interview, he reveals what made him quit Overwatch and his dream job.

"You know, you shouldn't trust us intelligent programmers."

Pokémon Pokopia has only been out a week, but it's sold gangbusters already. And for good reason — it's one of the Switch 2's best exclusives.

NASA will soon give it another go on April Fools' Day. On Thursday, NASA said it's targeting April 1 at 6:24 PM ET for the Artemis II mission's next launch attempt. In case that date doesn't pan out, NASA added April 2 at 7:22 PM as a secondary launch opportunity. If necessary, the agency foresees several more openings between April 1 and 6 to get the Orion rocket into space. "Within those six days between the first and the sixth, we can't always turn around every day for an attempt," NASA actin...

"Can't shoot a single bullet without free kitted Assassins third-partying me in succession."

The newest game in the Little Nightmares franchise, Altered Echoes, has just been announced. Soon, you’ll be able to enter the Nowhere in first person and touch the Transmission with your own two hands. Deep within this errant signal, you’ll play as Dark Six as you search for a way to reunite with Six and...

Kaplan says he prefers simple hero designs above all.

Cambridge University's new Ludii program, may have helped uncover the rules of an ancient board game from the time of the Romans.

Plus, a new physical edition is confirmed. Developer Mintrocket has confirmed that Dave the Diver's next major DLC, 'Into the Jungle', will launch on Switch and Switch 2 on 18th June 2026. The expansion will feature entirely new locations, with additional NPCs, quests, and more. To put it simply, if you're a fan of the base game, then chances are you're going to love this one.