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Following the release of Octopath Traveler 0. Square Enix's Octopath Traveler role-playing series, which originally started life as a Switch exclusive in 2018, has this week announced another massive sales milestone.

At GDC 2026, the rift between big tech and creative workers was easy to see.

This is what you can expect... Although Nintendo's focus is slowly shifting from the Switch, it's still got some first-party titles planned for the original hybrid system. One of these games happens to be Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, and it's out next month. Ahead of this launch, we've now got an official ESRB rating. Unsurprisingly, it's been rated 'E' for "Everyone" (the same as the 3DS release) and contains "comic mischief" and "mild fantasy violence". Apart from this, there's also a rat...

Virtual insanity.

OpenAI plans to add its Sora video generation model directly into ChatGPT, The Information reports . The standalone Sora app was seen as a smash hit when it launched alongside Sora 2 in September 2025, but interest in the video generation app has fallen in the time since as users ran into limits on the amount and kinds of videos they could create. Adding Sora to the ChatGPT could give the model a second life, and ideally grow the ChatGPT app's weekly active users from the 900 million OpenAI repo...

Nobody liked that.

Arc Raiders got to reinvent itself. Many other games can't.

Take down Vantom as fast as possible before this fight gets too slippery to beat.

Make quick work of the Doormaker or else face its replenishing health.

Meta AI should soon be better at surfacing international news content thanks to a set of new deals with publishers. The company announced new agreements with international outlets and offered additional details on its recent deal with News Corp.  The latest deals bring French newspaper Le Figaro, Spanish media company Prisa and German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung into the fold. Together, along with News Corp, which runs a number of outlets in the UK, these sources should give Meta AI better acc...

Eating the egg gives a short term gain, but taking it under your wing can pay off bigtime.

We're only three months away from Apple's WWDC 2026 event, which will see the company unveil iOS 27. With the fully revamped version of Siri possibly delayed until September, iOS 27 is shaping up to be the update we wanted iOS 26 to be. There will be new Apple Intelligence features, updates for the iPhone Fold, and more, with the latest rumors summarized below. Foldable iPhone Features Apple plans to launch the first foldable iPhone in September, a device that could possibly be called the iPhone...

There may not be an RPG with a proper difficulty curve.

Adobe has agreed to pay the US government $75 million to settle its lawsuit over the company's allegedly harmful approach to subscriptions. The suit started in 2024, when the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission filed a joint complaint alleging the company deliberately made it difficult to cancel subscriptions and obscured the frequently expensive "early termination fee" customers have to pay to get out of annual subscriptions that are paid monthly. "While we disagree with t...

Zootopia 2 on Disney Plus, Luc Besson's Dracula on VOD, found footage horror on Shudder, and more

Disco Elysium was one-of-a-kind when it came out in 2019, but that won't be the case for ZA/UM's upcoming Zero Parades.

In the mad dash many companies have made to incorporate AI features into their phones, Nothing arrived at one of the better ideas with Essential Space on the Nothing Phone 3a in 2025. The AI-powered app turns screenshots and voice recordings into actionable to-do lists and transcriptions, and now Nothing is rolling out an update to make the app easier to search and capable of recognizing new kinds of content. As part of the update, Essential Space now recognizes "Events," displaying them in thei...

Apple's cheapest laptop is also its most repairable. iFixit gave the new MacBook Neo a 6/10 repairability score. Although that number would only be mediocre for, say, a game review or final exam grade, it's the MacBook line's highest iFixit score in about 14 years. As always, iFixit goes into great detail about the product's repairability, but a few points stand out. First, the MacBook Neo's battery is screwed down rather than glued — moving it from "this might burn the house down" to "routine r...

X-Men '97: Season Two picks up after the first season's shocking cliffhanger and will bridge the gap between seasons of the Disney Plus animated hit.

We have a variety of Xbox Game Pass recommendations to save you from endlessly searching for something new to play.

Meta is killing end-to-end encryption in Instagram DMs. The feature will "no longer be supported after May 8, 2026," the company wrote in an update on its support page. Unlike WhatsApp, Meta never made encryption available to all Instagram users and it was never a default setting. Instead, users in "some areas" had the ability to opt-in to encryption on a per-chat basis. In a statement, a Meta spokesperson said the feature was being retired due to low adoption. "Very few people were opting in to...

Wouldst thou like to recline deliciously?

"Eventually people will understand his vision."

My dad used to pull this kind of thing on me, too.

Apple mysteriously shut down its Grand Central Terminal store in New York City today, and it turns out it was for an impromptu Alicia Keys concert to celebrate Apple's upcoming 50th anniversary. Apple quietly invited select YouTubers and members of the media (including MacRumors) to the store location, but kept the performer secret until Alicia Keys took the stage. Preparations for the concert started yesterday, with Apple setting up a stage, audio equipment, and lights, complete with Keys' sign...

The bestselling author once wrote an essay called "Kill the Elves" to bemoan J.R.R. Tolkien's overwhelming influence on the genre.

Imagine gunning it across Spaceport on a dirt bike.

Warhammer 40k: Darktide is getting a brand new update next week, and it's set to be the largest since the game's launch back in 2022.

Stalk your enemies from the shadows with our handy Slay the Spire 2 Silent character guide, breaking down the strategy, builds, and a card tier list to ascend the Spire.

There is not a soul in Palpagos who forgot to message Bucky.

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Roguelike deckbuilder Slay The Spire 2 continues its journey through early access with an update that fixes various crash bugs, adds new card art, changes how the game files mods, and implements some balancing changes. Item #1 on the balance change list: "Players, enemies, and pets can no longer have their HP increased above 999,999,999." Yep, that sure sounds like a balancing problem. Thanks, Mega Crit.

Repair site iFixit did its traditional teardown on the MacBook Neo, and was pleasantly surprised with the laptop's repairability. "We haven't been as happy about a MacBook since 2012," says iFixit. iFixit took apart the more expensive $699 version of the ‌MacBook Neo‌ that comes with a Touch ID keyboard, but both models are "suspiciously easy" to get into. The lower case is still held together with pentalobe screws, which are less common than standard screws and require a special screwdriver. Th...

FFXIV Live Letter 91 revealed 7.5's release date and gave a first look at some big quality-of-life improvements, plus the Beastmaster job

"We just made a game ready to walk away. But it worked, and people wanted more, and so we gave them more."