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Between layoffs and unreasonable prices for cosmetics that are only getting more expensive, Fortnite fans are exploding right now.

OpenAI today said that it is ending support for its Sora AI video app just six months after it initially launched. We're saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. OpenAI did not provide more detail into why Sora is being discontinued, but the company said that it plans to share more soon, including specific information on when the app and API will be shu...

OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app. "We're saying goodbye to Sora," the company wrote in a X post published Tuesday afternoon. For now, OpenAI has yet to say when the app and its related API service would become unavailable. Instead, promising to share those details at a later date.    "We've decided to discontinue Sora in the consumer app and API. As we focus and compute demand grows, the Sora research team continues to focus on world simulation research to advance robotics t...

iOS 26.4 was released today, and it includes a couple of new features for CarPlay: an Ambient Music widget and support for voice-based chatbot apps. To update your iPhone 11 or newer to iOS 26.4, open the Settings app and tap on General → Software Update. CarPlay will automatically offer the new features so long as the iPhone connected to your vehicle is running iOS 26.4 or later. Below, we have outlined the two new CarPlay features. Ambient Music Widget CarPlay gained support for widgets on iOS...

A month after Sony closed Bluepoint Games, it looks like Jason Blundell's Dark Outlaw games, which was unveiled in March 2025, has met the same fate.

Smart lock company Nuki today launched the Keypad 2 NFC, which is the first keypad that includes support for Aliro. Aliro is a smart lock standard that supports interoperability between mobile devices and platforms, allowing smart locks to work with any smartphone or wearable device without the need for a dedicated app. Aliro was designed by the Connectivity Standards Alliance, which includes Apple, and the Aliro 1.0 specification was released at the end of February. Nuki has one of the first Al...

In this guide, you learn how to get the Soul Spear, a unique weapon in Crimson Desert that uses the souls of the dead to fight enemies.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has been sharing every incremental update about what Apple's long-awaited Siri overhaul will and won't include. His latest article claims that the AI assistant will have a standalone app and will introduce an "Ask Siri" feature that could mark a decidedly different direction in how users will interact with the platform.  Gurman reports that Siri is being designed to leverage personal data from messages, emails and notes to complete requests. Siri will also allegedly be ab...

The Division is getting a tabletop RPG from Arkhane Asylum, with copies shipping soon after April's Kickstarter campaign wraps.

Crimson Desert's Chaos Forest Abyss puzzle is a little confusing and requires some precision. Here's how to get the artifact from Chaos Forest.

It sounds like Sony are continuing to do what they presumably coldly view as cost cutting. According to Jason Schreier, often known for his insider information, and a leak shared in a ResetEra thread, Dark Outlaw Games, a studio set up by former Call of Duty lead Jason Blundell, is being shut down. It's unclear how many people this includes at this time.

SkyUI 6 incorporates several of the mods people have been using in the interim.

Zoox has announced plans to bring its robotaxi to Austin, Texas and Miami, Florida for the first time, along with offering expanded service in San Francisco and Las Vegas. The company formally launched its robotaxi service in September 2025, and shared earlier in March that it would begin testing in Dallas and Phoenix. A "Zoox retrofitted testing fleet" has been operating in Austin and Miami since 2024, but offering rides with company's purpose-built robotaxi — designed to be more of a rolling s...

Circana's Mat Piscatella unpacks todays mass layoffs at Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine

Free League Publishing has announced Coriolis The Fractured Library, a book of prewritten adventures for Coriolis: The Great Dark.

A guide to the solution for the Hillside Manor strongbox puzzle in Crimson Desert so you can get the Saint's Necklace.

Apple today released new firmware for the AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Pro 3, and the AirPods 4. The firmware has a version number of 8B39, up from 8B34 on the ‌AirPods Pro 3‌, 8B28 on the AirPods Pro 2, and 8B21 on the ‌AirPods 4‌. There is no word on what's included in the firmware, but Apple has a support document with limited notes. Most updates are limited to bug fixes and performance improvements. To get the new firmware, make sure your AirPods are in range of your iPhone, iPad, or Mac and are c...

The apple of my Sableye. We're almost at the end of the first in-game event in Pokémon Pokopia. Hoppip is getting ready to close up shop and, hopefully, make a home in your town — wherever that may be. But don't worry, more events are on the way, and if you're feeling a bit cheeky, you can actually access the next one... now! And in this event, you'll get to befriend Sableye.

Andy Weir reveals a small flaw in his novel Project Hail Mary, and how the movie fixed it. Plus, what he thought seeing Rocky for the first time.

Who among us hasn't tormented over the burden of having to exit an AI app to check the weather? Well, I haven't, and I'm guessing you haven't either. But AccuWeather has a solution regardless. On Tuesday, the company rolled out a ChatGPT app to spare… someone that pain. Snark aside, there may be a few niche situations where this provides a slight advantage. AccuWeather suggests asking ChatGPT, "When is the best time this afternoon to go for a run with the most comfortable weather conditions?" or...

At the close of a video announcing the second season of Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, the company's co-founder and CEO Ian Proulx revealed that "a small section of the team" has started work on a new game. He said that the next project will be a movement shooter in the style of Titanfall and Black Ops 3. Those two tidbits are really all that 1047 Games had to share. People can sign up to participate when playtesting begins, but considering the latest release is only just hitting its second season, ...

Apple is testing a standalone Siri chatbot app for iOS 27, reports Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple plans to debut a chatbot version of ‌Siri‌ that will compete with Claude and ChatGPT, and the new ‌Siri‌ could be accessible through a dedicated app. Gurman previously said that Apple was not going to develop a standalone ‌Siri‌ app, but it appears plans have changed. It was not clear how the rumored chatbot version of ‌Siri‌ was going to work without an app, because people often have multiple back-...

Payday: Aces High is being developed by Fast Travel Games, whose previous releases include Cities: VR and Vampire: The Masquerade: Justice.

Apple today released a new firmware update for the Studio Display and ‌Studio Display‌ XDR, its two new monitors that came out earlier in March. The ‌Studio Display‌ Firmware 26.4 update is only for the new ‌Studio Display‌ options, and it is not available on the older model. ‌Studio Display‌ firmware can be updated by connecting the display to a Mac and going to System Settings > Software Update. Apple did not provide release notes for the firmware update. Related Roundup: Studio DisplayBuyer's...

Crimson Desert's playable characters include Kliff, who's boring, and Damiane, who has better skills, mobility, and even backstory. It's an easy choic

A lot of Simpsons jokes went over my head as a kid, but not this Planet of the Apes parody

A major shakeup at a major company.

Just me, myself, and my elaborate playground of AI agents.

A guide with both solutions to the two strongbox puzzles found in Bluemont Manor in Crimson Desert.

In the jostle for the crown of best Souls game that constantly plays out in my mind, it's Dark Souls 2 that tends to come out on top. Controversial, I know, but I love it, flaws and all. I adore its ludicrous ambition, even if its coolest ideas - the focus on light, the time-travel - mostly got ditched during its tumultuous development. I love its big ideas; the Bonfire Ascetic system, say, or the obscure alternative steps you can sometimes take to make bosses easier. And more than anything I lo...

Fancy forming your own opinion of Peter Molyneux's supposed final ever game, Masters of Albion? Outside of just commenting on a trailer that plays all the hits, that is? Well, you can, maybe, if you're lucky enough, as Mr. Molyneux himself has put out a call for you to sign up to beta test the game ahead of its release next month.

Being a game dev "is not something a corporation can take from you" says solo developer releasing a game alone after last year's Microsoft layoffs.

Google has announced a trio of new AI-powered features for its Google TV platform, after showing off smarter Gemini integration at CES back in January. Google TV can now provide "richer visual help" when you ask it a question. Request the current sports scores, for example, and Gemini will bring up not only a live updating scorecard, but also where you can watch the game. If you’re looking for a recipe, it’ll pair its results with a video tutorial where possible. If you’d rather learn something ...

Sintopia, the very Bullfroggy strategy management game from developers Piraknights and publishers Team 17, will release on April 16th. I compared this one to The Screwtape Letters back at announcement, but the more obvious, gamer-brain pitch is that it's Black & White sitting on top of Dungeon Keeper. That is, a god sim parked on top of a management game, albeit with a greater emphasis on automation than you might recall from Bullfrog's heyday. In Sintopia, you are the middle manager of Hell. Ab...

Apple Maps will soon have ads, Apple confirmed in a blog post announcing the company's new Apple Business platform. Reports that Apple planned to expand its ad business outside of the App Store and Apple News broke as recently as yesterday, but the company has been rumored to be exploring putting ads in its navigation app as far back as 2022. Ads in Maps, as the new advertising program is called, will allow businesses to create ads that can appear "when users search in Maps," at the top of searc...