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Clone Drone in the Danger Zone ports your consciousness into a murderous robot, before setting it off to mow down combatants in a voxel-based arena.

When Google released Gemini 3 Pro at the end of last year, it was a significant step forward for the company's proprietary large language models. Now, the company is bringing some of the same technology and research that made those models possible to the open source community with the release of its new family of Gemma 4 open-weight models. Google is offering four different versions of Gemma 4, differentiated by the number of parameters on offer. For edge devices, including smartphones, the comp...

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As of April 1, payment processing is no longer available for purchases made across the App Store and other Apple services in Russia, according to Apple. In a new support document, Apple said new purchases, in-app purchases, and subscription renewals are no longer available in Russia unless a user already has funds in their Apple Account balance, which can continue to be used. This change affects the following services and items: Apple Arcade Apple Fitness+ Apple Music Apple Podcasts subscription...

Ascenders: Beyond The Peak is a new turn-based roguelite in which a bunch of alpine occultists try to recover cursed artefacts from Lovecraftian mountains, before the world ends. Lotta genre references and parallels there, so let me boil it down for you: this appears to be Darkest Dungeon plus gravity.

And Mega Man is back in the game. Famitsu is back with the latest look at the boxed charts in Japan, and unsurprisingly, Pokémon Pokopia is still on top by a fair margin. That said, its sales have slowed down a little. If you remember, it managed a whopping 114,515 units last week, but this week it's only managed 48,772. We say "only" like that's a bad thing, and it really isn't, but it definitely looks like the momentum is starting to ease up.

The F2P game by ex-Blizzard developers shows that the AI boom has found yet another way to impact video games negatively

Some old-school alien butt kicking.

Filch some valuables from passersby.

The secret ingredient is Shigeru Miyamoto.

Darwin's Paradox! People of Note! MotionRec! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it's bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!Switch 2 eShop - HighlightsSuper Meat Boy 3D (Headup Games, 31st Mar, $24.99) - In this tough-as-nails platformer, you’ll play as an animated cube of meat trying to save his girlfriend from the evil Dr. Fetus ...

Uber is expanding its EV incentive program across the US. The company began testing the service in select cities last year. This is a program in which Uber offers drivers a $4,000 grant to switch from their current vehicle to an EV. These grants are available for both new and used electric vehicles, which is nice because new cars are expensive and could be out of financial reach for many Uber drivers. This program is available to Platinum and Diamond drivers who complete 100 eligible rides by De...

'What needs to be done by hand versus what a machine can do more efficiently?'

How to beat the Crowcaller boss in Crimson Desert, as well as how to "cheese" the fight.

Death Stranding 2 from Kojima Productions and PlayStation Publishing has a big new patch out for the PC release with various performance upgrades

No more do I fear the cloak.

The Epic Games Store has a selection of free PC games that changes every week. The latest free offering will be available until April 9.

Being forced into a get-along t-shirt with randos didn't improve my experience of the story, like, at all.

When ‌macOS Tahoe‌ and iPadOS 26 launched last September, Apple quietly removed Safari's Compact tab layout – the option that merged the address bar and the tab bar into a single, space-saving row. If you were a fan of it, you will have been out of luck for months. The good news is that Apple has brought it back. In macOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4, the Compact tab bar is once again available as an alternative to the default Separate layout. Here's how to enable it on both platforms. On Mac Open Safar...

Apple today shared a trailer for Widow's Bay, a mysterious new "genre-bending" horror-comedy series set to premiere on Apple TV on Wednesday, April 29. Widow's Bay is described as a "quaint island town 40 miles off the coast of New England," but apparently "something lurks beneath the surface." Matthew Rhys stars as Mayor Tom Loftis, who is trying to revive the struggling community. "There's no Wi-Fi, spotty cellular reception and he must contend with superstitious locals who believe their islan...

In space, nobody can hear the Windows error sound.

Jason Segel and Samara Weaving star in the new horror-thriller home-invasion comedy Over Your Dead Body. The first-look trailer is streaming now.

Flipboard has been one of the biggest boosters of decentralized social media. Now, the company, which is known for its social news reading app, is rolling out its latest experiment, "social websites."  The project offers publishers and creators an easier path into what's often called the "open social web," which includes the fediverse, as well as other protocol-based platforms like Blueksy. The company says it could also help creators of all stripes wrest back control of their audiences from mai...

After sharing pricing and availability for its new Mini LED TVs in March, Samsung is ready to detail some of the other TVs it introduced at CES earlier this year. The 2026 versions of Samsung's The Frame Pro and OLED TVs are both available to order today – save for some notable exceptions – and they start for as little as $1,200. The Frame Pro was originally introduced in 2025 as the more premium version of Samsung's popular The Frame art TVs. The big advantage of stepping up to a Pro model over...

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Ascenders: Beyond the Peak is set to launch on Steam later this year.

Prepping for the coming apocalypse with Project NOMAD.

There's a new subscription service on the block, and this one's geared entirely towards indie games, complete with a price tag to match.

The four history-making Artemis II crew members are cooped up with each other in a tiny space for 10 days. And yet the most uncomfortable aspect of the mission might be having to deal with not one, but two instances of Microsoft Outlook. Commander Reid Wiseman sent a literal "Houston, we have a problem" message to mission control in the early hours of Thursday. He sought tech support for internet connectivity issues on a PCD (personal computing device), which is a Microsoft Surface Pro. Before y...

Go on, tell us. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is out now, proving that time is indeed going way too fast for our liking – didn't the first one just come out? Regardless, initial reactions are also out in the wild, and with a 42% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it seems pretty clear: this is indeed an Illumination movie. Our own 6/10 review conceded that while the film certainly has its flaws – quite a few of them, in fact – the impressive visuals and faithful easter eggs make it an enjoyable wa...

A back-and-forth exchange between a Peak developer and a player show just how much players have come to expect updates from all games.

Reunion feels much like the merged timelines, strangely mushed together.

Are you having fun being Kliff MacDuff? How would you like to be Kliff MacDuff with an acute case of gastritis? It appears that open world RPG Crimson Desert has a secret "food consequence" system, cut during development. It offers 50 different "food skills" split across 15 categories, on top of the existing Crimson Desert cooking recipes. Stir it all together and you have something like a survival sim, as if this game wasn't enough genres already.

Hey, we're all learning. All the time.

The Crescent Skybridge Abyss puzzle in Crimson Desert will turn you into an electrician in the sky. Here's how to solve the puzzle.