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Whoop, the makers of a screen-free fitness tracker of the same name, could soon have some competition. Fitbit teased its take on a Whoop-style band with the help of Steph Curry at the end of March, and based on a trademark filing spotted by Gadgets & Wearables, Garmin appears to be working on its own band that tracks similar health metrics. This new Garmin wearable, called "CIRQA" in the trademark filing submitted in February, is designed to measure "the body's physical parameters and other phys...

The upcoming Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway sequel is the best sign that FromSoftworks have a hit they need to make after Elden Ring movie.

Mobile game developer Halfbrick today launched a new iOS game in its popular Jetpack Joyride series. Jetpack Joyride Racing is a multiplayer racing game that supports up to six players for real-time racing competitions. Players can take on the role of Barry Steakfries, Dan, Josie, Professor Brains, Robo Barry, and more, with four circuits and a zone system that changes gameplay on the fly. Purple zones slow you down, red zones cut your engine, and green zones speed you up. Races feature items to...

The horror RPG Scarlet Hollow avoids easy answers and makes your choices matter in ways you can't easily call right or wrong

UFOooooohhh. Mossmouth's excellent retro compilation UFO 50 was one of our games of the year when it finally arrived on Switch back in August 2025. The 50 games of the fictional LX system have gobbled up hours (and hours) of our time in the months since, and just when we thought we were free from its clutches, Fangamer had to go and drag us in all over again. You see, the outlet recently launched the UFO 50 'Deluxe Edition', a long-awaited physical release for Switch which, alongside a boxed cop...

Actor Kevin Clay talks about his experience playing Dungeons & Dragons over the last decade as he's performed as Elder Price in The Book of Mormon.

This is the second weird thing to happen to Starsand Island since it launched in February.

Blizzard is implementing a Mercy rework and changes for Pharah and Reaper in Overwatch season 2, with more changes to come for other heroes

One of the biggest personalities on Twitch expressed discomfort with the way Donaldson pressured YouTubers, streamers, and celebrities to donate money

For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Astropad to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win one of Apple's iPhone 17 models and a Fresh Coat anti-reflective screen protector from Astropad to use with it. Fresh Coat is a screen protector with an optical-grade anti-reflective coating to minimize glare and provide a better iPhone viewing experience. The technology reduces reflections by 75 percent, while improving contrast and keeping colors vibrant. Unlike other anti-reflective screen prote...

Funcom is going "PvE-first" with Dune: Awakening, its multiplayer Dune survival game since 80% of players never engaged with PvP.

Amazon’s Matt Huston gives us a last Lost Ark roadmap video, following the departure of his two co-hosts Roxanne Sabo and Henry Stelter.

Bungo Stray Dogs boasts a perfect blend of shonen and seinen genre elements.

Amazon is ending support for third-party integrations on its Luna cloud gaming service. The most immediate changes mean that it's no longer possible to buy Ubisoft+ and Jackbox Games subscriptions or standalone games through Luna.  Amazon will automatically any cancel active subscriptions bought through Luna at the end of customers' next billing cycle. If you have a Ubisoft+ subscription that you bought directly from Ubisoft instead, you’ll still be able to access games on that service through L...

Email us at [email protected]! Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or download here Hey, everybody! Tim and I are back this week to talk about the games they are playing, a busy news week, and some big contenders that are releasing soon. This week also features an interview with Darren Bridges, Lead Designer, Sucker Punch, for...

America's Big Tech companies may soon learn that saddling up with Donald Trump doesn't tend to work out in the end. As the president sows chaos and distrust around the globe while taking aim at EU tech regulations, Europe is looking for ways to adopt its own alternatives. The latest example is France, which said it's dropping Microsoft Windows in favor of Linux. On Wednesday, France said (via TechCrunch) it plans to move its workstations from Windows to the open-source Linux. It's part of a broa...

Google has announced that end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Gmail on Android and iOS is now rolling out for its enterprise users. Emails that require E2EE in Workspace can be composed and read within the Gmail app, so eligible users won’t need additional apps or portals. The new feature expands Google’s client-side encryption (CSE) offering, a little more than a year after E2EE was introduced to Gmail on the web. According to a Google blog post, any encrypted message sent to a recipient who uses ...

Get clued up with the Overwatch ranks system to learn how the skill tiers, ranked rewards, and more all work in 2026.

'I write 700,000 words and then I'm expecting most of it to not be seen on a normal playthrough'

A new Mount and Blade 2 Bannerlord beta has launched with comprehensive changes spanning both the base game and its War Sails expansion.

Layton! Inazuma! Snack World?? Level-5 has returned to the livestreamed showcase scene with its first 'Vision' showcase of 2026, providing an updated look at all the titles it is currently working on. Overall, the details were kept pretty vague in this one — more than a few games had a noncommittal "in development" label attached rather than a release date — but given how many delays the studio has seen in recent years, we're not all that surprised with the approach.

Luna users' previously purchased EA, Ubisoft, and GOG games will still be accessible on their associated platforms.

Google News has begun showing Polymarket bets and odds alongside actual stories, according to a report by Futurism. These look to appear as large blocks that include links to numerous ways for people to lose their money. Bets tend to appear in the "For you" section of Google News, which is supposed to be tailored to a person's particular interests. Futurism notes that the platform actually placed a Polymarket bet as the top news result when inquiring about the price of Bitcoin. The publication s...

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In a Twitch livestream for his new survival game, Jeff Kaplan revealed that Blizzard never actually changed the hero's butt

On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss all of the rumors surrounding Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone, now said to be called the "iPhone Ultra," which is shaping up to be a comprehensive redesign unlike anything the company has shipped before. Subscribe to The MacRumors Show YouTube channel for more videos The ‌iPhone Ultra‌ is expected to launch alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max this fall, though reports suggest it will ship after the Pro models, potentially ...

Japanese novelist, anime producer, and director Genki Kawamura on the lines between movies and games, and what he learned from Shigeru Miyamoto.

Shudder will drop the HBO anthology horror series Tales From The Crypt on May 1, a first for the EC Comics-inspired TV show.

A fresh month and a new Humble Choice bundle filled with a random but rather good selection of games to claim

Last week, we asked to share haunting (but spoiler-free) moments from Resident Evil Requiem using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here’s are this week’s highlights: Faerk7 shares Leon grimacing in the rain KevinFerna43259 shares Grace framed by broken glass AlagoaJon shares Leon readying his leg to attack PattyGnand shares Grace aiming at The Girl before she attacks ThomasCao13...

Guardians of the Galaxy has been rated for the console. We've been hoping to see more Switch 1 games lumbered with the Cloud Version label ditch that format and make the jump to Switch 2. And it looks like Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy might be the next one to come. Earlier today, r/GamingLeaksAndRumours (spotted via Gematsu) shared that a rating for the game on Switch 2 had popped up on the Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee website.

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After an early 2023 reveal, Professor Layton and the New World of Steam - the next entry in the long-running puzzle adventure series - hasn't been making much noise. Today's Level-5 showcase event has changed that with a new in-depth look at the game.

This is an attempt to "reduce the state's extra-European digital dependencies."