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Zenless Zone Zero Version 2.8 is almost here, and HoYoverse has announced that the game is getting a Steam release as well.

Kindred author Octavia Butler kept Survivor out of print for 45 years. It's finally being republished. Here's why it's worth reading.

OpenAI has announced the release of GPT-5.5, the latest upgrade to the company's family of models powering its ChatGPT and Codex apps. OpenAI describes GPT-5.5 as better at multi-step work, claiming it can plan, use tools, and verify its own output with less hand-holding. The model is said to offer gains in agentic coding, computer use, and early-stage scientific research. GPT-5.5 Thinking offers "faster help for harder problems," according to OpenAI, while GPT-5.5 Pro is being pitched as a rese...

Lofsöng is an ash-blown, top-down exploration game set on an Earth ravaged by nuclear winter, whose Brutalist structures form a sleeping, sunken language, revealed by sound. You are a "childlike figure" – notice the qualification – accompanied by a magic origami sculpture that refolds into such unlockable forms as gliders and sailboats, allowing you to zip ever more gracefully among the post-apocalyptic monoliths.

The new heads of Xbox have signaled a major change for the brand, including new priorities and a "new north star" in the form of overall daily active players.

The Apple rumors were true, once again. This week, the company announced that Tim Cook will be stepping down from his CEO role on September 1. Replacing him will be John Ternus, who currently serves as Apple's SVP of hardware engineering. In this episode, Devindra and Engadget's Nathan Ingraham discuss Cook's legacy as Apple's CEO, and pontificate about how Ternus may change things. We're going from Apple being led by a logistics guru, to Apple being driven by a product and engineering wizard. S...

Black Ops 1 fans rejoice, as Summit, one of Call of Duty’s most iconic maps, is finally coming to BO7 as part of Season 3 Reloaded.

While the 8 GB RX 9060 XT and RTX 5060 Ti cards can often match their 16 GB brethren, VRAM limitations are still a barrier too tall for overclocking alone.

The filmmaker behind Decision to Leave and The Handmaiden takes on late-stage capitalism in the darkly hilarious No Other Choice

Godot 4.7 enters beta!

Kicking off next week. We've known about an upcoming Sableye event in Pokémon Pokopia for a good while now (thanks to the joys of time jumping), but The Pokémon Company has today made it official. The 'Sableye's Gem Hunt' event kicks off next week on 29th April at 5am and will run until 14th May at 4:59am (local time). As the name suggests, this one is all about Sableye, with that creepy adorable little Dark/Ghost Type appearing outside completed Pokémon Centers with a hankering for gems.

DeepSeek has released its latest AI models, the V4 Pro and Flash versions, a bit over a year after it went viral and became the top rated free app on Apple's App Store in the US. “Welcome to the era of cost-effective 1 million context length,” DeepSeek said in its announcement. Context length is what you call the maximum number of tokens that an AI model can remember, so the bigger it is, the more coherent and consistent an AI is when it comes to extended conversations. OpenAI’s recently announc...

Asha Sharma's Xbox appears to be preparing new tiers of its Game Pass subscription service.

Steamroll every zombie type with loads of free presents and dark aura upgrade materials when you redeem these new Idle Defense codes.

ShatterRush is aiming to fill the Titan-sized void in my heart.

The latest Slay the Spire 2 update gives Drum of Battle a new lease on life, nerfs certain enemies at low Ascensions, and much more.

Although it’s one of the more inoffensive topics on Polymarket, this news typifies the Wild West of prediction markets and betting sites. A hairdryer was allegedly used to rig Polymarket bets on temperatures at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, according to a report by The Telegraph. French authorities noted that the official temperature readings at the airport spiked twice in the past month. On both occasions, gamblers betting on those temperature fluctuations on Polymarket appear to have wal...

The team behind Garry’s Mod and Rust revealed that s&box has finally turned a profit, after releasing all of its financial information.

Don't make unnecessary journeys (to Ilios).

Back in the ring.

The Ribbon Hero will be a modern interpretation of Osamu Tezuka's enduring classic.

"The 12.0.5 patch launch was not up to our standards."

It's been a year since Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 rocked up and had Nic say lots of nice things about it. Developers Sandfall Interactive have decided to celebrate both milestones by putting out a patch that adds in a bunch of fresh trims for the RPG's litany of head hair havers.

Sega is planning to remind us all that it still has plenty of successful franchises under its massive umbrella, even if we haven't heard about them for many years. The publisher has revealed a programme of events to celebrate its vintage games throughout the course of 2026 via special "anniversary projects". All this will take place under the banner of the new-fangled 'Sega Universe'.

All the best Fallout New Vegas mods right now, including texture fixes, additional quests, game modes, and entirely new campaigns.

The reviews just dropped for PS5 exclusive Saros from Housemarque and Sony, and most love it, but some don't feel it lives up to its predecessor

Not to be confused with The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, which also looks like Mass Effect.

Track down this legendary bird's location.

For its 20th-anniversary iPhone, Apple is tapping Samsung to produce a custom micro-curved OLED display that is brighter and thinner than existing panels, according to new supply chain information out of China. Apple is reportedly considering a radical redesign for the 20th-anniversary iPhone that could feature a completely bezel-less display that curves around all four edges of the device. To that end, Apple is said to be seeking from Samsung an equal-depth quad-curved panel design that uses "m...

One of the best survivor-like bullet heavens available, Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is set for a big free upgrade and DLC expansion on April 30th

The most horrifying thing that ever happened to me while playing Game Boy was a school 'friend' flicking the power switch while getting off the train, just as I'd finally beaten that one maddeningly obscure block puzzle in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. He's lucky he's not buried somewhere under the railway lines between Shipley and Baildon. There were Game Boy horror games, but they were mostly crammed-down approximations of Resident Evil and the like, and I found them about as spooky a...

Do you remember Shuhei 'yosp' Yoshida, former PlayStation boss and the head of PlayStation Indies from 2019 until his retirement from the company in 2025? The likeable good-natured executive has recently come out and stated that he doesn't necessarily think that day-and-date PC releases for triple-A PlayStation games is a very good idea (but, also, that he hasn't seen any solid proof that Sony is abandoning PC releases altogether despite reports to the contrary).

Knuckle Paradise has been revealed by ARTE France and independent studio Flying Oak Games, a hand-drawn, open-world beat 'em up coming in 2027

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Microsoft Gaming boss Ashsa Sharma and Xbox content boss Matt Booty have shared an open letter with the world about what they see as the future of Xbox. The topline takeaways are that "Microsoft Gaming" will now simply be known as "Xbox", thank god, that console is still at the heart of operation, thank god, but also that there's significant reshaping to be done. As the letter says: "The model that got us here won't be the one that takes us forward."