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New Knockout Tours, Photo Mode update and more. To end the month of June, Nintendo has released a new update for Mario Kart World on the Switch 2.

Here's what the critics had to say. Nintendo's Splatoon Raiders Direct has now aired, and the final previews for this single-player title have officially gone live ahead of the launch on 23rd July 2026. If you haven't already seen our own "hands-on" here on Nintendo Life, we've got high hopes for this new solo experience:

The Gemini macOS app now has access to Google's Spark agentic AI assistant.

We can even become an endgame crisis ourselves, which sounds neat.

"The technical improvements are substantial". Sonic Frontiers got a not-so-surprising Definitive Edition release on the Switch 2 last week as part of the ongoing Sonic the Hedgehog 35th anniversary celebrations. Digital Foundry has now taken a closer look at this version of the game, and while it's not the "perfect port", it's a "substantial" improvement on the technical front.

Anthropic will start its users' access to Mythos and Fable tomorrow, July 1.

Pre-orders open this week. Following the shadow drop of Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition on the Switch 2 last November, physical distributor Limited Run Games has now officially announced a physical release. Pre-orders for a standard edition and collector's edition go live on 2nd July 2026. The standard edition priced at $49.99 comes with a copy of the game and booklet. And the collector's edition for $79.99 includes a copy of the game, soundtrack CD, steelcase, map of Yamatai and pry axe keychai...

That's, uh, a lotta money.

Speeding away. Back in 2021, the Cruis'n series returned to console with the release of the arcade title Cruis'n Blast on the Switch. Now, in a surprising update, it's been delisted from the Nintendo eShop. There's no word from the developer Raw Thrills about the game's removal from the digital store.

Samsung teases wide-as-hell new foldable.

Apple is working on a high-end MacBook Pro that could be called the "MacBook Ultra." The device will have several firsts in a Mac, including an OLED display and a touchscreen. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. The "Ultra" name isn't a sure thing, and Apple could also continue to call the device the ‌MacBook Pro‌. It will be a "Pro" device in the ‌MacBook Pro‌ line. Design Apple hasn't redesigned the ‌MacBook Pro‌ since it added Apple silicon chips in 2021, so the device...

Nanoleaf today launched the Smart Multicolor Ceiling Light, an affordable Matter-compatible lighting product. With a dual-sided design, there's a main downlight and an upward backlight for a layered lighting glow. Each side can be controlled individually for bright light or an ambient lighting option. The light has 196 LEDs inside, with up to 2600 lumens. White light ranges from 2200K to 6500K, supporting tones that change throughout the day to match natural light. Nanoleaf says it was built wit...

The app's arrival follows an announcement at last year's Meta Connect conference.

The retailer allegedly failed to meet requirements under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Sometimes I feel that my taste in media is a bit hard to pin down, given that I like shows like Twin Peaks and manga like Chainsaw Man, two series where their similarities mostly stop and start at featuring governmental figures. Enter Green Suits, a game whose dev describes it as those two things fused together, throwing in JRPGs, platforming, and a "drama-based combat system," to make a concoction that feels catered to me personally.

Anthropic today introduced Claude Sonnet 5, a more affordable model that narrows the gap between Sonnet and Opus. Anthropic says Claude Sonnet 5 is its most agentic Sonnet model to date, able to make plans, use tools like browsers and terminals, and run autonomously. Opus models have better agentic capabilities, but they're more expensive than Sonnet models. Sonnet 5's performance is similar to Opus 4.8, and it has improved over Sonnet 4.6 in areas including reasoning, tool use, coding, and know...

Anthropic trained its newest Sonnet model to excel at agentic tasks, which have been causing a headache for the company's enterprise customers and power users.

It's an unconventional idea, but I'm willing to withhold my judgement.

The ESA may be walking back statements they made in California where they called all private and community servers illegal during a committee meeting in California's Senate

The cuts will apparently start next week.

Here are all the major additions coming to Diablo 4 in Season 4, the Season of Death Awakening, from Ruptures to the Solo Self Found mode.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has implemented many changes over the past month. Here's every rumor, change, and game cancellation in our running news roundup.

Shawn Layden is a man with opinions, and now that he's out of the game he doesn't mind sharing them.

So much for magic.

There's a lot of whispers about studios shutting down around Microsoft and Xbox at the moment. They've been primarily fluttering between Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and Compulsion, but this week has now seen State of Decay developer Undead Labs added to the list of "companies Xbox bought to build up Game Pass but are ultimately shuttering because they've done a bad job at making line go up." And now yet more reports have emerged, with what remains of Arkane potentially being put up on the choppin...

A man from North Carolina pleaded guilty to the Pokémon Trading Card Game-related crime in late June and will serve up to 13 years in prison.

Apple filed an appeal after being found in contempt of an order related to App Store fees.

Conan Exiles Enhanced is getting free DLC with the four part story expansion Legacy of the Giant Kings coming starting this summer to invite you back to the Exiled Lands.

The Art of Andor uncovered some eye-opening behind-the-scenes information about Luthen's ship, Dedra's apartment and a whole lot more about Coruscant.

Apple's Beats brand has launched a new retailer-exclusive orange color for its Solo Buds, with the earphones available now at Best Buy in the United States and coming July 4 to 7–Eleven in Japan. The Solo Buds are an entry-level earphone product from Beats, normally priced at $79.99 in the United States, although they are occasionally offered on sale such as the current $10 discount at Best Buy bringing all colors down to $69.99. The Solo Buds offer up to 18 hours of battery life in the buds the...

Xbox was meant to fund and publish IO Interactive, but is now backing out of that deal. As such, IOI may face layoffs.

Xbox is gearing up for a massive wave of layoffs that may include Dishonored developer Arkane Studios, which is currently working on Marvel's Blade.

Nintendo Switch 2 new releases in July include two all-new Nintendo exclusives, two Switch 2 Editions, and some indie games

You can use any sound you want for an iPhone alarm, and here's how to set it up.