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Introducing "Memories and Beyond". At Anime Expo this week, Sega shared a "sneak peek" of its upcoming 35th anniversary short form animation, Sonic the Hedgehog: Memories and Beyond. This was revealed during the "Sonic the Hedgehog Animated Shorts: A Frame-by-Frame Retrospective panel". As you can see, it stars Sonic and the rest of his crew, and will apparently focus on Eggman upgrading Metal Sonic with the help of Sonic's data and the Chaos Emeralds.

Digital minimalism, but you still get WhatsApp.

Including "Performance" and "Quality" modes. Square Enix recently announced it would be releasing DRAGON QUEST XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition for the Switch 2 this September. The official game site has already revealed certain information about this version of the game, and now it's been updated again with the resolution and frame rate, detailing the previously confirmed "performance" and "quality" modes.

We've discovered the Spiders Georg of AI fanfic.

"We would like to continue exploring a variety of possibilities". Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has reiterated in a recent (and now translated) shareholders meeting how the Japanese firm will continue to "create opportunities" for people to experience Nintendo's past with "initiatives" such as Switch Online. This was tied to a question asking about Nintendo's views on "recording, preserving and passing on Nintendo's culture and philosophy of play", with Furukawa acknowledging public effor...

The franchise’s latest reboot debuted its first episode at Anime Expo, offering a fresh take on one of anime’s most influential cyberpunk worlds.

Phia Saban has won hearts with her portrayal of Helaena Targaryen, but with House of the Dragon being a Fire & Blood adaptation, danger lies ahead.

Remember when you were a baby, and someone would cover their face with their hands, thusly disappearing entirely from existence, only to return and scream at you? This is to do with something called object permanence, an idea of understanding that even when you can't see something, it still exists, something that babies genuinely do struggle with. So how about a game that puts this to the test? Enter Object Impermanence, a puzzle game where nothing exists unless you look at it.

Black Clover season 2 reunites Asta and the Black Bulls for a dangerous new era that anime fans won’t want to miss.

The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, and Army of Darkness remain horror classics. Here's why Sam Raimi's trilogy deserves a one-night marathon.

Most Papers Please-likes that I'm aware of tend to all have a throughline in being 2D. That'll for sure be because one, it'll be easier to make and two, most derivative works don't exactly move that far away from their source of inspiration. That isn't so for Dreadwoods Gatekeeper however, an old timey one of those which positions you as a gatekeeper at an outpost where you're all by your lonesome, bar all the travellers and foul that turn up. Also I think there's monsters.

From Rise Kujikawa's reveal to confirmation of MAPPA's involvement, Anime Expo had lots of exciting reveals for Persona 4 Revival

This week's science news.

Brandon Sanderson believes Fourth Wing became a fantasy phenomenon thanks to a 20-year nostalgia cycle fueled by Eragon and How to Train Your Dragon.

Wearables are best at noticing breaks from your body's usual patterns. Those outliers can hint that something warrants further investigation with your doctor.

At Anime Expo, fans got their first taste of The Calamity with an exclusive debut of the first episode of Bleach’s final season.

Doug Liman's post-Tarantino comedy of errors was a video-store favorite, and now it's on streaming.

Final Fantasy 4 is unique among RPGs for the way it combines characterization with combat roles

How about a two-for-one today? Perhaps something from the RTS tower defence and city builder departments? Oh, and we'll throw in a medieval flavouring too, on the house. With all of that mixed together and wrapped up nicely, you get Bergfriend, a game in which you build medieval castles to your own specifications, and then defend them from rival knights who want to take them from you.

Bethesda's classic RPG and Square Enix's first MMO have more in common than you think, two mods for Morrowind prove.

The company's robotaxi roadmap mentions future expansions to Orlando and Tampa.

Marvel Rivals fans are losing it over Captain America's new Seaside Sentinel skin, the most revealing swimsuit yet in the Marvel hero shooter.

You ever just blink and 10 years of your life have gone by just like that? I wonder if that's how the developers behind Scrap Mechanic feel, given that the survival sandbox game about building fancy machines out of whatever you can get your hands on celebrated its 10th year in early access back in January. That's a long time! So long I don't want to think about it, so instead let's look forwards by about, I don't know, 20 days, as that's when Scrap Mechanic will be launching into 1.0.

Junji Ito: Strange premiered its first episode at Anime Expo, showing off the new live-action identity of Japan’s horror manga master.

Do not pass GO.

We talked with Street Fighter 6 director Takayuki Nakayama about Year 4's characters, Yasmine, Arjun, Bosch, and FF7's Tifa.

Since being founded back in 2017, Summerfall Studios have only managed to put out a couple of games, 2023's Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical, and last year's Malys, a devil exercising deckbuilder. Unfortunately for the studio, neither game did amazingly, but according to co-founder and Dragon Age writer David Gaider, the studio is hoping to work on something new still: a heist RPG.

NASA has made contact with LINK, the robotic spacecraft made for the Swift Boost mission.

This July 4, dust off your PlayStation 2 and fire up FantaVision, a cult classic puzzle game about setting off fireworks.

But you might struggle to stay A Wake for it.

Epic Games has settled with former Fortnite leaker AdiraFNInfo, who previously revealed unannounced collabs with Kingdom Hearts and South Park.

Epic Games has settled with former Fortnite leaker AdiraFNInfo, who previously revealed unannounced collabs with Kingdom Hearts and South Park.

The incident is also being investigated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

It's raised over $7,000 so far.

Apple recently introduced major price hikes across a number of products, including Macs, iPads, and more. This week, Apple's newly increased prices have begun to hit third-party retailers like Amazon, but there are a few select MacBook Pro models that are retaining original prices, which now represent solid discounts on each device. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running....