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Apple this week introduced an all-new HomeView smart home hub, but popular tech reviewer Marques Brownlee is "not convinced" about it. In his HomeView impressions video on his YouTube channel MKBHD, Brownlee said "I cannot figure any group that this is actually ideal for." HomeView has a lot of overlap with other Apple devices, including the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and HomePod. Brownlee said the HomeView does not provide enough "extra value," leading him to believe that the device should be "...

Good catch by SteamFrameHub here: snippets of the recently released Steam Frame kernel source code contain references to a possible variant of Valve's new VR headset with upgraded OLED lenses. A failed prototype, ditched during development? Maybe not – one of the related code branches, which codename the device 'Planar,' was updated on October 2nd, weeks after the LCD-lensed Frame opened for reservations. There's details, too. The OLED lenses seem to have a native resolution of 3,552x3,840 and a...

Apple's wall-mounted HomeView will ship without a power adapter, USB-C cable, or mount, requiring customers to purchase compatible accessories separately. In a support document posted on October 14, Apple outlined different power requirements for the two versions of its new smart home hub. The tabletop HomeView requires a USB-C power adapter rated for at least 30W, supporting an output of 15V at 2A or higher. The wall-mounted model requires at least 20W, with support for 9V at 2.22A or higher. T...

"We occupy this really unique spot in the middle."

League of Legends Classic, the recreation of an older version of the popular MOBA, will be taken down at the end of the current season. The reason given is simple: most players have moved on to other areas of League of Legends.

'Cheap' being a relative term, of course.

The "Hatfield" Apple-1 has sold for $1,148,200 including the buyer's premium, setting a world auction record for a commercially sold Apple-1, according to Bonhams. Two bidders competed for 28 minutes before the October 14 auction closed, taking the working computer beyond its $500,000 to $800,000 estimate. The machine takes its name from original owner Fred Hatfield, who complained to Apple about the lack of software for the Apple-1. A letter included in the sale contains Steve Jobs' 1978 reply,...

Steam Next Fest kicks off on Oct. 19, bringing tons of free game demos for PC players.

Godot 4.8 enters beta!

United has launched a tracker that you can use to check if your flight has Starlink Wi-Fi.

The Eclipse and Frontier are cheap and colorful, but you'll need a Pro subscription to make the most of them.

Adobe has 'rearchitected' Photoshop, Premiere and Substance 3D to work faster on computers powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark AI superchip.

Evil Empire discusses how it reached the final form of Castlevania Belmont’s Curse, with experiments ranging from Dark Souls to Dead Cells.

"We've made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world."

Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum has signed a decree ordering digital platforms to protect children from accessing harmful content.

Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released, as the latest upgrade to the popular Linux distribution

Setting the world on fire.

Apple has begun inviting selected members of the media to a product launch experience in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 28, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In a post on X, Gurman described the gathering as an "all-day product launch experience" for touchscreen MacBooks, a new iPad mini, and Macs equipped with M6 chips. Gurman previously reported that Apple would introduce the devices "on or around" Tuesday, October 27, with an online video presentation and a hands-on experience for the ...

Gluttons for punishment.

The classic mode rolled out in League of Legends earlier this year will cease to be a permanent addition once the calendar flips over into 2027, ending a fairly brief nostalgia run, devs Riot have announced. The mode, offering a version of the MOBA mirroring its early days, only debuted in July. It might come back in a different form down the line, but Riot have found that there isn't enough of a prolonged appetite for days gone by to be worth propping up something akin to the classic modes seen...

Polygon spoke to the creative team behind Seven Havens about how Avatar is changing

Developer House House said it won't release the game on Xbox until Microsoft is removed as a priority target by BDS

And more modest but still significant boosts in other games.

The famous Apple I "Hatfield" computer signed by Steve Wozniak just sold to an unknown buyer for a record $1,148,200.

House House, creators of breezy co-op puzzle adventure Big Walk, have become the latest high-profile game developers to express support for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement's ongoing Microsoft boycott. The developers, who also made avian mischief sim Untitled Goose Game, wrote in a post that they've been observing the boycott – called in 2025 in protest of Microsoft's business ties with the Israeli military – for a while, citing it as the reason why Big Walk went without an Xbox...

YouTube is already talking to publishers about offering audiobooks on its platform, The Wall Street Journal says.

Penguin Colony reclaims H.P. Lovecraft's cosmic horror and weaponizes it against the writer's own beliefs in a vital piece of apocalypse art.

Much of today’s scientific progress begins with computation.  But turning accelerated computing’s potential into scientific progress — modeling climate systems, designing molecules, simulating materials and more — depends on more than breakthrough technology. Especially for smaller labs, early-career scientists or science-based startups, the hardest part of research can be everything that comes before the science:...

Poly Fighter is a new Early Access fighting game designed to be for solo play, with you building up your own fighter with each win

Ubisoft have initiated talks over voluntary redundancies at three German studios under their banner, reportedly seeking to cut around 100 workers via the move. Ubisoft Dusseldorf, Ubisoft Berlin and Ubisoft Mainz are the studios set to be affected, with talks over the plans between Ubisoft and a works council representing staff having been initiated by the publishers last week.

The name's Halibut, Harold Halibut. Harold Halibut released back in 2024 with one of those visual styles that immediately made us sit up and pay attention. In the two years since, we have been hoping that its stop-motion-esque stylings might one day make the jump to Switch and next month, it's set to do exactly that. Developer Slow Bros announced yesterday that Harold Halibut will arrive on Switch 2 on 12th November, and while there's every chance that we might be a little preoccupied with certa...

League of Legends Classic will “end its current run” with the conclusion of Season 3, although Riot Games plans its return as an event mode.

New weapons, allies, outfits, and routes await players of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave.

Humble Bundle has launched two new game bundles with very different themes: one built around Halloween horror, and the other all about factories and automation

The Switch 2 version of 007 First Light will be released 18th March, 2027, IO Interactive has announced. The game had originally been expected this summer but IOI announced a delay to an unspecific date in March roughly a month ago.