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Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (or Wednesday, whatever), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget.
Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week.
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The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78. Read more ›
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Engineer Denis Stetskov, writing in a blog: The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM. Not used. Not allocated. Leaked. A basic calculator app is hemorrhaging more memory than most computers had a decade ago. Twenty years ago, this would have triggered emergency patches and post-mortems. Today, it's just another bug report in the queue. We've normalized software catastrophes to the point where a Calculator leaking 32GB of RAM barely makes... Read more ›
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The president of the United States is deploying masked troops to the streets of blue cities, working to put friendly billionaires in charge of the media environment, and attempting to jail his personal enemies. Can any democracy come back from this? Earlier this year, two teams of researchers published papers trying to answer this exact […] Read more ›
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A good majority would buy the iPhone 17 series if it ran Android. It never will, but a man can dream though, a man can dream. Read more ›
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AMD is set to provide 50,000 of its next-generation MI450 Instinct GPUs for a new Oracle supercluster that will power next-generation AI inference and training. This joins the many other high-profile hardware and infrastructure deals that many of the top tech companies have made with one another over the past year. Read more ›
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Spotify has introduced a new "managed accounts" feature aimed at younger listeners. Initially piloted last year and launching in seven new markets, including the US, today, it allows parents and guardians with a Spotify Premium Family plan to allocate their children a dedicated profile with their own personalized recommendations and custom playlists. The idea is that the adults can filter out explicit content, limit the playback of certain artists and... Read more ›
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Apple plans to announce new products "this week," according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In his Power On newsletter, Gurman said the products set to be updated this week include the iPad Pro, Vision Pro, and "likely" the base 14-inch MacBook Pro, with all three likely to receive a spec bump with Apple's next-generation M5 chip. Gurman does not expect Apple to hold an event to announce these products. Instead, there... Read more ›
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In a recent podcast episode Melanie Boylan and Ehsan Adouane had a chat about his impressive start in tech when he was just 9 years old. In this chat Melanie asks questions about his orgins and what his enduring mission will be over the coming years. We hear how he overcame things over the past […] Read more ›
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Four years after the launch of Windows 11, Microsoft is finally ending support for Windows 10, but what does that mean? Read more ›
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Therabody just revealed a bunch of new products, including the TheraFace Mask Glo. This MF Doom-looking full-face mask offers quite a different experience from the pre-existing TheraFace Pro. The Pro is essentially a face massager, but the Mask Glo is a giant mask that uses LED lights to "reduce fine lines and wrinkles, firm and tighten skin and even tone and texture." The company promises results in "as little as... Read more ›
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As Windows 10 fades into obsolescence, the argument it leaves behind is more philosophical than technical. Read more ›
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In retaliation against the Dutch government seizing control of the Dutch chip company, Nexperia, from its Chinese parent company, China has now blocked Nexperia from exporting products from the Asian-country, raising trade tensions amidst ongoing trade talks with the US. Read more ›
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Laura Kerr moved back with her parents at 42 after quitting her job and selling her house. Her teen has her own room but Kerr has to sleep in the kitchen. Read more ›
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Latest HWMonitor release notes give an early look at Intel’s 18A Panther Lake family ahead of its official debut. Read more ›
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You'll get access to Windows 10 a little longer by doing this. (Getty Images) You've known it for a while: Microsoft has determined that it's moving Windows 10 to "end of life" status starting on October 14. That means while Windows 10 PCs will continue to work after that date, they'll stop getting important security updates by default. That leaves you with three choices if you want to make sure... Read more ›
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The FCC has submitted a proposal that would make it harder for consumers to receive itemized bills with accurate information from their ISPs, as spotted by The Verge. The draft would revise previous "unnecessary" requirements on the grounds that a fact-based list of charges "may confuse customers." This comes as a response to complaints by ISPs over a Biden-era transparency rule that went into effect back in 2024. Compliance with... Read more ›
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You'll get access to Windows 10 a little longer by doing this. (Getty Images) Are you still running Windows 10 on your PC? Starting tomorrow, October 14, Microsoft is moving the software to "end of life" status. What does that mean for you? While Windows 10 PCs will continue to work after that date, they'll stop getting important security updates by default. That leaves you with three choices if you... Read more ›
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded Google's Chief Scientist of Quantum Hardware the Nobel Prize in Physics alongside former Google employee John Martinis, and University of California, Berkeley professor John Clarke. This is the second year in a row that current or former Google employees have been awarded the prestigious prize: In 2024, a former Google vice president was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Nobel... Read more ›
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Ford is cutting the price of the 2026 F-150 Lightning by up to $4,000, as confirmed by the automaker to CarsDirect. The price cuts vary by trim, however, and will only apply to more expensive packages for the electric pickup truck. This comes as the $7,500 EV tax credit expired at the end of September. The 2026 model has a starting price of $63,345 for the STX trim, which is... Read more ›
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This year's fall Prime Day is almost on the books. But you still have time to save on some of our favorite tech. Yes, it's October and it's a little early to start thinking about holiday shopping. But it would be remiss to ignore the upcoming festivities entirely because you can actually save some money on good gadgets during this sale. But let's be real: Amazon doesn't always make it... Read more ›
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October Prime Day is in full swing, and as always, we've put together a list of the best, most-discounted extra storage options for consoles and gaming PCs. Our guide to the top storage deals is split into three categories — tiny microSD cards (including a few compatible with the Nintendo Switch 2), portable external SSDs and generally faster (but more labor-intensive) internal SSDs. Whether you're building a gaming rig or... Read more ›
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Proton VPN, my favorite VPN service right now, has expanded its free plan in response to surging demand for free VPNs. As Proton's general manager announced by tweeting in French and later in Norwegian, free users now have access to servers in Canada and Norway, joining the existing locations in the United States, the Netherlands, Japan, Poland, Romania and Singapore. Free servers in all eight countries are now visible on... Read more ›
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If you finally got your hands on a Nintendo Switch 2 and have been loading it up with games, the thought of storage expansion may have crossed your mind by now (maybe more than once). But since the Switch 2 is only compatible with newer microSD Express cards, the pickings are slim at the moment. You can't just buy any microSD card on sale for Prime Day — but day... Read more ›
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Over the weekend, Discord revealed that its users may have had their data compromised when a third-party service provider was hacked. At the time, the platform said that a "small number" of government IDs may have been illicitly accessed. Today, however, claims circulated that the attackers had obtained more than 2 million photos that had been used for age-verification purposes. In response, the company said that about 70,000 users "may... Read more ›
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