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Before we tell you know what we think, and before we get to what you think, we thought we'd do something a little bit different this as part of our usual end-of-year celebrations. What, we wondered, do the people who actually make the games think? As so we've chatted with the developers behind some of our favourite 2025 releases to find out which new games have resonated most with them as the year has gone on. Read more
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Time-travelling psychological horror game Cronos: The New Dawn is finally getting an additional, easier difficulty mode for people who want less of a gameplay challenge. Read more Read more ›
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Nick Woolsey spent his 20s living in Japan. He figured it would be easier to raise his children back in the States, but now he's returning to Japan. Read more ›
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YouTube TV cancellations spiked to the highest level in a year during the Disney blackout. Its rivals also saw surges, however. Read more ›
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A group of activists has scraped Spotify's entire library, accessing 256 million rows of track metadata and 86 million audio files totaling roughly 300TB of data. The metadata has been released via Anna's Archive, a search engine for "shadow libraries" that previously focused on books. Spotify described the activists as "anti-copyright extremists who've previously pirated content from YouTube and other platforms" and confirmed it is actively investigating the incident. The... Read more ›
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Michael Burry of "The Big Short" fame said the US needs to shift away from "power-hungry" chips, but Nvidia has a "death grip" on the sector. Read more ›
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Paramount and Netflix's bidding war for WBD heats up as Paramount revises its offer with a $40.4 billion guarantee from Larry Ellison. Read more ›
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In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna's Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify's library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It's essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has made books available for free. Read more ›
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It's been over 30 years since Macaulay Culkin starred in the iconic Christmas film, but even big fans may not know these "Home Alone" fun facts. Read more ›
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Colin Angle, the founder of iRobot who built the company from his living room over 35 years and sold more than 50 million Roomba vacuums, watched his creation file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this month after what he describes as an "avoidable" regulatory ordeal that killed Amazon's $1.7 billion acquisition bid. In an interview with TechCrunch, Angle recounted the 18-month investigation by the FTC and European regulators that preceded... Read more ›
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Trump is touting tariff revenues and a shrinking trade deficit as his economic accomplishments ahead or midterms, but economists say it's complicated. Read more ›
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The Big Four professional services firms — PwC, Deloitte, EY, and KPMG — are becoming increasingly embedded in the tech world as AI evolves. Read more ›
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You guys voted, and now we've got the winners for your favorite tech in 18 product categories. Read more ›
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Commentary: Wander down Gen X gamer memory lane with 200 games, including Pac-Man, Asteroids, Berserk and Centipede. Read more ›
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Paramount Skydance isn't giving up on obtaining Warner Bros. Discovery just yet. The company has amended its $108 billion offer to include Larry Ellison's "irrevocable personal guarantee" equaling $40.4 billion. Ellison is the founder or Oracle and a backer of Skydance, created by his son David Ellison, Paramount Skydance's CEO. On December 17, WBD formally recommended shareholders reject Paramount's offer. WBD had already accepted an $82.7 billion offer from Netflix,... Read more ›
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Yoshua Bengio, known as one of the "AI godfathers," said that while more jobs will be automated by AI, human qualities like love will always be valuable. Read more ›
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Our brains have a way of playing tricks on us — like that ringing in our ears known as tinnitus. It’s a sound in your head, created to make up for hearing loss. And that’s not the only way minds create the world we live in. “I study whether The Matrix is a movie or a […] Read more ›
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Kate Winslet became"very famous very quickly," after starring in "Titanic" in 1997, and the press was quick to body shame her. Read more ›
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Taiwan has big plans for making more drones, but there are industry and economic hurdles to overcome, including getting more big businesses involved. Read more ›
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I make the best peppermint chocolate chip cookies every year for the holidays. I'm a professional baker, but the recipe is so easy anyone can make it. Read more ›
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Larian is using generative AI as part of its game development process, but CEO Swen Vincke has confirmed the studio's new Divinity game won't include anything AI-generated. Read more Read more ›
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The Indie Game Awards has withdrawn two awards previously given to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, not because of the debate about what does and doesn't constitute an "indie" game, but because a representative of Sandfall Interactive had agreed that no gen AI had been used in the development when, in fact, it had. Read more Read more ›
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Fortnite will not be returning to iOS in Japan next year "as promised" because, according to Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney, Apple has allegedly launched "another travesty of obstruction and lawbreaking". Read more Read more ›
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While every site you've ever visited in 2025 seems intent on summarising your year even for things you absolutely don't need to be summarised (the cards I completed in Asana this year? Uh, no thanks), there's one wrapped message you probably won't be getting this year: Xbox. Read more Read more ›
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Falcom, creator of the Trails in the Sky and Y's series, has revealed during a recent shareholder presentation it has begun using AI during game development, stating they are proceeding "cautiously", but that it's been used in the early stages of development nonetheless. Read more Read more ›
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"I won't claim to be a gamer, but I was aware, broadly, of some of the concepts present in Final Fantasy," Tom Morello - singer, songwriter and political activist, and Rage Against the Machine guitarist - tells me when I ask him if he was aware of the political themes of Final Fantasy 14. Since its (re)release in 2014, FF14 has tackled issues such as anti-colonialism, class struggle, and nationalism,... Read more ›
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'Tis the season to be jolly, even if you happen to be ankle-deep in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Yup, Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl 2 is getting into the seasonal spirit of giving with a completely free update promising "hours" of new quests and more - all arriving on Tuesday, 16th December. Read more Read more ›
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Sony and Honda have announced its new car will include PlayStation Remote Play, so passengers can stream PS4 and PS5 games on the go. Read more Read more ›
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Well if you thought we were done with the Silksong excitement for 2025, think again. Team Cherry is wrapping up its year with a few last bits of business, including news of an enhanced version of the original Hollow Knight for Switch 2 and, most excitingly, a first look at Silksong's first big - and completely free - expansion Sea of Sorrows, coming next year. Read more Read more ›
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Six month after announcing an indefinite delay for Marathon in response to "passionate" community feedback, Bungie has slapped its live-service extraction shooter with a release window and price, confirming it'll launch for PlayStation 5 and PC in March next year for £35. Read more Read more ›
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