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Steam users have collectively amassed £14bn ($19bn) worth of unplayed games.That's according to new research from PCGN and SteamIDFinder, which has put the full cost of the number of unplayed games sitting in our Steam libraries as "about the same as the gross domestic product of Nicaragua". Read more
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I went to a museum recently that had a range of iPods and early generation iPhones on display — it was horrifying. Now, Apple is responsible for my shock, thanks to the new items added its vintage and obsolete products list on July 1. The tech giant has put the first generation HomePod on its list of vintage products. Apple typically labels a product as "vintage" if its been out... Read more ›
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Apple is said to have upped its order of next-generation chips from TSMC to between 90 million and 100 million units, following heightened demand expectations for its iPhone 16 series. Last year's initial chip order volume for the iPhone 15 series launch is believed to have been in the region of 80-90 million units, suggesting Apple is anticipating higher demand for its 2024 devices, according to Taiwanese outlet CTEE. The... Read more ›
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A weird new app lets San Francisco residents monitor local bars via live video feed to see what’s happening there and to check how busy the venues are. 2Nite, which launched earlier this year, uses a network of cameras at various Bay Area establishments to provide remote insights into what’s happening at those…Read more... Read more ›
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Capcom has announced the next (and long-rumoured) entry in the Resident Evil franchise is now in development.The news was shared during Capcom's NEXT broadcast last night, in an oh so casual way. "We're making a new Resident Evil," said Resident Evil 7: Biohazard director Koshi Nakanishi, essentially confirming he will be helming development on the next game."It was really difficult to figure out what to do after [Resident Evil] 7.... Read more ›
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The Court’s six Republicans handed down a decision on Monday that gives Donald Trump such sweeping immunity from prosecution that there are unlikely to be any legal checks on his behavior if he returns to the White House. The Court’s three Democrats dissented. Trump v. United States is an astonishing opinion. It holds that presidents […] Read more ›
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When Apple released macOS Monterey in 2021, some key features required a Mac with Apple silicon. The same scenario played out with macOS Ventura in 2022, and then again the following year with the release of macOS Sonoma. With macOS Sequoia set to arrive in the fall, which new features can Intel Mac owners expect to be unavailable to them this time around? Apple says that macOS Sequoia is compatible... Read more ›
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England-based Kavaken, a provider of SaaS solutions for the renewable energy sector, announced that it has secured $1.1M (approximately €1M) in seed funding rounds from Vestel Ventures, Rockstart, Norrsken Accelerator, Founderone, and 2040VC. Existing investors include Bogazici Ventures, Re-pie, and esteemed industry figures Yetik Kadri Mert, Olcayto Yigit, and Samuel Jaudel. The company will use ... Read more Read more ›
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Costco has gradually been switching the packaging for its rotisserie chicken from trays with lids to plastic bags. Read more ›
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Sales for BYD and Nio were boosted by price cuts, the introduction of cheaper models, and Chinese EV demand from Russia. Read more ›
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A new generation of engineers has realized they can push heat pumps to the limit, but just how much heat you can extract depends on your setup. Read more ›
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If you’re looking for electoral suspense, don’t look across the pond. Barring a polling error of world historic proportions, 14 years of Conservative rule will come to an end in the United Kingdom on July 4. The question isn’t whether Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s party will lose, it’s whether anything will be left of them […] Read more ›
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Live photos of the upcoming Google Pixel 9 have surfaced again, this time from a new source. For whatever reason, a unit – or perhaps just a dummy – of the new phone was available in Algeria for people to handle and film and film they did. So, here is the Pixel 9 in pink... sorry, this will be called Peony (named after the flower). Apparently, this one has 256GB... Read more ›
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It’s undeniable: the era of Chappell Roan is upon us. At music festivals and on the lists forecasting pop’s next big thing, there she is: big red hair and big powerhouse voice, unapologetically queer lyrics and exuberant drag queen aesthetic. This is the summer Chappell Roan became impossible to ignore. Roan has been a working […] Read more ›
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Recent gauges of China's manufacturing activity show export demand, but domestic sentiment is weak. Read more ›
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Daniel Jailani has seen Taylor Swift's Eras Tour in Australia, Singapore, France and the UK. He regrets nothing. Read more ›
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BlackRock's Preqin takeover is set to hand about $2 billion to its founder Mark O'Hare. That's about $300 million more than Larry Fink is worth. Read more ›
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Earlier this year Oppo unveiled the A3 Pro, an affordable 5G model for China (not to be confused with the A3 Pro for India). Now comes the vanilla Oppo A3, which dials back some hardware specs in the name of affordability. That said, the phone doesn’t sacrifice too much. Oppo A3 For example, it has a 6.67” OLED display with FHD+ resolution. Even better, it is a 10-bit panel with... Read more ›
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Restaurant startup Cluby raises €2.9M to enable every restaurant to connect with its customers digitallyFinnish restaurant tech startup Cluby, has raised €2.9 million in Seed funding. Cluby was founde... Read more ›
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A new report claims that Apple Intelligence could feature Google Gemini integration at launch. Read more ›
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Eurogamer.net
Capcom's slapstick zombie series Dead Rising is being reanimated, with a Deluxe Remaster version of the 2006 original launching for unspecified platforms at an unspecified release date. Created created by Keiji Inafune of Mega Man fame, Dead Rising's first outing took the basic premise of George A. Romero's horror movie classic Dawn of the Dead - which is to say, zombies in a mall - and gave it a fresh... Read more ›
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The big budget upcoming return of Crazy Taxi will be an open-world, massively-multiplayer game, Sega has said. A new developer interview video published today includes quotes from Sega's team behind the upcoming reboot, as well as brief flashes of in-game footage. There are clips of multiple yellow taxis racing each other - and police cars in pursuit. Job adverts on Sega's recruitment page note that the game is being developed... Read more ›
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Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has spoken out to condemn "the malicious and personal online attacks" directed at its developers, in the wake of the online fallout from Assassin's Creed Shadows' reveal. Shadows is Ubisoft's upcoming feudal Japan-set entry in its long-running historical stabathon series. Earlier this month, Ubisoft revealed its dual protagonists to be Black samurai Yasuke, a notable figure from the period, and a fictional shinobi named Naoe, who... Read more ›
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Ubisoft is cooking up multiple Assassin's Creed game remakes, according to company CEO Yves Guillemot. And while he hasn't revealed which ones yet, the news follows reports last year that Ubisoft's much-loved Assassin's Creed Black Flag is getting the remake treatment. Guillemot made the comments in an interview on Ubisoft website, discussing the company's upcoming portfolio. And while it offered little in the way of surprises - Yves once again... Read more ›
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Arrowhead's fantastic alien-shooter Helldivers 2 is PlayStation's fastest-selling game ever, but despite its initial success, Steam numbers continue to dwindle, plummeting to around 10 per cent of its all-time concurrent Steam peak of 458,709 players.As Victoria reported at the end of May, SteamDB showed Helldivers 2's peak at that time had dropped 64 percent to 166,305.Today, that has dropped to 35 percent again, falling to a 30-day average of 41,860... Read more ›
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Saber Interactive has cancelled the public beta test for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 in order to "prepare for the full launch".Citing that running a beta now "would take the development teams away from preparing for the full launch", the team acknowledged "this is disappointing news for some of you", and offered the limited Bolt Pistol skin as compensation to those who'd signed up to participate."Space Marine 2 is almost... Read more ›
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Xbox and Amazon have partnered up to deliver Xbox Cloud Gaming via select Fire TV devices."Today, we're announcing a collaboration with Amazon where Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members in over 25 countries can play games directly from the Xbox app on select Fire TV devices via cloud gaming, giving people even more choice in how they play their favourite games," Xbox announced earlier today.The company called this latest cloud-based initiative... Read more ›
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Listen up, Tarnished - Elden Ring worldbuilding writer George R. R. Martin has given his strongest hint yet that the critically acclaimed game may be getting its own "feature film or TV" spin-off.Whilst Hidetaka Miyazaki has only teased that he and FromSoftware would be open to a live-action adaptation, Martin goes just that little bit further courtesy of his the-lady-doth-protest-too-much-me-thinks protestations he recently shared on his personal blog."Oh, and about... Read more ›
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Nintendo court documents state that Donkey Kong once had a heap of other proposed names - including, unfortunately, "Kong Dong". The revelation is included in 1983 court documents from a lawsuit between Universal and Nintendo (ironically now best buddies in the theme park business with actual Donkey Kong lands you can visit). Said documents were originally scanned and placed online by gaming historian Norman Caruso in 2020, and were recently... Read more ›
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The community manager for Days Gone developer Bend Studio has apologised to fans. The reason for this apology? Because they are "getting fed false hope and poor information by people looking for likes".In a post on social media platform X, Kevin McAllister said this kind of behaviour is "not fair" to fans of Days Gone, who are eager to hear more news about more games in the series. This is... Read more ›
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