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A month after denying reports it was poised to pull the plug on its free-to-play live-service shooter XDefiant - which launched back in May - Ubisoft has confirmed it's doing just that, resulting in the closure of three production studios and 277 employees losing their jobs.
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OpenAI will start announcing new features and demos tomorrow for 12 days through livestreams. Sources familiar with the matter told The Verge that these new products will allegedly include OpenAI’s long-awaited text-to-video tool, Sora, and a new reasoning model. The announcement for "12 Days of OpenAI”, as the company puts it, was made public on X yesterday. The first livestream will broadcast tomorrow, but the announcements themselves remain unconfirmed That... Read more ›
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Many love Utah's Brighton Resort, but I found it crowded with OK terrain. With other impressive ski resorts nearby, I wouldn't go back a third time. Read more ›
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BioWare has announced a standalone launch for Dragon Age: The Veilguard's character creator, and detailed the game's next patch. Read more Read more ›
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The idea that macOS is safer than Windows is a dated one thanks to generative AI and its impact on malware writing. Read more ›
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The real-estate listings site's 2025 outlook for the housing market includes predictions about home prices and mortgage rates. Read more ›
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Jared Isaacman, the billionaire CEO nominated for NASA administrator, made history by leading the first private spacewalk with SpaceX. Read more ›
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In a letter to the Department of Defense, senators Ron Wyden and Eric Schmitt are calling for an investigation into fallout from the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign. Read more ›
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A shocking coup attempt sent South Korea into political upheaval. But on the ground, at the protests that would prevent the President from seizing power, people were organized, angry, and a little drunk. Read the full story at The Verge. Read more ›
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Image: Disney Plus / Lucasfilm Ltd. Disney Plus’ latest Star Wars series is trying to speak directly to a new generation of young fans. Read the full story at The Verge. Read more ›
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Your Verizon bill is going up. Whether that number is big or small depends on how many lines you have. Read more ›
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Apple now has a dedicated iCloud Passwords add-on designed for the Firefox browser, which means Firefox users can access passwords and logins stored in the Passwords app or iCloud Keychain when using Firefox on a PC or Mac. The extension is being distributed by Apple, but it appears that it was originally created by a third-party developer and later taken over and updated by Apple. With the iCloud Passwords extension,... Read more ›
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If your group chat is anything like Engadget's Slack, Balatro probably comes up several times a week. The indie poker-style title is one of the most talked-about games of the year for good reason: it's endlessly compelling. But what if you don't have a laptop, phone, Steam Deck, Switch or other console nearby and you need your fix, goshdarnit? That's where a physical deck of Balatro playing cards may come... Read more ›
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon quietly carved out two Washington, DC zip codes from being serviced by its fastest Prime delivery service with its own branded trucks, outsourcing deliveries to slower services like UPS and the Postal Service, DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb alleges in a new lawsuit. The alleged decision led to about 48,000 Prime members living in two zip codes east of the Anacostia River... Read more ›
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Microsoft has clarified that it will not lift the TPM 2.0 requirement for Windows 11 as Windows 10 approaches EOL. Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images In 2024, you couldn’t escape hearing about AI. From smartphones to wearables to the smart home, it seemed every tech company wanted to pitch their next great AI innovation. The year was filled with impressive technological leaps and useful new tools, endless hype and frequent misfires, and implications for the future that range from truly exciting to unpredictable. This is the year... Read more ›
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Sony is releasing My First Gran Turismo this week, a new free-to-play game that pays tribute to the origins of the series' first game on the original PlayStation. Read more Read more ›
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The CEO of UnitedHealthcare's insurance division, Brian Thompson, was reportedly fatally shot on Wednesday. Read more ›
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The Xreal One. | Image: Xreal During a recent flight from Los Angeles to New York City, I put a headset on my face to watch a movie. I wasn’t wearing the Vision Pro or a Meta Quest. I was trying the latest pair of AR glasses from Xreal, a Chinese startup taking an unusually focused approach to face computers. To call the Xreal One, which is available for preorder... Read more ›
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Photo by Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge The fragmented and frustrating nature of our current EV charging landscape has been widely — and correctly — cited as one of the most significant barriers to EV adoption. Why buy a plug-in car when every time you plug it in, you have to sign up for another EV charging app, fumble through your payment information, authorize the account, and pray it... Read more ›
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No Man's Sky didn't get off to the smoothest of starts, but eight years after its controversial launch, Hello Games' exploratory space sim has reached a significant milestone, finally gaining enough favourable player reviews on Steam to shift its overall rating to "Very Positive". Read more Read more ›
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From 3rd January 2025, Riot Games will ban content creators for bad "off-platform conduct". Read more Read more ›
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I bought Forspoken on PS5 for £5. I didn't want to play Forspoken at all, but I had £5. Forspoken on PS5 has sat on my desk (complete with character cards) sealed since November 17, 2023. Yes, this was a waste of £5. I'm an idiot who does stuff like this (glances over at a shelf full of Mega Drive games I can't play as I don't own a Mega... Read more ›
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Eurogamer's week-long coverage of PlayStation's 30th anniversary begins today with a very special interview: an extended conversation looking back behind the scenes at PlayStation's original launch, how the brand became a breakout success despite established competition, its "Icarus moment" in the PS3 era, and then its ongoing battle for industry dominance. Read more Read more ›
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Tencent development studio Polaris Quest has announced Light of Motiram, an open-world survival crafting game with mechanised animal-like creatures which - no matter which way you shake it and squint - looks remarkably similar to Guerrilla's Horizon series, but with some additional Palworld elements thrown in for good measure. Read more Read more ›
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The next project from Lies of P developer Round8 Studios will be a sci-fi survival horror, in a marked change from the souslike genre. Read more Read more ›
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Larian would like you to know it's still not done with the Baldur's Gate 3. The studio has now revealed what's next for the multi-award-winning RPG, with cross-play, a photo mode, and 12 new subclasses all set to launch next year. Read more Read more ›
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Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl developer GSC Game World has dropped a second patch. Read more Read more ›
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Valve has removed a game from its British Steam storefront following a request from the UK's counter-terrorism unit. Read more Read more ›
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Light of Motiram - or as it has been dubbed since its reveal yesterday, Horizon Zero Originality - will also be coming to iOS, Android and PlayStation 5. Read more Read more ›
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