Don't Nod's spiritual successor to its popular video game series Life is Strange, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, is confirmed to launch in two parts, and the first gameplay trailer is being revealed. The first part, Tape 1, will launch on February 18, 2025. You can expect Tape 2 to come out exactly one month later, on March 18, 2025. Earlier this year, Don't Nod decided to delay the gameâs... Read more âș
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Secret Level is a gaming-inspired anthology series coming to Prime Video on December 15. The upcoming Amazon title is from the same team behind Netflix's Love, Death and Robots. From the teaser released during Gamescom, this new project will be continuing the Blur Studios specialty for creating masterful animated works for an adult audience. The creative team was looking to inspire "nerd joy" with Love, Death and Robots and from... Read more âș
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Tarsier Studios, creators of the first two Little Nightmares games, is back with another creepy adventure â and its âpartially disemboweled talking pigâ teaser video looks like it set the proper tone. Announced at Gamescom Opening Night, Reanimal takes two children on an adventure across land and sea as they work together to rescue their missing friends on an island filled with horrifying creatures. The developer helmed the first two... Read more âș
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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is set in 1937, in the space between Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade, and itâs being developed by MachineGames, the studio behind the most recent Wolfenstein installments. So, of course the gameâs main enemies are Nazis, and obviously it has a robust range of Nazi-punching mechanics. What makes The Great Circle intriguing, even after just a 30-minute hands-off preview, is... Read more âș
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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is coming to Xbox Series X/S and PC on December 9. It'll be available on Game Pass. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is also coming to PlayStation 5, but it's taking the scenic route to Sony's console: It'll hit PS5 in spring 2025. It's been rumored for a while now that The Great Circle â a game developed by Xbox subsidiary MachineGames and... Read more âș
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We've got our first big announcement of Gamescom: Borderlands is back. Borderlands 4 is the next entry in the franchise from Gearbox Software and 2K Games. It's due to arrive in 2025. There's no gameplay in the announcement video released today. While that's a touch disappointing, it isn't much of a surprise for a teaser trailer or for a release that is still likely at least a year away. (And... Read more âș
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CondĂ© Nast, the media conglomerate that owns publications like The New Yorker, Vogue and Wired, has announced a multi-year partnership OpenAI to display content from CondĂ© Nast titles in ChatGPT as well as SearchGPT, the companyâs prototype AI-powered search engine. The partnership comes amid growing concerns over the unauthorized use of publishersâ content by AI companies. Last month, CondĂ© Nast sent a cease-and-desist letter to AI search startup Perplexity, accusing... Read more âș
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The biggest day of the tech worldâs fall calendar is nearly here: Appleâs iPhone 16 event will take place sometime in September. The company typically does it on a Tuesday during the first half of the month, so September 10 is a safe bet. No matter when it happens, we'll be live-blogging the news, and you can watch it live via the companyâs website or on YouTube. The biggest news... Read more âș
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Streaming posted another banner month in July, reaching multiple new milestones in the latest issue of The Gauge report from Nielsen. The big headline is that streaming was responsible for 41.4 percent of all TV viewing during the month. That's the highest share in the report's brief history for any viewing category, meaning streaming topped past performances for both broadcast and cable TV. The result follows on the heels of... Read more âș
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Streaming prices love to go up, but hereâs a rare instance in which one is going down. Paramount+ is lowering prices on its two annual plans for a limited time. The cheapest option is just $30 per year, and this gets you the Essentials plan. This is the basic subscription that allows access to Paramount+ programming with ads. It doesnât, however, offer access to Showtime. For that, the cost doubles... Read more âș
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Black Myth: Wukong, considered Chinaâs first true AAA game, has broken Steamâs concurrent players record for a single-player title, passing Cyberpunk 2077 for the single-player record. In addition, itâs now the game with the second-most all-time concurrent players to date (including multiplayer), moving past Palworld. Based on the 16th-century novel Journey to the West, the souls-like action-adventure epic peaked at 2,223,179 players. Industry analyst Simon Carless of GameDiscoverCo posted on... Read more âș
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What do you get when you make a game influenced by movies like The Running Man and Labyrinth, toss in a bit of flair from professional wrestling (the kind with squared rings, not circular mats) and then throw all that on top of a co-op 3D platformer with user-generated dungeon building? To be honest, Iâm not quite sure, but thatâs sort of what Amazon Games and developer Glowmade are going... Read more âș
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One of the main reasons to have a smart speaker is to help you control various smart home devices. Light bulbs are among the most common products used for that purpose, so it only makes sense to bundle one of those with a smart speaker. As part of a back to school sale on Amazon devices and bundles, a combo of the Echo Pop and a Sengled smart bulb is... Read more âș
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Once upon a time in the tail-end of the last century, there was something called the Y2K bug. This bit of computer code was supposed to herald a global robot apocalypse at the stroke of midnight when 1999 became the year 2000 because of, uh, clock dates or something. Anyways, nothing happened. Or did it? Thatâs the premise behind A24âs new horror comedy, the appropriately-named Y2K. The film imagines a... Read more âș
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Earlier this week Valve started kicking Counter-Strike 2 players who used a feature called Simultaneous Opposing Cardinal Directions (SOCD). Itâs available on some of Razer and Wootingâs keyboards, and you'll be kicked from matches if you play Counter-Strike 2 and the game detects you using it. Fortunately, Valve isnât planning to ban Steam accounts right now. The Verge tested Valveâs ruling and confirmed the game kicks you from matches if... Read more âș
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Anova will soon start charging customers a monthly or yearly fee to use the âsmartâ features of its well-regarded sous vide cooking appliances. The subscription costs kick in on August 21 and apply to the proprietary app, which controls wireless functionality. In other words, you wonât be able to remotely control the device without paying the piper. The subscription price isnât exactly exorbitant, at $2 per month or $10 per... Read more âș
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The last few years have brought a sharp rise in âcozy games,â or video games that are expressly designed to generate good vibes. But being cozy isnât synonymous with being good. If youâre looking for some games to help you wind down, we can help. Below weâve rounded up a few of our favorite chill games, ones that purposefully deemphasize fail states, grinding, intense violence and other aggressive urges, but... Read more âș
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It's back to school season, which means many students and/or their parents are on the lookout for a laptop on which they can get schoolwork done. Depending on your needs, though, a tablet may do the trick (but you'll likely still want a keyboard attachment for extended typing sessions). Tablets offer flexibility in terms of study and play, and it's pretty hard to go wrong with a recent iPad. As... Read more âș
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Waymoâs self-driving cars no longer honk when near each other, Waymoâs Director of Product and Operations Vishay Nihalani said yesterday when he appeared on software engineer Sophia Tungâs livestream. The vehicles were spotted honking at each other a few weeks ago, prompting Waymo to issue a software patch. As reported by NBC Bay Area, residents living near the parking lot full of Waymo taxis reported that despite the patch going... Read more âș
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A game developer called Amazing Seasun Games is demonstrating NVIDIA's Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) technology through its upcoming multiplayer mecha game Mecha BREAK at Gamescom this year. NVIDIA unveiled ACE at Computer 2023, presenting it as a "custom AI model foundry service" that developers can use to make their games more interactive. Specifically, it will allow players to interact with NPCs without the constraints of pre-programmed conversations and will be... Read more âș
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