Image: Epic Games Lego is building something new in Fortnite. A year after Lego Fortnite launched a new era inside of the game â one based on the idea that Fortnite is a collection of many game experiences, rather than just a battle royale â Lego is expanding its presence with a new title that sounds reminiscent of Grand Theft Auto V roleplaying as well as a rebrand of its... Read more âș
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Photo illustration by The Verge / Photo: Microsoft The companyâs new AI chief on working for Microsoft, the OpenAI relationship, and when superintelligence might actually arrive. Read the full story at The Verge. Read more âș
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The Raspberry Pi 500 computer keyboard starts at $90, but youâll need to add your own mouse, power supply, and screen for that price. | Image: Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi has announced an upgraded version of its compact computer-in-a-keyboard, adding the new features and performance improvements of the Raspberry Pi 5 microcomputer it introduced last September. The Raspberry Pi 500, which is available now starting for $90, is $20 more... Read more âș
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Illustration: The Verge Reddit is launching a new AI-powered search tool called Reddit Answers to help you more easily find information on the platform. The tool, similar to other AI search products, responds to queries by generating well-formatted responses and showing links to its sources. But the distinction with Reddit Answers is that it sources things directly from Reddit, which means it could be a way to skip Google and... Read more âș
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Image: Epic Games Indie game storefront Itch.io is currently offline because of what it describes as a bogus phishing report. While the game storeâs servers are still online, the domain for the website is currently pointing towards IP addresses that itch.io doesnât own â making it inaccessible for most people. Itch.io blames pop culture collectibles company Funko for the issues in a post on X, âbecause they use some trash... Read more âș
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Michelle Yeoh in Star Trek: Section 31. | Image: Paramount Plus Itâs the first week of December, and the end of the year is coming in faster than Iâd like. Even so, thereâs a lot to look forward to at theaters this month. That very cool-looking Lord of the Rings anime hits US theaters on the 13th; Sonic the Hedgehog 3 follows on the 20th; and Iâm deeply excited to... Read more âș
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Invincible season three is on its way, and Amazon has released a new trailer in which hero Mark Grayson takes on robots, rams a rocket in space, and chastises Oliver. He also gets a new blue suit. âMarkâs speed has increased 65 percent; his endurance, 70 percent; and his strength, 138 percent,â says GDA agent Donald Ferguson (Chris Diamantopoulos), setting up the action-filled trailer. What follows are a Mortal Kombat-style... Read more âș
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Rand (Joshua Stradowski) and Moiraine (Rosamund Pike). | Screenshot: YouTube Amazon announced at CCXP in Brazil yesterday that season three of Prime Video fantasy series The Wheel of Time will start streaming on March 13th, 2025, writes Deadline. The company also released a new teaser trailer, setting stakes that include the life of at least one main character. The trailer opens with Rand alâThor (Joshua Stradowski) and others standing on... Read more âș
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Sonyâs âcosmic redâ DualSense Wireless Controller is down to $54.99 ($20 off) for a limited time. | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Black Friday and Cyber Monday may be over, but Sonyâs ongoing holiday sale lives on, giving you a chance to save on various PlayStation 5 consoles, games, and accessories through January 2nd. Now until December 25th, for example, you can save up to $75 on the... Read more âș
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Thereâs a lot we donât know about whatâs coming for tech in 2025. AI could save the world, or ruin it, or do pretty much nothing interesting at all. A new US president could change priorities and policies on antitrust fights and privacy rules. Will TikTok get banned? Will the fediverse take off? Will it be the year of Matter? Will Grand Theft Auto VI change society forever? Will the... Read more âș
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Sonyâs PSVR2 controller support may be coming to the Vision Pro through a special partnership. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Vision Pro could gain support for Sony PSVR2 controllers soon, according to Mark Gurman in todayâs Power On newsletter for Bloomberg. Apple and Sony apparently planned to announce support for the controllers âweeks agoâ but have pushed back the rollout. Under this rumored partnership, Apple... Read more âș
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Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 63, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If youâre new here, welcome, itâs a lot of stuff to watch this week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, Iâve been reading about clog crime and bright headlights and Robert Pattinson, starting my 564th rewatch of... Read more âș
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Image: NZXT Gamers Nexus has released a video deconstructing NZXTâs defense of its Flex gaming PC purchase and rental program. In it, host Steve Burke says the company is still misleading customers, despite adjustments made in response to his previous video in which he called the program âa scam.â NZXT said in its response this week that it would clarify details about its Flex program, which Gamers Nexus had criticized... Read more âș
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Michelle Yeoh as Emperor Philippa Georgiou. | Screenshot: YouTube Thereâs a lot of Star Trek: Discovery in the official trailer for the Star Trek: Section 31 movie that Paramount Plus just released â big drama, explosions, and some looming threat thatâs âunlike anything that Starfleetâs ever seen.â The trailer shows off a little more of the film, with moody corridors, some sort of electrified space ball, and brief looks at... Read more âș
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Image: The Verge X has given Grok a new AI image generator model called âAuroraâ that seems to create far more photorealistic imagery than Grokâs other image generator, with similarly few apparent restrictions on what it will produce, TechCrunch reports. Like Grok, anyone can use Aurora. It lives in a new âGrok 2 + Aurora betaâ option in the Grok model selector, though youâll only get a few queries before... Read more âș
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Photo illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Jerod Harris, Chesnot, Getty Images With just weeks left to pass legislation before Congress adjourns, X CEO Linda Yaccarino announced she worked with the authors of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) to update the bill in what seems like a play to win over the Republican House leaders standing in the way of it becoming law. The striking... Read more âș
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Image: Apple We already knew that the tensions and scares were going to ramp up in season 2 of Severance, and the latest trailer provides a deeper glimpse into what to expect â along with teasing answers to some important (and weird) questions. The show follows a megacorporation called Lumon Industries, which utilizes a new procedure called severance that allows workers to spatially split their brains, creating two selves: one... Read more âș
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Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced on Friday it had placed Google Payment Corp. under federal supervision, reports Reuters. Google reportedly filed a lawsuit to block the CFPBâs order, which could result in routine inspections and monitoring like those imposed on banks. The agency found that Googleâs error resolution and fraud prevention processes pose risks to consumers, citing customer complaints about Google Pay... Read more âș
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Image: Epic Games Epic Games is about to let Fortnite creators publish experiences with first-person modes, and to help show whatâs possible, Epic itself is introducing a tactical FPS shooter that seems like it will play a lot like Counter-Strike or Valorant. The new mode, called âBallistic,â is âan adrenaline-filled, round-based 5v5 competitive game mode where strategy, tactical teamwork, and individual prowess are essential for victory,â according to an Epic... Read more âș
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Image: The Verge Thereâs plenty to consider when it comes to deciding whether you want to engage with the many generative AI bots now available inside our apps. These include the ethics of copyright use, soaring energy demands, and the diminishing of human creativity, to begin with. Something else to bear in mind when engaging with these tools is theyâre often going to use your flesh-and-blood human inputs to further... Read more âș
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