Apple is planning to raise prices in response to the ongoing memory shortage. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Tim Cook says "price increases are unavoidable:" We're doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we've been trying to shield our customers from the… read more
Midjourney CEO David Holz just showed off the company's first hardware product and plans to build a San Francisco spa, which he admitted is a bit different from the "cat pictures" produced by its AI image generator. Dubbed The Midjourney Scanner, it's an ultrasound-based full-body scanner that uses a ring of sensors to capture vertical… read more
Roughly two years ago, Warframe received a delightful dose of heartbreak in the form of Jade Shadows. Digital Extremes' free-to-play sci-fi shooter has a history of 'intermission' quests – smaller stories that helped fill the space between larger narrative beats; smaller portions of intrigue, and fresh gameplay loops to indulge in. Read more Read Full… read more
An employment tribunal has ruled against Rockstar Games' request to remove blacklisting claims from the ongoing legal dispute over alleged union busting at the Grand Theft Auto 6 studio. Read more Read Full Article read more
Epic Games has revealed a new tool for Unreal Engine 5.8 which allows generative AI large language models (LLMs) to plug into and communicate with the engine directly, using its tools while being directed by text prompts. Read more Read Full Article read more
With Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced right around the corner and Codename Hexe still brewing (mostly) in secret, Ubisoft is finally saying goodbye to last year's Assassin's Creed Shadows. Its very last content update has now been released, and while its focus is on wrapping up Naoe and Yasuke's storyline, it's a big one, leading… read more
Action RPG Black Myth: Wukong broke records on its release in 2024. It attracted the biggest concurrent peak player count of any single-player game in Steam history and established itself as the most-viewed game on Chinese live-streaming platforms on its first day of release. Developer Game Science would go on to announce its Chinese mythology… read more
SanDisk has announced an expensive way to boost the PlayStation 5's storage capacity. The company's new Optimus GX PRO 850P NVMe SSD is an officially licensed PS5 accessory in capacities ranging from 1TB to 8TB. The largest option can store up to 200 PS5 games (based on average installation sizes) SanDisk claims, but thanks to… read more
Rockstar Games will allow players to upgrade older versions of Grand Theft Auto V to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X / S for free just months before the launch of GTA VI. Starting June 18th, players with any GTA V copy on PS4 or the digital version on Xbox One can get the current-gen… read more
Towards the end of goblinAmerica's tutorial level, you mercilessly gun down a huge cherry tree. Like much else in the game's world, the tree is an abomination – beige and rubbery as a stunted hatchling, with hard, tacky fruit hanging from it like dumbbells torturously sewn into the skin. Its death throes are pathetic, and… read more
Last month the European Commission promised that they would provide a response to the Stop Killing Games campaign that seeks to gain more protections around online game server shutdowns into law. That reply has now come in and, essentially, it's not the result Stop Killing Games were after. Read more Read Full Article read more
Following its official debut last month, Google is now rolling out Android 17 to compatible Pixel phones, alongside additional exclusive features as part of the June Pixel Drop. Not every feature announced alongside the OS at the pre-I/O Android Show is available today, though. Android 17 itself is arriving on Pixel phones today, and Google… read more