Today, Nvidia is soft-launching its latest gaming GPUs in the cloud — upgrading its $20-a-month GeForce Now Ultimate cloud gaming service with RTX 5080 graphics for select games, with more to come down the road. At the same time, it’s also adding thousands more titles to the bring-your-own-games service by letting you install them yourself,…
Read MoreMedia caption, Ben Proud talks about joining the Enhanced GamesByBen Collins, BBC Sport journalist and Patrick Gearey, BBC Sport senior journalist reporterOlympic swimmer Ben Proud has become the first British athlete to join the controversial Enhanced Games – but insists what he is doing is not undermining ‘clean’ sport.Proud, 30, is a world and European champion at 50m freestyle,…
Read MoreToday, Nvidia is soft-launching its latest gaming GPUs in the cloud — upgrading its $20-a-month GeForce Now Ultimate cloud gaming service with RTX 5080 graphics for select games, with more to come down the road. At the same time, it’s also adding thousands more titles to the bring-your-own-games service by letting you install them yourself,…
Media caption, Ben Proud talks about joining the Enhanced GamesByBen Collins, BBC Sport journalist and Patrick Gearey, BBC Sport senior journalist reporterOlympic swimmer Ben Proud has become the first British athlete to join the controversial Enhanced Games – but insists what he is doing is not undermining ‘clean’ sport.Proud, 30, is a world and European champion at 50m freestyle,…
Hollow Knight: Silksong, one of the hottest games of the year with a reported five million players in its first week, didn’t launch on smartphones. But that won’t stop you from playing it on Android — because a new leap in Windows to Android emulation means you can easily install and run the Steam version…
A busy year for Nintendo continues with its latest Direct livestream. And it was a big one spanning more than an hour of announcements and trailers, with quite a few surprises.That includes a title for the next Super Mario Bros. movie, release dates for Metroid Prime 4 and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, a Pokémon…
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Tuchel managed Paris St-Germain, Chelsea and Bayern Munich before becoming England bossByUmir IrfanFootball tactics correspondentThomas Tuchel’s England have only played six games together and Tuesday’s 5-0 win against Serbia was the most impressive.With the World Cup fast approaching, Tuchel has the difficult challenge of refining his best 11 and the…
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So I heard you want to play Kirby on hard mode: tough bosses, tricky platforming, complicated puzzles, hidden collectibles, and maybe even punishments for failing. The Star-Crossed World expansion in Kirby and the Forgotten Land’s Switch 2 edition certainly introduces new challenges. There’s pressure from time constraints and consecutive platforming sequences, multistep puzzles, and bosses…
I love me a stupid-ass action movie. Something where the plot is thin while the muscles and accents on all the henchmen are thick as hell. Think Broken Arrow or Eraser — movies that were artistically and sometimes commercially terrible but nevertheless thrilling watches that you forgot about almost immediately after leaving the theater.Borderlands 4…
(Image credit: ILM) AC thVRsday This week, guest editor Michael Hicks is covering Nick Sutrich’s weekly column on all things VR, from new hardware to new games.Quest headsets took a back seat at Meta Connect 2025. Zuckerberg focused on smart glasses and signaled that Meta will shift its VR focus to 3D media like Avatar.…
(Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central) AC thVRsday In his weekly column, Android Central Senior Content Producer Nick Sutrich delves into all things VR, from new hardware to new games, upcoming technologies, and so much more.I’ve been obsessed with the idea of mixed reality gaming ever since the Meta Quest 3 debuted almost 2…
Thursday September 11, 2025 11:04 am PDT by Juli CloverApple and Epic Games have been involved in a high-profile legal battle in the United States, but the two companies have also been facing off in court in Australia. Back in August, Australia’s federal court ruled that the Apple App Store had violated competition laws by…
The court order that required Apple to collect no fees from developers who link to purchases outside of the App Store is unconstitutional, Apple said today in a reply brief directed at Epic Games and filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Apple argues that it has been stripped of its rights to be…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has declared that he believes video games could be a cause of gun violence in America. Speaking to PBS (as spotted by GameSpot), the U.S. health secretary explained that the National Institutes of Health are looking into possible causes for gun violence, during which he named “video games and social media” as likely…
There are only two things that Nate really wants to do: use the toilet (one that, he emphasizes, comes with three walls and a door) and go home. He also walks with a strange gait, with one tiny foot raised awkwardly in front of the other, before landing with a gentle plop. At times, he…
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NCAA college football conference MAC today announced it has collaborated with Apple to provide its 13 teams with iPads for video replay during the 2025 season. Coaches are receiving iPad Pro models with the M4 chip and iPad Air models with the M3 chip, with DVSport’s 360 Rewind app installed for video replay. The app…
For the last few years, subscription gaming services like Apple Arcade and Netflix have offered mobile game developers something of a haven for high-quality, premium mobile games: a type of game that had become vanishingly rare following the rise of the microtransaction-stuffed free-to-play model. But as these services’ once enviable lineup of indie games dwindles,…
Nintendo’s latest livestreamed event is highlighting the smattering of indie games coming to the Switch consoles later this year, and the Indie World Showcase is scheduled to start on Thursday, August 7th, at 9 AM ET.Hades 2 might make an appearance, and there’s a slim chance the long-awaited Hollow Knight: Silksong might show up as…
It’s always a risk betting on new video game hardware from a little-known company: what if game developers never show up? But the $50 Thumby Color, on sale this week, is an easier sell — the two-inch handheld is cute as a button, fits on your keychain, and lets aspiring programmers build and publish games…
Over the past decade and a half, Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry has become the most knowledgeable and trustworthy place to find out just how powerful a new video game console might be, where the hottest new games run the best, and why they sometimes don’t! Even Sony and Microsoft often favor DF for exclusive access to…
In the fascinating new reality of the internet, teen girls can’t learn about periods on Reddit and indie artists can’t sell smutty games on Itch.io, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month.Early Tuesday, Elon Musk’s xAI launched a new image and video…
Studio MorganHarvey Hayman and Holly Hudson founded their own studio after graduating from a game design courseWhen Holly Hudson enrolled on a university video game design course, she imagined a job at a studio would be waiting at the end of it.Her dream was to work as a 3D artist, but the reality has been…
In iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe, Apple added an all-new Games app that’s designed to be the go-to place for mobile gaming on Apple devices. The app includes features for discovering new games to play, along with add-ons meant to keep you more engaged. The Games app is pretty similar to the Games…
I can’t believe they’re actually making these, was my very first thought, as I powered on a working prototype of the OneXSugar Sugar 1.This week, One-Netbook is crowdfunding a gaming handheld on Indiegogo like none I’ve ever touched before. It’s got two OLED touchscreens, two power buttons, two sets of volume controls, and two hinged…
I can feel my heart lift as I play Donkey Kong Bananza. Every punch from DK’s ham-hock-sized fists sends a shower of stones and debris into the air. Enemies tear apart until they’re left as golden skeletons, begging me to shoulder them into the nearest rock face just to watch the scenery dissolve into a…