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,…
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…
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…
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After years of development and pent-up anticipation from fans, Hollow Knight: Silksong, the full sequel to the indie classic Hollow Knight, will finally be released on September 4th. It will cost $19.99 and include new zones, more than 200 enemies, over 40 bosses, and an orchestral score from the composer of the first game.Silksong was…
Edgard Gouveia stages communal games to help people connect and solve problems. Dancing together is part of his process. Above: At a circle dance at a festival in Berlin, he asked participants to hug at least five other people. Many of them came up to him to thank and hug him, too. Marlena Waldhausen for…
Bill ConnellySep 4, 2025, 07:00 AM ETCloseBill Connelly is a writer for ESPN. He covers college football, soccer and tennis. He has been at ESPN since 2019.Around 5 or 5:15 p.m. local time on Saturday, the second Missouri Tigers home game of the season will go to a commercial break before the fourth quarter begins,…
Media caption, These were difficult calls – Tuchel on England’s right-backsBySami Mokbel, Senior football correspondent and Neil Johnston, BBC Sport journalistTrent Alexander-Arnold has been left out of Thomas Tuchel’s latest England squad, with call-ups for uncapped duo Elliot Anderson and Djed Spence.Right-back Alexander-Arnold left Liverpool for Real Madrid in the summer and was named in Tuchel’s previous squad.However, he…
Even suffused in otherworldly fog, Silent Hill F’s picturesque period setting gleams with authenticity. Traditional hardwood buildings line narrow alleyways, while babbling brooks and small footpaths crisscross soaking paddy fields. The ephemera of 1960s everyday life is everywhere: glossy magazines, vintage toasters, exquisite flower arrangements. Yet beyond this moody sense of place, the details that…
The Nintendo Switch 2 is not the most powerful game console, not by a long shot. Instead, it is powerful enough to give developers the breathing room to port modern games to it. Where the original Switch forced developers to pare back visuals, Star Wars Outlaws, which launched on Nintendo’s handheld on Sept. 4, signals…
Kotaku Game DiaryDaily thoughts from a Kotaku staffer about a game we’re playing. Some games’ post-release plans are stingy, others generous, some comically convoluted. And then there’s the seven-part plan for Shadow of the Tomb Raider, an awkward game that is now getting some awkward expansions.On paper before release, it all seemed pretty good. Shadow of…
Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Brawl Stars is nearing its global launch For the last 18 months, Finnish game developer Supercell has been testing its next big thing. Last year, the developer behind mobile hits like Clash of Clans and Clash Royale soft-launched a new game called Brawl Stars. It’s very different from…
Cover Story Codenames! Catan! Sorry! Transform screen time into game time with these immortal classics. For some families, game nights are at the very core of who they are and how they live together. From generation to generation, brothers and sisters and cousins in game families have shared in-jokes, swapped anecdotes, and passed down the…
Salt Lake City got the green light to bid for the Winter Olympics — most likely for 2030 — in an attempt to bring the Games back to the city that hosted in 2002 and provided the backdrop for the U.S. winter team’s ascendance into an international powerhouse. The U.S. Olympic Committee said Friday it…
Sunset Overdrive is a garish, over-the-top explosion of color and sound. Its punk rock sensibilities are evident at every turn. Even four years after launching in 2014 as an Xbox One exclusive, this is still one of the best games of its generation. The credit for that belongs entirely to Insomniac Games, the same studio…
The first several months after Nintendo released the Switch in 2017 have been described as a “gold rush” for independent game developers. The Switch’s eShop wasn’t exactly barren, but early on there was a lot of room for new releases. To put it into perspective, Nintendo announced in 2018 that around 1,000 games were added…