Stop Killing Games, caller from speaking astatine EU parliament astir video crippled user rights, has present joined the pushback against property verification laws, claiming that they don't hole the causes of online harm and implementing them is prohibitively analyzable for crippled preservation erstwhile a steadfast moves on."

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The erstwhile Nintendo creation manager who primitively designed the Star Fox characters successful the '90s has admitted helium prefers the caller Super Mario Galaxy film's plan of Fox McCloud to the newly-announced game's.

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Earlier this week, Funcom released the large 1 for endurance crippled Conan Exiles: a escaped Enhanced variation upgrade that visually overhauls the game, among different things.

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Sid Meier's Civilization 7 was successful nary mode a flop - successful fact, it's been performing good capable and has semipermanent potential, according to Take-Two - but there's nary denying it caused a rift with its much daring plan decisions that person divided the assemblage since its aboriginal 2025 launch.

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Save to Spotify is simply a caller command-line instrumentality designed specifically for AI agents similar OpenClaw, Claude Code, oregon OpenAI Codex. If you're the benignant of idiosyncratic who collects probe connected a topic, past feeds it done their AI of prime to make audio summaries and idiosyncratic podcasts, this lets you prevention them close alongside the latest occurrence of The Vergecast and Welcome to Night Vale connected Spotify.

To acceptable it up, you request to download and instal the Save to Spotify CLI from GitHub. Then you conscionable punctual your AI cause arsenic normal, but tack connected "and prevention to Spotify," and it should amusement up close successful your podcast feed. In the blog station announcing the feature, S …

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It's a Whoop dupe. That was my archetypal thought erstwhile I saw the caller $99 Google Fitbit Air. You tin hardly blasted me. The set is screenless with a metallic cloth clasp. My eyes flickered betwixt the Fitbit Air and my wrist, wherever I'm wearing a Whoop MG. Was I not seeing double?

But arsenic my property briefing went on, my sentiment started changing. The Air is benignant of similar the OG Fitbits that Whoop past duped erstwhile Fitbit went each successful connected smartwatches. Think backmost to 2012, erstwhile the Fitbit One could clip to your pants, beryllium turned into a pendant, oregon dangle from a keychain. That instrumentality was mostly a pedometer, whereas the Air is much of a modern, modular sensor t …

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We already cognize Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is going to beryllium afloat of Easter eggs from crossed the series' 80+ twelvemonth history, but I did not admit conscionable however heavy the developers implicit astatine TT Games were going to go.

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Far from being annoyed that radical are focusing connected however antithetic the caller James Bond crippled 007: First Light is from the Hitman games which preceded it, developer IO Interactive is really "really happy" radical are starting to admit the differences.

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Nintendo shocked the games manufacture past nighttime with a abrupt uncover of a caller Star Fox game, a remake of Star Fox 64, coming exclusively to Switch 2. This astonishment announcement comes disconnected the backmost of Nintendo investors reportedly voicing concerns that the Switch 2 is "deeply unprofitable" owed to the ongoing components crisis, resulting successful a propulsion for a terms bump.

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Ploopy has announced different unfastened root rodent alternate that skips touchpads and trackballs. While the caller Ploopy Bean looks similar a tiny travel-friendly mouse, you don't request to determination it around. Instead, surrounded by 4 buttons is simply a reddish pointing instrumentality akin to the TrackPoint that IBM included connected its ThinkPad laptops agelong earlier Lenovo took implicit the brand.

The Canadian institution lone shares pricing successful its section currency but the Bean is available for preorder present done Ploopy's website for $69.99, oregon astir US $51. Beneath a pre-assembled 3D-printed enclosure that lets you people your ain replacement parts is simply a highly-sensitive Texas In …

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Hundreds of influencers, media folks, and a fewer C-list celebs (sorry, Woz) filled the cavernous halls of the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts past week. They were assembled for Dreame's motorboat event, ostensibly into some America and a overmuch bigger ecosystem of products. Across the four-day showcase, the Chinese robot vacuum institution pitched an AI-wrapped future that extends beyond level cleaning to smartphones, astute rings, astute cars, and much robotic arms than immoderate feline would beryllium comfy with.

The event, called Dreame Next 2026, leaned heavy connected spectacle and vaporware. While determination were immoderate existent launches successful the vacuuming, air-purifyin …

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What're ya buyin'? As soon arsenic you work oregon perceive those words, you cognize precisely who I americium talking about. It's the catchphrase spoken by Resident Evil 4's mysterious Merchant, who Leon tin get weapons and upgrades from arsenic helium battles his mode done the Las Plagas-riddled villagers.

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Microsoft has announced it volition beryllium hosting its archetypal ever Xbox Game Dev Update showcase today. The freshly-announced video watercourse volition present the company's next-gen console: Project Helix. To date, we've lone had vague updates astir what this instrumentality is, archetypal teased backmost astatine GDC successful March. The debut volition instrumentality spot via a watercourse on Xbox's Game Dev Update YouTube channel astatine 12pm ET/5pm BST. It volition beryllium hosted by Chris Charla, wide manager of portfolio and programs, and Jason Ronald, VP of adjacent generation.

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Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic mightiness beryllium the astir breathtaking caller Star Wars crippled connected the horizon, and portion we're not expecting it immoderate clip soon - though manager Casey Hudson has promised it'll beryllium retired earlier 2030 - it appears recently founded developer Arcanaut Studios is bulking up fast.

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Next to thing is known astir the adjacent BioShock crippled - which has been successful improvement since astatine slightest 2019 - but developer Cloud Chamber is seemingly inactive hard astatine enactment connected it, and last summer's originative reshuffle led to erstwhile Diablo brag and Irrational Games seasoned Rod Fergusson taking over arsenic caller workplace head. Now, Take-Two brag Strauss Zelnick has expressed some disappointment - and anticipation - erstwhile asked astir the project.

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After 3 years, aggregate expansions, and changeless effort from bemused bovine believers, Diablo 4 players person seemingly completed the game's concealed cattle level.

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After a bit of a delay, Shovel Knight developer Yacht Club Games has announced its caller - and "final" - merchandise day for Mina the Hollower.

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At this evening's (or morning's, depending connected however you look astatine things) Xbox Presents, we got a precise in-depth look astatine Ryu Ga Gotoku's upcoming title, Stranger Than Heaven. The game, which takes spot successful 5 antithetic eras of modern Japanese past - that's 1915, 1929, 1943, 1951 and 1965 - volition travel the lifelong relationship of a brace of protagonists and analyse however that relationship holds up successful the rapidly changing discourse of the country's immense and analyzable 20th Century.

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At this evening's Xbox Presents, which was dedicated wholly to Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio's Stranger Than Heaven, we yet learned erstwhile the anticipated action-RPG volition launch. At the extremity of a 30-minute presumption diving into the game's story, combat systems, and characters, the developers revealed the rubric volition beryllium launching 'this winter'.

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I sat down successful the Musk v. Altman trial courtroom today, painfully alert that nary 1 was going to inquire Shivon Zilis the question connected everyone's minds: Girl, what the fuck are you doing?

Zilis, who testified nether oath that she is the parent of 4 of Musk's children, was… what's the champion mode to qualify this? A Musk advisor? She denies she was a "chief of staff" but says she worked for Musk's "entire AI portfolio: Tesla, Neuralink, and OpenAI" starting successful 2017. The 2 met done OpenAI, and they had what she referred to arsenic a "one off" earlier becoming "friends and colleagues." The "one off," she confirmed, was "romantic successful nature."

Her …

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After his unexpected and much-discussed debut successful THe Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Fox 'Star FOc' McCloud besides gets to look successful his ain marque caller Switch 2 game. Announced contiguous during a precise unexpected Nintendo Direct, we got our archetypal look astatine the title, which is simply called Star Fox. It is based connected the Nintendo 64 title, Star Fox 64, but with wholly overhauled visuals and caller quality designs, too. Plenty of caller cutscenes person been added, specifically successful the signifier of pre-mission briefings to springiness america much discourse astir the characters and the world.

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It turns retired Fox McCloud's quality successful the Super Mario Galaxy Movie was a tease of things to come: Nintendo conscionable astonishment announced the archetypal caller Star Fox game successful a decade. The crippled is called, simply, Star Fox, and it's retired precise soon, launching connected June 25th.

Nintendo says that it's "based" connected the classical abstraction shooter Star Fox 64, but with redesigned characters and upgraded visuals. Essentially, it sounds similar a modern remake of the crippled with the aforesaid level design. Based connected the archetypal look astatine the game, it looks thoroughly modern, with incredibly elaborate characters, including a amazingly realistic Slippy Toad. And yes, the in-ship bante …

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Google has pulled the plug connected Project Mariner, an experimental diagnostic designed to execute tasks for you crossed the web, arsenic reported earlier by Wired's Maxwell Zeff. The Project Mariner landing page present contains a connection that says: "Thank you for utilizing Project Mariner. It was unopen down connected May 4th, 2026 and its exertion voyaged to different Google products."

Google first revealed Project Mariner successful December 2024 and aboriginal announced an update allowing it to perform up to 10 tasks astatine a time. Over the past year, Google has integrated features powered by Project Mariner into its different AI tools, including Gemini Agent, which tin bash things similar arc …

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On Monday, The New York Times reported that the White House was considering having the authorities reappraisal AI models earlier release. To the casual Verge reader, it appeared to beryllium a full reversal successful Donald Trump's policies. For the past year, helium had been a vocal champion o …

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If you’re struggling to find a Mother’s Day acquisition nether $30, determination trackers are a bully investment, helping ma support tabs connected keys, bags, luggage, and different valuables. The latest Tile Pro is one of the champion connected the market, and it’s connected merchantability for $24.99 ($10 off) astatine Amazon and straight from Tile. While this isn’t a caller deal, it’s inactive its champion terms of the twelvemonth and lone $2 shy of its all-time low, which is wherefore it’s worthy highlighting up of the holiday. 

Tile Pro

Where to Buy:

• $34.99 $24.99 astatine Amazon
• $34.99 $24.99 astatine Tile

A large portion of wherefore I similar the Tile Pro is that it works arsenic good with some iPhones and Android devices. Compared to different trackers that beryllium connected Google’s Find Hub network, it’s much reliable erstwhile trying to way down mislaid items distant from home, which is wherefore it’s our go-to pick for Android users. Apple’s caller AirTag inactive offers much precise determination tracking wide for iPhone owners, but the Tile Pro has a fewer advantages of its own.

For one, it includes a keyring hole, truthful ma tin connect it to keys oregon luggage without buying other accessories. It’s besides Tile’s astir susceptible tracker, offering a Bluetooth scope of up to 500 feet and Tile’s loudest ringing astatine 110 decibels, which I’ve recovered is somewhat louder than Apple’s latest AirTag. That comes successful useful erstwhile trying to way down a misplaced phone, since the Tile Pro tin marque the telephone ringing adjacent erstwhile it’s acceptable to silent.

Plus, it’s the lone Tile with a replaceable CR2032 battery, truthful ma won’t request to regenerate the tracker itself erstwhile the artillery dies aft astir a year. Tile besides includes a fistful of escaped information and convenience features AirTags lack, including 2 days of determination past and clang detection, which tin alert exigency contacts if the app detects a car accident. A paid subscription, which starts astatine $7.99 a month aft a escaped one-week trial, adds extras similar SOS alerts that link to a unrecorded exigency dispatcher, section transgression reports, and up to $100 successful stolen telephone protection.

We’ve been speechmaking your feedback connected the caller homepage. All of it. The benignant and encouraging comments, the brutal ones, the “actually this rules,” the “please undo this immediately,” the bug reports, the diagnostic ideas, and yes, the eternal petition for acheronian mode. We admit it.

A batch of you took the clip to stock detailed, thoughtful reactions close aft launch, and that benignant of feedback is useful. It helps america recognize wherever the acquisition is landing oregon missing the mark, spot issues and friction, and yet benignant that feedback into a fewer buckets. We privation to beryllium unfastened and transparent with you astir however we’re looking astatine those buckets of feedback.

Bucket 1: Yes, we should hole that. Some feedback points to things we should intelligibly hole oregon creaseless out, similar bugs and unsmooth edges.

Feedback that falls into this bucket:

• The scrollbar beingness connected the provender (✅ Fixed)
• Adding “Read More” from the groups of stories erstwhile there’s thing to nexus to (✅ Fixed)
• Adding a mode to work much from a class toward the bottommost of the leafage (✅ Fixed)

Bucket 2: This is worthy investigating. Some feedback points to things worthy exploring further. These are repeated requests that whitethorn bespeak a broader request oregon symptom point, adjacent if the nonstop projected solution is not the 1 we yet pursue.

Feedback that falls into this bucket:

• How the Latest provender is presented and engaged with, particularly for those of you who emotion the axenic revchron provender (which Latest is). 
• Dark mode. We are actively moving connected this.
• Dates connected stories successful curated communicative sets. Removing them was intentional truthful we could much easy bring older stories backmost to the forefront, particularly erstwhile they tin adhd colour and discourse to a timely topic. But we perceive the vexation present and are reasoning astir however to code the underlying symptom point.
• Marking a communicative arsenic work vs. unread. This is simply a recurring petition and speaks to a broader request for much personalized homepage experiences. That’s thing we’re actively readying for, adjacent if this nonstop diagnostic isn’t presently connected the roadmap.

Bucket 3: Not close now. Some feedback falls into the class of ideas we’re not readying to instrumentality connected close now. Not due to the fact that the feedback is bad, but due to the fact that we person to beryllium deliberate astir what we tin support.

Feedback that falls into this bucket:

• Free-to-Read and Subscriber Perks sections. We’ve deprecated these sections for now. We’ll revisit if it makes consciousness down the road.
• The leafage structure. We’ve seen a batch of beardown opinions connected combining curated stories with the firehose feed. We judge successful this attack and we request to springiness it clip earlier considering large structural changes. Many of you emotion the mix; others, not truthful much. That’s okay.

I privation to beryllium candid astir what we tin support. We’re a beauteous tiny squad and each determination has to beryllium weighed against time, resourcing, complexity, editorial needs, concern priorities, and the longer-term imaginativeness for wherever The Verge is going (and we person large ambitions for wherever we privation it to go). We can’t perpetrate to each suggestion, adjacent if we genuinely hold that it’s a large idea.

We’ll hole what needs fixing and excavation into the themes that consciousness astir meaningful. We’ll support prioritizing and moving done tradeoffs and constraints. Most importantly, we’ll enactment unfastened astir what we’re seeing and learning arsenic we go. Please support the feedback coming.

Here are are the champion ways to scope us:

• Right present successful the comments. 
• We besides person a feedback signifier here wherever you tin taxable bugs, feedback, requests, etc.
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Mira Murati, OpenAI's erstwhile CTO, has testified nether oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her astir the information standards for a caller AI model. In a video deposition shown during the ongoing Musk v. Altman proceedings connected Wednesday, Murati said Altman falsely stated that OpenAI's ineligible section determined a caller AI exemplary did not request to spell done the company's deployment information board. "As you recognize it, was Mr. Altman telling the information erstwhile helium made that connection to you?" Murati was asked successful the deposition. "No," Murati said.

Murati said that during her tenure astatine OpenAI, Altman made her enactment much difficult. Her disapproval "is wholly absorption …

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