You can now play Square Enix’s action RPG Forspoken after several launch delays — as a demo, that is. The developer and publisher has released a demo for the PS5 game on the PlayStation Store at this years Game Awards, where it also announced that Final Fantasy XVI will be available for Sony’s current-gen console on June 22nd, 2023.
Forspoken was originally supposed to be released…
ZTE Blade V41 Vita quietly announced
December 9, 2022
Earlier this year ZTE released the Blade V40 Vita with a Unisoc chipset and massive 6,000 mAh battery and now the company is bringing the Blade V41 Vita with upgrades across the board.
ZTE Blade V41 Vita
Blade V41 Vita brings a 6.6-inch IPS LCD with FHD+ resolution and a…
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Square Enix announced Theathrhythm: Final Bar during today’s Nintendo Direct. It will launch for Switch on February 16.
The series has had entries…
FTC sues to block Microsoft's Activision Blizzard merger
December 9, 2022
The Federal Trade Commission has filed an antitrust complaint in a bid to block Microsoft’s planned $68.7 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard. The FTC started looking into the deal and its potential impact on the video game market soon after it was announced in January. Evidently, the agency was concerned enough to try and pump the brakes on the buyout. The FTC said that, were the deal…
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Updated on 12/2 at 11am PT: The Smash World Tour (SWT), a grassroots Super Smash Bros. circuit organized by VGBootCamp, announced that Nintendo is…
IKEA's latest Sonos Symfonisk speaker is also a $260 floor lamp
December 8, 2022
IKEA announced its latest Sonos collaboration today, a Symfonisk speaker that doubles as a floor lamp. The lamp/speaker combo will launch in January in IKEA stores and online.
The floor lamp’s $260 price makes it the most expensive speaker in the Symfonisk lineup. Current…
Free 'Mario Kart 8 Deluxe' update lets you choose what power-ups appear during races
December 8, 2022
At its core, Mario Kart is a game about trolling your friends. So what better way to ratchet up the hijinks than by allowing players to decide what power-ups spawn during races? Nintendo has released a free update for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe that adds custom item selection for offline VS races and select online modes. Want to be a monster and force blue shells on all your friends? Go right ahead.
Atari is reviving Akka Arrh, a 1982 arcade game canceled because test audiences found it too difficult. For the wave shooter’s remake, the publisher is teaming up with developer Jeff Minter, whose psychedelic, synthwave style seems an ideal fit for what Atari describes as…
Xbox thinks its game soundscapes can lull you to sleep
December 8, 2022
Mindfulness app Calm has a couple new audioscapes to help people relax and drift off, and they’re both from first-party Xbox games. Starting today, folks with a Calm Premium membership can chill out to the ocean vibes of Sea of Thieves or the ambient alien noise of…
PUBG Mobile hits $9B in lifetime consumer spending
December 7, 2022
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PUBG Mobile has reached a new milestone, crossing $9 billion in total consumer spending. According to Sensor Tower, App Store and Google Play users have installed PUBG Mobile 1.1 billion times and spent $5.2 million per day on average.
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