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If there’s one thing that I find tiring about Satya Nadella‘s Microsoft, it’s how poorly they treat their consumer businesses. I wrote previously about how Surface, Xbox, and Windows are all suffering from underfunding and cut corners, as Microsoft sinks billions into chasing artificial intelligence fads to hype up its share price. Many of Microsoft’s apps and services have become …

Square Enix director Tetsuya Nomura still doesn’t have any specific Kingdom Hearts 4 news for us just yet, but he wants you to know that the teams are making “great progress” on both the Kingdom Hearts sequel and Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3. Other than a sneak peek back in May, we haven’t seen or heard anything since Kingdom …

Nintendo has just won another major battle in its longstanding war against piracy. Earlier this summer, a US federal court ruled in favor of Nintendo in a lawsuit against Ryan Daly and the Modded Hardware website. The site was known for selling devices that allowed users to get around Nintendo’s piracy protections, including the popular MIG Switch flashcart that lets …

Just when we thought Sony was finally improving the PS Store, another major scam has hit the storefront, conning players out of their money. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a shady developer clone popular PC game Schedule 1, but this is the first time we’ve seen a listing with artwork that looks like it’s ripped from the original. …

Bungie’s latest closed playtest for Marathon has reportedly leaked online, revealing a new Runner and abilities, “multiple” Marathon ship maps, and more. Bungie’s extraction shooter Marathon is still in closed testing after the studio officially delayed the previously announced September 23, 2025, release date. In a development update, the dev team said it needed more time following Alpha feedback and …

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. IFA is Europe’s largest consumer electronics show, and this year was no different. IFA 2025 featured some of the most eye-catching innovations ever, so much so that it’s hard to narrow down the list of amazing products.  However, at a time when the tech world is saturated with artificial intelligence …

While Xbox and Bethesda Softworks’ MachineGames has recently returned from a visit to the world of Indiana Jones, the developer still hopes to revisit its brutal alternate-history Wolfenstein series with a third game. That’s per MachineGames studio head Jerk Gustafsson, who discussed the hopes to see a Wolfenstein 3 during a Noclip documentary discussing the team’s work on the rebooted …

For most Hollow Knight: Silksong players, the combat is challenging and the boss fights are punishing. However, there’s another layer of complexity for anyone playing the sequel in Simplified Chinese: the bizarre translations. On its Steam store page, Silksong currently sits at a “Mostly Positive” rating across reviews in all languages. Once you filter for the Simplified Chinese reviews, the …

Summary Wi-Fi signals and machine learning can noninvasively process heart rate with clinical-level accuracy in under 5 seconds. After being tested on 118 people, it read pulse during motion using a $30 Raspberry Pi chip. If successful, it could enable contactless heart monitoring without wearables. When you want to track your health, you’d usually have to shell out for a …

I just went to check to see how Silksong was doing on the Steam playercount charts, thinking that we were past its peak and I could write up what it maxed out at. Wrong, those numbers are still climbing as we speak, and there’s an adjacent story here that also in this very moment, the original Hollow Knight is hitting …