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Xbox’s “Stream your own game” feature continues to expand. You can now use your PC to play supported games you own on Xbox. (The games stream from the cloud, not your console.) You’ll need to be an Xbox Insider and Game Pass Ultimate subscriber to use it. The PC launch follows the feature’s arrival earlier this year on other devices. …

2025 finally brought the release of the Nintendo Switch 2 and blockbuster exclusives like Mario Kart World. But the year has also seen a parade of indie breakouts, from Blue Prince to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Meanwhile, the video game industry lurched from massive strikes to landmark labor deals to deep layoffs. NPR staff and contributors have explored the breadth …

We’ve seen a series of leaks claiming to reveal the iPhone 17 colors, and a new report corroborates these, citing an “internal report.” The report lists six colors for the base model iPhone 17, four for the all-new iPhone 17 Air, and five for the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max … The colors listed are in line with other …

Razer is back with a new addition to its Core line of external graphics enclosures. The external graphics enclosure can house recent GPUs from brands including NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon. It uses a single Thunderbolt 5 cable to the host device; in its press materials, Razer claims this tech delivers up to twice the bandwidth of Thunderbolt 4. This …

Image: @analogue Update [Wed 16th Jul 2025, 9:30am]: There’s been yet another delay with the Analogue 3D, Analogue has announced. The FPGA-based N64 clone was supposed to launch this month, as was revealed back in March of this year, but will now launch in late August, according to a recent statement on social media. “Following last week’s sudden tariff changes, …

This Kong’s got a funny face… Credit: Nintendo This Kong’s got a funny face… Credit: Nintendo As the game progresses, you’ll also unlock a handful of animalistic “Bananza” transformations from a menagerie of gigantic animal DJs (don’t ask). These temporarily grant DK new powers—a quick-dashing Zebra or a fluttering, hovering ostrich, for instance. The game builds some specific gatekeeping challenges …

Pixel 6a owners were forced to install a new update earlier this month that, for some, will have a considerable impact on battery life. Things seem to be going a bit better than expected, but Pixel 6a owners are indeed feeling the effects. Google started rolling out this new Pixel 6a update on July 8, with the update set to …

Since ChatGPT’s explosive debut in late 2022, millions of people have used it to help write everything from emails and essays to wedding vows and apology texts. But now, researchers are noticing something surprising: AI is doing more than helping us write to a point of actually changing the way we speak. A recent analysis by researchers at the Max …

You can find plenty of 2- and 3-in-1 chargers for the iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods. Sadly, your choices are limited in the Android ecosystem, with support confined to popular phones and watches from Samsung and Google. Another problem with most 2- or 3-in-1 chargers is that they are not portable enough to carry while traveling, forcing you to carry …

Just under two weeks ago, Microsoft announced it was laying off 9,000 employees across its workforce and revealed it had cancelled ZeniMax Online Studios’ new MMORPG codenamed Blackbird (along with Rare’s Everwild and the Perfect Dark reboot, with the latter’s development studio The Initiative shuttered). Now, a report suggests ZeniMax devs who worked on the game will soon be affected …