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Halo Reach remains the series’s most divisive game, 15 years later

Halo Reach remains the series’s most divisive game, 15 years later

In September 2010, Halo changed forever. Halo: Reach, a prequel to Bungie’s Halo trilogy and the last game developed by the studio while under Microsoft’s umbrella, messed with established canon and introduced controversial features that fundamentally altered the Halo gameplay loop. (I still love you, Armor Lock.) Then Bungie moved on. But Halo sure didn’t. To this day, fans still …

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Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac Switch And Switch 2 Performance & Resolution Detailed

Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac Switch And Switch 2 Performance & Resolution Detailed

Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube834k Pac-Man is back next week in Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac, and ahead of the big launch, the game’s Japanese website has shared an official comparison chart. It shows how the game will perform and look on the Switch and Switch 2. So here’s what you can expect for both platforms in …

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AirPods Pro 3 Get First Discount on Amazon

AirPods Pro 3 Get First Discount on Amazon

Apple just launched the AirPods Pro 3, and today Amazon introduced the first discount on the earbuds at $10 off their original price. You can get the AirPods Pro 3 for $239.00 on Amazon, down from $249.00. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, …

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Gameplay Details & Screens for Perfect Dark Reboot Unearthed

Gameplay Details & Screens for Perfect Dark Reboot Unearthed

After years of development and some reports detailing a troubled production, it was announced that the Perfect Dark reboot would be cancelled and the studio responsible, The Initiative, would be shutting down. The news came after a period of major restructuring at Xbox, which also led to the cancellation of other anticipated titles like Rare’s Everwild and Avalanche Studios’ co-op …

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Google Home is getting an AI revamp, and I’m optimistic about it

Google Home is getting an AI revamp, and I’m optimistic about it

Google is preparing a redesign of the Home app that focuses in on Gemini and AI features, and I’m a little nervous about it, but still optimistic. This issue of 9to5Google Weekender is a part of 9to5Google’s rebooted newsletter that highlights the biggest Google stories with added commentary and other tidbits. Sign up here to get it delivered to your …

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Montblanc is getting into the digital notepad game

Montblanc is getting into the digital notepad game

If you’re the kind of person who owns leather driving gloves in multiple colors to match your different Jaguars, then there hasn’t been a digital paper option that could live up to your lofty luxury standards until now. But Montblanc is finally delivering a truly bougie take on the e-ink writing tablet. The $905 Montblanc Digital Paper writing tablet combines …

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We Need to Talk About Smart Glasses

We Need to Talk About Smart Glasses

With any new device category comes a whole host of novel and sometimes exhaustingly complex questions. Smartphones, for example, no matter how mundane they seem right now, are still nagging us with existential quandaries. When should we use them? How should we use them? What in God’s name happens to us when we use them, which, last I checked, is literally …

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The iPhone 17 screen upgrade everyone’s so happy about pales in comparison to older Galaxy phones

The iPhone 17 screen upgrade everyone’s so happy about pales in comparison to older Galaxy phones

The iPhone 17 series got a lot of much-needed upgrades, including the base model finally getting a ProMotion display: which can vary its refresh rate between 120 Hz and 1 Hz. However, one of the nicest upgrades this generation — the anti-reflective display coating — still pales in comparison to the much older Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra.Various techies who have …

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Chrome is Google’s first iPhone app with Liquid Glass

Chrome is Google’s first iPhone app with Liquid Glass

With the launch of iOS 26 earlier this week, Google Chrome 141 rolled out with Liquid Glass tweaks on iPhone and iPad. As a reminder, Chrome for iOS has a pretty different interface and experience from the Android version. Beyond getting the bottom address bar in October 2023 (vs. July 2025), there’s a unique Tab Grid and bottom sheet menu …

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Google Maps driving mode has been discontinued and this is why

Google Maps driving mode has been discontinued and this is why

Google Maps Driving Mode has been discontinued and this is the reason why. For years, this tech feature has been helping drivers find their way through the world. The days of passengers trying to decipher road maps were over. But now Google Maps Driving Mode is history – it’s no more. EXPLORE SBX CARS – Supercar auctions starting soon powered by …

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