What you need to know Google is rolling out a major visual upgrade for the Nest Learning Thermostat with new, animated Farsight faces. The highlight is the Seasonal face, designed with French artist Mathilde Loubes, featuring 12 monthly illustrations that subtly animate and adjust based on your viewing distance. Other new faces include Minimal (clean and simple), Nest Classic (modern …
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Image: Push Square Sony’s updated its Welcome Back widget with two new animated backgrounds, based on a couple of 2025’s biggest games. The new animated wallpapers for Battlefield 6 and NBA 2K26 can be applied to the hub screen, giving a military or sports flavour to your system, depending on which you fancy. While these wallpapers will only apply to …
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The Dark Knight’s next DC animated adventure was announced at New York Comic Com, set for a multi-chapter event kicking off next year. During Warner Bros. Animation‘s ‘The Art Knight: Batman in Animation’ panel on Friday, the studio announced the epic saga Batman: Knightfall will debut on digital and home entertainment in 2026, with the first installment currently in production …
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Nintendo has released a second version of the animated short that confused many fans and is now likely to have made some of those who guessed what was going on feeling very pleased with themselves. The video appears to be the same as the one that the company foisted upon the world on Tuesday, but there’s one critical difference. This …
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UPDATE: Nintendo has just revealed a second version of its mysterious animated short film — now with an army of Pikmin visible. Full details on this fresh Pikmin-filled version of Close to You can be found in IGN’s latest coverage. ORIGINAL STORY: Nintendo has just released a mysterious animated short film with no explanation — leaving fans wondering whether it’s …
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Nintendo has just revealed a fresh version of yesterday’s mysterious animated short film ‘Close to You’ that featured a toddler taking their first steps — now with a small army of Pikmin visible. To be clear, this is the same short film as yesterday, albeit a new version where its previously-invisible Pikmin creatures can now be seen and heard. It’s …
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Nintendo has released a surprise new short film called ‘Close To You‘ and it’s… not what we expected from the House of Mario. Initially shared on the Nintendo Today! app before cropping up on YouTube and socials, the short follows a baby that learns to take its first steps via the magic of a sentient dummy (or pacifier, if you’d …
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Nintendo has posted a new animated short film on its Nintendo Today app and YouTube channel, so far completely devoid of context. Called Close to You, the Pixar-esque film shows a baby following its toys around the room, seemingly moved by invisible creatures, all accompanied by a playful piano soundtrack. The film has been posted purely with the name and …
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We’re fairly used to Nintendo making strange or iconoclastic decisions, whether it’s releasing folding two-screen portable gaming devices or announcing a Virtual Boy peripheral for the Switch 2, but even now the Japanese games company is capable of surprises. It has just uploaded to its various worldwide YouTube channels a stunning four-minute animated short called Close to You, about a …
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Out of nowhere, Nintendo has just come out with a new “Close to You” animated video. We’re not actually quite sure what this is as it was posted without any sort of explanation. But essentially, we’re treated to a very short “story” in which a toddler is going after his pacifier. Other than that, we can only be left to …
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