For Matter, this year was never going to be about flashy new features. Other than support for security cameras, which I hear should finally arrive this fall, 2025 is all about fixing problems. And with Matter 1.4.2, announced today, the smart home standard is taking an encouraging step forward. Back in January, Tobin Richardson, president and CEO of the Connectivity …
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As consumers have begun to shift away from physical media, the way gamers play games has shifted significantly in a rather short amount of time. The perfect example of this shift is Xbox, which has begun to bring some of its marquee first-party franchises, like Gears of War and Forza Horizon, to PS5 to continue to grow its audience. Game …
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Earlier today, Sony announced the quarterly financial results for Q1 2025, where we learned that the PlayStation 5 console had shipped 80.3 million units as of the end of June. The whole Game and Network Services (G&NS) segment registered an 8% year-on-year increase in sales of 936.5 billion yen ($6.35 billion), primarily due to the rise in third-party software sales, …
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Xbox is going through an identity crisis. The most recent wave of layoffs at Microsoft, which cut about 9,000 jobs including numerous positions at studios under the Xbox banner, suggests as much. These cost-cutting measures are said to be in the service of some realignment or reorganization that’s always purported to set up these companies for greater success. And yet …
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The team behind open-world adventure RPG Genshin Impact is ending support for those on PlayStation 4. Developer HoYoverse has said it made this decision because of “limitations related to hardware performance and platform application size”. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings The PS4 version of Genshin Impact will be removed from the PlayStation Store later …
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Linda Yaccarino’s next role after departing X as CEO will be another chief executive role at eMed Population Health, an AI startup building a tech platform for patients using GLP-1s. Yaccarino was a longtime advertising executive at NBCUniversal but left to join X as CEO for two years, where she managed to have a positive impact on the social network’s …
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ZOOM Platform that sell a lot of retro games, as well as publish upgrades for retro games, announced they’ve also been a target of payment processors for adult games. In the announcement they noted: As you are likely aware, there have been a number of adult title de-listings across the industry. One of our payment processors made us aware …
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After the struggles of Battlefield 2042, EA is now going “all-in” on Battlefield 6 and the future of the series as the company looks to build Battlefield into a “platform” as opposed to a single product. EA CEO Andrew Wilson said this during the company’s latest earnings call, as reported by VGC. He said, “We’ve been investing more behind this …
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