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Surfing sand and sea, herding beasts and other new indie games worth checking out

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-03 20:00:53

Welcome to our latest recap of what's going on in the indie game space. It's been a very busy week in that realm, thanks to Gamescom. Before we jam through a few of this week's new releases and some of the many, many Gamescom reveals, there's one game that has risen high above the din to the point where it's drowning out many of the smaller announcements. Yes, Hollow Knight: Silksong has a release date, and it's very, very soon. September 4, in fact. I feel for all the developers who have games

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Apple trained a large language model to efficiently understand long-form video

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-04 10:27:48

Apple researchers have developed an adapted version of the SlowFast-LLaVA model that beats larger models at long-form video analysis and understanding. Here’s what that means. The nerdy bits Very basically, when an LLM is trained to also understand video, it learns to split videos into frames, apply computer vision to extract visual features, analyze how those features change over time, and align all of that with language so it can describe or reason about the video in the form of text. One v

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Silksong is out soon, and indie games are getting out of the way

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-05 14:53:34

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Yesterday, Hollow Knight: Silksong developers Team Cherry announced a September 4th release date for the long-awaited game, and indie developers are announcing delays to get out of the way of the launch. Silksong is a full sequel to the excellent Hollow Knight and is currently the most wishlisted game on Steam, so it’s likely going to be very popular when it’s finally availabl

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Netflix’s ‘Splinter Cell: Deathwatch’ Brings Sam Fisher Out of Retirement

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-06 20:30:21

Fans of stealth video games likely have a soft spot in their hearts for Splinter Cell. Ubisoft’s sub-series of stealth-action games endorsed by Tom Clancy has been MIA for over a decade, even with a remake of the original game on the horizon. After doing guest roles in other Clancy games and in Netflix’s Far Cry anime, series lead Sam Fisher is back in all his shadowy glory in Splinter Cell: Deathwatch. Developed by John Wick alum Derek Kolstad, the animated series sees Fisher—voiced by Liev Sc

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I Thought This Handheld Would Let Me Play Battlefield Anywhere. I Was Wrong

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-07 23:44:17

If you're excited by the arrival of the next Battlefield installment, then you were probably battling for "C" right alongside me on the past beta weekend. I was there, mainly on my desktop, but also, briefly, on the device I believe to be the best purchase I've made since the pandemic: my Lenovo Legion Go S. While sitting in bed and playing Call of Duty multiplayer on the Legion Go S is one of my new favorite things to do, I thought (wrongly) that it would be great for Battlefield, too. Here's w

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2025 is turning into a good year for long-awaited games

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-11-08 05:30:00

It actually happened: Silksong, the standalone sequel to Hollow Knight, has a release date. After seven years in development, and almost as many shrouded in silence, the game is coming out on September 4th. It’s welcome news for the millions of Hollow Knight fans who have been impatiently waiting. But it’s also part of a welcome trend: 2025 is shaping up to be the year that several long in-development games finally see the light of day. While both Routine and Metroid Prime 4 seem to have suffer

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Google’s silence on the Pixel 10 GPU is concerning for gamers

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-09 15:00:18

Google has just launched the Pixel 10 phones, and there’s plenty to know about them. There are some great new AI features, a groundbreaking IP68 rating for the Pixel 10 Pro Fold, and a telephoto camera for the base model. All four phones are also powered by the Tensor G5 processor. Unfortunately, Google remains deeply silent on a major Tensor G5 feature. This makes me worried about the Pixel 10 phones, especially if you’re a gamer. Pixel 10 GPU: When no news is bad news Google has said almost

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Want to learn Linux? These 5 games make it fun - and they're free

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-09 17:00:20

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways If you need to up your Linux skills, play a game. There are several games, each focusing on a different skill. These games are free to play as often as you need. Get more ZDNET: Add us as a preferred Google source. For many, the idea of learning Linux is a task best left to the geeks. The good news is that desktop Linux has become so easy to use that you don't have to worry about the challenges that may have kept you from div

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Video Games Weekly: Silksong and Gamescom

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 00:16:35

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (or Wednesday, whatever), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week.

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Microsoft is working on a fix for PC shader stutter

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 15:36:18

Microsoft is creating a new "advanced shader delivery" feature for the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally handhelds that might make loading games faster and more stutter-free. The company teased the upcoming feature alongside the announcement of the launch date for the first Xbox-branded handhelds and the company's new compatibility system for figuring out if games will run well on handhelds. Shader stutter is a widespread issue in PC gaming that doesn't occur on consoles because of their uniform hardware. You

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Xbox unveils its Handheld Compatibility Program

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-11 05:26:35

Microsoft announced Wednesday during Gamescom 2025 that not only will its Xbox Ally handhelds be released on October 16, but the company is spinning up a new initiative to support optimized gaming on these devices called the Handheld Compatibility Program. The initiative seems to be similar to Valve's Steam Deck Verified , where Xbox will test games to ensure their compatibility with the new Xbox Ally handhelds. "We have worked with game studios to test, optimize, and verify thousands of games

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Pierce Brosnan Would Totally Play James Bond Again, Y’Know, if They Asked Him To

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-13 08:30:07

It’s inevitable that a new James Bond actor will be announced soon. Denis Villeneuve is directing, Steven Knight is writing, and Amazon is eager to get its big-ticket IP back into theaters. But what if those rumors of a younger star (Jacob Elordi, Harris Dickinson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson… take your pick among the names being tossed around) are just misdirection—and the studio decides to bet on a sure thing, skewing way older than Ian Fleming ever imagined for his signature character? It’s a long

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Lego Batman Returns in a New Game Packed With Bat-Nostalgia

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-13 10:30:06

Have you ever wanted to control Lego Batman through his entire history from comics, TV, movies, and more? Well, that looks to be exactly what you’re going to get to do in the newly announced game, Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight. Revealed today at GamesCon, Legacy of the Dark Knight is a “brand-new open-world action-adventure video game that invites players to embark on Bruce Wayne’s epic journey to become the hero of Gotham City.” It’s “inspired by decades of Batman films, television, c

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UFO 50 Review: Indie Nostalgia Arrives on the Switch 2

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-13 18:45:39

As an older gamer, you'd think I have a fondness for retro games. But I don't. I grew up when simply playing any video game was exciting, even if the game itself was bad. UFO 50 changes that. First released last year on PC and recently ported to the Switch and Switch 2 on Aug. 7, the unique indie title flips the script with a collection of 50 "retro" games that actually never existed. UFO 50 is a collection of fictional retro games designed to look like they came out in the Apple II, Amiga and

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PlayStation Plus Subscribers Can Play Marvel's Spider-Man and More Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 14:00:05

Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can, and PlayStation Plus subscribers can now become the famous web-slinger in Marvel's Spider-Man. PlayStation Plus is Sony's version of Xbox Game Pass, and it offers subscribers a large and constantly expanding library of games. There are three PlayStation Plus tiers -- Essential ($10 a month), Extra ($15 a month) and Premium ($18 a month) -- and each gives subscribers access to games. However, only Extra and Premium tier subscribers can access t

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Lenovo Legion Go S Is My New Favorite Way to Play Call of Duty Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-15 05:00:04

As a tech enthusiast, I do buy a lot of stuff (you know, just doing my bit!), but I believe the Lenovo Legion Go S is the best purchase I've made since the pandemic. The reason why? Sitting in bed and playing Call of Duty multiplayer is one of my new favorite things to do. It does come with some compromises, but playing my favorite game without setting foot on the floor? Worth it. I spent a lot of time trying to decide which handheld to buy, whether the Steam Deck, the Nintendo Switch 2 or any

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The best gaming handhelds for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-15 08:00:36

Handheld gaming systems are having a moment. While people have been gaming on the go since the halcyon days of the Game Boy, recent years have brought an avalanche of devices that let you play all sorts of games anywhere you want. But new machines seem to arrive every week, and figuring out which ones are actually worth buying can be overwhelming. Depending on your tastes, the right handheld could be a $70 emulator or an $800 portable PC. To help you narrow things down, we’ve spent months resear

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Fortnite’s return to iPhone and iPad delayed once again in Brazil

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-15 06:25:35

Epic Games has once again postponed the relaunch of Fortnite for iPhone and iPad users in Brazil, citing ongoing negotiations between Apple and the country’s competition authority, CADE. Here’s when it’s expected now. The game’s return was initially scheduled for July Back in March, Epic had announced that Fortnite would return to iOS in Brazil in July through its own Epic Games Store, following a decision by the country’s market regulator that deemed Apple’s anti-steering policy illegal. For

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Nvidia Will Let You Add Your Own Steam Games to Stream Via GeForce Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-15 23:30:00

Nvidia's announcements at the 2025 Gamescom show were sprinkled with the usual minor technology refreshes across its software platforms, but the biggest updates are coming to its GeForce Now cloud gaming service. The company upgraded its highest-end GFN server clusters ("pods") used for Ultimate members with its new RTX GeForce 5080-equivalent graphics processors and is in the process of upgrading the network pipeline to deliver faster streams with less latency. In practice, that means a lot of

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Tesla Optimus rival Unitree shines at the 'World Humanoid Robot Games' in China

cnbc.com Eunice Yoon 2025-11-16 05:16:19

The first "World Humanoid Robot Games" is in the books. The three-day competition hosted in Beijing wrapped on Sunday, attracting 280 teams from 16 countries, including the U.S. Teams used robots manufactured by Chinese companies such as Unitree and Booster. During the games, humanoid athletes competed in dance battles, martial arts, track and field events such as the 400-meter and 1500-meter races and long jump, and a soccer tournament. "Robots have stronger joints and core strength," said G

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NVIDIA's GeForce NOW game streaming gets RTX 5080 GPUs, better image quality and more

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-16 05:30:40

NVIDIA's GeForce NOW game streaming service is leveling-up in September with the addition of RTX 5080 GPUs, which will allow for 5K streaming at up to 120fps (or 1080p/320fps for the truly frame-hungry). While you'll need to be on the $20-a-month GeForce Now Ultimate tier to use RTX 5080 streaming servers, NVIDIA at least isn't raising that tier's price. Subscribers at that level will still receive 100 hours of monthly playtime (with 15 hours of rollover), up to eight-hour long sessions and acce

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Game Streaming Will Never Be the Same After Nvidia’s GeForce Now Update

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-11-16 05:30:24

What if game streaming was your main way to play your games? That idea—once merely a pipedream—is inching closer to reality with Nvidia’s latest update to GeForce Now. Come September, players will be able to rent out a server worth 100GB or more to play whatever game they want, so long as they already own it. Even with more games and better streaming visuals, streaming can’t replace all your gaming gear. But if you were feeling antsy about how much that new PC upgrade or future console could cos

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‘Play Instantly on Discord’: Fortnite will be Nvidia and Discord’s first instant game demo

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-11-16 05:30:00

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Nvidia’s GeForce Now is getting a big upgrade next month — and it’s also part of an intriguing new experiment. Nvidia, Discord, and Epic Games have teamed up for an early test of instant game demos for Discord servers, which could theoretically let you

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Nvidia’s app gets global DLSS override and more control panel features

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-16 05:30:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Nvidia app is getting improvements to DLSS override, more control panel features, and Project G-Assist changes this week. Nvidia has been gradually improving its new app over the past 18 months since its release, and it’s getting closer to fully migrating all the legacy control panel op

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Nvidia’s GeForce Now is upgrading to RTX 5080 GPUs and opening a floodgate of new games

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-11-16 05:30:00

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s been two and a half years since Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service got a big boost in graphics, latency, and refresh rates — this September, Nvidia’s GFN will officially add its latest Blackwell GPUs. You’ll soon be able to rent what’s effec

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A question for the ages: Is The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall a good game?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-17 10:25:35

C:\ArsGames We love games here at the Ars Orbiting HQ, from modern to ancient and all points in between. With that in mind, we've partnered with the folks at GOG.com to create a store page featuring a hand-curated list of some of our favorites from GOG's catalog. At the end of every month, we'll rotate a couple of titles off the list and add a few new ones; all together, we have a list of about 50 games to set in front of you. Twice a month, we'll publish a personal retrospective like this one,

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Why the former editor of Polygon is making a podcast for old gamers

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-17 16:30:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. In a recent episode of Post Games, host Chris Plante explores how video games can help players understand death. He’s interviewing Kaitlin Tremblay, who is working on Ambrosia Sky, a game about death. “What is it about games that is so useful for exploring the topic?” Plante asks. “I think there’s something really lovely about the way in which games invite players in,” Tremb

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A brilliant puzzle-platformer, Enter the Gungeon on mobile and other new indie games worth checking out

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-17 04:00:42

Welcome to our latest recap of what's going on in the indie game space. Quite a few intriguing games dropped this week and some high-profile ones have been ported to more platforms. Before we get to those, though, I'd like to tell you about one of my favorite games of the year so far. I struggle to fully engage with many RPGs. By and large, I'm not interested in spending lots of time optimizing my character, speccing out a skill tree or scouring for the very best equipment to match my playstyle

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Dead Take’s best scares come from real-life performances

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-11-17 06:00:00

is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. Dead Take, the second game from Tales of Kenzera: Zau developer Surgent Studios, is a quiet horror game where the monster is ambition and the lengths a person will go for stardom. Like a lot of horror games, Dead Take relies on jumpscares to get the heart pumping. But playing this game, my deepest, most upsetting scares didn

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Beijing's 'Robot Olympics' Are Off and Running (and Falling)

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-17 06:41:00

China just turned a pair of Olympic venues into a playground for robots. The inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games, running from Aug. 15-17, opened Friday with soccer, sprints, kickboxing and table tennis, as well as a healthy number of face-plants. The games feature 280 robot teams from 16 countries and hundreds of bipedal bots vying for medals and whatever passes for bragging rights among robots. Events are split between two 2022 Winter Olympics landmarks: China's National Stadium and the Nat

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Latest Tech News

Surfing sand and sea, herding beasts and other new indie games worth checking out

Apple trained a large language model to efficiently understand long-form video

Silksong is out soon, and indie games are getting out of the way

Netflix’s ‘Splinter Cell: Deathwatch’ Brings Sam Fisher Out of Retirement

I Thought This Handheld Would Let Me Play Battlefield Anywhere. I Was Wrong

2025 is turning into a good year for long-awaited games

Google’s silence on the Pixel 10 GPU is concerning for gamers

Want to learn Linux? These 5 games make it fun - and they're free

Video Games Weekly: Silksong and Gamescom

Microsoft is working on a fix for PC shader stutter

Xbox unveils its Handheld Compatibility Program

Pierce Brosnan Would Totally Play James Bond Again, Y’Know, if They Asked Him To

Lego Batman Returns in a New Game Packed With Bat-Nostalgia

UFO 50 Review: Indie Nostalgia Arrives on the Switch 2

PlayStation Plus Subscribers Can Play Marvel's Spider-Man and More Now

Lenovo Legion Go S Is My New Favorite Way to Play Call of Duty Anywhere

The best gaming handhelds for 2025

Fortnite’s return to iPhone and iPad delayed once again in Brazil

Nvidia Will Let You Add Your Own Steam Games to Stream Via GeForce Now

Tesla Optimus rival Unitree shines at the 'World Humanoid Robot Games' in China

NVIDIA's GeForce NOW game streaming gets RTX 5080 GPUs, better image quality and more

Game Streaming Will Never Be the Same After Nvidia’s GeForce Now Update

‘Play Instantly on Discord’: Fortnite will be Nvidia and Discord’s first instant game demo

Nvidia’s app gets global DLSS override and more control panel features

Nvidia’s GeForce Now is upgrading to RTX 5080 GPUs and opening a floodgate of new games

A question for the ages: Is The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall a good game?

Why the former editor of Polygon is making a podcast for old gamers

A brilliant puzzle-platformer, Enter the Gungeon on mobile and other new indie games worth checking out

Dead Take’s best scares come from real-life performances

Beijing's 'Robot Olympics' Are Off and Running (and Falling)

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