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Sunday Night Football: How to Watch Ravens vs. Bills Tonight

The first Sunday Night Football game of the season is the best matchup of week 1, with the Bills hosting the Ravens tonight in Buffalo. Both teams are again among the favorites in the AFC to get to the Super Bowl, and each has an MVP QB. Josh Allen of the Bills won the award last season, and Baltimore's Lamar Jackson earned the honor the season before that. The Bills knocked the Ravens out the playoffs last year, so tonight gives the Ravens a chance to start the new season off by exacting reven

Steelers vs. Jets Livestream: How to Watch NFL Week 1 Online Today

When to watch the Steelers vs. Jets Sunday, Sept. 7, at 1 p.m. PT (10 a.m. ET). Where to watch The Steelers vs. Jets game will air on CBS. It's a homecoming for Aaron Rodgers to start the season, but he'll be visiting a previous house of horrors. After two disastrous seasons with the Jets, the 41-year-old quarterback postponed retirement for another year and signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers, who start the 2025 season on the road against none other than the New York Jets. It's the start o

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Dolphins vs. Colts Livestream: How to Watch NFL Week 1 Online Today

When to watch the Dolphins vs. Colts Sunday, Sept. 7, at 1 p.m. PT (10 a.m. ET). Where to watch The Dolphins-Colts game will air on CBS. The 2025 season is shaping up to be a make-or-break year for head coach Mike McDaniel and quarterback Tua Tagovailoa in Miami. After making the playoffs in his first two seasons in Miami, McDaniels led the Dolphins to an 8-9 record last season and missed the playoffs. They'll open the year on the road in Indianapolis against a Colts team who are also comi

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Cardinals vs. Saints Livestream: How to Watch NFL Week 1 Online Today

When to watch the Cardinals vs. Saints Sunday, Sept. 7, at 1 p.m. PT (10 a.m. ET). Where to watch The Cardinals-Saints game will air on CBS. It's shaping up to be a long season in New Orleans. The Saints finished 5-12 last year and are expected to struggle to get to five wins this year. They will start the season with Spencer Rattler at quarterback, who started six games last year and is still looking for his first NFL win. The Saints open the 2025 season against the Arizona Cardinals, who

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Raiders vs. Patriots Livestream: How to Watch NFL Week 1 Online Today

When to watch the Raiders vs. Patriots Sunday, Sept. 7, at 1 p.m. PT (10 a.m. ET). Where to watch The Raiders-Patriots game will air on CBS. It's the first game for Pete Carroll in Las Vegas and Mike Vrabel in New England. Vrabel takes over a Patriots team hoping to see a leap from second-year quarterback Drake Maye, while Carroll turned to Geno Smith to lead the Raiders offense after the two spent a few years together in Seattle. Both teams are coming off disappointing 4-13 seasons and loo

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Buccaneers vs. Falcons Livestream: How to Watch NFL Week 1 Online Today

When to watch the Buccaneers vs. Falcons Sunday, Sept. 7, at 1 p.m. PT (10 a.m. ET). Where to watch The Buccaneers-Falcons game will air on Fox. The Buccaneers and Falcons figure to be the two contenders in the NFC South this season, which gives this Week 1 matchup more weight than your typical opening game. The Bucs won the division last year ahead of the Falcons, who finished a distant second. It's a new era in Atlanta with second-year QB Michael Penix Jr. taking the reins, while Baker Ma

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Giants vs. Commanders Livestream: How to Watch NFL Week 1 Online Today

When to watch the Giants vs. Commanders Sunday, Sept. 7, at 1 p.m. PT (10 a.m. ET). Where to watch The Giants-Commanders game will air on CBS. The Commanders were the surprise team of 2024, with rookie QB Jayden Daniels leading Washington to a 12-5 record in the regular season before making a playoff run to the NFL championship game. Their attempt to return to the playoffs this year begins with a divisional matchup at home against the Giants, who are looking to rebound from a 3-14 disaster o

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Bengals vs. Browns Livestream: How to Watch NFL Week 1 Online Today

When to watch the Bengals vs. Browns Sunday, Sept. 7, at 1 p.m. PT (10 a.m. ET). Where to watch The Bengals-Browns game will air on Fox. These two AFC North rivals open the season in Cleveland with the Bengals looking to return to the playoffs after a two-year absence. The Bengals are again hoping their offensive trio of quarterback Joe Burrow and receivers Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins can put up enough points to offset any shortcomings on defense. The Browns, meanwhile, are looking to re

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Playing Viking Chess with Whale Bones

Article body copy In central and eastern Sweden from 550 to 793 CE, just before the Viking Age, members of the Vendel culture were known for their fondness for boat burials, their wars, and their deep abiding love of hnefatafl. Also known as Viking chess, hnefatafl is a board game in which a centrally located king is attacked from all sides. The game wasn’t exclusive to the Vendels—people across northern Europe faced off over the gridded board from at least 400 BCE until the 18th century. But

X-COM creator Julian Gollop discusses his most important games (2019)

Julian Gollop's PC Gamer columns Did you know Julian Gollop has written four columns for us, including subjects like the creation of the deck builder genre? Find them all here. This article was originally published in issue 313 of Edge, an extremely good magazine about computer games. Subscribe here in print or digital. Of a generation of early British game creators, only a handful are still making games today. Still fewer have threaded their careers through so many of the tectonic shifts and

Step into the world of ‘Jeopardy!’ on Vision Pro with this new Apple Arcade game

Ever wanted to experience the Jeopardy set in real life? Jeopardy! Daily on Apple Arcade gets you pretty close, if you have an Apple Vision Pro. A couple days ago on September 4, some new games were released on Apple Arcade, and among them was Jeopardy! Daily, a new game that lets you play a daily set of boards as if you were a contestant on the real game. The game supports iPhone, iPad, Mac, and even Apple TV. However, if you are playing on an Apple Vision Pro, the game really comes to life!

Silksong, smacking sticks and other new indie games worth checking out

Welcome to our latest recap of what's going on in the indie game space. Folks, it's here. You know it's here. So, we'll touch on it, but briefly. Some developers and publishers opted not to delay their games out of this week (others have done that to get some breathing space from you-know-what), so there are several other newcomers to highlight. Before we get there, there's a sale worth mentioning on a PC storefront that does not offer Hollow Knight: Silksong. The Epic Games Store's End of Summ

Rust tool for generating random fractals

Chaos Game Fractal Generator A simple command-line application written in Rust for generating fractals using the 'Chaos Game' algorithm. Table of Contents Algorithm Description This application generates fractals using the following simple, iterative algorithm: Define the $n$ vertices of a regular polygon Choose a random initial point within the polygon Select one of the polygon's vertices at random Move the current point a specific ratio, $r$ , of the distance towards the chosen vertex Rep

Herdling is a serene and adorable way to unwind

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Herdling is a slow game about herding fuzzy animals through a vibrant natural world. That may not sound particularly exciting, but I found it to be a perfect game to unwind with after a stressful day. In Herdling, you play as a kid who makes friends with and shepherds large fluffy creatures called Calicorns, which kind of look like a mix of a sheep and a woolly mammoth. T

‘Life Is Strange’ Is Taking Its Superpowered Queer Tales to Television

Prime Video is picking up one video game after another to bring to television, and Life Is Strange is the latest game joining those ranks. Technically, Legendary Digital Studios and publisher Square Enix announced their plans to adapt a show in 2016, with Shawn Mendes later attached as a producer and potentially coming to Hulu. Rights for the adventure game series have pivoted to Prime Video, who’ve enlisted Charlie Covell, who wrote Netflix’s The End of the F***ing World and Kaos, as showrunne

The best Switch emulator just got a big update, with support for Silksong

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority TL;DR The official stable release 0.0.3 of the Switch emulator Eden is now available. It adds performance updates, driver downloads, UI improvements, and bug fixes. The update also adds support for Hollow Knight: Silksong, which released just yesterday. It’s been just over a month since the Nintendo Switch emulator Eden dropped the release candidate for version 0.0.3, but after a few rounds of revisions, it’s finally ready for a stable release. The Yuzu for

Unity developers can now tap into system screen reader tools on macOS and Windows

Unity is updating its game engine to support native screen readers in both macOS and Windows. The feature is available now in the Unity 6000.3.0a5 alpha, and should make the process of making games accessible for blind players cheaper for developers, Can I Play That? writes . Screen readers narrate on-screen menus so blind and low-vision players can navigate a game or a piece of software without additional assistance. Typically, screen reading software is custom-built for each game, which can m

Amazon greenlights a Life is Strange series adaptation

With Hollywood video game adaptations surging, it was only a matter of time before Life is Strange got the treatment. After all, even platformer and sandbox game adaptations have (shockingly) found success in this new era. A well-written adventure game seems like a much shorter leap. Amazon announced on Friday that Prime Video has ordered a series based on the 2015 game. Like Don't Nod's classic, the series will blend angsty teenage realism with supernatural elements and moral choices. And Amaz

Civilization VII team at Firaxis Games faces layoffs

Firaxis Games, the studio that developed Civilization VII, is undergoing layoffs. The news went public when a former employee took to LinkedIn to announce her unemployment; Game Developer picked the story up, and publisher 2K Games soon confirmed it. "We can confirm there was a staff reduction today at Firaxis Games, as the studio restructures and optimizes its development process for adaptability, collaboration, and creativity," a spokesperson wrote to multiple news outlets. The company did no

Dev says Switch 2’s physical Game Cards were too slow for Star Wars Outlaws port

A video shows how different storage media can affect Mario Kart World load times. CD Projekt Red VP of Technology Charles Tremblay has alluded to this same challenge when talking about the Switch 2 port of Cyberpunk 2077. In a June interview with IGN, Tremblay said the data transfer speeds enabled by MicroSD Express were "great," while streaming data from a Switch 2 Game Card was merely "okay." Tremblay did go on to say that "all the performance we have on [input/output] is very good on [the Sw

Kirby Air Riders is a cute, chaotic racing game

Kirby is a uniquely wholesome Nintendo character, yet his games often have a quirky mean streak to them. They're all about letting players absorb enemies and take on some wild powers to tear through vibrant stages with reckless abandon. That's especially true with Kirby Air Riders, the long-awaited sequel to the GameCube classic racing game, Kirby Air Ride. Much like the original, it's a fast-paced racing game starring Kirby and friends as they race through visually striking locales – it also ha

‘007 First Light’ Exists Thanks to Daniel Craig and ‘Hitman’

Just yesterday, IO Interactive revealed its first gameplay from its James Bond game, 007 First Light. While it’s set in its own continuity, it’ll still have some ties to the films and books—in fact, those ties are how IO got the reins of Bond in the first place. Press like IGN got to visit the studio prior to the recent unveiling, and it was there game director Hakan Abrak revealed part of IO’s pitch for the game was sculpting Daniel Craig’s face onto Agent 47, the star of its stealth-action fr

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Civilization developer Firaxis is laying off staff

Firaxis, longtime developer of the strategy series Civilization, is laying off an undisclosed number of staff, Game Developer reports . The studio's publisher and owner 2K confirmed that the layoffs were happening as Firaxis "restructures and optimizes" for "adaptability, collaboration, and creativity." The layoffs follow turmoil at another 2K studio , Cloud Chamber, which is supposed to be developing the next Bioshock game. Since the restructuring has yet to be publicly disclosed, it's hard to

Who Have Marvel’s Avengers Become?

Every mainstream comic book character is defined by their pre- and post-adaptation life. After they’re brought to life in film or TV, the change becomes notable, and nowhere is it more apparent than with the Avengers. They’ve always been a key superhero team, but they were elevated to a higher position thanks to the MCU and Marvel not owning fellow high-profile teams, the X-Men and Fantastic Four, and actively working to downplay them throughout comics and other media. With four movies under th

16-inch softball

Variant of softball 16-inch softball (sometimes called clincher, mushball,[1] cabbageball,[2][3] puffball, blooperball, smushball,[4] and Chicago ball[5][6]) is a variant of softball, but using a larger ball that gradually becomes softer the more the ball is hit, and played with no gloves or mitts on the fielders. It more closely resembles the original game as developed in Chicago in the 19th century by George Hancock, and today it remains most popular in Chicago,[7] New Orleans, Atlanta, and P

How ‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ Fans Turned Waiting for Its Release Into a Game

Since 2021, Araraura has been a watchdog for the game Silksong. He posts daily clips on his YouTube channel, aptly named Daily Silksong News, for viewers seeking the latest on Team Cherry’s hotly anticipated Hollow Knight sequel. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been much to report. A quick scroll of the channel’s thumbnails reveals that most feature a fat, red lettered “NO.” A few here and there offer “YES,” or “KINDA,” but the majority of videos play the same: a brief introduction, followed by, “

The New ‘Street Fighter’ Movie Has a Release Date and Perfect Casting Announcment

Let out the biggest “Hadouken!” you’ve got because Street Fighter is coming. Thanks to a new deal between Legendary and Paramount, the studio just announced it will release the latest adaptation of the iconic Capcom fighting game on October 16, 2026. Plus, it made all the previously rumored casting official in an incredible way. According to the press release, this Street Fighter is set in 1993 and follows Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken (Noah Centineo), who are “thrown back into combat when the myst

Playing Silksong on the ROG Xbox Ally X: I'm Ready for More

The biggest game of the next week, or weeks, is a long-awaited indie sequel you may have heard of: Hollow Knight Silksong. The game, after being expected for years, just suddenly dropped like a magic back-to-school gift. While it's available for a number of platforms including Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation and PC, I got a chance to play a Silksong for about an hour on the upcoming Asus ROG Xbox Ally X handheld, a Windows-based game handheld that promises better support of Microsoft's game

Hollow Knight: Silksong causes server chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo

A little game by the name of Hollow Knight: Silksong just released, and it has thrown platforms into chaos. As you can see from images captured by the Eurogamer team, the likes of Steam was brought to a grinding halt as many flocked to get their hands on the highly-anticipated sequel. Meanwhile, several of us have been unable to add the game to our carts across Xbox, PlayStation and Switch. The PS store, for example, is stuck on Wishlisted at the time of writing. In the words of our Connor: "

16-Inch Softball

Variant of softball 16-inch softball (sometimes called clincher, mushball,[1] cabbageball,[2][3] puffball, blooperball, smushball,[4] and Chicago ball[5][6]) is a variant of softball, but using a larger ball that gradually becomes softer the more the ball is hit, and played with no gloves or mitts on the fielders. It more closely resembles the original game as developed in Chicago in the 19th century by George Hancock, and today it remains most popular in Chicago,[7] New Orleans, Atlanta, and P