Published on: 2025-04-24 23:16:00
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust In context: Qualcomm's first-generation Snapdragon X laptops saw a lukewarm reception, but the company seems determined to improve. Rumors indicate that the upcoming Snapdragon X2 chips could deliver up to 22 percent better performance, primarily driven by higher boost clocks. This leap could help Qualcomm redeem itself from a poor first try. Reliable Chinese tipster Fixed Focus Digital claims that
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Eyeball Games unveiled the imminent global launch of the new immersive 8-ball mobile pool game, Pool Masters, and also unveiled a new collaboration with How to Train Your Dragon. Singapore-based Eyeball Games said it has teamed up with Universal Products & Experiences for a limited-time integration inspired by How to Train Your Dragon, released by DreamWorks Animation in 2010. The integration is expected to launch alongside the theatrical release of Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation’
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Dragon Snacks Games is coming out of stealth today to craft joyful, community-centered gaming experiences where players can both play and create their own social hubs. The company was founded by industry veterans Jen MacLean (Xbox, Amazon, IGDA), Michelle Menard (Oxide Games, Zynga, Firaxis), and Chris Nemcosky (Scopely, Backflip). I talked with them in an interview. Dragon Snacks Games aims to innovate and redefine the way we play, with inclusive worlds and third places designed for connection
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TL;DR ANBERNIC has revealed its first device of 2025, the RG-557, featuring a large AMOLED display. It’s the most powerful device the company has ever released, emulating Wii U and upscaled PS2 games with ease. No word on pricing or release dates, but it may be packing the Snapdragon G2 Gen 1 processor. ANBERNIC has been suspiciously quiet this year after releasing a whopping 12 devices in 2024. Today the company finally announced its first device of 2025, and it looks like it might be a powe
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The Hugo Awards began honoring video games for the first time back in 2021 . This week, the organization revealed the list of six finalists for the 2025 awards ceremony . It’s a cornucopia of critically-acclaimed titles from the past year or so. Let’s go over the nominations. Two AAA titles are up for the award. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Echoes of Wisdom changes up the franchise formula, casting players as the titular Zelda. The gameplay involves summo
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The Snapdragon 8-series continues to be the leader when it comes to high-end Android flagships, though the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is no longer the latest member of the family. The year 2025 has brought the Snapdragon 8 Elite series to play. Nonetheless, if you’re looking for one of the best Android phones, you’ll find many of them still run on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor. Below, we take a look at just a few of the best. The best Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 phones: Editor’s note: We’ll regularly update
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After 28 years, longtime Dungeons & Dragons designer Chris Perkins revealed he’s exited the company and retired from Wizards of the Coast. Perkins said on Friday he was leaving with a “perfect fairytale ending…I can’t wait to enjoy D&D purely as a fan again, knowing the game is in good hands.” His retirement comes in the wake of the TTRPG’s 50th anniversary and the recent launch of its revised rulebooks, which he said were “doing gangbusters.” Prior to this, he stepped down as D&D’s product lea
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TL;DR Qualcomm has launched the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 processor. The new chipset doesn’t have any little CPU cores, suggesting good multi-core performance. There’s no word on the first phones with this processor just yet. We’ve been hearing about a new Snapdragon 8s processor for a while now, and we expected it to slot in just below the all-conquering Snapdragon 8 Elite. Now, Qualcomm has indeed announced the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4. The new chipset was announced in China and uses the Snapdragon 8
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The buzz around this summer’s How to Train Your Dragon has given Universal Pictures the confidence to confirm a sequel will soon follow. Director Dean DeBlois is moving full Viking dragon ride ahead with the franchise as How to Train Your Dragon 2 has just officially been given the green light. The cinematic sequel will be released June 11, 2027. The announcement comes from Universal Pictures at CinemaCon 2025, just hours after positive reactions flooded social media following CinemaCon’s early
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ZDNET's key takeaways The Asus Zenbook A14 is available at Best Buy, with configurations starting at $999. Asus' new ultraportable is a fantastic balance of innovation and value with a brilliant OLED display, competitive hardware, and a satisfying physical form. While its use case is clearly defined, the laptop has its limits when it comes to high-end performance. View now at Asus View now at Best Buy more buying choices When Asus officially announced the Zenbook A14 at CES this year, I wasn'
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The crowds at CinemaCon in Las Vegas were treated to an early screening of Universal Pictures’ How to Train Your Dragon, and the resounding reaction from those in attendance is excitedly positive. The feature from writer-director Dean DeBlois is a live-action adaptation of the DreamWorks animated films that DeBlois also oversaw. Mason Thames (The Black Phone) and Nico Parker (The Last of Us) star as Hiccup and Astrid alongside Gerard Butler, who reprises the role of Hiccup’s father, Stoick the
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A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on Monday night, sending four amateur astronauts on an unprecedented journey around Earth’s poles. The mission is traveling where no crew has gone before, and SpaceX just revealed the first views of the planet’s chilly polar regions from above. SpaceX released a short video taken from the Dragon crew vehicle, showcasing the incredible view from the freshly launched Fram2 mission. “First views of Earth’s polar regions from Dragon,” the company wrote on X. Fram2’s fou
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There was plenty of onscreen drama in House of the Dragon season two: painful betrayals, fiery deaths, powerful awakenings, wanderings in the spirit world, Aemond being Aemond… you name it. But a behind-the-scenes tiff may have overshadowed them all, when source material author George R.R. Martin spoke out about his dissatisfaction with plot changes made in HBO’s adaptation. With season three’s production now underway, there’s no way showrunner Bryan Condal wasn’t going to be asked about the con
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House of the Dragon season three is not expected until next year—but while we wait, we can start speculating about what to expect when the Dance of the Dragons gets underway in earnest. Today there’s some casting news that should thrill fans of George R.R. Martin‘s source-material novel, Fire & Blood: the Winter Wolves are coming! According to an HBO press release announcing the start of production on season three, House of the Dragon has just added Tommy Flanagan as Ser Roderick Dustin and Dan
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C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Qualcomm has announced a launch event in China, and it could launch new flagship-tier chips on the day. We’re expecting the company to launch the Snapdragon 8s Elite or Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is arguably the top smartphone processor of the year, but what if you don’t want to spend a ton of money on a flagship Android phone? Well, it sounds like the company has another high-end chip up its sleeve for this week. Qualcomm confirm
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The reboot of the Doom franchise starting with the titular 2016 title into a fast-paced shooter was a resounding success, and its 2020 sequel Doom Eternal ramped up the speed even more. So it may have come to surprise fans that developer id Software decided to slow things down for the third installment, Doom: The Dark Ages -- but after playing several hours of the game, I've mostly enjoyed the new direction they've taken the gruesome shooter, which admirably reshuffles the ingredients to tickle
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C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR The first apparent Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 specs have leaked online. The new chip is said to feature second-generation Oryon CPU cores with the same layout as the current chip. The processor will apparently be built on a more advanced 3nm process and signs suggest it could be based on the ArmV9 architecture. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is a major leap forward for flagship Android phones, bringing plenty of performance and a wide variety of features. We’re
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Today’s Nintendo Direct gave us our first real look at the forthcoming Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake, and it sure is easy on the eyes. It uses Square Enix’s HD-2D engine, just like last year’s Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake . We knew this JRPG was coming, but now we have some actual in-game footage. As the name suggests, this title will include remakes of the first two Dragon Quest titles that were originally released all the way back in the 1980s. This is a very good thing, as the first game is
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For all his faults, Elon Musk sure knows how to keep things interesting. Yesterday, skies around the world lit up with what seems to be returning debris courtesy of Musk's private space travel company SpaceX. Specifically, the Dragon Freedom-2 Deb, a module that launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida in September of 2024 as part of a NASA mission to bring two astronauts to the International Space Station. Last week, the crew module of the Dragon returned to earth, bringing back four astronauts,
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Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Qualcomm could be rebranding its expected Snapdragon 8s Elite SoC as the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4, potentially complicating its already complex naming conventions. The leaked specifications suggest the chipset is built on TSMC’s advanced 4nm process. It features a mix of Cortex-X4 and Cortex-A720 cores and an Adreno GPU similar to the one found in the existing Snapdragon 8 Elite. This chip seemingly avoids the “Elite” label because it lacks Qualcomm’s propri
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I don’t know how or why but the 1985 kung fu fantasy The Last Dragon imprinted on me at a very early age. I have strong memories of watching it, loving it, and emotionally connecting with it. For some reason though, I’ve never been able to explain why. And so, with the film celebrating its 40th anniversary this week, I gave it a revisit and discovered not only why I liked it, but that it’s way, way better than I even remembered. Directed by the prolific Michael Schultz, The Last Dragon is about
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Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR A new leak claims the Snapdragon 8s Elite will launch soon. The leak claims the first phones with the chip will be released in April. The chip is designed to be a sub-flagship SoC. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite chip is found in some of the best Android phones currently available. However, the company’s focus isn’t solely on creating processors for the most powerful flagship devices. It is also working on a SoC for upper mid-range handsets called the Sn
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NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have finally returned after being stranded on board the International Space Station for nine months. The pair became stuck in June after Boeing's plagued Starliner spacecraft was deemed unfit to return them last summer due to a litany of technical problems. After splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico, Williams and Wilmore were greeted by a curious pod of dolphins — a soothing experience after being thrown in the middle of a politically charged cir
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To The space station On its flight to the International Space Station, Dragon executes a series of burns that position the vehicle progressively closer to the station before it performs final docking maneuvers, followed by pressurization of the vestibule, hatch opening, and crew ingress. On its flight to the International Space Station, Dragon executed a series of burns that positioned the vehicle progressively closer to the station before it performed final docking maneuvers, followed by pres
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust What just happened? Qualcomm has announced three new chips designed for handheld gaming consoles at the 2025 Game Developers Conference. The Snapdragon G3 Gen 3 leads the lineup with ray tracing and Wi-Fi 7, while the Snapdragon G2 Gen 2, and Snapdragon G1 Gen 2 SoCs target the cloud gaming market. The Snapdragon G-series lineup is led by the G3 Gen 3 SoC, an upgrade from the Snapdragon G3x Gen 2.
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Truly, this is the age of Magic: The Gathering dragons. Magic: The Gathering loves dragons. It loves them as major players in its lore, it loves them on lavish card art, it occasionally loves them in dungeons, when dallying about with its fellow Wizards of the Coast property. But as the venerable trading card game enters its next original expansion—on the precipice on its next, controversial step into the game’s crossover-laden future—it wants to bring you back not just to the familiar realm of
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ZDNET There is no shortage of web browsers. But what makes FireDragon a browser you should try? First off, FireDragon was originally a fork of LibreWolf, but the development team (which is the same team behind Garuda Linux) decided to switch to the Floorp browser as its base. Also: I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) FireDragon reminds me of a tricked-out version of Opera (without the integrated AI or Workspaces). There's even a built-in Workspa
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Take a look at the nearly completed worlds at Epic Universe that will transport theme park guests into their favorite adventures within the realms of Nintendo, Universal Monsters, Harry Potter, and How to Train Your Dragon. In about two months the park will open, welcoming people from all over world for Universal Orlando’s momentous occasion, and here’s a new look at the lands past the portals. From a scary adventure at Dark Universe to the gamer haven that is Super Nintendo World, to a magical
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Qualcomm has launched new versions of the Snapdragon G Series processor to deliver next-level performance for handheld gaming. The next generation of the Snapdragon G Series includes Snapdragon G3 Gen 3, Snapdragon G2 Gen 2, and Snapdragon G1 Gen 2, each tailored to deliver immersive gaming experiences. Qualcomm unveiled the lineup at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The Snapdragon G Series offers gamers the ability to choose to play cloud, console, Android, or PC games while o
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TL;DR Qualcomm announced that Retroid’s next flagship handheld will have one of its new gaming chipsets. The Snapdragon G2 Gen 2 will be a significant upgrade for what will likely be the Retroid Pocket 6. There’s still no release date or physical design of the upcoming handheld. The Retroid Pocket 5 is one of the most popular retro gaming handhelds on the market, but Qualcomm just gave us a sneak peek at a key upgrade to its likely successor. As part of the announcement for the new gaming-ori
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