Published on: 2025-06-09 08:00:00
Every year, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) releases data that impresses us, with 64% of the U.S. population playing games — or 205.1 million gamers, up from 61%, or 196 million, a year ago. But the demographic reach of games is even more crazy, as 36% of the Silent Generation (ages 80 to 90) is now playing video games weekly. That’s some of the latest data in the annual report, Essential Facts About the U.S. Video Game Industry, from the ESA, which is the game industry’s trade gr
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Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed that Google is working on an easy way to manually enable Now Playing functionality. Now Playing runs in the background and uses on-device machine learning to automatically identify music. However, the company is working on a Now Playing Quick Settings tile that would let users manually identify a track. Google has offered Now Playing functionality on Pixel phones for years now, using on-device machine learning t
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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. I don’t want gaming to become another streaming subscription service that keeps going up in price. I don’t want to put even more power in Nvidia’s hands, particularly not right now. But I can’t deny that the company’s $20-a-month* GeForce Now is a near-perfect fit for the Steam Deck. I’ve been covering cloud gaming for 15 years, and this i
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The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) showed survey results highlighting the benefits of games for U.S. veterans, with 77% of veterans saying they believe games have a positive impact on their lives. The ESA said vast majority of respondents indicated that video game play provides a healthy outlet for stress and anxiety (86%), helps them cope with difficult times (81%), offers a valuable means of staying connected with others (77%) and that video game communities have a positive impact o
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New studio Wombo Games today drew back the curtain on both its own existence, as well as its first game. The studio, which is led by IO Interactive co-founder Janos Flösser, is making a strategy roguelite called Raiders of Blackveil, which it plans to launch in early access this summer. Wombo Games is staffed by developers who’ve worked on such titles as Tomb Raider and Deus Ex. Raiders of Blackveil is currently available to wishlist on Steam. According to Wombo, Raiders of Blackveil takes elem
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust In context: Actor Paul Rudd has reprised his role as a Nintendo fanboy in new commercial to hype the upcoming Switch 2. Rudd famously starred in a 1991 commercial for the then-new Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The original 30-second spot featured a young Rudd walking into an abandoned drive-in theater and playing games like F-Zero, Super Play Action Football, Pilotwings, SimCity, and The Lege
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Adam Birney / Android Authority TL;DR Google offers several options for song ID on Android, but some currently require you to tell Google to listen for music. An in-progress change to the Google app would upgrade microphone input to automatically recognize songs. While it’s currently possible to preview this operation, the interface still requires a manual tap to complete. You know what music sounds likes, don’t you? We may not always be able to recognize the exact song we’re hearing, or eve
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Discord announced on Tuesday that it rebuilt its Overlay feature from the ground up. The new Overlay makes streaming games on Discord more user-friendly on the streamer’s end. In its legacy form, players could toggle the Overlay display to use Discord while playing games, but this would bring up the entire Discord client in the center of the screen, blocking the stream and making for a clunky user experience. In the new version of Overlay, users can add specific Discord widgets that will appe
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Discord announced on Tuesday that it rebuilt its Overlay feature from the ground up. The new Overlay makes streaming games on Discord more user-friendly on the streamer’s end. In its legacy form, streamers could toggle the Overlay display to use Discord while playing games, but this would bring up the entire Discord client in the center of the screen, blocking the stream and making for a clunky user experience. In the new version of Overlay, users can add specific Discord widgets that will ap
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TL;DR Roku is testing auto-playing video ads at device startup, even before users reach the home screen. The ads can be closed, but many users couldn’t locate the option to close them. Roku already has persistent banner ads on the home screen that users were annoyed about. Smart TVs and their content platforms promised to be better than cable TV, thanks to their promise of a clean, mostly ad-free user experience. However, most smart TV experiences eventually get littered with ads in the form
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The first new cast member has joined Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man 4 and it’s a very intriguing one. Deadline reports that Sadie Sink, best known for her work on Stranger Things, has joined the cast of the 2026 film but there’s a big question as to who she’s playing. The trade reports that it’s an important role, which makes sense. Sink is well beyond cameo status these days. She was also one of the actresses most closely linked with playing popular X-Men character Jean Grey, which would be fascin
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Despite not having a new movie in six years, Terminator has been recently kept alive through TV and video games. The next game for the franchise goes back to its past—specifically, its game-changing sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Developed by Xeno Crisis and Final Vendetta creator Bitmap Bureau, Terminator 2D: No Fate is a retro-style sidescroller that sees players inhabit Sarah Connor, the T-800, and the adult John Connor. As Sarah, players stealth and shoot their way through levels while
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Despite not having a new movie in six years, Terminator has been recently kept alive through TV and video games. The next game for the franchise goes back to its past—specifically, its game-changing sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Developed by Xeno Crisis and Final Vendetta creator Bitmap Bureau, Terminator 2D: No Fate is a retro-style sidescroller that sees players inhabit Sarah Connor, the T-800, and the adult John Connor. As Sarah, players stealth and shoot their way through levels while
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Google's Pixel phones include numerous thoughtful features you don't get on other phones, like Now Playing. This feature can identify background music from the lock screen, but unlike some similar song identifiers, it works even without an Internet connection. Sadly, it has been broken for months. There is some hope, though. Google has indicated that a fix is ready for deployment, and Pixel users can expect to see it in a future OS update. First introduced in 2017, Now Playing uses a cache of t
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Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Pixel users have been facing problems with the Now Playing feature for several months. A new comment on Google’s Issue Tracker states that a fix will be included in an upcoming release, likely the March Pixel Drop. Pixel users have been facing issues with the Now Playing feature for several months. As per user reports, the issue seems to affect all models from the Pixel 6 to the Pixel 9 series, with the feature either failing to recognize some songs or no
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