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Sifu dev’s soccer game Rematch arrives June 19

Slocap’s next game Rematch will be available on June 19. It’ll cost $30 and will be playable on PC, Xbox Series X/S and PS5. The announcement was made at the The Triple-i Initiative indie showcase.
Rematch is a soccer title, which may seem surprising f…

The Blink Video Doorbell is on sale for a record low price of $30

Amazon is running a sale on its Blink home security devices. Among the items that have seen a price drop is the Blink Video Doorbell, which is available for a record low of $30. That’s half what you might otherwise pay for it.
The doorbell allows you …

Cheeky household object romance sim Date Everything! is now arriving in June

The absurdist romance sim Date Everything! has yet another release date. After two delays, creators Sassy Chap Games and Team17 said on Thursday that the cheeky sandbox dating game will launch on June 17.
Date Everything! is an appropriate title for a …

Global emissions due to AI-related chipmaking grew more than four times in 2024

A pair of studies analyzing the effects of AI on our planet have been released and the news is fairly grim. Greenpeace studied the emissions generated from the production of the semiconductors used in AI chips and found that there was a fourfold increa…

Bungie’s Marathon won’t force Xbox and PC players to log in with a PlayStation account

Bungie is set to take the wrappers off Marathon this Saturday and reveal gameplay from its first non-Destiny project in many years (and its first new one since joining Sony in 2022). Before that though, the studio has confirmed one detail about the mul…

France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools

The last decade or so has seen schools and governments alike working on a substantial question: To what degree should students be allowed access to their phones? France has been among those leading the charge, requiring smartphones to be turned off dur…

Google Pixel 9a review: Basic in just the right way

The push for the latest, greatest and most feature-packed gadgets often results in so much pressure that buying anything else can feel like self-betrayal. And while the Pixel 9a is technically a new device, its chip is six months old. The same goes for…

OpenAI files countersuit against Elon Musk’s ‘bad faith’ attacks

OpenAI has filed a countersuit against Elon Musk, accusing him of staging press attacks and malicious campaigns on “the social media platform he controls,” as well as of making “harassing legal claims” and a “sham bid for OpenAI’s assets.” In its filin…

Shutterstock licenses its video library to AI corporate video company

It's 2025, so it should be no surprise that another organization has sold its soul (entered into a licensing deal with an AI company) for an undisclosed sum. A new partnership allows UK-based Synthesia to access Shutterstock's content library f…

The Black Mirror game Thronglets is real and available for iOS and Android

Netflix has released a game called Thronglets based on episode seven of the latest season of Black Mirror. It's like a game of Tamagotchi and Pokémon, with dark, existential themes like what you'd expect from a tie up for the series would be. T…