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There's no point asking any of the developers making Starfield for sneaky info about the highly-anticipated action RPG – according to Bethesda Game Studio's studio design director, Bethesda boss Todd Howard is the only person “authorized” to give away “unreleased game information”. “I know this isn't what any Starfield fan wants to hear from me, […]

Sony has secured a “binding agreement” with Microsoft to keep Call of Duty games on PlayStation consoles.  Xbox boss Phil Spencer confirmed the news on Twitter earlier today (July 16), although whilst he did confirm that both parties had “signed a binding agreement”, the terms of that contract – and the timescales involved, of course […]

We've heard plenty of rumors about the iPhone 15, and the latest to catch our attention concerns a new type of battery technology that Apple may be introducing with the flagship handsets that are due to launch in September. As per seasoned tipster @RGcloudS (via BGR), all four iPhone 15 models are due to come […]

It’s official: Linux distros now run on 3% of global desktops – a figure that even rises to 7%, if we’re counting devices running Chrome OS. The news comes courtesy of new Statcounterdata, deriving its findings from tracking code embedded in browsers. Curiously, “desktops” also includes laptops, as it’s difficult to separate them given the […]

Apple engineers are looking into the feasibility of an iPhone with a rollable screen as well as a foldable iPhone, according to a newly published patent. The display technology could also find uses on iPads and desktop screens as well, the patent suggests. As found by Patently Apple (via Tom's Guide), the patent describes “electronic […]

A remarkably small number of cybercriminals are reportedly responsible for all the world's email extortion attempts, new research has claimed.  Security firm Barracuda Networks, in partnership with Columbia University, looked at over 300,000 emails in a one-year period that the company's AI detectors had flagged as extortion attacks, and found that the vast majority were […]

It's time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off.  Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I'm still playing now, around 18 months after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it's good fun, […]

Payday 3 will require an always-on internet connection. Regardless of whether you're playing alone or with a squad, Starbreeze's global brand director Almir Listo has now confirmed that because the game “is made in the Unreal Engine” and uses “cross-progression and cross-play”, all players will have to be connected online in order to play the […]

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has lost its final appeal protesting Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, enabling the takeover to proceed as planned.  Microsoft's intended acquisition of Activision Blizzard has come under a great deal of scrutiny from governments the world over, but even though Microsoft won its battle with the FTC when a […]

After partnering with Leica for a limited run of special edition Q2 compact cameras earlier this year, Disney has now courted Fujifilm with an even more exclusive project; 100 Disney-themed X100V compact cameras, complete with branded accessories that mark the 100th anniversary of Disney (and Fujifilm’s 55th anniversary).  You can’t buy a Fujifilm X100V in […]