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Source: The Verge Unlike disassembling most modern smartphones, iFixit’s teardown of Nintendo’s Alarmo appears to be relatively painless. Removing a single tri-point screw on the bottom of the alarm clock allows its faceplate to be simply twisted off, providing easy access to its internal hardware. There aren’t a lot of surprises inside Alarmo. Below its…
Source: The Verge Sony is working on a prototype AI-powered version of at least one its PlayStation game characters. An anonymous tipster has shared an internal video from Sony’s PlayStation group with The Verge that demonstrates an AI-powered version of Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West. The video is narrated by Sharwin Raghoebardajal, a director of…
Source: The Verge Though the main My Hero Academia anime series is set to end later this year, its gritty prequel is about to make its streaming debut on Crunchyroll. Today, Crunchyroll announced that it has secured the exclusive, global (outside of Asia) rights to stream studio Toho’s My Hero Academia: Vigilantes from director Kenichi…
Source: The Verge Today, the $700 PlayStation 5 Pro can already produce crisper, sharper, smoother, and more stable graphics than a PS5, if you sit close enough to appreciate them. But starting in 2026, the company hopes to imbue games with a new AI upscaling formula that’ll make them even crisper, based on the AMD…
Source: The Verge On September 10th, PlayStation held a “technical presentation” that confirmed the long-rumored PS5 Pro’s existence and souped-up specs, like a buffed GPU, Wi-Fi 7, and support for Sony’s AI-driven upscaling technology, PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, or PSSR. It will also come with features like PS5 Pro Game Boost to improve the performance…
Source: The Verge The developers of Infinity Nikki have finally solved one of the game’s biggest problems: where the hell is everything? Piggybacking off similar efforts in other gacha games like Genshin Impact, the developers at Infold Games have created an interactive map that’ll guide you to all the bits and bobs littered throughout the…
Source: The Verge Epic Games plans to bring its mobile game store and Fortnite to iOS users in Brazil in July, the company says in a post on X. The announcement follows a ruling in Brazil last week that gave Apple 90 days to allow sideloading in the country. The judge who issued the ruling…
Source: The Verge Lego has announced a new addition to its Mario Kart collection that first debuted last August. But don’t expect Lego’s latest Super Mario set to fit in with the rest of the racers. At 12.5 inches long and 8.5 inches tall, this set, featuring Mario in his standard racing kart from the…
Source: The Verge Death Stranding’s sequel continues to look absolutely bonkers. The upcoming game — known as Death Stranding 2: On the Beach — got a fresh trailer and a long-awaited release date of June 26th during a presentation at SXSW. The PlayStation 5 exclusive will cost $69.99 and is available for pre-order starting on…
Source: The Verge Reports are cropping up today that second-generation Chromecasts and music-streaming Chromecast Audio devices are failing, displaying an error on the device they’re trying to cast from that seems to imply the streamers may no longer be supported, reports 9to5Google. Text from screenshots of the error posted to Reddit reads, “Untrusted device” and…
