In April 2021, the news that California-based studio Toys for Bob was being put on Call of Duty Warzone duty by Activision certainly displeased many fans of their Crash Bandicoot and Spyro games. Luckily, the studio eventually extricated itself from that uncomfortable position by regaining its independence and sealing a deal with Microsoft to work on one of their IPs next. That project was revealed at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026 to be Spyro: A Realm Beyond, the first brand-new entry in the series since 2008's The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon. Following the announcement, Studio Head Paul […]

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One feature belonging to iOS 26 that was in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons was Clean Up, with the results transforming into a garbled, distorted mess that made people wonder when Apple was going to fix it. After a work in progress 12 months later, iOS 27 has finally addressed this problem, with the same tool now performing almost on par with Samsung’s Galaxy AI. To get the best result, iOS 27’s Clean Up needs to utilize Apple’s cloud-based AI models A few examples have been shared below showing the improvement jump that the Clean Up tool has […]

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Following its massive Summer Game Fest showcase, Final Fantasy VII Revelation is officially locked in for a Spring 2027 launch across PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2, and Xbox Series X|S. While modern AAA games require six to seven years to launch, Square Enix is successfully delivering an entire massive trilogy featuring two open-world titles in roughly a single decade. Speaking in a new interview, director Naoki Hamaguchi revealed how Creative Studio I completely avoided the long development times that are damaging the momentum of many modern franchises. When asked by Restart.run regarding how the studio managed to outpace current […]

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New Xbox Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Ball shared a lot of interesting tidbits about the platform and publisher's new plans in a live chat with The Game Business at Summer Game Fest 2026. As covered in our previous report, Ball admitted that the 50% price hike for Game Pass Ultimate enacted a few months ago caused a major subscriber decline, and that the return to exclusives is part of the strategy to rebuild the core console business. As reported by Gamespot, Ball also addressed the thorny issue of the component crisis, which has caused RAM and storage prices to skyrocket, […]

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Apple has wrapped up its WWDC 2026 keynote, with one of the event’s highlights being the introduction of the company’s most advanced on-device AI model that’s only capable of running on devices with top-tier specifications. Looking at these features, a new rumor is now doing the rounds, hinting that the iPhone 18 will become even more popular than the iPhone 17 due to one major specifications difference separating the two devices. Looking at Apple’s high memory requirements to take advantage of its most capable on-device AI model, the base iPhone 18 could feature 12GB RAM The majority of iOS 27’s AI […]

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The long-awaited official unveiling of Persona 6 at the Xbox Games Showcase has ignited a debate over Atlus and SEGA’s 2027 release strategy. With Persona 4 Revival locked in for a February 18, 2027 launch on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, concerns arose that the next mainline entry was being pushed past next year. However, known industry insider lolilolailo has stepped in to quell community panic, implying that a rare dual-launch year for the legendary JRPG franchise remains on the table. The initial anxiety sparked after a recent press release, where P-Studio director Kazuhisa Wada explicitly noted that […]

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Xbox finds itself once again in an awkward PR situation, this time regarding the console exclusivity of The Coalition's Gears of War: E-Day. As you'll recall, Jeff Grubb shared the news ahead of the Xbox Games Showcase, confirming that the decision to remove the PS5 version had been "just made". The Verge's Tom Warren backed it up, but Xbox's VP of Games Marketing Aaron Greenberg tried disputing that info in a series of tweets: Hey Tom, I can confirm this is not true. We just limited the knowledge of this news to a very small internal group. Intention was to […]

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Apple has established a sprawling and intricate compute architecture, one that ropes in Google and NVIDIA to paper over its embarrassing AI-related shortcomings. Even so, Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote answered as many questions as raised new ones. Thankfully, the Cupertino-based tech giant is now issuing clarifications at the speed of lightning, resolving lingering uncertainties on a war footing of sorts. Apple craftily obfuscates Google's contributions to its new Apple Intelligence architecture, taking pains to point out its own technologies at the core of this new paradigm We already know that Apple Intelligence consists of a combo of on-device and cloud-based […]

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As part of its annual software update cadence, Apple has just announced visionOS 27 as it prepares to go beyond the Vision Pro headsets by launching a spate of AI-enabled and mix-reality smart glasses in the months ahead. Apple's visionOS 27 comes with exciting new features, including curved windows, Icelandic vistas, and empowered Dwell Control Apple is, of course, bringing the all-new Siri AI to visionOS in a prominent manner. As mentioned in our dedicated post on all things Siri-related, you can now pin a visualization of the revamped AI assistant anywhere in your field of view, and then interact […]

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Shortly before he was on his way out, one of the final decisions made by Phil Spencer and his regime at Xbox was to give Xbox Game Pass a massive 50% price hike. Users rushed to cancel their subscriptions so quickly and in such high droves in response that it crashed the cancel page on Xbox's website, so it's no surprise to hear the new strategy chief Matthew Ball admit that the company lost "millions" of subscribers due to the increase. This comes from Ball while speaking at The Game Business Live during Summer Game Fest 2026, first shared by […]

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Apple's WWDC 2026 has kicked into a high gear and we're bringing you fresh goodies as they roll out on stage. And now, without a further ado, it's the turn of the watchOS 27 to shine in the spotlight. Apple unveils the watchOS 27 with nifty features, including Workout Buddy, a new gesture for widget selection, and much more Siri AI As expected, Apple is placing Siri AI first and center within watchOS 27, with the ability to ask open-ended questions, brainstorm ideas for workout routines, and more, all in natural language. It can also tap into your personal information […]

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MMORPG fans were treated to a surprise during Summer Game Fest 2026, as ArenaNet took the stage to unveil Guild Wars 3, which had been unceremoniously teased by an NCSoft executive during an investors call in March 2024. Earlier this year, a job ad suggested the project was in development with Epic's Unreal Engine 5. The announcement of Guild Wars 3 was particularly important given the near-complete lack of triple-A MMOs in development by Western studios (with the notable exception of Riot Games' elusive Runeterra MMO) and the recent cancellation of Amazon's The Lord of the Rings MMO. Indeed, in […]

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The Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) in France has slapped a €35 million fine on Nintendo for the Joy-Con drift issues that continue to plague users on the Switch after an investigation found that "Nintendo of Europe had committed a misleading commercial practice from 2018 to 2023." Thumbsticks on Joy-Con controllers drifting until the point they are unusable is an issue that seemingly every Nintendo Switch owner has had to contend with at one point or another, if not multiple times. Despite the issue being widespread from the beginning, Nintendo didn't issue a formal apology […]

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An improved version of Liquid Glass in iOS 27 doesn’t mean that Apple will bring more animations or visual upgrades to the update, but the company has introduced a multitude of performance improvements that will make older devices perform like new. During the WWDC 2026 keynote, the company stated that a new CPU scheduler feature will allow even devices as old as the iPhone 11 to run smoothly, which is impressive to hear given that the latter launched in 2019, nearly seven years ago. As for the compatibility list, it’s given below. In short, if your iPhone was running iOS 26, […]

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The undisputed star of the show is finally here. Apple has just unveiled the all-new Siri AI, which is powered by the much-improved Apple Foundation Models. Siri AI has world knowledge as well as your personal information on its fingertips, and is fundamentally on-screen aware Apple is now debuting a fundamentally improved Apple Intelligence architecture, which consists of new Apple Foundation Models that have been distilled from the very capable Google Gemini models, all coordinated by an orchestrator. Critically, Apple is NOT using Gemini models on your devices. Of course, depending on the capability of your existing Apple device, you […]

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The number of optimizations that Apple has introduced in macOS 27 Golden Gate has also trickled down to iOS 27, the company’s latest iPhone update that comes with a ton of features, including performance tweaks to make your device operate much snappier than before. Here are all the details. New CPU scheduler aims to open up apps 30 percent faster, with other major performance improvements inbound Just like macOS 27, iOS 27 will have a Liquid Glass slider, enabling you to adjust the intensity of the “glass” effect, but what really surprised us is the performance improvements that Apple has claimed […]

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As expected, Apple has retained its Liquid Glass UI with the introduction of macOS 27 Golden Gate, the newest update to the company’s desktop operating system, and there are a ton of changes incorporated. Most importantly, the technology firm has brought in a bevy of performance improvements, which is exactly what an update should bring. Liquid Glass on macOS 27 now includes a slider to increase or decrease the opacity of the UI, with other changes added Over the past year, one of the biggest criticisms faced by Apple was how its Liquid Glass UI felt, and in macOS 27 […]

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Early access survival game Valheim, from developer Iron Gate and publisher Coffee Stain Publishing will finally launch out of early access later this year, with a 1.0 release date officially set for September 9, 2026. After its early access launch back in 2021, this 1.0 release marks the end of five years of early access. The studio announced the release date during the PC Gaming Show as part of Summer Game Fest 2026, which will also now arrive on PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2, the last two major platforms (save for mobile) the game had not yet been released […]

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Hideo Kojima has given what appears to be his final word on Generative AI (GenAI) technology and whether it's something he's really interested in exploring as part of the artistic process and its capability for creating art. Speaking to The Washington Post (spotted by Kotaku), even after a GenAI version of Kojima appeared in a Prada commercial just last month, the Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid creator has said he's "not interested" in GenAI art. "Art is life. But in 50 years, 100 years, I don't know. Maybe AI could create art, but while I live, I don't think […]

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At Summer Game Fest 2026, newly established publishing label Paramount Games Studio unveiled TMNT: The Last Ronin, a project in development at PlatinumGames (NieR: Automata, Bayonetta 3, Ninja Gaiden 4). As some of you may recall, we already got such an announcement in March 2023, but back then, the project was in development at Black Forest Games (Giana Sisters, Destroy All Humans!). Its development was stopped before the merger of Skydance and Paramount, and later, it was reassigned to the Japanese studio. The gameplay will undoubtedly be very different, but one thing seems to have stayed the same: the mature, […]

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