In Hollowbody, an early 2000s-style third-person survival horror game by Nathan Hamley (the solo developer behind Headware Games), the true terror comes not from its hideous monsters, but from inhabiting a world where regular people are failed by the s…
Continue reading "Hollowbody fills the void left by PS2 survival horror games"A SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying the four private astronauts of the Polaris Dawn mission has launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the early hours of September 10 after a few weeks of delays. The mission was scheduled to lift off at the …
Continue reading "Polaris Dawn is finally headed to space for its groundbreaking civilian mission"Indie developer Gardenfiend Games just released a gorgeous plant horror game that its team describes as “Hollow Knight meets Titan Souls.” Perennial Order, which dropped on September 6 for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, is a 2D boss rush game that pulls …
Continue reading "Perennial Order is a stunning 2D Soulslike filled with plant monsters that’ll kill you in one hit"Many of Apple Intelligence’s most anticipated features will arrive in a trickle well after the release of iOS 18, and according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, it could be December before the iPhone will offer things like AI-generated images and custom emo…
Continue reading "Genmoji and image-generation tools for iPhone reportedly delayed until iOS 18.2"Mattel's latest Polly Pocket collab is a Stranger Things playset that houses the fictional town of Hawkins and the Upside Down in a compact shaped like a walkie-talkie. The set, introduced this week, contains figurines of the characters Eleven, Mik…
Continue reading "There’s a Stranger Things Polly Pocket set, and its design is really clever"Stellantis, the parent company of Chrysler, has issued a recall for Ram 1500 pickup trucks from 2019 and 2021-2024 due to a software problem in the anti-lock brake system. The bug could cause the anti-lock brake system to “disable the electronic stabil…
Continue reading "Over 1.4 million Ram 1500 trucks recalled to fix a bug in the anti-lock brake system"Heart-warming little adventure games have really found a place to thrive in the Playdate. I picked up Electrolight this weekend while looking for something in the same vein as the bite-sized puzzle/exploration game, Eyeland — cute, low-commitment, not …
Continue reading "Electrolight is a short and sweet Playdate adventure game about branching out"Starliner is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station and make its return trip to Earth uncrewed in just a matter of days, but it apparently still has a few new mysteries left in it to throw at the team before it departs. On Saturday, a…
Continue reading "Now there’s a creepy, sonar-like sound coming through one of Starliner’s speakers"Apple’s M4 Mac mini will boast a ton of ports, but not a single one of them will be USB-A, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. In the Power On newsletter, Gurman reports that Apple is ditching USB-A ports with the upcoming Mac mini. The company is wo…
Continue reading "Apple reportedly plans to drop USB-A ports with the M4 Mac mini and is working on a low-end Magic Keyboard"If this week’s rumor about a video game set in the universe of 2022’s The Batman got your hopes up, I have some bad news: no such thing is in development at the moment. Responding to a question on Threads about whether Warner Bros. has a game in the wo…
Continue reading "No, a video game spin-off of The Batman is not in the works, James Gunn says"