Most early impressions of the Apple Watch Series 10 are quite positive. Not only does it have the biggest display yet on any Apple Watch (despite a smaller overall case size than the 49mm Ultra 2), but it weighs less and is somehow thinner than before….
Continue reading "The Apple Watch Series 10 deserves more than 18-hour battery life"As I write this, I’m listening to tunes on my 2020-vintage AirPods Max. Yes, that makes me a bit of an Apple fanboy, and we currently recommend at least six pairs of headphones over them. But for me, they still sound outstanding, have great active nois…
Continue reading "Why are Apple’s AirPods Max still saddled with 2020 hardware?"The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom feels like a kindred spirit to the 2019 remake of Link’s Awakening, both in challenge and in vibes. It’s a far cry from the incredibly intricate and complex worlds in Tears of the Kingdom, and while I only played f…
Continue reading "The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom plays like a traditional Zelda game, remixed"It’s been nearly five years since Apple Arcade launched, and while the service hasn’t fully delivered on Apple’s promise back in 2019, it can still be worth paying for. Of course, that’s provided you’re willing to hunt through the 200-ish games current…
Continue reading "The best Apple Arcade games for 2024"The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim has been in the works for about three years now, but with its release date fast approaching we now have our first trailer. It’s one of the more unusual and intriguing projects under the Lord of the Rings f…
Continue reading "First trailer for Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim shows an anime-styled Middle-earth"A bunch of the Engadget crew loves the Playdate, the tiny, quirky portable console with a load of great indie games and a crank on the side. I’ve long had my eye on it, but never pulled the trigger for one reason or another. I do get Playdate emails, t…
Continue reading "I like this ridiculous Playdate pizza case so much I bought a Playdate"Halide is one of the best camera alternatives for the iPhone, a lovingly-crafted app that gives users plenty of manual control over the images they take. And today they just pushed out a major update with an intriguing proposition: an “anti-intelligent…
Continue reading "iPhone camera app Halide has an ‘anti-intelligent’ mode to make shooting with RAW easier"I first started hitting arcades in the late ’80s, and one of the first games I remember playing was the seminal 1987 beat-em-up Double Dragon. Probably not the most appropriate thing for a seven-year-old, but I pumped plenty of quarters into it and su…
Continue reading "The Double Dragon series returns yet again with an ultra-modern tribute to the original game"It's been about a decade since Nintendo released a new game in the Donkey Kong Country series — and while there isn't a new one coming any time soon, there is a port of one you may have missed on its way. Donkey Kong Country Returns, orig…
Continue reading "Donkey Kong Country Returns, originally released for the Wii in 2010, is coming to the Switch"Blink and you'll miss it: Apple just confirmed that RCS support will be in iOS 18 via a three-word update at the end of Craig Fedherigi's update on the new software. I wish this post was longer, with more details, but they said literally nothin…
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