Sheena Vasani writes about tech news, reviews gadgets, and helps readers save money by highlighting deals and product recommendations for The Verge.Happy Mario Day! To celebrate the worldâs most iconic plumber, Nintendo has all sorts of treats for fans, including a new Nintendo Switch bundle, a new Mario Kart Lego set, and a new theme…
Split Fiction, the new game from It Takes Two developer Hazelight Studios, doesnât do anything particularly new. The game is a straightforward co-op adventure that strings together disparate sci-fi and fantasy games like links on a chain. If you bundled together the sci-fi and fantasy sections as separate entities, they wouldnât form a cohesive experience…
Assassinâs Creed Shadows brings the franchise to the shores of Japan. After almost 20 years and 13 mainline games, Assassinâs Creed â the series about using flashy gadgets and techniques to murder your enemies undetected â has finally been set in a place famous for assassins who use flashy gadgets and techniques to murder their…
One of the founders of betting firm Paddy Power says new government rules to protect punters playing online slots don’t go far enough.Stewart Kenny, who helped found the Irish company in the 80s, believes online slot games spin too fast, which contributes to them being addictive.He thinks new government rules limiting the stakes are not…
(Image credit: Image by Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central, logo by VR Games Showcase) The March 2025 VR Games Showcase revealed 20 new Meta Quest games coming this year, plus two existing Meta Quest games getting ports to other platforms. The show was jam-packed with action, and the big debut of Flat2VR Studios’ huge library…
Crypto is, once again, exploding. Momentum born of a potentially friendlier regulatory atmosphere has met rising coin values, with Bitcoin more than doubling in value last year. Meanwhile, powered by advances to the underlying infrastructure, crypto is evolving beyond speculation and into real utility. Thatâs driving new use cases for AI and enabling seamless experiences…
Today is the third anniversary of Valveâs Steam Deck, the handheld gaming PC that all but created the market for handheld gaming PCs. It was a mess to start! But three years later, The Verge has data showing how it has dominated the nascent market. While Valve told us in November 2023 that it had…
Image: Sega / Hazelight Studios / Obsidian / Capcom / KotakuItâs only the beginning of March but 2025 already has some bangers worth spotlighting, including real standouts like Split Fiction and Avowed, so we decided to start compiling the best games of the year early and update this list as the days, weeks, and months…
ImageCarmelo Anthony is moving on from the Houston Rockets less than a month into his first season with the team.CreditCreditMary Altaffer/Associated PressThe Houston Rockets have announced plans to cut ties with Carmelo Anthony, forcing the former All-Star into an early-season hunt for a new team willing to extend his N.B.A. career.Before Houstonâs nationally televised game…
TORONTO â Rewind the Toronto Maple Leafsâ most recent 120 minutes of gameplay and fans of the club can find much to celebrate during consecutive starting-goalie-chasing victories over banged-up cellar dwellers New Jersey and Florida. The special teams rediscovered their groove, Morgan Rielly leads all defencemen in points, Frederik Andersen tops all goalies in wins,…
Patrick Kane had a goal and an assist during a five-goal third period to extend the NHL’s longest active point streak to 12 games and help the Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Edmonton Oilers 6-2 at Rogers Place on Thursday for their fifth consecutive victory. The 30-year-old forward has 28 points (10 goals, 18 assists) during the…
Grab that mug of hot cocoa and warm up those mouse-clicking fingers. We’re ramping up to the best time of the year for holiday stocking-stuffing, and the only downside for online shoppers is narrowing down the deals. If you’ve got tech-minded friends on your list, you’ve clicked to the right place: Here are nine discounts…
Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Brawl Stars is nearing its global launch For the last 18 months, Finnish game developer Supercell has been testing its next big thing. Last year, the developer behind mobile hits like Clash of Clans and Clash Royale soft-launched a new game called Brawl Stars. Itâs very different from…
“Resident Evil” is back and looking better than ever. Capcom The newest game in the “Resident Evil” franchise is “Resident Evil 2,” a remake of the 1998 classic, arriving Friday for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.”Resident Evil 2″ is a classic survival horror game â players work to escape the zombie-infested Raccoon City as…
Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)Even though I know all these retro consoles are largely an effort turn my nostalgia into big-time corporate profits, theyâre damn hard to resist. Thereâs just something about gray plastic and the old school boot up sound that hits a deep part of my brain as few things do, so when I…
Although a dedicated graphics card is considered by many to be a must-have for PC gaming, it is not as important as it once was. Sure, you need it to play The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt at ultra graphics settings, but if you donât mind losing a little bit of a visual quality and delving…
USA TODAY Sports Published 7:31 a.m. ET Jan. 18, 2019 CLOSE Chad Millman of The Action Network stops by to help you place your bets heading into the NFL’s Conference Championship games. USA TODAYThe NFL’s conference championship games couldn’t have provided much of a better platform for the league’s stars.All four of the teams remaining…
ImageJulian Edelman and Tom Brady of the New England Patriots celebrated their 13-3 victory over the Rams in Super Bowl LIII.CreditDoug Mills/The New York TimesIn the Year of Offense, the N.F.L.âs championship game didnât have much. A dreary Super Bowl that featured a combined 14 punts ended with a sixth title for Tom Brady and…
When I think of the toughest games of my childhood, the Ghosts ân Goblins series from Capcom immediately comes to mind. Theyâre unforgivingly difficult, taunting you at each corner with a thousand deaths. Arthurâs armor gets shredded by every moving object and even upgraded weapons offer little protection. Whatâs worse is that you have to…
Disneyâs 2012 film Wreck-It Ralph proved that a movie based on video game nostalgia could actually be more than a gimmick. Itâs the story of Ralph (John C. Reilly), a villain in a Donkey Kong-esque 1980s-style retro arcade game, who ventures outside of his own cabinet and into the world of other games to prove…
After about 20 years, PokĂ©mon Red, Blue, and Yellow have been given new life on Nintendo Switch with PokĂ©mon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Evee!, and it feels so good to be back. Coming out for the Nintendo Switch on Friday, the two PokĂ©mon: Let’s Go games take the original PokĂ©mon games and update them for…
One of the great online gaming paradoxes is the group-finder, a feature intended to bring people together that often does the opposite. Itâs a mainstay in online games, a one-size-fits-all solution to the ever-present social gaming problem of âHow do I meet people and progress?â Functional, accessible and a little impersonal, the group-finder makes connecting…
To be clear, there are a lot of highlights here. This is the first mobile processor to support multi-gigabit 5G, and is one of the first chips built on 7-nanometer architecture. The Snapdragon 855 also features (among other things) advances in AI processing and graphics prowess — let’s take a closer look.Wireless connectivityFor all of…
The Mission: Mars room at The Escape GamePhoto: The Escape GameAn escape game can be stressful and frustrating and difficult, or it can be fun and empowering and…still difficult. These tips arenât going to ruin escape rooms by making them too easy. But they might save your next team-building activity from becoming an hour of…
New York TodayImageItâs getting harder to walk between the raindrops.CreditSpencer Platt/Getty ImagesMaybe we should call it the Soggy Apple. New York City just experienced its fourth-wettest year on record.In 2018, 65.55 inches of precipitation fell in Central Park, according to the National Weather Service. Thatâs more than 15 inches, or 31 percent, above normal.This is…