Get creative with iOS 17: Design your own message stickers for fun chats

By Monica Chin, a senior reviewer covering laptops and other gadgets. Monica was a writer for Tom's Guide and Business Insider before joining The Verge in 2020.

If you are someone who cannot go a day without listening to music and often find yourself grooving to songs on your earphones and headphones, you are in great luck. You can get access to Apple Music, with over 100 million songs and new ones being added regularly, for free! Yes, Apple has rolled out an offer that lets new subscribers get 6 months of free access to Apple Music with a new iPhone or eligible AirPods, HomePod, or Beats. Let us take a look at how you can take advantage of it.

Paramount has revealed the first new game dedicated to the Rugrats franchise in over 20 years, Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland.

It can be odd to discover, over time, what a game is really about. Finity is a match-three game for Apple Arcade. It delights in pastel colours and endless chiming sound effects. But what it's actually about is that crucial element of first-person shooters and MMO raids. Finity is about target priorisation.

 Things have not gone very well for The Day Before, the once-second-most-wishlisted game on Steam. After two years of weird delays and a near-complete dearth of gameplay footage, the whole thing was muscled off Steam (and the rest of the internet) by a copyright dispute with the maker of a calendar app called TheDayBefore. Developer Fntastic vowed that a triumphant return was in the offing, and despite a certain air of sketchiness to the whole thing, it looks like it might actually happen—under a different name.

As part of its big TennoCon 2023 fan convention news blowout, developer Digital Extremes has pulled back the veil on Warframe's next big expansion, Whisper in the Walls, as well as detailing the free-to-play sci-fi shooter's mid-term future as its celebrates the big one-oh — including perhaps its wildest expansion yet, in next year's Warframe: 1999.

Apple has added a new and unique accessibility feature in iOS 17 that can be helpful to many. The feature is called Personal Voice and it is a machine learning-based feature that allows your iPhone the capability to speak in your own voice. Yes, that's right. Your iPhone can create a replica of your voice and then synthesize the same voice to give the impression it is speaking in your voice. If you are wondering about the use case of this feature, it is meant for those who either have a speech disability or a condition that stops them from speaking for a longer period of time. So, if you want to try it out, we will explain how to set it up and begin using it.

Starfield is easily one of the most anticipated video game titles launching this year. After years of waiting for this game and finding Bethesda being taken in under the Xbox umbrella, we’re just now a couple of weeks away from getting our hands on the game. But while this game has become such a massively anticipated title, it’s unfortunate for the team that spent years of their time and effort to see their project get leaked online. In fact, one leaker was proven to be quite a problem for Bethesda and the Microsoft company.

If you're looking for a challenging platform puzzler with some fresh mechanics and plenty of tongue-in-cheek humor, then look no further than It's a Wrap! as seen during the Future Games Show. 

Once again, the cancer of crime is spreading across Old Detroit, and there's only one police officer who can serve up justice on these lawless streets – RoboCop.

Valve has released a new update for Left 4 Dead 2 showing that, whatever the fans may think, someone over there is certainly paying attention to all their complaints. It makes substantial, not-so-substantial, and in some cases slightly bonkers changes to the game. Try this on for size: «Restored the knife's original horizontal swing trajectory.» Knife is once more the best! Though the skillet will always hold a special place in my heart.

Starfield, Bethesda Game Studios’ hugely anticipated RPG game boasts over 1,000 planets, spread across 100 star systems. And, as reiterated by Bethesda’s Head of Publishing Pete Hines, you’ll be able to roam across the surface of every single one of the Starfield planets – that’s assuming the new world that you’ve stumbled across has a solid surface, anyway. Trying to land on a gas giant could have hazardous consequences for your health.