Google Drops Software Support for Pixel 4a Just 3 Years After Its Release, While the 5-Year Old iPhone XR Is Receiving iOS 17 Update

Watermelon Game is the latest Nintendo Switch game to go viral -  two years after its release. 

Ubisoft has announced plans to discount The Crew Motorfest and offer a second free trial period less than a month after the game’s release.

Interest in vampire-hunting co-op shooter Redfall has dwindled to the extent that the game's concurrent Steam player count is now regularly dropping to single digits. At times, the number of players has been so low that there aren't even enough people to fill a single full four-player co-op team.

In a bold move, the Alliance of Digital India Foundation (ADIF) is taking on Google's stranglehold on the AdTech industry. ADIF has released a statement wherein it is raising concern about the lack of fairness, transparency, and healthy competition in the digital advertising realm, alluding to Google's outsized influence. AdTech, a complex ecosystem governing digital advertising, was designed to ensure a level playing field for advertisers and publishers. However, Google's overwhelming market presence and questionable practices have skewed this balance, endangering fundamental principles of fairness and competition.

Google's Pixel Watch 2 looks like a promising update to last year's excellent Pixel Watch. It's entering the market alongside another recent big-name wearable, the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6, which we awarded an excellent four-star rating to in August. We're in the process of testing the new Pixel Watch now, but let's see how the two smartwatches compare when it comes to design, features, price, and more.

Today at the Made by Google event, the company launched its new devices which consisted of the Pixel 8 series smartphones, the Pixel Buds Pro, and the Pixel Watch 2. The new Pixel Watch 2 features a sleek design which was earlier released in a teaser by Google.

The Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro featuring Google’s latest Tensor G3 will debut tomorrow, and when talking about the chipset’s single-core and multi-core performance, we have already reported that once again, it is behind the competition, but by how much? In a new comparison, it is revealed that the G3 is actually slower than the A14 Bionic, an SoC launched by Apple three years ago when it announced the iPhone 12 lineup.

Google has unveiled a new feature, Google-Extended, offering website publishers the ability to exclude their data from contributing to the development of Google's AI models. While websites will still remain accessible through Google Search, this tool provides publishers with greater control over the use of their content for AI training purposes. In effect, Google will stop using the data of those publishers who opt out.

Bandai Namco has just dropped story details for its third-person action game, Sand Land, based on Akira Toriyama's manga from 2000.

Vampire: The Masquerade Redemption — Reawakened, the mod project to rebuild the first VtM videogame in Skyrim, has shown off new gameplay of its Prague early game. The original game, which follows the story of a crusader knight from the Middle Ages all the way to the modern day, is one of those hyper-ambitious, turn of the millennium RPGs that just doesn't come all the way together, and is a prime candidate for a fan revival.

The early 2024 release window becomes even more crowded, with Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy confirmed to launch on January 24th, 2024. It will be available for Xbox One, PS4, PC and Nintendo Switch and also day one on Game Pass. Check out the latest trailer below, which highlights each game in the trilogy and the new features.

At this year's TGS, Capcom announced Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy will release on 25th January, 2024.