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By Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.

After offering up some of their accessibility inventions for free a couple of years ago - including the context-aware ping system seen in Apex Legends and code for a colourblindness tool - Electronic Arts are opening up even more of their accessibility features for anyone to use.

Apple Music Replay offers a captivating glance into your year in music, compiling your top songs, artists, albums, playlists, genres, and stations based on your Apple Music usage. This feature creates a personalized playlist of your most-listened tracks, allowing you to relive your favorite musical moments and to get the nostalgia going.

Fans of the UK-based comedy panel show Taskmaster will have just finished up watching series 16. The program itself just seems to go from strength to strength, so it’s not surprising that it’s being turned into an official video game. Specifically, a VR game.

I suppose it was only a matter of time before Taskmaster got its own VR game. The game show, in case you're unfamiliar with it, is about giving celebrities and comedians increasingly absurd tasks to fulfil—with very few clues on how to get those tasks done.

Good news, folks, Geralt is bound for your coffee table. So says Restoration Games, publishers of card and miniatures game Unmatched, who announced today that it's partnering with CD Projekt Red to bring a bunch of Witcher-themed stuff into the game over the course of two new sets. 

Amazon Prime Video’s Fallout TV series is set to premiere in April next year, and fans of the post-apocalyptic franchise will be hoping that it will be able to cement itself as another recent example of well-made and well-received adaptations of games. In the lead-up to the premiere a few months from now, new images published by Vanity Fair have offered a first look at what the show will look like, while additional details have also been revealed.

MachineGames is a studio that found their niche with the Wolfenstein games, at least until they didn’t.

Dell S2722DGM | 27-inch | 165Hz | 1440p | VA | $299.99$199.99 at Dell (save $100) Our favorite overall gaming monitor is the pricey, ultrawide 34" Alienware QD-OLED, but our top 1440p pick is this good old fashioned 16:9 display from Dell. It was discounted to $250 over the summer, and now it's down to $200. A great pick for a midrange build.

Indie developer Zeekerss has revealed that co-op game Lethal Company has been incredibly successful. The developer took to social media platform X to reveal that the game had recently crossed 100,000 concurrent players on Steam.

TCL Q6 | 55-inch | 4K | Smart TV | 60Hz | $449.99 $349.99 at BestBuy (save $100)OK. Alright. It's only 60Hz. But it's a 55-inch QLED HDR 4K TV. For $349. As it happens, it will actually do 120Hz with variable refresh, but only at 1440p. And it's good for 500 nits peak brightness. It ain't half bad for the money.

Black Friday is now a week away, and the deals have started already. While it's true that some retailers put their prices up just before the event to make the discounts look bigger on the actual day, we've still found some really good early deals that we think are worthy of a mention right now.