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There are plenty of Nintendo Switch deals on the shelves for Christmas this year, but one sits on a newly released accessory that's caught the attention of Switchers everywhere - including mine. What's more, the CRKD Nitro Deck is now back down to its lowest ever price - one I've only previously seen over Black Friday. 

Ready to elevate your iPhone experience by bringing it to the big screen? Whether you're sharing captivating presentations or showcasing your gaming prowess, iPhone screen mirroring is the key to casting your handset or iPad onto your computer or TV. In this comprehensive guide, we will walk you through the steps to effortlessly mirror your iPhone or iPad to either a Mac or PC.

Bitcoin delivered another bout of its notorious volatility in a brief but sharp tumble toward $40,000 amid a broader crypto selloff.

Baldur's Gate 3's critically acclaimed fantasy adventure arrived on Xbox several days ago (December 7) in a surprise release as part of The Game Awards 2023. However, it looks as though the RPG's debut onXbox Series X|S hasn't been as smooth as many might prefer. 

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The UK enjoyed a record Black Friday in the games market thanks to discounts to consoles and physical games.

A Florida man who has tattooed his face heavily to resemble Batman character The Joker has claimed that GTA makers Rockstar owe him money for drawing on his likeness in the first GTA 6 trailer.

It’s common for CCP Games’ massively multiplayer online spacefaring sim Eve Online to make headlines based on the mind-blowing strategies employed by its devoted community, but would AI be able to keep up with the deeply human wars of subterfuge and espionage that often result in the game’s most compelling moments? One group of players is hoping to find the answer.

Azeroth is our World Soul, but what else do we know about her? It's time for some more lore speculation with Nobbel87. The question as to what’s actually inside of Azeroth has popped up a couple of times, especially with the latest end cutscene and some new in-game books, so time to sit down and look at the information we have, to see if we can’t throw some ideas together. An excuse to talk a bit about the origin stories that we have for the entire Warcraft universe.

Apple recently seeded the release candidate build of iOS 17.2, iPadOS 17.2, and additional updates to developers. The update packs many bug fixes and performance enhancements that all compatible iPhone models need. Other than the necessary fixes, iOS 17.2 will also bring a boatload of significant features, which the company announced at its WWDC 2023 event. If unsure, check out when Apple will release the final iOS 17.2 update for all compatible iPhone models.

The answer to today's Wordle is only a quick click away, allowing you to save a scrappy game in record time, or simply skip straight to that sweet, sweet, win. Rather take your time, but still don't want to lose? Then you might want to take a look at the clue for the December 10 (904) game, designed to help without handing you the word on a plate.

The Binding of Isaac is a beloved roguelike that’s grown in scope with every expansion alongside its fan base, who adore the visuals and the way they can jump in, and no two runs will ever be the same. Today, its creator seems to have closed a deal on a Fortnite crossover.

We’re coming up for air from our coverage of The Game Awards to loop our readers in on some of the best deals happening this weekend. If you’re looking to experience some of the winners from the 2023 Game Awards for yourself, you can find discounts on a variety of titles on Steam. Some other highlights you might want to check out include a sitewide sale on Blu-Rays from The Criterion Collection, and the Xbox Series X matching its Black Friday price on Walmart and Amazon.

Larian says half of one percent of Baldur's Gate 3 players have managed to finish the game without recruiting a single companion, and accounting for those possibilities is part of what made designing the game and writing its dialogue so challenging.

£167 million worth of video game consoles, accessories and physical games were sold over the Black Friday week in the UK, GfK reveals.

Baldur’s Gate 3’s Honour Mode is inherently hard — not only is it played at the game’s highest difficulty setting, but it limits players to a single save file. No save-scumming here! Since the Honour Mode update was released on Nov. 30, 464 Baldur’s Gate 3 parties have completed the game in that mode, compared to the 34,000 players who have failed their attempts, according to statistics released by Larian on Dec. 5.

The original developer of Life is Strange has unveiled a brand new story-driven game and I can already tell I'm going to love it. 

Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero's official website claims that it's going to have a "historic" number of playable characters, implying that it's going to have more fighters than Budokai Tenkaichi 3.

Studio Ghibli’s latest movie The Boy and the Heron has now had its English-language release in the US. Among the star-studded voice cast are Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, and Robert Pattinson, with the latter apparently smashing his recordings out of the park. 

Grand Theft Auto VI is setting out to be a much better-looking game than even Red Dead Redemption 2, as highlighted in a new video shared online.

In today's fast-paced digital communication era, privacy and control over shared content are becoming increasingly important. Many messaging apps are incorporating features to enhance user control, and one such feature gaining popularity is the WhatsApp "View Once" mode for voice messages.

10 Best mobiles for gaming and streaming: Are you a huge fan of gaming and streaming but don't have access to the gaming consoles and other equipment required for it? Well, these days gaming and streaming have become a lot easier with the help of feature-filled mobile phones which let you play the games of your choice quite easily. We have made a list of 10 best mobiles for gaming and streaming here including smartphones like iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 14, Samsung Galaxy S23 FE and more. This list also includes mid-range smartphones like iQOO Neo 7 5G, TECNO Phantom X2 Pro 5G and more, that are best suited for those who have a low budget and don't want to spend a mini-fortune on a smartphone.

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Developer Don't Nod has announced its next game, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage.

Life is Strange is one of those series that always caught my eye. However, after a certain point, I felt overwhelmed by all the games I’d need to play to catch up. Fortunately, the team at Don’t Nod has me covered, because they’re teeing up a whole new universe in the upcoming Lost Record: Bloom & Rage.

Don’t Nod, the team behind Jusant and Life is Strange, has a new story-driven adventure game called Lost Records: Bloom & Rage.

Don't Nod, the developer behind games including Jusant, Twin Mirror, Tell Me Why, and most notably, the creator of Life is Strange, announced its next game: Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, which is coming late next year on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.

Don't Nod announced its next adventure game at The Game Awards tonight, which is called Lost Records: Bloom & Rage. The debut trailer teased a story of four '90s teens who discover some weird alien (magical?) stuff in the woods, and a meeting they have 27 years in the future.

Lego Fortnite is upon us, and it seems everyone wants to know what it's all about. With 2.3 million concurrent players as of this writing, the new survival crafting game is already the biggest thing in Fortnite.

After half a decade of speculation, hype, disappointment, leaks, and general tomfoolery, Grand Theft Auto VI is finally a thing! Well, that’s going a bit far. GTA VI isn’t quite a thing – not yet anyway. Instead, it’s a thing that’s so far in the distance that it actually resembles a mirage of a thing you might see during a feverish trip to your local desert (or dessert if you have a funky pancreas). 

All the buzz around Grand Theft Auto 6’s official reveal made it the most-viewed non-music video on YouTube in the first 24 hours after publish, according to Guinness World Records.

GameStop has acknowledged its decision to oust former president and CEO Matthew Furlong could backfire.

Baldur's Gate 3 has had a pretty active speedrun community, which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone familiar enough with its more immersive-sim elements. There's the vaunted sex% speedrun, the any% speedrun which focuses on making Gale blow up as quickly as possible, and the «any% all acts» speedrun. Spoilers ahead, of course.

GTA 6 is likely to get delayed and won't be released globally until closer to the end of 2025.

Innocent, dew-eyed babe that I am, I had no idea that the heavily tatted criminal who makes a brief appearance in the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer looked like a real guy. But he does, and now I will live with that knowledge until my last days. He resembles Florida Joker—real name Lawrence Sullivan—a resident of, uh, Florida with face tattoos and hair inspired by Jared Leto's portrayal of the Joker, who originally went viral for a 2017 mugshot.

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Google announced the new-generation artificial intelligence model called the Gemini AI in which it launched the “Nano” version for its latest smartphone, Google Pixel 8 Pro. Google Gemini Nano AI is specifically tailored for smartphones to carry out on-device tasks. The new AI model uses the capabilities of Google Tensor G3 to run new advanced features such as Summarize in Recorder and Smart Reply in Gboard. Gemini Nano is designed to bring various benefits to Pixel 8 Pro functionality and features. Know what is Gemini Nano and what new benefits it has brought to Google's top-of-the-line Pixel 8 model.

During The Game Awards last year, you may recall that Valve decided to give some viewers an early Christmas present by dishing out a number of Steam Decks for completely free. Not only that, but the company gave away a Steam Deck for every minute The Game Awards ran, even if the timing of the show went over the usual three and a half hours that Geoff Keighley reserves for the occasion. Valve is doing the same this year, but with one significant catch.

Before GTA 6 has the chance to break the sales records we're all expecting it to, its 90-second trailer has been busy shattering a couple YouTube records. Since Rockstar Games posted the trailer on Tuesday it's racked up a staggering 110 million views.

Blizzard has provided a breakdown of the number of exploitive accounts that received actions for November 2023, which is just under 200,000. The previous month of October set the record with 203,026 actions!

We're starting to sound like a broken record, but early 2024 is madness in terms of the release schedule. There are approximately 12 million games coming out between late January and late March, and now you can add The Legend of Legacy HD Remastered to the ever-growing list.

The official GTA 6 trailer upload from Rockstar Games is sitting at over 110 million views at the time of writing, and it's set multiple new world records along the way. Guinness World Records has officially recognised three world records set by the GTA 6 trailer, covering its first 24 hours of availability, likes, and views outside of the video game sphere.

A new Final Fantasy XVI patch will be deployed at the end of next week, but you shouldn't be hoping it includes anything even remotely substantial: it's just going to make an adjustment to the way scores are calculated in Arcade Mode. The PS5 update will be available for download on 8th December 2023, adding a new leaderboard for all your performance scores and retiring the old one.

It's long been our belief that Persona 5 has the most stylish turn-based combat system ever devised, but it could soon be time for Joker and the gang to vacate their throne. Indeed, Persona 3 Reload's reworked battles look incredible. Visually, there's a much greater emphasis on highly stylised cuts from character to character, and we love the way artwork has been incorporated into certain actions.

Yesterday, Xbox CFO Tim Stuart said Microsoft wants Xbox Game Pass on «every screen that can play games», including «what we would have thought of as competitors in the past like PlayStation and Nintendo». One day later, Xbox boss Phil Spencer told Windows Central: «We have no plans to bring Game Pass to PlayStation or Nintendo. It's not in our plans.»

Grand Theft Auto VI was incredibly hyped going into December. We knew this would be the month Rockstar Games would unveil their first trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto game. While we finally have the trailer readily available, plenty of reaction videos and content are emerging online to help indicate what we might see in this installment. However, one YouTube channel, Lavkia, compared Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto VI. While it might not be a direct comparison to the map, it will at least give you some insight into what areas of the map might have been expanded.

Developer Rockstar Games released the first official trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI earlier this week and in 24 hours, it surpassed 100 million views while also nabbing the record for the most views in 24 hours. YouTuber Mr. Beast previously held that record before the GTA VI trailer. At the time of this writing, the trailer has 104 million views on YouTube. 

You know those dystopian notions of seas boiling over thanks to climate change? Well, China has a neat idea to accelerate a process which is already giving us the warmest sea surface temps on record. Heating up the oceans directly with computers.

Now that we finally have a release window for Grand Theft Auto 6, it's time to sit back and imagine everything that will be possible in the upcoming open-world action-adventure game. 

There was little doubt that the GTA VI trailer would do well in terms of viewership. Still, the debut video of Rockstar's massively anticipated new game surpassed even the rosiest expectations.

The first trailer of the Grand Theft Auto VI was leaked before the official release from Rockstar Games. As a result, the gaming company had to release the GTA 6 trailer itself earlier than scheduled. However, even after the leak, the Grand Theft Auto VI trailer broke the viewership record on YouTube by gaining over 99 million views and it's still counting. The new season of the game brings various new features along with a new female protagonist Lucia. Know about the Grand Theft Auto VI trailer YouTube views here.

Rainbow Six Siege fans did a collective double take last week when Activision shared the next slate of operators coming to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone. Meet Dokkaebi: a «skilled spy and robotics engineer» available in the Season 1 battle pass. Call of Duty's Dokkaebi immediately drew comparisons to popular Siege operator Dokkaebi: a skilled hacker who disrupts and steals enemy intel.

In just 22 hours, the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI has racked up 85 million views, breaking a MrBeast video’s record for most YouTube views in 24 hours. That ranking excludes music videos, but the hype around this long-awaited game could smash past those records too — right now, the most viewed YouTube video in 24 hours is the music video for K-Pop sensation BTS’ song “Butter,” which was viewed 108 million times in that timespan.

I think it’s safe to say we’re all pretty much aware of Lethal Company by now, even if you haven’t played it. The indie co-op horror game seemed to come from nowhere, yet it’s still dominating the charts on Steam, besting some AAA releases.

2023 has been a remarkable year to be a fan of good media.

DK is moving in right next door to Super Nintendo World.

There’s something strange going on right now in relation to PlayStation Network.

A brand new Intel 5th Gen Xeon "Emerald Rapids" slide deck has emerged which gives us a bit more information on the chip layout and performance of the next-gen data center CPUs.

Sonic Dream Team is released today on Apple Arcade, and our gameplay footage lets you see it in action.

Secretlab is an industry leader when it comes to high-end gaming chairs. Some of you might even be sitting in a Secretlab creation right now. It does more than just chairs, though. Still all about comfort when gaming or at your desk, Secretlab also sells memory foam pillows, and just like its other products, there are options officially licensed by some of the games you play while using its products. Lots of League of Legends stuff, of course, and a subsect of Secretlab's collection that recently grew by one more item.

After a pretty atrocious leak, Rockstar lifted the lid on Grand Theft Auto 6 a little earlier than scheduled, releasing the trailer alongside the news that the game will launch at some point in 2025. There were still a lot of unanswered questions after the trailer though, including which platforms GTA 6 will actually launch on when it comes to release. All of you PS4 owners had better look away now.

Back in August, Xbox head Phil Spencer claimed that there's no reason why Starfield can't become a game that fans play for the next decade, stating that he believes the spacefaring RPG will have a lifespan as long as Skyrim. Since then, we've seen the game launch, Bethesda itself argue that the game isn't boring, and Starfield become the lowest-rated Bethesda title on Steam in the studio's history. Despite all of that, Spencer's opinion hasn't changed.

Fortnite finally releases its highly-anticipated Chapter 5 Season 1, adding a wave of new in-game content, along with new mechanics. Here is a quick recap of what to expect.

Fortnite fans were treated to a performance from the rapper Eminem on Saturday.

This is not a drill. The Xbox Series X just dropped to a brand new record low price at Walmart, with a stunning $150 discount. This definitely isn't going to last long - it could be a matter of hours before that price returns to normal, so we certainly wouldn't wait before heading to checkout. 

Patch 5 added a new difficulty to Baldur's Gate 3 called Honour Mode in which death is permanent and you can't save scum. To boot, it's harder than Tactician. It's not for the faint of heart, to say the least. But while we look at it with terror, one speedrunner has already gotten through it in under an hour.

Last year, Christopher Judge won Best Performance at The Game Awards for playing Kratos in God of War Ragnarok. But it's not the award that people remember most, it's how long his speech was. Breaking a world record, Judge spoke for seven minutes and 59 seconds. It ran so long that the teleprompter reportedly said, "Please wrap it up".

It has been alleged that tech giants fund Congressional AI fellows and this has raised concerns of undue industry influence; AstraZeneca Inks $247 million deal with AI firm Absci for cancer drug discovery; MediaTek's on-device AI promises to personalised phone experience; EY's AI detects fraud in UK audits- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.

Two off-screen videos that claim to show Grand Theft Auto 6’s map have gone viral on TikTok ahead of the game’s imminent reveal on December 5 - and the aftermath has left the community bewildered. 

India is being applauded for following a path of digitalization and introducing the revolutionary digital payment mode UPI. However, digitalization has also led to some serious UPI fraud and crimes. In a concerning trend, Himachal Pradesh has seen a shocking surge in cybercrime complaints. Officials have reported at least one complaint every hour which includes cases of UPI fraud, job fraud, sextortion, and blackmailing. Know what officials have reported about these cybercrime cases.

The Big Bang Event in Fortnite concluded the game’s OG Season with a staggering concurrent player count as millions of players flocked to the servers to witness how the best season in years came to a close and what Epic Games has in store for it in the future.

Since this article was published, Epic Games has officially released the launch trailer for Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 1 Underground. We’ve included the trailer below alongside details now confirmed by the developer.

Google Messages, the default messaging app on most Android phones, has undergone a significant transformation with a recent update. This overhaul not only introduces a fresh and lively feel to your conversations but also brings about new features that enhance the user experience. Google Messages update has revamped the user interface and it is now very much reminiscent of the widely popular iPhone messaging app, iMessage. One standout addition is the Photomoji feature, which allows users to extract objects from their photos, turning them into dynamic Photomojis. These personalised reactions can be sent within the Google Messages app, and when shared in group chats, others can utilise these Photomojis- a feature reminiscent of Apple's live stickers.

Baldur's Gate 3 is just as fantastically intricate as the role-playing game it's based on, Dungeons & Dragons 5E, and that means it's paved with so many bisecting and diverging narrative pathways. Some of these pathways are, as decisive players say, its "good endings" and "bad endings," immovable plugs tacked onto a game otherwise riddled with choice and possibility.

The next entry in Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto franchise is returning to the Miami-inspired locale of Vice City. That means a new, high-fidelity version of the city, and if Grand Theft Auto 5’s San Andreas was any indication, it will be packed with references to the metropolis that inspired it.

Lofi Girl studies a lot. It makes sense that she’d have a hobby that matches her studious nature: Lofi Girl, apparently, plays chess online — specifically, she plays on Chess.com. Lofi Girl launched a new partnership with the chess platform on Dec. 1, opening up yet another place to stream chill beats fit for a grandmaster chess player. The YouTube page has 20 songs, but can also be streamed on Spotify and elsewhere.

Jennifer English, the voice of Shadowheart the brooding Cleric in hit fantasy RPG Baldur's Gate 3has shed more light on her performance, stating that the character's arc is a «trans allegory.» 

The latest patch of Baldur's Gate 3 has a lot of quality-of-life updates. It has a lovely little epilogue, a gnarly new honour mode that's been giving Ted Litchfield spikes in his blood pressure, among many other tune-ups and fixes. And uh, schlong physics. Did we mention the schlong physics? Because Larian sure didn't.

For those who enjoyed Paramount Plus’ Halo series, you’re in luck. You can watch all eight episodes of its first season for free on YouTube. Furthermore, the date for the next season might have leaked a bit early.