Microsoft asks why devs are skipping Xbox, but the answer seems obvious

It’s obvious that Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft are the three titans in the gaming industry, but Microsoft isclearly in third placeat this point as far as hardware sales are concerned. The Nintendo Switch is on the verge of becoming thebest-selling console of all time, and the PS5 has already passed the last-gen Xbox One in overall sales. The Xbox Series X|S family lags far behind with just over 28 million units sold combined at the time of this writing....

July 25, 2025 · 7 min · 1293 words · Timothy Hernandez

Mirror your iPhone or iPad’s display on your Mac with QuickScreen

QuickScreenis a convenient newMacutility byFrogg GmbHthat lets you demo your iPhone’s screen directly on your computer’s display. Designed with ease-of-use in mind, all you have to do to get started with QuickScreen is plug your iPhone or iPad into your machine with a MFi-certifiedLightningcable, and the app detects its display automatically. A live feed for iPhone presentations Within seconds, you’ll notice a live feed of your mobile device’s screen on your Mac....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 396 words · Allen Rodriguez

Monster Hunter World Iceborne Trailer Featuring Zinogre

Following therumorearlier this week about music being registered for Monster Hunter World Iceborne hinting that the monster Zinogre would be coming with the expansion, Capcom confirm that it is indeed true. Monster Hunter World Iceborne Trailer Featuring Zinogre The latest trailer forMonster Hunter World Iceborneconfirms that Zinogre will be joining the expansion which releases next week for consoles. The video shows the fan favouriteZinogreand has been one of the most popular in the Monster Hunter franchise....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 217 words · Cynthia Shelton

NYT: Apple’s car ambitions scaled back to in-house campus shuttle service

Project Titan, Apple’s secretive automotive initiative,switchedgear a year ago to re-focus from building actual car hardware to designing autonomous driving technology. A new in-depth reportpublishedTuesday by The New York Times describes in broad strokes that Apple is now building a shuttle service to transport employees between its various Silicon Valley offices. The shuttle will reportedly be a commercial vehicle from an automaker and Apple will use it to test the autonomous driving technology that it develops, said the report....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 397 words · Jonathan Carey

Pokemon leaker claims Gen 9 is coming sooner than expected

Pokemon leaker claims Gen 9 is coming sooner than expected Is Pokemon Gen 9’s release just around the corner? According to one leaker, the next generation of Game Freak’s RPG will launch sooner than fans expected. WhenPokemon Legends: Arceuswas announced for 2022, it appeared that Pokemon’s ninth generation would be missing its usual three-year release cycle for the first time in decades. The Gen IV origin story looked to delay the franchise’s next mainline game....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 390 words · Sara Rodriguez

Possible New Nintendo Switch 2 with 4k Resolution Leaks!

A publication in Taiwan called ‘The Economic Daily News’ reported multiple manufacturing sources saying, the new version of the Nintendo Switch will include enhanced interactivity features and improved visual quality. This could mean anything from playing games at a higher framerate to a higher resolution from full HD or even 4k. A report from Bloomberg also mentions that Nintendo may have a full line up of games that could be announced soon in regards to this new Nintendo Switch, however, this is still speculation....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 419 words · Joseph Nelson

Put iOS 14’s banner notifications on a diet with Nanobanners

It’s no secret that iOS’notificationbanners are quite a bit chunkier than they need to be, and this means that they can inadvertently block navigation bar buttons or in-app content when they materialize. Those looking to quell these two concerns in one fell swoop might be interested in the likes of a newly released and freejailbreak tweakdubbedNanobanners (Sugiuta)by iOS developersNepetaandSugiuta, as it shrinks the size of your incoming notification banners rather substantially....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 261 words · Kimberly Conway

Resident Evil Art Director Reveals How Tall Lady Dimitrescu Really Is

After captivating Twitter and the gaming world with her brilliant looks (and height), the truth about Lady Dimitrescu ofÂResident Evil: Villagehas been revealed. That’s right, the question of exactly how tall the game’s vampiress really is has finally been answered. Ok, yes, we did publish an article already thatlooked into how tall Lady Dimitrescu is, courtesy ofÂKotaku’s Ash Parrish. However, that was just some internet sleuthing. This is the real deal, the word from the horse’s mouth....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 297 words · Alicia Blanchard

Review: Wild Hearts

Since time immemorial, mankind has had an insatiable desire to find the biggest, meanest creature imaginable and hunt it until it’s good and dead. The primal urge to conquer has naturally carried over into video games with a certain sense of pride and satisfaction coming from taking down the biggest and baddest beast imaginable, with some franchises attaining quite a bit of success from the subgenre of monster hunting. Wild Hearts is the newest adventure to test the player’s ability to stalk the big game....

July 25, 2025 · 7 min · 1376 words · Thomas Mcdowell

Roborock S6 review: Robot vacuum delivers class performance

The Roborock S6 is a flagship robot vacuum cleaner; the updated and improved version ofthe Roborock S5, featuring a number of new design enhancements. aving lived with the Roborock S6 for over two weeks we can bring you our thoughts on its performance and cleaning capabilities. Here’s why this ‘bot is a potentially fantastic addition to your techy cleaning arsenal. Our quick take All told, the Roborock S6 is one of our favourite robot vacuum cleaners....

July 25, 2025 · 10 min · 2008 words · Ebony Brown

Samsung, TSMC and Intel competing for contracts to build A7 chips for Apple

Another report surfaced this morning that gives us more reasons to believe that Apple is indeed looking to diversify its chip making contracts which thus far have been an exclusive Samsung domain. The somewhat accurate Asian trade publication DigiTimes quoted“institutional investors”who believe that chip giant Intel has been contracted to produce about ten percent of Apple’s planned capacity for a next-generation iPhone and iPad processor, the A7 chip. Moreover, Apple is apparently spreading those orders across Samsung, Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)....

July 25, 2025 · 3 min · 460 words · Heather Silva

Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar Plus is cheaper and more compact

Sennheiser announced the Ambeo Soundbar Plus attechnology show IFAin Berlin, bringing a cheaper and “more compact” alternative to the original - and excellent -Ambeo Soundbarthat launched in 2019. The original model is being rebranded to the Ambeo Soundbar Max, distinguishing it as the larger of the two options in Sennheiser’s soundbar portfolio, while the Plus model lays claim to being the “world’s first 7.1.4 standalone soundbar”. Sennheiser says the Ambeo Soundbar Plus will offer self-calibration to “read a room’s acoustic properties and then position seven virtual speakers around the listener, plus four more overhead”....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 261 words · Jennifer Rice

SmartTap: unlock your iPhone just by double-tapping its screen

SmartTapis a brand newjailbreak tweakby well-known developer Elias Limneos. It allows you to use a double-tap gesture on the iPhone’s screen to awaken it, and put it to sleep. You can use other gestures—like a swipe-up or a swipe-down—to unlock the device or launch applications. The tweak is a homage to the “KnockOn” feature popularized by the LG G2 Android phone, where a double-tap on a dark screen wakes the device....

July 25, 2025 · 3 min · 613 words · Laura Green DVM