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Walmart takes a bite off the cost of Metroid Ravenous physical preorders

The Metroid series is going back to its 2D roots again with Metroid Ravenous for the Nintendo Switch 2, the first side-scrolling game in the series since 2021’s Metroid Dread for the Nintendo Switch. If you’re already excited enough to consider preordering, you can save $10 on the physical version of the game when you […]

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Nintendo opens up Fire Emblem with the gigantic Fortune’s Weave

Nintendo has gotten quite good at making open-ended games. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild upended the idea of what a Zelda game could be by giving the player free rein to tackle any part of the map, a philosophy iterated upon with Tears of the Kingdom. On the Switch 2 this idea […]

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How The Oregon Trail became a generational icon

Whether you played it in the back of your classroom or on your computer at home, if you were a kid in the last 30 years you almost certainly grew up playing The Oregon Trail. On the season 5 premiere of Version History, our fearless wagon leader David Pierce is joined by gaming journalist Chris […]

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Apple releases iOS 27 and Siri AI, but you’ll have to join a waitlist

Apple has released iOS 27, and with it the first public version of Siri AI, its rebuilt voice assistant. The Siri AI beta started rolling out in English on 14 September. It arrived alongside iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and tvOS 27. Apple first showed the software at WWDC in June. Craig […]

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Voicemod’s new pocket-friendly device brings real-time voice changing to your phone

Voicemod announced a new mobile device that expands the capabilities of the Voicemod Key dongle it launched in late 2024 as a way to bring the company’s real-time voice changing tech to consoles. While the older Voicemod Key only used a smartphone as an interface between the company’s mobile app and the Xbox, PlayStation, and […]

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Valve is still figuring out ‘how and when’ to do Steam Deck 2

Now that Valve has finally launched its entire 2026 hardware lineup – the Steam Controller, the Steam Machine, and today’s Steam Frame – are we any closer to a next-gen Steam Deck handheld? Valve isn’t saying so yet. The company is figuring out “how and when we can deliver something like that,” Valve designer Pierre-Loup […]

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Valve’s virtual reality plans hit actual reality

The Steam Frame headset is here, and it may not surprise you: it was supposed to cost less than $1,059. “We set out to come out with a device that would have been far more affordable, but the global RAM market, the global storage market have impacted us the same way they’ve impacted everybody,” Valve […]

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The best deals from Nintendo’s ‘customer appreciation’ sale

As promised, Nintendo has marked down a wide variety of Switch games and accessories at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart, as well as its own digital storefront. Its “Customer Appreciation” sale is happening because of tariff-related refunds it received from the US government, and it ends on September 26th at 8:59 PM PT. Nintendo games […]

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I reviewed Valve’s Steam Frame, ask me anything

Hey! I’m Sean Hollister, you might have seen me around this place a few times, and I just spent three weeks beta-testing the Steam Frame, Valve’s hotly anticipated new don’t-call-it-a-VR-headset that might also be an early glimpse at the future of games that run everywhere. At 4PM ET today (that’s 1PM PT for West Coasters […]

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Valve has ported Half-Life: Alyx to ARM, and it’s free with Steam Frame

Today, Valve is launching its first headset since 2019 – the new Steam Frame – while dodging our questions about whether it’ll ever make another VR game to go with it. But buyers of the $1,059 gadget will get one flagship VR game anyhow, and it’s great. Every Steam Frame comes with a copy of […]

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