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02 Sep

The Morning After: A Tamagotchi made with real egg

John RoutledgeLatest News

It’s Labor Day, so tech news typically slows down. We’ve still got some intriguing headlines to share, though, like, er, a new Tamagotchi. Bandai’s newest digital pet is made with recycled eggshells. The Original Tamagotchi Celebration digital pet is even colored like a tan/brown egg, with green and white designs with pink accents and buttons.In ways, it’s a bit of…

01 Sep

Electrolight is a short and sweet Playdate adventure game about branching out

John RoutledgeLatest News

Heart-warming little adventure games have really found a place to thrive in the Playdate. I picked up Electrolight this weekend while looking for something in the same vein as the bite-sized puzzle/exploration game, Eyeland — cute, low-commitment, not particularly difficult — and found it to be utterly charming.Electrolight is described as “a tiny game about a tiny piece of light…

01 Sep

Now there’s a creepy, sonar-like sound coming through one of Starliner’s speakers

John RoutledgeLatest News

Starliner is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station and make its return trip to Earth uncrewed in just a matter of days, but it apparently still has a few new mysteries left in it to throw at the team before it departs. On Saturday, astronaut Butch Wilmore alerted NASA’s Mission Control about an unexplained “strange noise” coming from…

01 Sep

Apple reportedly plans to drop USB-A ports with the M4 Mac mini and is working on a low-end Magic Keyboard

John RoutledgeLatest News

Apple’s M4 Mac mini will boast a ton of ports, but not a single one of them will be USB-A, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. In the Power On newsletter, Gurman reports that Apple is ditching USB-A ports with the upcoming Mac mini. The company is working on a standard and Pro version of the computer, and while it won’t…

31 Aug

No, a video game spin-off of The Batman is not in the works, James Gunn says

John RoutledgeLatest News

If this week’s rumor about a video game set in the universe of 2022’s The Batman got your hopes up, I have some bad news: no such thing is in development at the moment. Responding to a question on Threads about whether Warner Bros. has a game in the works based on the Robert Pattinson-led film, DC Studios’ co-head James…

31 Aug

Dragon’s Dogma director Hideaki Itsuno says he’s leaving Capcom to start a new project

John RoutledgeLatest News

Hideaki Itsuno, who directed the Dragon’s Dogma series and other major games for Capcom, announced on Saturday that he’s leaving the company. “From September, I will start developing a new game in a new environment,” he wrote in a post on X. Itsuno has been with Capcom since the '90s, and worked on a slew of popular series, including Devil…

31 Aug

What to read this weekend: Rural horror infused with Chinese mythology, and the lush alien world of Convert

John RoutledgeLatest News

New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.Sacrificial Animals by Kailee PedersenThere’s something about the idea of coming home and reawakening dormant familial trauma that just makes for great horror stories, and Sacrificial Animals is no exception. In the novel, brothers Nick and Joshua Morrow return to their family’s farm in Nebraska after many years estranged from their abusive…

31 Aug

Seeking Mavis Beacon is a wild search for a lost tech icon

John RoutledgeLatest News

Note: This review was originally published during Sundance 2024. We're reposting it because Seeking Mavis Beacon is now out in theaters.With a healthy dose of heart and whimsy, the Sundance documentary Seeking Mavis Beacon follows two young Black women who are devoted to finding the original model for Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. If you touched a computer during the '80s…

31 Aug

Boeing’s Starliner is coming back without a crew on September 6

John RoutledgeLatest News

The Starliner is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station and to make its way back to Earth at 6:04PM Eastern time on September 6 at the earliest. If the weather cooperates and the spacecraft leaves the ISS as planned, it will be landing at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico with the help of parachutes to slow…

31 Aug

Engadget review recap: The Pixel 9 phones are surprisingly great, in spite of their price

John RoutledgeLatest News

Welcome back to another Engadget Review Recap (or as I prefer to call it, ERR). This is the second edition of a mostly bi-weekly series rounding up the reviews that our team has published, as well as some insight on what's coming, what we skipped and how we do our testing. Plus, fun team trivia! If you missed a review…