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16 Aug

Kim Kardashian is back with a new Beats headphone collab

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Kim Kardashian is lending her name and image to a second collaboration with Apple's Beats line of headphones. The latest entry to the Beats x Kim line brings three neutral colors – Moon, Dune, and Earth – to the Beats Studio Pro headphones. The limited collection is available now from Apple and Amazon, and even with the celebrity backing, the…

16 Aug

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season one is streaming for free on Samsung devices

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The second season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is just around the corner. If you haven't watched the first batch of episodes or want to refresh your memory and have let your Prime subscription lapse, there's a way you can do that for free. From today until August 28, you can stream season one at…

16 Aug

Cute adventure game The Plucky Squire arrives on September 17

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[embedded content]The Plucky Squire has been one of my most anticipated games ever since it started popping up in showcases a couple of years ago. It was delayed out of 2023 and into this year, unfortunately, but the long wait to play it is almost over. Publisher Devolver Digital and developer All Possible Futures have revealed that The Plucky Squire…

15 Aug

Trombone Champ is coming to VR headsets this fall

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[embedded content]Trombone Champ, a ridiculous rhythm game that gets funnier the worse you are at it, is coming to virtual reality headsets. You won't have to wait an incredibly long time to try Trombone Champ: Unflattened either: it's coming to Meta Quest, Steam VR and PlayStation VR2 this fall.Flat2VR Studios worked on the "reimiagining" of Holy Wow Studios' original game.…

15 Aug

Your Meta headset can now display the output of any HDMI or DisplayPort device

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Our lives are full of screens in this digital age but sometimes you can’t access them or you need a bigger one for your tired eyes. Meta announced a new app called Meta Quest HDMI Link for its Quest 2, Quest 3 and Quest Pro headsets that can connect any of your devices with HDMI or DisplayPort and send their…

15 Aug

Two action movie simulators Action Hero and Vendetta Forever are headed to VR

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The first VR Games Showcase has delivered a deluge of new VR titles like the Arizona Sunshine Remake and Trombone Champ: Unflattened, but two new (and very similar) titles caught my eye: Action Hero and Vendetta Forever. They both appear to be slow motion action games like the brilliant Superhot VR that will let you live out your John Wick…

15 Aug

Doom meets Dredd in Defect, a squad-based shooter with a Mick Gordon soundtrack

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[embedded content]Dystopian shooters with strong echoes of Doom are a dime a dozen. But when the people behind the recent entries for that hellishly good franchise are the ones making a new game, it's worth taking a look. Today the trailer dropped for a new game called Defect from a new studio called Emptyvessel.Think multiplayer Doom gameplay with a heavy…

15 Aug

Arizona Sunshine Remake brings the undead back to VR with enhanced graphics

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It’s only been seven years since the “Fred” started to rise up in the VR zombie shooter Arizona Sunshine, but a remake is already lumbering your way and will land on VR headsets on October 17. Vertigo Games announced the upcoming release of Arizona Sunshine Remake at the first VR Games Showcase. It's slated to come to the Meta Quest…

15 Aug

Online publishers face a dilemma: Allow AI scraping from Google or lose search visibility

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As the US government weighs its options following a landmark “monopolist” ruling against Google last week, online publications increasingly face a bleak future. (And this time, it’s not just because of severely diminished ad revenue.) Bloomberg reports that their choice now boils down to allowing Google to use their published content to produce inline AI-generated search “answers” or losing visibility…

15 Aug

California state IDs can now be stored in Apple Wallet and Google Wallet

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California is the latest state to make its driver's licenses mobile. Today, Governor Gavin Newsom's office announced that both Apple Wallet and Google Wallet will be adding support for California driver's licenses and state IDs. The release clarified that residents still need to carry a physical copy of their identification, but that the mobile option would make age verification faster…