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For the last 25 years, developer IO Interactive has been known primarily for the lauded Hitman franchise. In that series, players take control of Agent 47, a blank-slate killing machine who travels the world to hunt down targets and take them out in ways that either look like an accident or are untraceable back to him. The series, particularly the World of Assassination trilogy, saw IO Interactive reach new heights, delivering some of the most engaging sandbox stealth experiences the medium has ever seen.Though markedly different experiences, many of the skills that IO developed transferred to the development of 007…
Ferrari has officially entered the electric era with the unveiling of the all-new Ferrari Luce, the first fully electric production car in the company’s history. Revealed in Rome, the Luce marks one of the biggest shifts the Maranello-based automaker has made since the company was founded in 1939. For years, Ferrari resisted going fully electric. The company repeatedly argued that emotion, sound, and driver engagement were core to the Ferrari experience, something enthusiasts believed could not exist without a combustion engine. Even when rivals like Porsche launched EVs such as the Porsche Taycan and brands like Lamborghini began discussing electrification…
Oppo has launched a new phone accessory in China called the Oppo Bubble, and it’s surprisingly versatile. It functions like a selfie tool, while also being a tiny rear display, a playful phone add-on, and a fun accessory in general. All of this would have it dominate tech TikTok a few years ago. Announced alongside the Reno 16 series, the Bubble is a compact magnetic circular display that attaches to the back of supported Oppo smartphones. The tiny gadget basically acts like a secondary screen that helps in taking better selfies, which is honestly handy. It is small, light, and…
The PlayStation Portable, or the PSP, was discontinued over a decade ago, but its cultural presence never fully faded. Most recently, the fast-fashion brand Zara gave it a second life in the most unexpected form: the company has dropped a crossbody bag modelled after the PSP 1000. The Zara PSP Crossbody Bag is exactly as delightful and absurd as the name sounds. The shadow drop came without an announcements or media campaigns, but the retro gaming community has already taken notice of it. What does the bag actually look like? It is actually a relatively small crossbody bag whose front…
Google’s Quick Share is the kind of feature you don’t think about until the day you need it and your phone simply doesn’t have it. Huawei device owners live in that reality permanently, given that they don’t have access to Google Play services, and so does anyone running the Chinese regional build of Android. However, a developer with the handle Kyujin-cho just published an open-source Android app called Bada on GitHub that seems to solve exactly this problem. It does so by implementing Google’s own Quick Share protocol from scratch, circumventing the lack of Google Play Services. What does Bada…
For this Game Informer issue cover story, we traveled to Warsaw, Poland, to visit Rebel Wolves, a studio co-founded by The Witcher 3 director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, to learn all about the company’s debut game, The Blood of Dawnwalker. During the trip, we spent plenty of time drilling into how the team is capitalizing on the choice-driven style of gameplay that various members of the studio delivered with masterpieces like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Cyberpunk 2077. As it turns out, Rebel Wolves may be taking the concept of player choice even further than those landmark games.For Tomaszkiewicz, after leaving…
Huawei has revealed what it sees as a new path forward for advanced chips. At the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems in Shanghai, Huawei’s He Tingbo introduced the company’s Tau Scaling Law, a new semiconductor principle that Huawei says can guide chip development as traditional Moore’s Law runs into physical and economic limits. The company says future high-end chips designed under this approach could reach transistor density equivalent to 14 angstroms, or 1.4nm, by 2031. How Huawei is changing the chip game 1.4nm sounds pretty impressive, but the keyword here is equivalent. Huawei is not saying it…
Whether they’re roguelikes, roguelites, or just rogue games, there’s no denying the popularity of the run-based genre that’s become ubiquitous in recent years. Whether you’re fighting your way out of hell, you’re trapped in a time loop, or you’re tasked to infinitely rebuild a deck of magical cards (this last one happens a lot), the category of games has absolutely earned its praises. It’s hard to beat the satisfaction of a good power crawl, the condensed structure, or the urge to play just one more run, even after the most devastating losses.Still, that structure can take many forms, and an…
Back in 2023, Avalanche Studios (also behind Mad Max) let many live their magical dreams of entering the Harry Potter universe once again with Hogwarts Legacy. Players got to experience the magical school of witchcraft and wizardry in next-gen graphics. Now, a new rumor suggests that Hogwarts Legacy 2 may be closer to its first official reveal. But this is one of those leaks that seems more hopeful than real. What does the rumor say? Hogwarts Legacy 2 could appear during Sony’s next State of Play showcase. The post has been interpreted as a tease for a reveal rather than…
If you have ever tried to book a hotel online and found yourself unsettled by the AI chatbot trying to help you, science has your back. New study from Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences confirms that hotel booking chatbots are genuinely creeping people out, and it is actually hurting bookings. What is giving hotel chatbots their creep factor? Researchers surveyed 340 adults in the UK who had used chatbots to book hotels and found three main culprits behind the ick factor: inaccuracy, deceptive behavior, and intrusiveness. Inaccuracy was by far the biggest offender, triggering a negative response…