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The makers of horror stories like Soma and Amnesia are back with a spiritual successor to the former. Ontos is a new sci-fi thriller that looks to push your mind, and possibly your limits for scares, sometime in 2026.Ontos’ first trailer premiered at tonight’s Game Awards 2025, and certainly looks and sounds like 2015’s Soma. There are many creepy sci-fi chills and bits of body horror awaiting. In Ontos, players take on the role of Aditi Amani, an engineer exploring the moon hotel Samsara for the truth about her father. They’ll have to figure out how to get around in this…
This year’s Game Awards wasted no time getting to the big announcements, dropping huge news about one of Capcom’s biggest upcoming games during the half hour before Geoff Keighley even took the stage. Pragmata, the sci-fi action adventure game we’ve been waiting on for years now, is officially launching on April 24, 2026, and there’s a demo available to try today on Steam. You can check out the new trailer for yourself below. The new glimpse primarily focuses on the bond between the protagonist Hugh and the child-like android Diana he’s tasked with protecting. After roughly a minute of new footage,…
Game developer Larian Studios, most notable for developing 2023’s award-winning Baldur’s Gate III, announced a new entry in the Divinity series during The Game Awards earlier tonight. While details are scarce, the upcoming role-playing game, simply titled Divinity, aims to offer an even larger adventure than the latest Baldur’s Gate release. The cinematic trailer, which showcases a festival of drunken dancing, orgies, and cult-like imagery, ends in a dramatic fashion as the raucous crowd sees a man burned alive inside a giant wicker statue, gruesomely transforming into a monolith called The Hellstone. Divinity – Cinematic Announcement Trailer: While no further details are…
After an initial performance and some awards being handed out, tonight’s Game Awards presentation got its reveals underway with a beautiful cinematic trailer revealing Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic.The new single-player RPG is set during the Old Republic era, and is directed by Casey Hudson, working as part of Arcanaut Studios. Hudson is well known to RPG fans from his work leading games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect.While the new trailer looks great, it doesn’t reveal much. We see a spaceship descend onto a mysterious and desolate planet, a female lead venturing…
Nothing appears to be prepping its next-gen mid-range phones and a new pair of headphones that could hit the market in the first half of 2026. While the company has revealed no official information about these devices, a new leak has given us an early look at the upgrades on the way. According to a tip from developer MlgmXyysd on Telegram (via Android Authority), Nothing is working on two new phones: the Phone 4a and Phone 4a Pro. The standard Phone 4a will reportedly stick with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s series chipset, like the Phone 3a. The Pro model, however,…
The sci-fi action RPG Exodus made its grand return during The Game Awards two years after its initial reveal at the 2023 edition. The easy pitch for the debut game by Archetype Entertainment is Mass Effect meets Interstellar, and the game even features actor Matthew McConaughey in a prominent role. Tonight’s extended trailer gave us a better look at the overarching plot, the alien characters players will befriend or battle, and the protagonist’s otherworldly combat abilities. Set 40,000 years in the future, humanity has fled a dying Earth to find a new home in another galaxy. After settling on a world…
From helping you write emails to managing smart home devices, Google’s Gemini is steadily integrating into more aspects of your life. Soon, it could change how you read books on your phone. Android Authority has discovered an upcoming Gemini integration while digging through the latest beta release of the Google Play Books & Audiobooks app (version 2025.11.29.2). While the integration is not live yet, the publication has managed to enable it manually, giving us an early look at how it might work upon release. As shown in the attached screenshots, the app could introduce a new “Ask Gemini” button in…
At The Game Awards 2025, film director J.J. Abrams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) took the stage with Left 4 Dead’s lead designer, Mike Booth, to show off 4:Loop. The game is being released by Abrams’ company Bad Robot games.The four-player co-op shooter has a sci-fi twist where player’s characters get reprinted when they die to try out new strategies as they fight an invading force. The game is planned for PlayStation 5 and PC and will be having early playtesting soon. You can learn more at PLAY4LOOP.com.
There’s a new Themes section in the Microsoft Store for Windows 11. It houses hundreds of curated themes, including wallpapers, theme colors, and other visual elements, that you can download and apply in a single click. The new Themes section aims to make personalization easier for users. With users now accustomed to rich theming on smartphones and tablets, Microsoft had to address growing complaints that Windows PCs didn’t offer the same level of customization (with the same level of ease). The new Themes section contains over 400 themes, “over 35 of which are new to the store.” ✨Announcing the new…
As a puzzle game fan, one of the most exciting reveals at The Game Awards 2025 for me was Order of the Sinking Star, the long-awaited next project by Jonathan Blow, creator of Braid and The Witness, and his team at Thekla. Set to launch next year, a decade after shipping The Witness, this promising fantasy game has as much ambition as it does puzzles – and there are thousands of puzzles – and it’s no surprise that Blow describes the title as “the biggest game of my career.” Order of the Sinking Star was born out of Blow’s goal of…