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These days, the real battleground between smartwatches is who can turn a wrist-worn, sensor-loaded device into something that resembles a personal fitness trainer, and this year’s crop of flagship wearables takes that fight more seriously than ever.  Samsung just refreshed its mainstream Galaxy Watch line with a new silicon and a batch of clinically-backed health tools, landing squarely on Apple’s home turf of preventive wellness tracking. Apple, for its part, has spent the better part of a year letting its Series 11 sit as the reigning pick for anyone inside its ecosystem, propped up by a software catalog few rivals…

We’re just weeks away from the release of Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, but developer Arc System Works intends to support the game well past launch, and they demonstrated that yesterday by revealing the game’s first DLC character. Phoenix Cyclops is the first character in the game’s upcoming wave 1 DLC, and you can check him out in action below. “Phoenix Cyclops” isn’t exactly the name of a superhero, to be clear; this is an iteration of X-Men’s Cyclops being inhabited by the Phoenix force, a powerful, fiery cosmic entity, and a nod to the character’s appearance as a member of the…

Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5, its latest frontier AI model for coding, research, business work, and other complex tasks. The company says it delivers a major performance jump over Claude Opus 4.8 while keeping the same API price. Anthropic also claims it comes close to Claude Fable 5 on some coding and computer-use tests while costing far less per task. Opus 5 is available across Claude’s apps and API. It is now the default model for Claude Max subscribers and the strongest option included with Claude Pro. How close is Claude Opus 5 to Fable 5? On CursorBench 3.2,…

We’ve had quite a few tie-in tag fighters hit the scene: League of Legends’ 2XKO, Invincible Vs., Avatar Legends, and now, Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls, which has an open beta this weekend. Arc System Works is taking an almost-maximalist approach to tag fighting, opting for four-on-four combat and quite a few mechanics around utilizing those extra hands during the fight. Despite the potential for chaos, though, my early playtime with the open beta has shown it to be a surprisingly approachable game. Most strings and intense mechanics can be relegated to single button-presses or auto-combo strings, for the button-mashers. Still,…

PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch 2, PC Mixtape is a coming-of-age story that follows counterculture music aficionado Stacey Rockford, everyone’s hometown stoner Van Slater, and the goody-two-shoes Cassandra Morino, who is ready to strike out on a path not created by her parents, as they spend their last night together. With high school graduation behind them, Stacey is ready to make her dream of becoming a music supervisor in the Big Apple happen, and there’s no convincing her she can’t do it. Though disappointment and frustration permeate this trio, so, too, do love, nostalgia, and a deep friendship, articulated…

It’s a new week on The Game Informer Show, and we’ve got a new cover story! Eric and Wesley are back from Japan, where they played Capcom’s impending revival, Onimusha: Way of the Sword. They chat about the game itself, the insights they got from the team, and even the real-life historical locales they visited that are also present in Onimusha.Then, Brian takes up the lead with some early impressions of Halo: Campaign Evolved and his review of Splatoon Raiders. Whether you’re a samurai, Spartan, or squid, there’s a little something for everyone on The Game Informer Show this week.The…

Geekbench, the popular cross-platform benchmark from Primate Labs, just got a major update. Geekbench 7 is out today, and you can download it on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux. If you like to know exactly how your CPU and GPU stack up, this update brings a bunch of changes worth knowing about. What’s new in the CPU tests? Geekbench 7 adds new media workloads that mimic real-world tasks such as video conferencing and podcast listening. Examples of these workload models include encoding for screen sharing, Opus compression for voice memos, and live caption generation using the Whisper speech recognition…

Update, 2:37 p.m. ET, 07/24/26After being down for roughly eight hours, the majority of PlayStation Network services are back online. The only PSN service still experiencing issues is the PlayStation Store, but account management, gaming and social, PlayStation Video, and PlayStation Direct are back up and running. The original story continues below…Original story, 12:41 p.m. ET, 07/24/26The PlayStation Network (PSN) is down. That means all of its online services, such as account management, the PlayStation Store, and gaming and social content, are unavailable to players, leaving only offline services in effect. PSN has been down for more than six hours, interrupting…

Ford’s upcoming budget electric vehicle won’t force you to choose between a built-in map and one borrowed from your phone. Apple announced today that Ford’s Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) platform will ship with Apple Maps running natively on the car’s screens. The feature will arrive in 2027 through Apple’s new MapKit for Automotive SDK, a toolkit that lets automakers build Apple Maps straight into their dashboards. An infotainment system that doesn’t need your phone plugged in Today, getting Apple Maps onto a car’s main screen usually means running CarPlay. With the native Apple Maps integration, Ford’s upcoming UEV will pull…

Onimusha is finally back after a 20-year hiatus with Way of the Sword, which launches this September. In anticipation of its release, and for Game Informer’s latest cover story, I traveled to Capcom’s Osaka, Japan, HQ to play the game for a few hours and interview the development leads working on it. As an avid fan of the series, I was keen to learn if Onimusha: Way of the Sword is connected to previous Onimusha games in any way, so I asked the team. The tl;dr answer is no; there are no connections between Way of the Sword and other games in Capcom’s samurai…