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Kratos isn’t leading the next mainline God of War. Faye is stepping into the fight. God of War Laufey puts Kratos’ wife, also known as Laufey, at the center of a PS5 action game set in the Everywhen, an afterlife realm where dead gods from different mythologies cross paths. It’s coming soon, though Sony hasn’t listed a release date, price, or regional rollout. Faye has carried enormous weight in God of War as memory, motive, and myth. Now Santa Monica Studio is putting her in the player’s hands, with her own weapons, movement, and godly problems to cut through. What…
In late 2023, Ikumi Nakamura unveiled Kemuri, the first game from her new studio, Unseen, at The Game Awards. Ironically, she and that game have been unseen ever since, but during today’s State of Play, Kemuri made its grand reemergence from the shadows with a flashy new gameplay trailer and a 2027 release window. You can check the game out for yourself below. In Kemuri, you hunt Yokai, colorful spirits and monsters only visible to certain people by using a technique called the Fox Window. The trailer shows off some fast-paced, visually stunning combat, which players can perform by possessing Yokai…
The Apple Watch already has one of the best displays on any smartwatch, but the company is reportedly working on something that could make it meaningfully better. According to industry sources cited by The Elec, LG Display is currently developing and validating a new display backplane technology. It is called high-mobility oxide, or HMO, and the company is making it on its sixth-generation OLED production lines. How does HMO matter for Apple Watch battery life? Every OLED display needs a backplane, which is the layer of transistors that controls each pixel. The current gold standard for Apple Watch panels is…
Silent Hill: Townfall got a new trailer during the 2026 Summer PlayStation State of Play presentation that primarily focused on gameplay, but did offer some story table setting.The game is still considered a Silent Hill spin-off, though every new look at it makes it seem more and more like a mainline entry. The new trailer shows the protagonist looking for a character named Zoe Ellis and solving, potentially more intricate puzzles than the typical Silent Hill game (but they might feel on par when we get our hands on the game – we’ll see). Some other interesting details include logging onto…
Amazfit has launched the Balance Ultra, a new flagship smartwatch meant for users who track their workouts closely but may not always pay the same attention to recovery. Recovery is one of the most important parts of training, because poor sleep, high stress, and badly timed rest days can directly affect progress. The new smartwatch aims to make that easier to track by combining workout data with sleep, stress, heart rate, HRV, blood oxygen, breathing, and recovery metrics through the Zepp App. Can it help users train smarter instead of just harder? The Balance Ultra is built around Amazfit’s Hybrid…
Team Clout once again revealed its first-person horror game Ill during today’s State of Play. To the surprise of no one who has kept up with the game since its original reveal last summer, it looks as gruesome as ever.Today’s trailer showed a bit more story, with the protagonist exploring a fort overtaken by some type of evil entity. The facility is filled with horrors ranging from infant-like creatures to hallway-filling monstrosities. Today’s trailer is definitely not for the faint of heart, but feel free to give yourself some nightmare fuel by giving it a watch. Ill has no release date…
Amazon Prime Day is back, it is four days long again, and, for the first time in Prime Day’s history, it’s kicking off in June rather than July. So, if you spent last summer waiting until mid-July to buy that thing at a discounted price, you now have about two fewer weeks to make up your mind. When does Prime Day 2026 sale begin? Prime Day 2026 runs June 23–26, kicking off at 12:01 a.m. PDT on June 23. That brings it roughly two weeks ahead of the Prime Day 2025 sale, which ran July 8–11. Amazon has not explained…
Saber Interactive is bringing back the Stuntman series and injecting some fun familiarity through the inclusion of vehicles drawn from the history of cars in film and TV. The debut trailer for the project gives us a look at some death-defying car jumps, lightning-fast street races, and hairpin turns in a variety of situations. However, the most eye-catching feature of the new game is the inclusion of familiar cars like KITT from Knight Rider, and the Delorean from Back to the Future. Saber stops short of sharing many additional details, and the “Coming Soon” banner at the end of the trailer…
Summer and science fiction have always been a natural pairing. The season is synonymous with blockbuster entertainment, and sci-fi continues to be one of the best genres for delivering larger-than-life action, ambitious storytelling, and unforgettable worlds. Whether you’re in the mood for futuristic adventures, mind-bending concepts, or spectacular visual effects, there’s no shortage of great options on Netflix. The streaming service’s sci-fi library is constantly evolving, with a mix of modern hits, acclaimed originals, and crowd-pleasing adventures available to watch. If you’re looking for something exciting to stream during the hottest months of the year, these are the Netflix sci-fi…
Jagex has revealed that RuneScape: Dragonwilds, its open-world survival game that launched into Early Access on Steam last year, is coming to PlayStation 5 later this year. It has a $29.99 price tag on Steam today, but PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium subscribers can download it for no additional cost when it launches. Notably, this is the first time in 25 years of RuneScape history that a game in the series has come to consoles, and while it’s not the OG RuneScape MMORPG that many grew up on and still play today, the one million copies it’s sold in Steam Early…