Author: News Room

Apple reportedly slashes its Vision roadmap for smart glasses, and Meta’s lead matters more than ever

A year ago, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo published a Vision product roadmap featuring seven devices. Now, he has published a new one with just two products remaining.  The change in the product roadmap, Kuo claims, has been approved by John Ternus, Apple’s incoming CEO, who officially takes over on September 1, 2026. What did Apple cut and what survived? According to Kuo’s updated analysis (via X), only two of the seven products have survived, and Apple has cancelled five of them.  Of the two, one is a pair of AI smart glasses that competes directly with the Meta Ray-Ban lineup,…

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Hell Let Loose: Vietnam Delayed To August Following Playtests And Player Feedback

Publisher Team17 and developer Expression Games have delayed Hell Let Loose: Vietnam, its quasi-sequel to WW2 shooter Hell Let Loose, to August 13 following feedback from players in recent open betas and in internal playtests. Hell Let Loose: Vietnam was originally due out on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on June 18, but will now launch roughly two months later on those same platforms. “We have been so excited watching you share your experiences and seeing the great videos from our War Correspondents and being able to receive and implement your important feedback throughout both our Closed and Open…

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Got a missed call from an unknown number? Malwarebytes’ new free tool will tell you if it’s a scam

Missed calls from unknown numbers used to be easy to ignore, but now they’re harder, especially since scammers spoof real local numbers and clone familiar voices with AI. Malwarebytes has launched a direct answer to that problem. A free, standalone reverse phone lookup tool that tells you whether a number is safe, suspicious, or a known scam, so that you don’t call it back unnecessarily. It’s called Scam Number Check and it is available now at malwarebytes.com/scam-check/phone. The best part is that you don’t need an account or subscription to access it.  How does Scam Number Check actually work? Simply…

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The Blood of Dawnwalker Preview – How The Combat Hopes To Keep You Immersed In The Action

The Blood of Dawnwalker thoroughly impressed me when I visited Rebel Wolves’ studio in Warsaw, Poland, in April. Though much of my excitement was centered on the heavy reliance on choice-driven mechanics and the way NPCs react to the protagonist, Coen, based on how you interact with others in the game, I would be remiss to not mention that the combat system also feels like a step up from other similar titles. And in speaking with the seasoned game-development veterans at the nascent studio, they seem to feel that way as well.In The Blood of Dawnwalker, players participate in similar…

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Amazon’s latest visual search update brings Lens Live and Circle to Search feature to your app

Amazon just rolled out its most significant visual search update with a bunch of new features across its shopping app, covering everything from how you search to how you browse results. Every new visual search feature Amazon just added to its shopping app The search bar on Amazon app now generates AI product images in real time as you type, giving you a visual shorthand for products you cannot quite describe in words. Amazon Lens has also arrived on the iPhone lock screen with a dedicated widget, letting you search for anything you spot in the real world without opening…

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Mina The Hollower Sold 300,000 Copies In Three Days, Helping Yacht Club Escape ‘Make Or Break’ Moment But It Could Be Doing Better

Mina the Hollower, the 8-bit action-platformer from Shovel Knight developer Yacht Club Games that launched last week on May 29, sold 300,000 copies in its first three days. In the lead-up to the game’s launch, Yacht Club told Bloomberg Businessweek that Mina the Hollower was a “make or break” moment for the studio, explaining that the studio had to pause a planned second project and burn through a lot of its cash reserves as a result of taking six years to develop the game, and with 300,000 copies sold, it sounds like the studio is in the clear. Yacht Club co-founder…

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Amazon app now takes you shopping straight from the iPhone’s lock screen

Opening the Amazon app, tapping the search bar, and finding a product by text or image search: this is how most of us have been using it. However, Amazon thinks that’s too many steps.  The company has rolled out six new visual search features, one of them being the Amazon Lens widget for iPhone. It puts a camera shortcut directly on your iPhone’s lock screen, so you can point it at anything around you and the app finds it before you’ve unlocked the phone.  How to add the Amazon Lens widget? Adding the widget is quite straightforward. When unlocked, press…

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Control Resonant’s Digital Deluxe Edition Includes 48 Hours Early Access, But It’s Exclusive To PS5

Remedy Entertainment released a new trailer for its upcoming action game, Control: Resonant, during yesterday’s PlayStation State of Play, revealing a September 24 release date with it. Shortly after, people noticed that the PlayStation Store listing for the Digital Deluxe Edition includes a Hiss Corruption Outfit, an Occult Outfit, the Pickpocket’s Tool Artifact, some other digital goodies, and 48-hour early access starting September 22. The trend of being able to pay more for a game to jump in a couple of days early is already disappointing and annoying, preying on the very-real FOMO some players experience in such an online connected…

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Google is adding some of Android’s best safety features to kids’ phones

Google’s latest Android feature drop isn’t just about AI tricks and visual upgrades. One of the most meaningful additions arriving soon is aimed squarely at family safety, bringing several Personal Safety app features to younger Android users for the first time. As part of the June Android Drop, Google says children under 13 will gain access to key emergency features that were previously geared toward older users. The update is designed to help parents feel more comfortable as kids become increasingly independent, whether they’re heading to school, visiting friends, or commuting with family. Turning Android phones into better emergency companions…

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You Need To Check Out The Demo For This Gorgeous Indie Platformer On PlayStation 5

The Eternal Life of Goldman was announced last year and since then, we here at Game Informer have been keeping a close eye on it because, well, it’s beautiful. And if you missed out on the Steam Next Fest demo for it earlier this year, good news: a new demo featuring 90 minutes of gameplay for The Eternal Life of Goldman went live today on PlayStation 5 – we can’t recommend it enough! The gorgeous hand-drawn visuals of The Eternal Life of Goldman will surely catch your attention, but there’s also a really great DuckTales-inspired platformer in there, too, with the…

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