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Marvel’s Wolverine, one of the biggest games of the year, comes out it a little over a month. Today we learned it’ll get the same treatment as PlayStation’s other beloved first-party IP and launch alongside a limited edition PS5 console and controller. A bundle with a PS5 digital edition (there’s no disc drive – more on that later), controller, and a game code for Marvel’s Wolverine will be available starting September 15, the same day as the game comes out. Check it out for yourself below. The console and controller feature a slashing design caused by Wolverine’s iconic claws, and the…

I’ve caught myself scrolling past an artist photo on Spotify assuming there was an actual human behind it, only to later find out I was wrong. That has been happening a lot lately. That guessing game is about to end.  Spotify is rolling out a new “AI Persona” badge, which is designed to flag artist profiles built around AI-generated identities (anything from the name, face, bio, and visual image) rather than real people. The label will go live across the app starting in mid-September. So how exactly will this badge work? Starting today, artists can voluntarily flag their profile with…

I still remember where I was when I heard that Firaxis was making a Marvel game. While the game I dreamt of – XCOM with the Marvel license – ended up differing pretty substantially from what we ultimately got with Marvel’s Midnight Suns, I still thoroughly enjoyed the unique deckbuilding and social mechanics layered on top of the turn-based tactics I had come to love about Firaxis. However, with many of the developers who created XCOM: Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2, and Marvel’s Midnight Suns departing Firaxis to form Bit Reactor, and that studio announcing its debut game to be a Star…

Samsung is turning its Galaxy Buds into something more useful than another pair of wireless earbuds. The company says its Galaxy Buds Hearing Aid feature has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration, allowing compatible Galaxy Buds to function as over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids for adults with perceived mild to moderate hearing loss. The feature is designed for users aged 18 and above and does not require a prescription or clinic visit. Samsung says it can help people who struggle to follow conversations in noisy environments, bringing basic hearing support directly to a device they may already own.…

Supermassive Games, developers of games like Until Dawn, The Quarry, and The Dark Pictures Anthology, has announced it’s likely letting go of several of its employees. In an image shared to social media, the company made a statement that it has begun a “redundancy consultation process.” When it concludes. Supermassive expects to lay off “up to 75” of its employees. You can read the full message below. “We have made the difficult decision to begin a redundancy consultation process, which we anticipate will result in the loss of up to 75 of our colleagues,” the statement reads. “This is a…

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 MSRP $1,899.00 “A total charmer.” Pros Fantastic form factor Bright 120Hz screens Feature-rich software Reliably performant Long software support Cons A pricey investment Zoom lens is a sore miss Thermal throttling Needs better dust/water proofing Flex mode is missing I’ve never used a foldable phone with as much fervor and daily joy as the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8. The first time I closed it and slipped it into my jeans, I did a small double-take, because it went in like a normal phone. That sounds trivial until you remember every Samsung foldable phone before…

Meta has a new AI model out, and for once, the biggest headline isn’t about capability; it’s about freedom. Muse Glimmer, sitting around 30 billion parameters, ships with an Apache 2.0 license, meaning the weights on Hugging Face are yours to download, modify, and build on top of, no permission needed. You can simply run it on a graphics card on your local machine, no server farm or online connectivity required.  Meta’s Superintelligence Lab took its larger Muse Spark and essentially had it teach a smaller, leaner version to think as it does. Muse Glimmer accepts both text and image…

OpenAI has built a cybersecurity model specifically for advanced requests that its standard models often refuse. GPT-5.6-Cyber is available through the restricted Daybreak Red program and is meant for work such as exploit development and advanced security research. The capability jump is hard to miss. OpenAI says GPT-5.6-Cyber completes 95% of requests in its internal Advanced Cybersecurity Completion Rate evaluation. Regular GPT-5.6 Sol completed just 1.5%. That leap comes after several cyber evaluations showed AI agents wandering beyond the boundaries researchers had set for them. How much more capable is GPT-5.6-Cyber OpenAI’s evaluation includes sensitive tasks such as exploit development…

Every year, foldable manufacturers proudly shave another fraction of a millimeter from their newest phones. Samsung is a great example of this, building some of the sleekest flexible devices available in the market. Older foldables were chunky bricks, but the newer ones are now breaching regular flagship sizes. After spending time with the Motorola Razr Fold and Honor Magic V6, then comparing them against Samsung’s new Galaxy Z Fold 8, the hardware I appreciate most has very little to do with which device is the thinnest. What I’d rather trade an extra bit of width for is a useful hinge…

Just when you thought Apple had quietly shelved its big glass iPhone redesign, word comes that the plan is still very much alive. Writing for Bloomberg, famed leaker Mark Gurman has said that the 20th-anniversary iPhone with a radical all-glass design is still on track for the 2027 release.  So was the all glass iPhone actually cancelled? Gurman has sated that Apple hasn’t changed its roadmap for next year’s iPhone Pro models, which are expected to bring a glass-heavy design to mark the phone’s 20th anniversary.  NEW: Apple is still planning to offer a glass-centric overhaul of the iPhone for…