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Have you ever missed the chance to watch your favorite streamer going live? This is why Twitch has launched Stream Recaps, a new feature that bundles the best clips from a livestream into one highlight reel. You can now catch key moments in minutes instead of replaying hours of video. If you follow a streamer, you’ll find these recaps at the top of your mobile feed and on the streamer’s channel page. How do Stream Recaps work? Right after a stream ends, creators can open Stream Summary or tap the plus button in the mobile app to build a recap.…

IntroductionBloomberg is reporting today that BioWare is being shut down amid a flurry of layoffs at EA. To honor of the studio’s impressive contributions to the video game industry, we’re making public our expansive oral history on the studio that previously appeared exclusively in Issue 284, The Mass Effect: Andromeda issue.This feature from former managing editor, Matt Bertz, covers the full history of BioWare up until the feature’s publication in December, 2016.Twenty years ago, Dungeons & Dragons was considered by many to be a Satanic game played by mentally imbalanced adolescents, and role-playing games were a fringe genre in video…

YouTube appears to be testing a change that makes disliking videos a little more work. Multiple users on X and Reddit have shared screenshots showing the familiar thumbs-down icon missing from its usual spot next to the like button. Some users even noticed the button disappearing entirely, while others saw it tucked into the three-dot menu beneath regular videos. Why is YouTube making the dislike button harder to find? The change appears to affect regular, long-form videos on YouTube’s desktop website. Instead of sitting beside Like, the Dislike button is now tucked into the overflow menu, alongside the Report option.…

Apple has built the biggest display ever put inside an iPhone. Its $2,000 foldable goes wide rather than tall, just like the Galaxy Z Fold 8. But this has caused a new problem with thumbs. The iPhone Duo debuted with a 7.6-inch foldable screen, and it seems an accessibility feature won’t be ready on day one. According to WIRED’s Julian Chokkattu, Apple plans to add Reachability later this year, specifically to make the Duo’s left and right edges easier to access for people with smaller hands. Reachability is learning to move sideways On a regular iPhone, Reachability is designed around…

Electronic Arts plans to eliminate roughly 400 positions in an upcoming round of job cuts, per a new report from Bloomberg, and will also be closing the doors on its long-time role-playing game maker BioWare.Per Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, these cuts represent about three percent of EA’s total staff, and roughly 50 at BioWare. A letter sent to staff today from EA’s COO David Tinson and Chief Studios Officer Cam Weber said that they’ve taken a “hard look at our business” and will cut projects, including the next Mass Effect.”As we focus on these larger opportunities, we’ve had a small team…

Camera-based face unlock has one embarrassing weakness: it can’t recognize what it can’t see, which means it doesn’t work well in the dark.  Looks like Google already knows this, and it’s working on a fix. Code spotted in Android 17 QPR3 Beta 2 points to a new feature called “Face Active Illumination,” which would brighten the display to light your face, similar to how the front flash works with selfies. How would Face Active Illumination work? Android Authority spotted the feature earlier this month, then dug deeper into the beta and coaxed it onto a test phone. It will likely…

I’ve sacrificed too many charging cables to my car’s USB port (even the braided ones). All so my playlist could follow me down the road. Spotify just launched a fully native car app that runs on the car’s infotainment system, with no phone or cable required. However, it’s only available for Audi owners right now. What makes this app native in an Audi? For those catching up, Audi’s dashboard runs Android Automotive OS, a full-fledged operating system for in-car screens. Unlike Android Auto, which projects compatible apps from your smartphone onto your car’s screen, the new Spotify app, co-developed with…

Amazon has just launched five new products as part of its Blink security camera lineup, expanding their resolution, adding a spotlight, and jazzing up their hardware format. The Blink Mini 4K+, priced at $79.99, is the company’s first 4K security camera that now goes all the way up to 4K video capture quality and offers a 115-degree horizontal field of view. The build is IP65-rated, and it also gets dual-band Wi-Fi 6 support for better network coverage. For users who pay for the accompanying subscription service, they also get access to two-way audio, AI-generated event summaries, and Smart Alerts with…

Stranger Than Heaven is one of the early 2027 releases we’re most looking forward to, thanks in large part to it being an ambitious title that tells a prequel story following the same man over the course of 50 years. Players control Makoto Daito, a half-American half-Japanese man stuck between two cultures, struggling to fully fit in with either. In 1915, he stows away on a San Francisco ship bound for Japan in an attempt to escape the prejudice he experienced in the United States as an Asian man. However, once he arrives in Japan, he doesn’t quite find the…

If you’re an Xbox owner looking for new indie games to play, today’s ID@Xbox showcase provided 30 minutes of new, upcoming, and existing indie games coming to Microsoft’s platforms. We’ve rounded up every announcement here for a quick recap of the event.  Magenta Down (World Premiere) – 2027Xbox Series X/S, PC2 Ton Studios, creators of 2020’s Unto the End, announced this atmospheric sci-fi title about surviving a harsh exoplanet. For you and your crew to survive, you must scavenge resources while enduring injury and radiation. You’ll also have to battle what appear to be giant alien sea urchins.  Croak – March 2027Xbox…