Using a smart TV in 2025 is pretty much unavoidable, but that doesn’t mean you have to use the software included with the TV. While it’s fine at first, you’ll find it becomes more sluggish over time, and after a year or so, you might be ready to start searching for a new TV. Instead of dropping hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars on something, you can pick up a streaming device that’ll make your TV feel brand new again....

ThePlayStation 5has now reached the milestone of 32 million consoles, a number boosted by the 7.1 million consoles sold during the 2022 Christmas quarter. Sony says that the three months that ended on 16 July 2025 saw more than seven millionPlayStationconsoles sold - a number that makes it the PS5’s best quarter for sales to date. The news comes as the company continues to reiterate that stock availability issues are over....

Quick Links Indiana Jones and the Great Circletruly has mysteries around every corner, including the literal “mystery” side quests found throughout each level. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: 9 Secrets and Easter Eggs The best hidden references and cameos we were able to find in our globe-spanning adventure! In the middle of the desert in Gizeh there’s a lone weather station (seems peculiar, since there’s not much of any weather in the desert) containing a locked chest, that can only be opened by solving the Cloud Atlas mystery....

inZOI, the competitor to The Sims, has finally arrived on PC, sort of. The highly anticipated simulation game has received a lot of positive feedback. However, it is still in early access, so you are bound to run into some issues, both in gameplay and on the technical side. The PC version is surprisingly competent and players can expect decent performance on mid-end systems. It also has support for cloud saves on PC, but if you’re looking for your local data, here is the save file location for inZOI....

Is The Mobile Browser Relevant? I think it started with the iPhone and Safari, combining the power of a Webkit browser and a mobile phone for the first time. Later adopted by Nokia and Google among others, the mobile browsing experience has improved in leaps and bounds over the last three years. Today, vendors offer to deliver the “real Internet” to devices but I’m not certain that the “real Internet” is what matters for mobility....

LG has announced that it will be bringing its own smartphone artificial intelligence to handsets in the coming year, with a new, 2018 edition of theLG V30revealed to be the first. It will be showing more atMobile World Congressin Barcelona at the end of February, but has detailed a couple of the enhanced features the AI tech will add. Vision AI is a technology that uses advanced image recognition to enable you to take better photos on a phone....

Quick Links In the strategic gameManor Lords,Development Points serve as an important currency forunlocking new technologies and buildings, enhancing the growth and specialization of your settlement. Understanding how to earn and spend these points efficiently is crucial to advancing your settlement and customizing your gameplay experience. How to Get Development Points Development Points are tied to your settlement’s level. To progress through different levels and earn these points, you must upgrade your settlement’s infrastructure, primarily through enhancing Burgage Plots....

Season 2 for MultiVersus seems to be launching and running quite smoothly, compared to the first season. The new title screen doesn’t even have new characters out of the blue, which was fun last time but made announcements weird. But that doesn’t mean we don’t know anything about new content… for better or for worse. Much to my Chagrin, more Game of Thrones stuff is on the way. But on the other hand, I’m stoked to see the roster get Loonier with Marvin the Martian on the horizon....

Elizabeth Debickihas revealed what surprised her most about the making of the MCU. Debicki played Ayesha inGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. andVol. 3, the gold painted leader of the Sovereign race and the de-facto mother to Adam Warlock (Will Poulter). Despite limited screen time, Debicki’s performance left a presence on-screen, and the actress recently revealed that shewas pleasantly surprised at the practicality of the incredible sets when she joined James Gunn’s Marvel franchise....

The thing about big numbers is that, the larger they are, the less meaning they have. Minecraft has sold 200,000,000 copies according to an announcement earlier todayfrom Microsoft, and that’s a huge amount. 200 million, even when taking into account that’s across all platforms and includes those who double-dipped as one console generation transitioned to another, is a staggering number of copies. From the initial Java release to its current-standard the Bedrock Edition, to mobile Pocket Edition, PS3, PS4, Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii U, Switch, 3DS, and even modified versions like Education Edition or the one that came out on Raspberry Pi, there’s been a lot of Minecraft over the years....

Ever sinceits announcement,developer Shared Memory’s upcoming metroidvania game Animal Well has captivated a good chunk of the gaming world, thanks to a combination of its visuals, puzzles and the sheer amount of secrets that it claims to possess. Things got even more interesting a year later when it was announced that the gamewould become the debut title for Bigmode,a new indie game publisher created by Jason “dunkey” Gastrow. And now, roughly a year after that, we finally get the news that we’ve all been waiting for: the release date for Animal Well, now set to arrive this May....

Earlier this week, Apple begunairingits new holiday ad titled ‘The Song’ which features a woman using her Apple hardware and software to record herself singing along with a recording of her grandmother from several years ago. The 30-second commercial wraps up with a scene depicting her grandmother enjoying the resulting song on an iPad. Today, the iPhone maker via its YouTube channel released a behind-the-scenes video titled ‘The story behind “The Song”’ featuring the ad’s musician Dana Williams and vocalist Rhiannon Giddens who explain basic concepts behind the commercial and lay out a creative workflow which involves most of Apple’s current product lineup....

An announcement regarding the successor to the Nintendo Switch is coming within the current fiscal year, but it won’t be happening at the Nintendo Direct next month, President of Nintendo Shuntaro Furukawa has announced. The news came via a tweet from the official Nintendo Japan X (formerly known as Twitter) account. In it, Furukawa states that “an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch” will be made “within this fiscal year....