Retro review: Infinity Blade

Do you remember when Epic Games actually made epic games? No, I’m not talking about Fortnite, I’m talking about an objectively good game: Infinity Blade. This game took the world by storm when it first came out in 2010 and it was the first game on iOS to use the Unreal Engine. This game made over $1.6 million in its first week and $23 million by the end of 2011. Epic Games knows how to make high-grossing games, I’ll give them that....

July 29, 2025 · 4 min · 723 words · Darlene Williams

Review: Rhapsody

Last year, the original Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure hit modern platforms as a part of NIS Classics Volume 3, and now its first two sequels are out to keep the momentum going for the long-running RPG series. The first entry went for a tactical RPG approach and the sequels are more traditional turn-based RPGs that keep the story flowing from game to game in unique ways. Rhapsody II is a direct follow-up to the original PS1 game, while the third entry is a mix of a remake of the first game combined with an epilogue for the second game....

July 29, 2025 · 6 min · 1177 words · Sonya Allen

Simple math: why I never buy AppleCare

I broke the screen of my Apple Watch yesterday. Or maybe more accurately, my two-year-old son grabbed my Apple Watch as I was taking a shower, slipped and fell with the watch hitting our bathroom tile floor face down. It happened all before my eyes, although I didn’t know he was holding the watch in his hand. The strange sound I heard when he fell alerted me something wasn’t right though....

July 29, 2025 · 8 min · 1610 words · Kimberly Greene

Sony A95L QD-OLED initial review: The future is bright

Anyone who clapped eyes on theSony A95Klast year was pretty unanimously wowed. If you could afford its pretty sizeable price tag, there were few others that topped it for all round performance, despite a very competitive year in4K TVs. Now, we have seen its successor - the A95L. And given our experience last year, we were a little bit excited to see what it has in store. We’ve only got to see a short Sony-controlled demo on a pre-production sample so far, but even so - we think the Sony’s second stab atQD-OLEDcould be even better than its first....

July 29, 2025 · 10 min · 1938 words · Gary Bailey

Stop Instagram Map from automatically sharing your live location

Instagramhas evolved significantly over the past decade. It began as a simple platform for uploading and sharing photos with friends and family, but now it offers many more features, including Stories, Instagram Reels, and live-streaming. To put it into perspective, when Instagram first launched,direct messaging(DMs) wasn’t even available yet – and now it’s one of the most used features on the app. Now, Instagram is doing what it does best – copying anotherSnapchatfeature....

July 29, 2025 · 4 min · 740 words · Crystal Tucker DVM

Taika Waititi set to direct new Judge Dredd movie with modern twist

Taika Waititi set to direct new Judge Dredd movie with modern twist Having helmed a pair of Thor films, Taika Waititi is planning to direct a very different kind of comic book movie by taking on Judge Dredd. Having first appeared in British comic 2000 AD in 1977, Judge Dredd patrols streets in the dystopian future of Mega City One, where he’s both law enforcement and judicial officer, with the power to arrest, convict, sentence, and execute....

July 29, 2025 · 2 min · 412 words · John Snyder

The BMW Truck That Never Saw The Light Of Day

The BMW Truck That Never Saw The Light Of Day In the annals of automotive history, few cars stand out quite as proudly as BMW’s E30 3 Series.Produced from 1982 to 1994, not only did the 3 Series give the world a new standard by which all other luxury cars would be measured, they also introduced us to arguably the best sports car every produced in the form of the E30 M3....

July 29, 2025 · 3 min · 577 words · Suzanne Bell

The Coolest Features Of The Polestar 2 Interior

The Coolest Features Of The Polestar 2 Interior It might be one of the newer names on the EV scene, but Polestar has the backing of Chinese conglomerate Geely, which means it has avoided many of the teething troubles other EV startups have faced. It first rose to prominence as the performance division of Volvo, but after Polestar was spun off into a separate sub-brand, it launched a line of all-electric vehicles aiming to take on the likes of Tesla in the premium EV space....

July 29, 2025 · 9 min · 1865 words · Casey Johnson

The Galaxy S25+ plays it safe, but is that really a bad thing?

When I started writing this story about theGalaxy S25+, the first time I typed the name of the phone, I accidentally wrote theGalaxy S24+, which I feel perfectly captures my thoughts about the device. After using the Samsung Galaxy S25+ for over a month, I can confidently say this is a great phone that offers a lot of value. However, it’s also fair to say that Samsung played it extremely safe withthis year’s refresh....

July 29, 2025 · 6 min · 1255 words · Marco Cobb

The Peterson Museum Is Selling A Truly Bizarre Smart Car You Probably Didn't Know Existed

The Peterson Museum Is Selling A Truly Bizarre Smart Car You Probably Didn’t Know Existed Car enthusiast and YouTuberDoug DeMurois calling attention to an odd duck of a smart car: the 2004 Smart Crossblade. It’s a vehicle that’s been a part of the collection in LA’s Petersen Automotive Museum for years, according to DeMuro, and even predates the release of the Smart Carand its later modelsin the US. DeMuro states that there were approximately 2000 Crossblades produced, but doubts that the numbers were actually that high due to the car’s… peculiar design....

July 29, 2025 · 2 min · 358 words · Elizabeth Anderson

The Snowman Director Knows Why His Movie Sucks

One would have thought that a movie produced by Martin Scorsese, directed by the guy who madeTinker Tailor Soldier Spy, with a cast that includes Michael Fassbender and Rebecca Ferguson, would have turned out to be one of the better movies of the fall season. That’s not the case.The Snowman, by most accounts, is a complete disaster. DirectorTomas Alfredsonis already going on the defensive, doing his best to explain why this dumpster fire isn’t his fault....

July 29, 2025 · 3 min · 477 words · Kevin Lee

Toyota LQ: The Cool EV Concept That Will Never Come To Market

Toyota LQ: The Cool EV Concept That Will Never Come To Market It’s funny when you think of Toyota’s inhibitions in fully embracing the EV race when the automaker — and fellow Japanese auto giant Honda — were the first to introduce electrified, mass-market hybrid cars like thePriusand Insight. Furthermore, Toyota has talked about autonomous driving, artificial intelligence (AI), and electrification since 2017 with itsConcept-i EV: a molten piece of automotive art equipped with fancy gullwing doors....

July 29, 2025 · 3 min · 592 words · Edward Park

Uber UK unveils swathe of new safety measures to avoid London ban

Uber has published a mighty list of changes in its safety measures in the UK, in the hope of avoiding operating bans in London and other British regions. Many of the new practices directly addressconcerns cited by Transport for Londonand other regulators as part of their withdrawal of the firm’s private hire operator licences around the country. For example, Uber is changing its policy on reporting series incidents to the police - something directly referred to in a TfL statement on why it decided not to reissue a licence to operate at the end of last year....

July 29, 2025 · 2 min · 336 words · Anna Kim