Lego has launched motion-sensitive 'smart' bricks for Pokémon sets that produce sound effects and flashing lights when paired with different builds, bringing Pikachu and other creatures to life and enabling interactive battles. The tie-up unites the world’s biggest toy company and the world’s biggest media franchise:

Zotac revealed its latest mini PC at Computex 2026. The updated Magnus One Ultra houses a full-sized desktop RTX 5080, promising a large jump in 4K gaming performance while remaining compact. The Ultra updates the Zbox line; a recent version squeezed an RTX 5070 Ti into a tiny chassis, and

A release date for Silent Hill: Townfall was confirmed during Sony State of Play. It will launch on September 24, almost exactly a year after Silent Hill f marked the full return of the classic horror series. September is filling up fast. Blood of the Dawnwalker is due on September

The GamesRadar+ Summer Preview is here to help your video game wishlist become even more unmanageable. There was a time when the threat of Grand Theft Auto 6 landing this November felt like it might collapse 2026’s release schedule, but publishers appear to be packing the calendar full of

I took the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra and the Vivo X300 Ultra on a photowalk to compare their camera systems. Vivo’s setup packs three large sensors and this year its main camera uses a 35mm-equivalent focal length, while Samsung’s main sensor sits at a 23mm equivalent; you can

In a video interview about Rayman Legends Retold, brand director Loïc Gounon said Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still in active development. After years without official news, this is the clearest update from inside the studio. Gounon explained the studio no longer has a dedicated Rayman team. He said,

PlayStation State of Play delivered a raft of trailers and release dates, but the biggest surprise was how many major titles are clustered in late September. With publishers steering clear of November amid GTA 6's shadow, Silent Hill: Townfall, Onimusha: Way of the Sword and Control Resonant now

RuneScape: Dragonwilds, a survival-crafting spinoff of the long-running MMORPG, is coming to PlayStation 5 and PlayStation Plus Extra/Premium later this year — the first RuneScape game to arrive on consoles. Jagex revealed the news during Sony’s State of Play. The game launched in April 2026 on Steam in Early

Stuntman: Hollywood revives the PlayStation 2-era stunt series, putting players on fictional movie sets to perform vehicle-based stunts. Like Stuntman: Ignition, the new entry gamifies racing and vehicle-combat filmmaking rather than traditional track racing. Developed by Saber Interactive, the reveal trailer includes licensed vehicles from franchises such as Miami Vice,

Sony's State of Play showcased a new gameplay trailer for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis and revealed a revised release date. The game is presented as a complete reimagining of the 1996 original, rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5. It had been intended to launch this year, but the

Sony revealed a new entry in the series, God of War Laufey, during its State of Play stream. The game centers on Kratos' dead wife, Faye, whose body manifests in the afterlife after her burial rites. Santa Monica Studio said, "To save the ones she loves, Faye must

A new version of Eyes on the Earth was released on May 11, 2026. It adds a share/embed feature prominently placed on the home screen and includes a new SWOT video from SVS that shows changes in river volume over the course of a year and any variations from

Lyria 3 Pro, the most advanced version of the model, can generate tracks up to three minutes long and offers greater customization and creative control. It better understands musical composition and can follow prompts for specific elements such as intros, verses, choruses and bridges, making it useful for experimenting with

A blink-and-you'd-miss-it moment during Sony's State of Play revealed that Ace Combat Zero, a 20-year-old PS2 title, will arrive on PC for the first time as a pre-order incentive for the deluxe edition of Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, which launches on PS5 and Steam

PlayStation's State of Play included a new trailer for Control Resonant that prominently displayed a Sept. 24 release date in large red text. However, the trailer's YouTube description lists Aug. 27, suggesting the date may have been changed recently. As of publication time, that August date

PlayStation's June State of Play delivered an hour of trailers, extended gameplay, and release dates. Insomniac’s Marvel’s Wolverine received an extended gameplay look notable for its graphic violence and a first glimpse of Jean Grey, who, like Logan, is searching for kidnapped mutants. Santa Monica Studio

Maingear's updated MG-1 Mk.II can be built around AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition, and the chassis does a good job of showing off those components. It looks very nice and is very well built in many

Today’s Summer Game Fest–adjacent PlayStation State of Play is the longest Sony showcase in a bit and gives the console maker a chance to set the stage for the final years of the PS5. A deep dive into September’s Wolverine game from Insomniac is promised. All eyes

Last month Microsoft introduced MDASH, its Microsoft Security multi-model agentic scanning harness. At Build 2026 the company said it is folding MDASH into a full enterprise security control plane that connects Defender, GitHub Code Security, Agent 365, and Purview; the capability is now in expanded preview with Defender integration. MDASH

At Computex, AMD's Ryzen and Radeon VP and GM David McAfee told Tom's Hardware a Zen 5 replacement for the Ryzen 5 7600X3D—likely a Ryzen 5 9600X3D—"may be something that we look at doing… later this year." AMD launched the 7600X3D in

Slate Auto may be one of the most interesting companies in the American automotive industry right now. Based in Warsaw, Indiana, the startup is taking a completely different approach to building an electric pickup truck. Forget Ford’s clean-sheet “skunk works” story; the Slate Truck’s design has been stripped

PlayStation is holding a new State of Play showcase today, ahead of the main Summer Game Fest events later this week. Expect more than 60 minutes of updates on upcoming PS5 games, with a particular emphasis on Marvel's Wolverine. The stream starts at 2PM PT / 5PM ET / 10PM

It did not look like a happy ending for Maverick Games when Amazon ended its publishing deal earlier this year. The studio has now unveiled its debut project, Clutch, and says a full trailer will debut at the Summer Game Fest showcase on June 5. Co-founder Mike Brown, the former

Data compiled by Stephen Totilo at Game File shows Sony’s first-party game sales have fallen over the past five years, with fiscal year 2020 standing out as a recent high point at 58.4 million sales. That period included The Last of Us Part 2 (4 million sold in

Square Enix producer Yosuke Saito said at BitSummit Punch that both Dragon Quest and Nier titles are often created largely by external teams rather than being made entirely in-house. Nier: Automata, for example, was developed by PlatinumGames with direction from series creator Yoko Taro and music by Keiichi Okabe. Saito