Razer has released a Hello Kitty Edition Kraken Kitty V2 USB headset as a Target exclusive in the US, leaving buyers elsewhere unable to pick it up. Priced at $139.99, the headset sports a rose-gold colorway that runs from the earcups to the tips of its kitty ears. The

Jeff Kaplan, a 19-year Blizzard veteran who left the company in 2021, says corporate mismanagement and mounting profit pressure pushed him to resign. He had been Overwatch's director and departed two years before the sequel shipped. Kaplan blamed the company's focus on competitive esports for diverting

The first Minecraft Live of 2026 is set for Saturday March 21 at 1 pm ET/12 pm CT/6 pm GMT, and will stream on the official Minecraft YouTube and Twitch channels, as well as at minecraft.net/live. The showcase promises updates on what’s coming to the

Jeff Kaplan’s new studio Kintsugiyama has unveiled its debut game, The Legend of California, a multiplayer action-survival FPS that looks like Red Dead Redemption 2 reimagined as a survival crafting sim. The reveal arrived out of the blue late yesterday and the Steam page places the game on the

Think of the iPad as a powerful digital notebook for organizing life, taking class notes, and transcribing meetings. Modern note-taking apps add flexibility for handwriting, audio recording, and multimedia, and testing focused on cost, functionality, practicality, and design across more than a dozen apps to find those that enhance handwritten

Calls to redesign Anran’s in-game face followed her model reveal, with both her voice actor and fans saying the in-game look didn’t match pre-release artwork. Game director Aaron Keller had said the team was "hoping to make" an update to Anran’s design later in season

Over the last decade, airlines shifted from chasing market share to consolidating operations along the most profitable routes. They also increased average load factors and moved away from under-50-seat regional aircraft toward 70–90-seat models, a shift that has reduced connectivity for many regional airports. The Parallel Electric-Gas Architecture with

At the Next Summit in New York, attendees buzzed about the rise of Kalshi and Polymarket, but another theme kept coming up: "super apps" that combine ways to save, spend, and gamble could overtake standalone prediction markets. DraftKings is merging its sports, predictions, lottery, and casino apps, and

Garry Newman, creator of Garry's Mod and CEO of Facepunch Studios, spoke at GDC with Chris Livingston about the studio's history, Rust and its upcoming game-creation platform s&box, which will carry a similar price tag to Garry's Mod. Despite the popularity of

Shinji Mikami left Tango Gameworks in 2023 and had already started a development studio called Unbound. The company's website has been live for over a year but only recently came to wider attention, and it offers only scant details about what the team is working on. Among the

Security researchers uncovered a takedown‑resistant botnet that has conscripted roughly 14,000 routers and other network devices—primarily Asus models—into a proxy network that anonymously carries traffic used for cybercrime. The malware, dubbed KadNap, gains access by exploiting vulnerabilities that device owners have left unpatched, Chris Formosa, a

Electrified aircraft propulsion is a key priority for NASA Aeronautics because of its potential to reduce fuel consumption, emissions and noise for commercial airplanes. Current battery technology and electric charging infrastructure, however, are not yet advanced enough to support all-electric commercial aircraft. The STARC-ABL concept, developed by ASAB in partnership

Valve offered a rare peek behind Steam at this year’s GDC, presenting a series of slides captured and shared to Bluesky by Game Developer’s Chris Kerr. The slides include statistics suggesting that, despite visibility problems in an increasingly crowded pool of developers, studios are finding more success on

The Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB Sync stacks four 3.95-inch LCD panels into a cube atop its pump, delivering an attention-grabbing look that won’t be for everyone. Its visuals and deep customisation options are the main draw, but the price—$350/£280—makes you ask whether four screens

The EarFun Air Pro 4+ upgrades the original in several clear ways: adding an ultra-light FeatherBA armature alongside a 10 mm dynamic driver brings noticeably greater clarity and instrument separation. With a little manual EQ tweaking to boost highs and lows, the earbuds move from “pretty great” to genuinely premium-sounding

A system image captures everything on a PC — operating system, settings, apps and user data — so you can restore a new machine to the exact state of the old one. Clonezilla is a free, lightweight Linux environment that boots from USB to create and restore these full-disk images for Linux,

Six years before Dishonored, Arkane released Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, a game best known for booting orcs from cliffs. What began as modder Dave Wiltos's effort to add co‑op eventually led Ubisoft to give a "blank check" to develop an SDK; Wiltos wrote

Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed the lineup of games joining the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog on March 17 for Premium and Extra subscribers. Like February's additions, the March set includes several notable entries for the subscription service. Persona 5 Royal, the enhanced re-release of 2016's Persona

Switching password managers is easier than it sounds. Most let you export your current passwords so you can import them into a new product, and while you will need to configure settings in the replacement app, your accounts should all be in place. Start by installing the new password manager,

NASA’s work on fuel cell electric power systems goes back to Project Gemini in the 1960s. Building on that legacy, Langley’s ASAB branch led the Fostering Ultra Efficient, Low-Emitting Aviation Power (FUELEAP) activity to develop a hybrid-electric fuel cell power system for future electric aircraft. Fuel cells generate

Solasta 2 enters early access on Thursday, March 12, launching at 12 p.m. EDT for Windows PC, the developer said in a post on X. The fantasy CRPG from Tactical Adventures leans into tabletop-style play, with D20 rolls for checks, full voice acting and an explorable magical world. That

A few months ago I noticed my iPhone screen time was about 13 hours a day, with my Mac included. Excluding work, that added up to more than 100 days a year spent looking at screens. I set a goal: get daily phone use down to one hour, and quickly

Microsoft said at the GDC Festival of Gaming that alpha development kits for Project Helix will be delivered to developers in 2027, a schedule that casts doubt on the company's reported ability to ship the next Xbox in late 2027. Jason Ronald, vice president of next generation at

MSI has refreshed its 32-inch 4K OLED line with Samsung's latest Tandem OLED panel, releasing the MSI MPG 322UR X24 as an update to the MPG 322URX and the earlier MPG 321URX. The chassis styling remains similar to those previous models. The HDR numbers are a little odd:

The SwitchBot is a battery‑powered mechanical “finger” that sticks to a switch and can push or pull it, offering bidirectional control without any wiring or an electrician. It works either directly over Bluetooth or via an optional hub that links the device to your Wi‑Fi for remote access.