Project Mugen was revealed back in 2023 as an open-world fantasy RPG about people with superpowers investigating strange anomalies that threaten their urban paradise. Think Genshin Impact in Manhattan with Spider-Man-like traversal. On Thursday, it got another incredible-looking trailer and a new name. Suggested Reading 6 Things To Know Before Starting Persona 5 Tactica Off
Month: December 2024
/ He also welcomed any side-by-side comparison to Microsoft’s AI tech, saying ‘they’re using someone else’s models.’ By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Share this story Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Google
PC Gamer held its Most Wanted 2024 showcase on Thursday promoting its list of the top 25 most anticipated upcoming games according to its council of developers, media, and other tastemakers. In between the hype we also got a bunch of updates on games coming out in the next few months, and reveals of some
Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less dystopian and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the driverless arm of Google parent Alphabet, expand into more cities. Now, Waymo is adding Miami to its roster, first bringing its fleet of all-electric Jaguar I-Paces to roads there in early 2025 before eventually opening up to passengers in 2026. Riders
Recycling today kind of sucks. People are generally confused about what can be recycled and where. As a result, only about 32% of eligible waste actually gets recycled. It would be a lot easier if people could dump everything into one bin and let the waste management companies deal with it, but that’s proven to
We are hours away from the launch of one of Overwatch 2’s most promising competitors in Marvel Rivals. It makes sense, then, that Blizzard would choose this time to drop a new trailer for its hero shooter’s upcoming 14th season, presumably in an attempt to stop some of the bleed. The trailer highlights new tank
xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, has raised $6 billion, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. The Wall Street Journal previously reported that Valor Equity Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz were expected to contribute to the round, along with Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar’s sovereign-wealth fund. The new cash
At one point in time, TT Games—the studio behind the Lego Star Wars franchise—pitched a James Bond game to the toy block brand. That project never happened, but now a video pitch for the proposed 007-themed Lego game has leaked and it lets us look at what might have been. Suggested Reading The Week In
By Elizabeth Lopatto, a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg. Share this story Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, TurboSquid How many presidents have pardoned their relatives? It turns out this is a tricky question to
Viral influencer and podcast host Haliey “Hawk Tuah Girl” Welch’s crypto coin, which launched yesterday, has already crashed, leading some to speculate that the memecoin was a pump and dump scheme. Welch has denied this and claimed everything is above board. Suggested Reading Live Forever in the Universe of ‘New World: Aeternum’ Suggested Reading Back
If there’s one thing Marvel has done over the last five years, it’s fuck up your concept of time. Multiversal messes aside, we finally know when the upcoming Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again takes place in the Marvel timeline, and things just got a bit more confusing. Suggested Reading Netflix’s One Piece Live-Action Trailer Has A
/ Updates starting to roll out today add expressive captions for videos, a Spotify extension for Gemini, and Screenshots app updates for Pixel 9 phones. By Allison Johnson, a reviewer with 10 years of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. Share
Ladder, an Austin, Texas-based fitness startup that makes a popular strength-training app, is accusing Peloton of ripping off its work with the launch of Peloton’s new Stength+ app, which exited beta on Wednesday. After receiving feedback from Peloton’s beta testers that the app looked, felt, and functioned much like Ladder’s own, the company says it
Google said Thursday it is introducing multiple updates for Pixel and Android devices as part of the December feature drop. These features include new Gemini extensions, an updated Pixel Screenshots app, expressive captions, and accessibility enhancements. Android Google is introducing new Gemini extensions, including Spotify, Messaging, Calling, and Smart Home. This will enable users to
We all know Siri as the voice-enabled virtual helper that lives inside your iPhone. But in the future, Siri could be much more than just a way to manage your Apple devices hands-free. It could evolve into the connective tissue between Apple’s future products, from smart glasses to home displays, potentially determining whether Apple can
Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today’s Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections and Strands puzzles. There are plenty of other online word games now, but I still play the New York Times Wordle game every day. These days, it’s not only an old
Although heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, a significant portion of people who experience heart attacks are unaware that they have the underlying condition. Cleerly, a cardiovascular imaging startup, hopes to fix this. By analyzing CT scans of the heart, the company’s AI software aims to identify early-stage coronary
Loving two people at the same time is complicated. It becomes twisted when the two people you love are each loved by two separate parts of your very being. In a recent Vanity Fair interview, Severance’s executive producer and director Ben Stiller assures us that the second season will explore how an Innie and an
It’s December 4, and that means it’s the officially unofficial “Dragon Age Day.” Get it? D4. DA. Dragon Age. Anyway, this year, BioWare released some statistics about players’ choices in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The RPG has been out for a little over a month now, so that means more players have gotten further into
February 2025 is filled with some big game releases, including a new Monster Hunter and Assassin’s Creed. In fact, so many large games are coming out that month that one of them has decided to change its release date to avoid the pile-up of video games. Suggested Reading The Week In Games: Dark Knights And
Three members of Google’s NotebookLM team, including its team lead and designer, have announced they are leaving Google for a new stealth startup. On Linkedin, ex-team lead Raiza Martin said she and her two other co-founders, designer Jason Spielman and engineer Stephen Hughes, “couldn’t shake the feeling that there’s a massive opportunity to build something
One of the biggest criticisms I and many other Dragon Age fans had about The Veilguard was that it failed to carry over most of our decisions from the previous games in BioWare’s fantasy RPG series. In fact, the fourth game in the franchise only imports three choices from Dragon Age: Inquisition, a stark departure
The globe likely breezed past 1.5°C of warming above pre-industrial levels this year, crashing through the 2016 Paris Agreement’s aspirational target. Further warming increases the risk of catastrophic consequences, including more frequent extreme droughts, floods, and fires; stronger hurricanes; faster-spreading infectious diseases; and declining wildlife and fish populations. A host of carbon-capture startups hope to
If you’re in the market for a new tablet, there were, of course, tons of deals that dropped during Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales this past week. But if you missed out, don’t fret. Some deals have lingered and are still available. Amazon has a number of affordable options across different specs and sizes that
Balatro, the wildly popular poker-themed roguelike deckbuilder, is one of the best games of 2024. And almost since it launched, people have been asking for a deck of real playing cards based on those in the game. Well, that’s finally happening. Tell all your Balatro-pilled friends and family. But also, there is a bit of
Once a startup has raised its seed round, the perennial question becomes how much should the founders pay themselves and their first few employees? Kruze Consulting, a CPA firm that specializes in venture-backed startups, recently analyzed average salary ranges for over 450 seed-stage startups and shared that data with TechCrunch. The following averages are based
Demo discs were a staple of the PS1 era, providing curated snippets of upcoming games for players to test out while waiting for the next big release. While digital demos have become commonplace on PS5 as well, a new free-to-play standalone version of Gran Turismo 7 takes the idea to a new level. Suggested Reading
Earlier this year, Meta tried to get its own nuclear powered data center the easy way, by building one next to an existing reactor. But after regulators threw cold water on the plan — the site was reportedly home to a rare bee species — the company is back with a new idea: find a
/ There’s some technology that we just can’t ignore and some that you should. As far as tech goes, 2024 was a strong year for some innovative, interesting, and unforgettable moments. We kicked off the year with the Apple Vision Pro — Apple’s long-awaited entry into the world of “spatial computing.” It was impressive, with The
Cyber Monday is officially over, but anyone looking for some great new soundbar deals shouldn’t feel disheartened. There’s still plenty of amazing discounts being offered. Though your TV speakers will get the job done, and a soundbar isn’t necessarily needed, a soundbar still provides a much better audio experience. A new soundbar is the perfect