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Baby Steps preview: Serious gameplay in a silly walking sim
Baby Steps is a video game about hiking. This is, of course, a ridiculous concept. Before we get to the game’s protagonist, an adult toddler in a thin onesie, or its unserious side characters and...
In Baby Steps, I stumbled through a refreshing kind of open world
“Is the rage boiling over?†Bennett Foddy asks me as I fall down a wooden plank for the dozenth time. The creator of QWOP and Getting Over It is known for games that...
Beta test brings Candy Crush Soda Saga and Angry Birds 2 to Android Auto
Those who are enrolled in the Android Auto testing program can now check out new features as part of the 14.1 beta, including support for a few games. As things stand, four Android games are...
Judge dismisses Samsung’s smart ring lawsuit against Oura
Samsung tried to preemptively stave off any patent infringement claims from Oura against its Galaxy Ring Last June, Samsung made a surprising move against smart ring maker Oura. The tech giant filed...
Nvidia RTX 5090 mobile GPU: more efficient and a little faster
Nvidia’s 50-series desktop GPUs have been off to a slightly rocky start, with quality control issues, underwhelming performance gains over last generation, and the occasional...
Common Side Effects is coming back for a second season
Though the first chapter of Adult Swim’s Common Side Effects animated series is about to wrap up this Sunday, the story isn’t over yet. Today, Adult Swim announced that Common Side Effects has been...
WhatsApp users can now add music to their status
WhatsApp is reviving some old school internet nostalgia with a new feature that allows users to add temporary music clips to their profile updates. Snippets from popular songs can now be featured in...
OpenAI has a Studio Ghibli problem
When you can create art just by asking for it, what might you create? If you’re anything like the internet these last few days, you’d create some lovely...
A new book calls for a government that can do things. But there’s a dark side.
Protests in St. Paul, Minnesota. | Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The buzzword of the past couple of weeks is Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s new book about why...
Engadget Podcast: Signalgate and the collapse of 23andMe
This week, we learned that even government officials are addicted to their group chats — except with the Trump administration those chats include war plans and potentially classified information. In...