Samsung’s next Galaxy watch is being announced at an Unpacked event later this summer, and its new Google co-designed OS and interface is called One UI Watch. The news arrived Monday at a virtual Samsung event as part of this year’s Mobile World Congress.  But all Samsung showed for now is the software interface. The …

The PlayStation 5‘s killer app seems to have finally arrived. Maybe you thought that game was already here, in Spider-Man Miles Morales, or Returnal, or Astro’s Playroom. But it’s the surprisingly vivid, living-cartoon style of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart that proves the PS5’s superfast internal storage can do things previous consoles just could not.  Insomniac Games’ Tech Director Mike …

Summer looms ahead, and kids are out of school. Nintendo’s newest multiplayer Mario game is a return to its classic Mario Golf franchise. Do you like golf? Do you like Mario? We might have a match for you. After playing Mario Golf: Super Rush for about a week, I don’t have that many exciting things to report. There are five …

Let’s face it: Facebook was bound to put ads in VR eventually. Like collecting personal data, advertising is core to the social network’s business model and extends across all of its other apps. Because ad-free VR is clearly an outlier, the company’s recently announced plans to test ads in its Oculus VR apps and games felt inevitable. But the developers …

Adobe sees the future of creation being increasingly 3D. Its newest Adobe Substance 3D apps are aiming to be a complete destination for 3D art, sampling and even virtual photography, with uses that could range from video game assets to e-commerce to content for a possible world of VR and AR-compatible 3D assets. But these apps are PC, Mac and …

In the middle of an art gallery as I look across at the Mona Lisa hanging in a virtual Louvre, it occurs to me that VR displays aren’t low-res anymore. Whatever concerns I used to have about the screen-door pixelated look of VR, that’s over now. The HTC Vive Focus 3 to my eyes looks crystal clear and surprisingly sharp. Scratch …

There’s something chasing Samus down tunnels and it seems smart. And relentless. The robot, called EMMI, is particularly unsettling because it reminds me of one of those Boston Dynamics robot dogs… but more limber. It keeps scuttling and chasing and it won’t go away. It keeps coming back. Metroid Dread is a new 2D entry in the long-running Metroid series …

Virtual reality has been, to this point, a largely ad-free experience, but that may soon change. Facebook is beginning to push ads into apps and games now, starting with a few test experiments. How far the rollout will go after that is unknown. Facebook had broadcast its intentions to use VR and AR data to inform advertising last year, with …

Reports said Nintendo might announce a new Switch Pro soon. As of this year’s virtual E3, it still hasn’t happened. And, maybe, that should have been expected all along. Nintendo’s four-year-old-plus Switch hardware still doesn’t have a successor yet. The relatively low-key E3 edition of Nintendo Direct was full of games, including WarioWare, a new 2D Metroid game and another teaser for Legend …

It’s the 35th anniversary of Zelda. And of course, there’s a Zelda edition Game & Watch coming. Nintendo announced the second in its rebooted series of novelty Game & Watch retro handhelds at this year’s E3 version of Nintendo Direct: a Zelda-infused version coming Nov. 12. It looks very much like the Mario Game & Watch released last year, but …