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The wait is over. The Pathless, an epic mythic adventure game from Annapurna Interactive and Giant Squid (makers of Abzu), has finally arrived for Apple Arcade and the new PS5. The title is perhaps the most anticipated for Apple’s gaming subscription service to date, finally joining its growing catalog of over 140 games. Aside from …

This week, the attention of the country — and the world — has been on the US presidential election. While the results were up in the air, we kept you informed on key topics: how election officials and others were tackling cybersecurity, what social media companies were doing to fight misinformation, and how tech is slowly making elections more accessible. …

Apple Arcade on Friday added two new games — Reigns: Beyond from Devolver Digital and All of You from Alike Studio — to its growing catalog of over 140 games. You can try your hand at the two quirky games this weekend across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, iPod Touch and Apple TV.  Reigns: Beyond is an intergalactic music game. Travel with …

Even though the highly anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 video game — featuring Keanu Reeves as Johnny Silverhand — has been delayed until Dec. 10, you can still load up on merch ahead of time. Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus announced it would be releasing a limited-edition OnePlus 8T Cyberpunk 2077 smartphone.  The new device looks like it could be found in the Cyberpunk world, …

Intel’s latest flavor of its upgraded graphics architecture, Iris Xe Max, rolls out this week in three debut systems: the Acer Swift 3x, Asus VivoBook Flip TP470 and Dell Inspiron 15 7000 2-in-1. Though Iris Xe, the integrated version baked into Intel’s 11th-gen mobile processors, has already arrived in the Asus ZenBook 13 and others, Iris Xe Max is Intel’s …

South of the Circle, a new narrative adventure from State of Play Games, is coming to Apple Arcade’s growing catalog of over 135 games on Friday. You play as Peter, a Cambridge scholar, who finds himself stranded in the vast wasteland of Antarctica after a plane crash. While trying to survive and ultimately escape, Peter’s memories begin to creep into …

For the first time, AMD aggressively targets 4K gaming with its top-end PC graphics cards, the Radeon RX 6800, 6800 XT and 6900 XT; the company has typically stuck to the middle and lower end of the spectrum, with its previous-generation RX 5700 XT designed for 1440p play. All the new cards incorporate the RDNA 2.0  architecture that’s in its GPUs for …

AMD has entered an agreement to acquire Xilinx for $35 billion, AMD said Tuesday. It’s an effort to make AMD “the industry’s high-performance computing leader,” according to Lisa Su, the company’s chief executive. The two firms would focus on producing a variety of chips and software for PCs and gaming, as well as products and software across the automative, communications, …

Facebook is joining the game streaming world, taking on the likes of Sony, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Nvidia. All now offer ways for people to play visually complex console and PC games over the internet, using technology similar to how Netflix streams movies. While most companies are focused on the top-tier games like Take-Two’s action game Grand Theft Auto V …

Amazon’s arrived midgame with its Luna Plus cloud-gaming service, in which games run on a powerful remote server that streams them down to less beefy devices, allowing them to play above their capabilities — a concept sometimes confusingly referred to as “game streaming.” Luna Plus faces more established players like Microsoft Game Pass Ultimate, Google Stadia and Nvidia GeForce Now. …