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If you grew up in the 1990s, you’ll probably remember a trend of console manufacturers churning out special transparent editions of its hardware.

Nintendo posted stronger first-quarter (Q1) profits despite a slowdown in Nintendo Switch 2 hardware sales. The company credited software growth and a $300M USD U.S. tariff refund for the improved earnings, while keeping its full-year hardware forecast unchanged.

Microsoft had reportedly planned to continue supporting physical game discs on future Xbox hardware before the company’s recent business “reset.” However, that direction may have changed a journalist at gaming technology outlet Digital Foundry. He now says it is unclear whether Microsoft’s next-generation console, Project Helix, will retain disc support

Leanne Pedante discusses why she’s excited about this next phase of Supernatural.

The input subsystem fixes for the week include a number of AI-driven patches to address various information leaks, out-of-bounds accesses, validation fixes, and other coding issues that have turned up recently. Plus some device quirks and also adding support for a rather funky gaming controller to the common XPad Linux driver used by many different…

Sony spent nineteen years selling PlayStation consoles without ever selling a PlayStation-branded monitor. That changed on June 4, 2025, when the company used a PlayStation Blog post to unveil three pieces of hardware at once: a 27-inch gaming monitor, a wireless fighting-game stick called FlexStrike, and a pair of desktop speakers called Pulse Elevate. Monitor…

It has been a ridiculously cold winter, so when hardware giants Turtle Beach invited me to their own beachy getaway at the Turtle Beach Club, showcasing some of their latest and greatest tech in a much warmer space at The Ivy in Sydney city, I was more than happy to attend.

Virtual reality is becoming an increasingly popular platform in the entertainment industry. Applications using VR headsets are receiving a great amount of interest from those who use them.

With technology such as cameras, displays, and sensors built into their frames, smart glasses can provide augmented reality (AR) views, AI assistants, and Instagrammable snapshots directly on your face. I’ve been covering smart glasses since they first hit the market and have seen them evolve from basic phone-tethered wearable displays into wireless mixed-reality marvels. They’re…

TL;DR: Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick argues game streaming will broaden the install base and solve high console and PC hardware costs within three years by enabling AAA play on phones, tablets, or basic laptops, but current latency, licensing, controller preferences, data-center limits, and rising memory prices make that timeline unlikely. Voice: Hassam NasirSpeed 0:00 /…