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Maingear’s latest (appropriately named) Retro95 is a deceptive love letter to old-school “pizza box” PCs: Wolfenstein 3D and Sierra adventure games on the outside; Cyberpunk 2077 in ray-traced 4K on the inside. That’s because you can fit this sucker with up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 graphics. It supports Intel and AMD processors, up to … Read more
Meta is adding some of its teen safety features to Instagram accounts featuring children, even if they’re ran by adults. While children under 13 years of age aren’t allowed to sign up on the social media app, Meta allows adults like parents and managers to run accounts for children and post videos and photos of … Read more
Splitgate 2, the follow-up to the hugely successful 2021 Quake–Portal hybrid concept, is returning to beta. The game launched last month, but developer 1047 Games is pulling it after deciding the release had been rushed. The company doesn’t plan to release the project again until 2026. “We’ll be heads down until early next year, rebuilding … Read more
Amazon’s latest move in the AI space is an acquisition. The company is purchasing a startup called Bee, which makes a wearable and an Apple Watch app that can record everything the wearer says. Amazon said that the deal has not closed and that the terms of the acquisition are confidential. Although the company did … Read more
Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who’s covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the … Read more
The British government has announced plans to move forward with a law that would bar public organizations from paying off ransomware attackers. The proposed legislation would add schools, town councils, National Health Service (NHS) hospitals and critical infrastructure managers to a ban which already applies to the national government. The logic behind banning payments is … Read more
Gamers aren’t usually known for their sartorial elegance. But that doesn’t mean we don’t deserve nice things. So after checking out a very utilitarian carrying case for the Switch 2, I wanted to explore the other side of things with a more lavish travel bag. And while Waterfield’s Magnetic case for Nintendo’s latest console certainly … Read more
Switch 2 owners won’t have long to wait for Borderlands 4. On Tuesday, Gearbox founder and CEO Randy Pitchford said it will arrive on October 3. While some had worried the game would be pushed back to 2026, it will land on Nintendo’s console less than a month after other platforms. Pitchford’s video begins with … Read more
Meta is no longer paying creators to post on Threads. The company quietly ended the Threads bonus program, which offered some creators thousands of dollars a month in bonuses, earlier this year, Engadget has confirmed. The company hasn’t officially commented on why it stopped the payments, but an Instagram support page that once listed details … Read more
Honda and Acura EV owners can now take advantage of the sprawling Tesla Supercharger network with the release of the first Honda-approved NACS-CCS DC fast-charging adapter. This means that Honda Prologue and Acura ZDX owners can join the growing ranks of non-Tesla EVs that you might see filling up at any one of the more … Read more