Overnight, Russian president Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into Ukraine — what he called a “special military operation,” and what Ukrainian foreign affairs minister Dmytro Kuleba said is “a war of aggression.” Russian troops have moved into Ukraine on multiple fronts, and dozens of Ukrainians have died, Vox reported. Game developers around Ukraine told Polygon … Read more
Picture: Electronic Arts Despite the turbulent development roadmap of Dragon Age 4BioWare announced yesterday that the RPG is in the middle of the production phase. The announcement coincided with the news that a dragon age executive producer was leaving the studio. As the blog post tells it, the developers’ morale is reportedly high right now, … Read more
Artist’s conception of the jockeying for position between EA and FIFA in this licensing fight. We’ve known for months that EA has been questioning the value of its nearly three-decade-long relationship with FIFA, the international soccer governing body whose name has become synonymous with an ultra-popular video game series. Now, though, newly leaked statements attributed … Read more
Belkin is the latest company to get on the Thunderbolt 4 dock train with its new $399 Connect Pro Thunderbolt 4 Dock, which replaces the company’s previous Thunderbolt 3 Dock Pro, adding more ports and power than the old model. The Connect Pro Thunderbolt 4 Dock has a pretty similar design to the Thunderbolt 3 … Read more
So you’re just gonna scroll past without saying こんにちは?Picture: Sucker Punch While many of you are no doubt champing at the bit for the release of this totally unknown game called Elden Ring that’s coming out this week, PlayStation Plus members who don’t feel the irresistible urge to hurl themselves into the unforgiving gauntlet of … Read more
Apple’s iPad Mini from 2021 has been difficult to find in stock at times recently, but that hasn’t stopped the model with expanded storage from going on a nice discount. You can pick up an iPad Mini with 256GB of storage for $599 at Walmart in space gray. This Wi-Fi configuration of the latest Mini … Read more
Looking for a deal on the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra? The release of Samsung’s newest phone is just hours away, but there’s already an amazing deal on the device at Verizon. For a limited time, buy a Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra with Unlimited plan and get a second Galaxy S22 Ultra for free at Verizon. … Read more
Enlarge / Intel’s NUC 12 Extreme kit. Andrew Cunningham Intel’s NUC Extreme mini PC kits have always been hard to recommend. It’s true that they’re considerably smaller than even the smallest mini ITX PC cases; it’s impossible to fit this much performance into less space if you’re using general-purpose PC components. But they’re also expensive, … Read more
The Motorola Edge X30, announced in China at the end of last year, is coming to the US as the Motorola Edge Plus (or the 30 Pro in Europe and other markets). It comes with higher-end specs than 2021’s Motorola Edge offered, starting with the Android flagship chipset-du-jour, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. While Motorola … Read more
Elden Ring’s launch has been marked by strong reviews praising its gameplay and art direction, but also questions over its technical performance on each platform – PlayStation, Xbox and PC. Here at Digital Foundry, our analysis is in progress on the recently released 1.02 version of the game, but we wanted to provide some initial … Read more
