Many Apple aficionados breathed a sigh of relief when the company unveiled its newly upgradedApple Watch Series 7. That’s because the rumors of it radically changing shape and formturned out to be wrong. It comes as no surprise that most people like their current Apple Watch form factor just fine. That’s not to say there haven’t been some refinements to the look and feel of the upcoming Series 7 — but they are impressive without being nearly as extensive as we were led to expect....

Work has officially started on assembling the world’s largest nuclear fusion project in France, hopefully enabling clean fusion power to be generated on a massive scale,The Guardian reports. The Iter reactor will weigh 23,000 tons in its fully completed configuration, roughly equivalent to nine-tenths the weight of the Statue of Liberty. It will be made up of millions of components, including 3,000 tons of superconducting magnets, connected by 200 kilometers of superconducting cables, which must be chilled to temperatures of minus-269 degrees Celsius or minus-452 degrees Fahrenheit....

Call of Duty 2025 set to cost almost $100 as Microsoft hikes game prices Microsoft has announced that it’ll be increasing the price tag on select first-party titles to $80 in 2025. And considering Call of Duty is one of the highest profile games from a publisher Microsoft owns, it’s safe to say it’ll be on the list. There have been rumors of price increases for years now, with publishers pushing the base price of AAA games from $60 to $70 over the course of this console generation....

Conan O’Brien has been doing hisClueless Gamersegment on his late-night talk show for years, delivering irreverent insights on the latest and greatest video games. On the most recent episode, he teamed up withSaturday Night Livealumnus and current star ofBarry, Bill Hader, to work through some daddy issues inGod of War. Spoilers for early sections of the game to follow! Joined by resident video game nerd Aaron Bleyaert, Conan and Hader beginGod of Warby making fun of the relationship between Kratos and Atreus, questioning whether players will want to address their own familial problems in a game about murdering mythological creatures....

How do you follow up something likeDead Cells? Developer Motion Twin’s hit roguelike became an instant genre staple when it launched into early access in 2017 and it’s only gotten better since then. After seven years of long-tailed support andhigh-profile collaborations,Dead Cellshas become a foundational indie game that’s hard to top. It would be safe for Motion Twin to follow that up with a sequel, just as Supergiant Games is doing withHades 2....

I’ve always found myself interested in new technologies that could possibly enhance how we play or experience games. Whether it’s a computing innovation likecloud gamingor new controller features like the DualSense’s Haptic Feedback and Adaptive Triggers, I love testing those things out. That’s why I jumped at the opportunity to try Alexa Game Control during my recenthands-on preview experience withDead Island 2. When Dambuster Studios and Deep Silver’sDead Island 2finally launches on April 21, it will be thefirst game to support Alexa Game Control....

The skies over Europe saw a dramatic fireball yesterday as debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket made an uncontrolled re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere and crashed into Poland. According to the European Space Agency, the debris was from a Starlink launch on February 1, with debris from the rocket’s upper stage entering the atmosphere early in the morning on February 19: A Falcon 9 upper stage (#62878), which was launched on 30 May 2025, reentered the atmosphere over Europe at approximately 04:46 CET this morning....

BMW is spending millions of dollars developing electric cars that motorists don’t want to buy, according to the head of its research and development. The German company needs to add battery-powered cars to its portfolio to comply with the draconian emissions regulations coming into effect soon in the early 2020s in key markets, including Europe, but it doesn’t expect electric cars will outsell gasoline-powered models anytime soon. “There is no customer request for battery-electric vehicles....

Going up against the likes of Ford’spopular F-150 pickupand sporting a space-age design that has split opinion, Tesla boss Elon Musk has admitted that the automaker’s Cybertruck could struggle when it hits the market later this year. Responding to a tweet from Tesla Owners Online that predicted that the all-electric Cybertruck will be “a huge hit,” the billionaire entrepreneur said somewhat surprisingly, “To be frank, there is always some chance that Cybertruck will flop, because it is so unlike anything else....

Fortnite is holding an XXXTentacion tribute concert featuring rapper’s biggest songs Fortnite is holding an in-game tribute concert for late rapper XXXTentacion, to celebrate the release of his latest posthumous single featuring Juice WRLD. Music andFortnitego hand in hand, as many of the world’s biggest artists have appeared in the game in one form or another. Marshello kicked off the trend back in 2019, and the likes ofMetallica,Eminem, andSabrina Carpenterhave all featured in the years since....

Similar to E3, Gamescom is an annual event held in Cologne, Germany that celebrates all things video games. Starting on August 20 and running through the 24, several publishers offer visitors an opportunity to try out their latest projects on the showroom floor. Companies like Nintendo, Microsoft, and Google, however, like to kick off the show a day earlier by holding some press conferences of their own, and these are moments that you usually don’t want to miss....

One month ago, I published myMeta Quest Pro review. Unlike some other reviewers, I was delighted by much of what I experienced with this divisive new product. It was exciting to be on the cusp of something brand new in tech. But my time with the product didn’t end once that review went up. As I discovered through living with the tech daily, there are still many misconceptions out there, as well as some early adopter problems that I’ve stumbled upon....

Warning: Contains SPOILERS for House of the Dragon season 2, episode 3. Summary House of the Dragonseason 2, episode 3 brings back Aegon the Conqueror’s A Song of Ice and Fire, and it changes the show’s story once again. Going right back toHouse of the Dragon’s season 1 premiere,Aegon’s dream of the White Walkerswas a major addition to Game of Thrones lore, changing the entire purpose of House Targaryen being in Westeros....