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That’s growth of 12 percent year-over-year, according to the company’s third quarter earnings. Monthly active users are up, too, reaching 640 million.

I’ve got a whole series of these hands-on gadget videos — find more on my Threads — but with the PS5 Pro, it’s only now I’ve been able to make one! At Sony’s preview event, journalists couldn’t touch the final hardware so I focused on what it’s like to play; at review time, my video tried to show off the graphics.

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Disney is searching for potential CEO candidates outside of the company, and one person being considered is EA CEO Andrew Wilson, Variety and The Wall Street Journal report. The company plans to announce Bob Iger’s successor in early 2026.

I really didn’t like the slow opening hours of the Chrono Trigger-inspired RPG when I reviewed it last year, but the new “Dawn of Equinox” update adds a “revamped prologue” that includes action upfront.

The update also adds local co-op, combat tweaks, and a lot more. Seems like a great time to jump into the game ahead of next spring’s Throes of the Watchmaker DLC.

The latest version of the app now includes support for CarPlay and Siri, alongside “stability and performance enhancements” according to Apple.

It’s more surprising that this wasn’t already available. MacRumors notes that CarPlay support also briefly appeared in January before mysteriously vanishing just hours later. I’m glad they brought it Bach.

In August, the longtime Capcom director announced that he was leaving the company after more than three decades and a number of hits, including Devil May Cry and Dragon’s Dogma. Now we know where he’s headed: Tencent’s Lightspeed Studios is opening a Japanese branch, where Itsuno will focus on “original AAA action game titles.” Which is exactly what he’s good at.

Nintendo has added 30 Wii Sports tracks to its Music service. Eurogamer reports that it amounts to 18 minutes in total, including the title theme, main menu tune, and the various melodies that play during tennis, baseball, bowling, golf, and boxing modes. Nintendo launched its music streaming app for Switch Online subscribers last month, and it’s slowly adding to the library to make it a comprehensive collection of Nintendo’s musical history.

Nintendo is about to make yet-another non-Switch 2 announcement, this time showing off the Donkey Kong Country expansion for Super Nintendo World in Osaka. Don’t expect many surprises, though, as the company says “no game information will be featured.” You can watch along with the embed below at 5PM ET.

It’d be nice to know a little bit more about the film, but for now, A24 just wants you to know that it has greenlit Bushido, a new project from Hiro Murai (Atlanta, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Widow’s Bay). The studio is describing it as “a high-stakes action film set against the backdrop of feudal Japan.”

The team at Aftermath, a worker-owned publication covering video games and more, is reflecting back on their first year of existence, and I really recommend you read their post about what they’ve learned. It’s not all as dire as that quote I just pulled out — there’s a lot that’s inspiring, too.

Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis was, let’s say, controversial when it hit theaters at the end of September. But if you want to see what all of the fuss is about from the comfort of your home, the film will be available to rent via premium on-demands services starting November 12th.

Last year’s Fortnite OG event has attracted a new round of free-to-play copycats.

Apex Legends responded to revenue that EA execs said “fell short of expectations” with a “Launch Royale” revisiting the original map and characters until November 19th.

And now, Blizzard announced Overwatch Classic is coming tomorrow with 6v6, no-limits gameplay like Overwatch had at its very beginning.

Yes, please. That’s just one of many promising runs at the next Awesome Games Done Quick, which is happening from January 5th to 12th. The full schedule is now live, which also features a run of Crazy Taxi with a live band. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Everything about this trailer is geared toward me specifically: the iconic “It’s in the game!” catchphrase, the debates over player ratings, the fact that Madden really has been the same damn game for like 10 years. This doc drops right around Thanksgiving, and even promises to share what’s coming next year. Which I will buy. And be bad at. Just like every year.

Between being paid a pittance for creating Squid Game and losing multiple teeth from stress during the first season’s production, it would be understandable if Hwang Dong-hyuk had walked away from his hit franchise.

But in a new interview with The BBC, he explains that the streamer’s choice to finally push some serious cash his way is what brought him back for season 2.

HBO’s It prequel series Welcome to Derry still doesn’t have a concrete release date. But the network’s new 2025 sizzle reel features a fresh look at Pennywise (in human disguise) as well as a whole bunch of footage from Creature Commandos, The Chair Company, Dune: Prophecy, and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

While interviewing Switched on Pop’s Charlie Harding on this episode of The Vergecast, David Pierce speculates that voice memo demos will become a distinct genre because people just want “lots of different experiences of this same kind of thing.”

And why not? As a songwriter, I’ve always been impressed with how good smartphone voice memos can sound, and who doesn’t have a strong opinion about at least one early demo from their favorite band?