Gaming

The Redmagic 10 Pro Plus is Nubia’s latest gaming phone and it comes with a massive 7,050mAh battery. There’s also a “liquid metal” cooling system, a built-in fan, and of course, lots of customizable gamer lights. Kind of a spectacle. It’s launching in China first with a global release slated for December.

The slow, but steady addition of women’s sports in video games continues. This time it’s NHL 25, which is getting a series of updates over the holidays. November 15th’s will introduce a 3-on-3 arcade mode, while on December 5th all six PWHL teams will be added. It’s right on time: the second PWHL season kicks off at the end of November.

Firewalk Studios’ Concord may no longer be with us, but the game is still going to have another (short) moment in the sun when Amazon’s Secret Level anthology series premieres on December 10th.

Phil Spencer has been dropping hints about a portable Xbox for some time now. But in a new interview with Bloomberg, he cautioned that, while the company is working on prototypes, the release of an actual handheld is still a few years out.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

But that’s exactly what streamer EveryGameGuru is doing according Nintendo’s lawsuit against him. The suit alleges that EveryGameGuru streamed pirated Switch games, sometimes before their official release. And when Nintendo issued takedown notices for his channels, he’d create more, going as far as sending an email to the company saying he has thousands of burner channels and that he, “could do this all day.”

Ayaneo has revealed some specs for its next Windows handheld. The Ayaneo 3 will be available with either a seven-inch LCD or OLED HDR display, and an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 or Ryzen 7 8840U processor. The handheld will introduce an extra set of buttons on the back, plus lock switches to reduce the travel of its triggers for FPS players.