Sony showed off a lot of PlayStation games during its latest State of Play event, including more details about the remastered version of Death Stranding and an extended gameplay preview of PS5 exclusive Deathloop. We’ve rounded up some information about seven of the biggest games from the event. And if you want to watch the State of Play in full, …
Apple’s upcoming 9/11 documentary focuses on the 12 hours after the attacks, Ian Carlos Campbell
Apple announced Thursday that it will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with the release of a new documentary in September. 9/11: The President’s War Room, released in partnership with the BBC, will focus on the 12 hours that followed immediately after the first plane hit the World Trade Center. The new film is directed by Adam Wishart, …
Death Stranding: Director’s Cut has new story missions and improved combat, Andrew Webster
Last month, Hideo Kojima revealed that a director’s cut of Death Stranding for the PS5 was on the way — and now we actually have some details on what it will include. Like the Ghost of Tsushima director’s cut, the new version of Death Stranding appears to be more of an enhanced remake than a traditional director’s cut. Among the …
Jett: The Far Shore shows off soaring sci-fi exploration in new gameplay trailer, Chaim Gartenberg
Jett: The Far Shore is finally showing off what its gameplay looks like in a new trailer, which promises a serene sci-fi experience that will have players exploring its world in a soaring spacecraft. The gameplay itself bears some resemblance to No Man’s Sky, but with a crucial difference: Jett: The Far Shore aims to “tread lightly,” eschewing combat and …
Black Widow’s post-credit scene is Marvel’s biggest Disney Plus push yet, Chaim Gartenberg
Marvel Studios is practically synonymous with post-credit scenes, so it’s no surprise that Black Widow — the MCU’s first movie in almost two years — continues that tradition. Going all the way back to 2008’s Iron Man (teasing Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury and “the Avengers Initiative,”) the post- and mid-credit tags have been used to set the table for …
Star cluster overrun with black holes may dissolve into space, study finds, ,
A cluster composed of thousands of stars may dissolve to become a mob of dozens of black holes in a billion years, a new study finds. This dark fate may arise from the actions of a few black holes that may currently lie within that cluster of stars, and the finding may shed light on the future of dozens of …
Qualcomm’s $1,500 smartphone is for its biggest fans with more money than sense, Chaim Gartenberg
Qualcomm — the company behind the Snapdragon processors and modems that power almost every major Android smartphone — is making its own phone. Or rather, the company is partnering with Asus on a custom device officially called the “Smartphone for Snapdragon Insiders,” a $1,500 phone that’s designed to showcase the chip company’s technology. And, as the name suggests, Qualcomm will …
China’s Chang’e 5 moon landing site finally has a name, ,
The landing site for China’s complex Chang’e 5 moon sample and return mission now has a name: Statio Tianchuan. Statio means a post or station in Latin and is also used in the formal name for NASA’s Apollo 11 landing site, Statio Tranquillitatis; and Statio Tianhe, China’s Chang’e 4 landing site on the far side of the moon. Tianchuan comes …
Sony posts and deletes ad featuring an upside-down PS5, Jay Peters
The PS5 is a strange-looking console, and its curved edges can make it difficult to know exactly which way the console should sit when it’s laid down flat. In the significant majority of Sony’s marketing, when the console is shown on its side, the disc drive is on the bottom. But rather hilariously, it seems that even Sony can get …
Facebook’s ‘big blue app’ leader, Fidji Simo, is leaving to take over Instacart, Richard Lawler
The online grocery startup Instacart just announced its new CEO will take over on August 2nd. Fidji Simo has been in charge of Facebook’s “big blue app” since 2019, putting her in charge of “News Feed, Stories, Groups, Video, Marketplace, Gaming, News, Dating and Ads,” but now, like a number of former Facebook execs recently, she’s headed to Instacart ahead …