Month: December 2024
Now you can visit Roku City in 1080p
Roku City, the purple-tinted cityscape screensaver that debuted in 2018, might look a little sharper and more detailed the next time you see it scrolling by. This week, Roku is increasing the screensaver’s resolution to 1080p; it was still stuck at 720p until now — despite running on millions of…
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You can now buy a new car on Amazon – as long as it’s a Hyundai
You can now buy new vehicles and trade-in old ones via Amazon Autos It’s initially available in 48 cities across the US More automotive brands are set to join the platform next year The world’s leading online shopping marketplace announced that it was teaming up with Hyundai to start selling…
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Feltopia is a side-scrolling shoot ’em up animated in felt
There’s been a bit of a resurgence of stop-motion games in recent years. For one thing, The Spirit of the Samurai is set to arrive on Thursday and it looks pretty compelling (you can play as a cat in some sections!). During the Day of the Devs showcase, we got…
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Incolatus: Don’t Stop, Girlypop! may be the Y2K fever dream arena shooter you never knew you needed
What would it look like if you took the fast-paced arena shooter stylings of Doom Eternal and flipped the gory, grimdark aesthetics upside down? You might end up with something like Incolatus: Don't Stop, Girlypop!. It's a "Y2K girly-pop arena-style movement shooter where standing still is not an option," as…
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Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are down
A bunch of Meta apps are down right now. For many staffers at The Verge, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads aren’t loading right now and are showing error messages when you try to load them. Reports across Bluesky, X, and Reddit show that many people see the same thing. On Facebook,…
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That’s my weekend sorted –Resident Evil 2 arrives early on iPhone, iPad and Mac with a huge discount
The Resident Evil 2 remake arrives on Apple platforms three weeks early It’s available from the official App Store for Mac, iPhone and iPad It’s the latest top-tier game to have launched on Apple devices There’s an early Christmas present for iOS and Mac gamers in the form of the…
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