like Demons Souls or the latest Final Fantasy installment. Even if youre a seasoned gamer, sometimes you just need a little inspiration to dive back into the console and discover new worlds. Whether youre after complex game modes that push your skills or just want a taste of that next-gen power, these PS5 games will give you plenty of reasons to keep your controller close. So, if youre ready for the ultimate adventure (or maybe just an excuse to escape for a while), weve got some suggestions that will keep the boredom at bay. Read more: The best SSDs for PS5 Best PS5 games for 2025 Check out our entire Best Games series including the best Nintendo Switch games , the best PS5 games , the best Xbox games , the best PC games and the best free games you can play today. This article originally appeared on Engadget at ...

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actually be useful, the apps themselves have to be rated correctly. In a joint report from the Heat Initiative and ParentsTogether Action, it seems that the ratings aren't doing enough. Continue Reading on AppleInsider Discuss on our Forums

girlfriend apps, gaming apps with sexual or violent prompts and imagery, and AI-powered appearance rating apps. Engadget has reached out to Apple for comment and will update this story upon hearing back. The research focused on apps with assigned age ratings of 4+, 9+ and 12+ in categories considered to be risky: chat (including AI and stranger chat apps), beauty, diet and weight loss, unfiltered internet access (apps for accessing schools banned sites) and gaming. Among the findings, the report says at least 24 sexual games and 9 stranger chat apps were marked as appropriate for kids in these age groups. The research also identified 40 apps for unfiltered internet access and 75 apps relating to beauty, body image and weight loss carrying these age ratings, along with 28 shooter and crime games. Collectively, the roughly 200 offending apps spotted during the 24-hour investigation have been downloaded over 550 million times, according to Heat Initiative. About 800 apps were reviewed in all, and the research found that some categories were more likely than others to carry apps with inappropriately low age ratings. For stranger chat apps and games, fewer were rated as appropriate for children, the report says. In most cases, they were 17+. But in the categories of weight loss and unfiltered internet access, nearly all apps reviewed were approved for kids 4+. The report calls on Apple to do better when it comes to child safety measures on the App Store, urging the company to use third-party reviewers to verify apps age ratings before they become available to download, and to make its age rating process transparent to consumers. You can read the full report, Rotten Ratings: 24 Hours in Apples App Store, here . This article originally appeared on Engadget at ......

only place Apple is adding natural language search with iOS 18, in addition to Photos, Music, and Apple TV. While some others had seen a splash screen in October, I???d only spotted the same simple search prompts as before. When I asked around at The Verge , several others hadn???t seen it before, although closing the app and relaunching it caused the message to appear in at least one case, and a few social media posts have popped up from other people noticing it for the first time. The prompt in the hint bubble suggested trying something like ???Apps that help me work out,??? so of course, I gave it a try. Screenshot: iOS App Store How well does it work? When I searched ???emulators that feature multiple consoles,??? the top result was the multi-console Delta app. Cool. ???Apps that only emulate single consoles??? gave me the PS Remote Play, PlayStation, and Xbox apps ??? less good, but it did follow those with Gamma, a PS1 emulator app. And when I asked for ???Video games that can help me work out,??? well... Screenshot: iOS App Store This isn???t exactly what I was looking for, but I certainly would never have found this otherwise. Overall, it seems like an improvement to me. Twerk Race 3D is not an app that would help me work out, but it does seem like the search engine worked in spirit. I never felt like the App Store???s search was helpful for anything besides finding an app I already knew the name of. Plus, searching with the usual one-or-two-word terms might not give me the same variety as switching up how I phrase a natural language prompt.

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Telefonica's networks extra perks over the next year or so. Telefonica has more than 392 million customers. As such, this deal could bring Fortnite and Fall Guys to an even bigger audience. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

NVIDIA's DLSS upscaling tech. A Reddit AMA with producer and director Yoshinori Kitase and Naoki Hamaguchi is set for December 13 at 9PM ET, so we may find out more details about the PC version then. The Game Awards was a fitting stage to reveal the PC release date, as Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is one of the ceremony's game of the year nominees. It scored seven nominations overall , the joint most alongside Astro Bot . Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is coming to PC! Just announced at #TheGameAwards , the second entry in the Final Fantasy VII remake project launches on Steam and Epic Games Store on January 23rd. Save up to 30% when pre-orders become available later today. #FF7R pic.twitter.com/S5YkQgy7Ei FINAL FANTASY VII (@finalfantasyvii) December 13, 2024 This article originally appeared on Engadget at ...6.html?src=rss

networks extra perks over the next year or so. Telefnica has more than 392 million customers. As such, this deal could bring Fortnite and Fall Guys to an even bigger audience. Epic debuted its mobile games store a few months ago after years of wrangling with Apple and Google over the duo's purported smartphone and tablet duopoly and having to give the companies a share of revenue from in-app purchases. Among other things, Epic accused Google of blocking OnePlus from offering users a way to install Fortnite without having to go through the Google Play store. However, Epic has had mixed results in its legal battles with Apple and Google. It won an antitrust case against the latter, with a judge determining last year that Google had an illegal monopoly on app distribution and in-app billing on Android devices. The judge also ruled that Google's distribution deals with other games companies were anticompetitive. But it largely lost a similar case against Apple . The Epic Games Store mobile app is available on iOS in the European Union (where Apple was forced to open up iOS to third-party app marketplaces) and around the world on Android. Epic also plans to bring it to iOS devices in the UK in the second half of 2025. This article originally appeared on Engadget at ...ones-175158241.html?src=rss

the lives of users and have a profound impact on their communities," said CEO Tim Cook . "The remarkable achievements of this year's winners demonstrate the incredible ingenuity that can be unlocked through apps." Continue Reading on AppleInsider Discuss on our Forums

quick. It's only been available on iOS through Apple Arcade or as a standalone purchase since September. It's also available on all other platforms, including the PC and Nintendo Switch. If you're the rare person out there who prefers physical games to digital ones (a stance I can sometimes relate to) then you'll be happy to know a $16 Balatro playing card deck is currently available for preorder on Fangamer . However, it won't ship until March 2025 so it might be worth first checking out the game digitally. Other games awarded in Apple's App Store awards include AFK Journey , Thank Goodness You're Here! and Squad Busters . Apple also announced six apps that are recognized for their Cultural Impact. Winners in this category included Oko , an AI-powered navigation app for people who are blind or low-vision that offers information such as what's happening at an intersection and turn-by-turn directions. This article originally appeared on Engadget at ...40030994.html?src=rss

said in a release. "We're just getting started testing out new features for YouTube Playables with more to come in the future." Right now, multiplayer is available on two games, Ludo Club and Magic Tiles 3, on both desktop and mobile devices. YouTube first announced Playables in September 2023 and it was originally available to select participants before expanding to all Premium subscribers. In May, it announced that the platform would be available to all YouTube users. It's available games range from action and sports to trivia and puzzles. This article originally appeared on Engadget at ...ml?src=rss

"Our teams are looking forward to deepening our connections with customers," he continued, "and to bringing the best of Apple to help people across this country explore their passions, build their businesses, and take their ideas to the next level." Continue Reading on AppleInsider Discuss on our Forums

nine core Star Wars films. The game has that trademark Lego brand of silly humor with clever (and often very funny) riffs on famous moments from the movies. As you might imagine, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is packed with Easter eggs. It looks terrific too. There are a lot of reasons why this was one of my favorite games of 2022. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is not perfect, though. Reports that developers at TT Games were pushed to work long hours to finish the game cast a dark shadow over it. In addition, the collectathon aspects may start to feel like a slog if you plan to reach 100 percent completion. Still, there's potentially dozens of hours of family fun here, and you'll be able to hop in gratis. There's one other free title on the Epic Games Store this week in the form of Bus Simulator 21 Next Stop . I hope that's also a fun game for people who check it out, but I'll never know myself! This article originally appeared on Engadget at ...e-160712375.html?src=rss

Gate: Enhanced Edition (GOG code) Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition (GOG code) Necromunda: Hired Gun (Epic Games Store) Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition (GOG code) The Outer Worlds (GOG code) Space Hulk: Deathwing - Enhanced Edition (Amazon Games App) Spelunky (GOG code) Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (Amazon Games App) Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (Amazon Games App) And if that wasn't enough free stuff, a code for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II in the Amazon Games App will also drop on December 12. Those Prime Gaming members using the Amazon Luna streaming service will also see the addition of Mega Man 11 . The final facet of this announcement is some steep discounts on retail purchases of games through Amazon's platform. Most notably in this batch is up to 65 percent off God of War: Ragnarok for the PlayStation 5 and up to 80 percent off the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut . These titles are all in addition to the previously announced free games lineup Prime Gaming members can add to their collections this month. This article originally appeared on Engadget at ...eries-150033246.html?src=rss

ongoing tech support and compatibility updates for some classic games. GOG started it with a list of 100 games, including Diablo and Resident Evil 1-3. Warcraft I and Warcraft II are being delisted from GOG ??????at the publisher??????s request,?????? the company says. Their publisher,... Continue reading???

narrative-heavy adventure game is a prequel to the TV show that ran for a few extra seasons on Prime Video after Syfy canceled it. Along with those two and the mainstays of Fortnite, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, Fallout New Vegas: Ultimate Edition, Trackmania and XDefiant , Prime members can play a bunch of other games on Luna this month. Those are The Jackbox Naughty Pack, Endling Extinction is Forever, DisneyPixar Cars, El Hijo, DisneyPixar Wall-E, Split/Second, Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader, Chicken Police Paint it RED!, Spitlings and Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure. Of course, you can claim a whole host of PC games at no extra cost too. There are some great games in the mix, such as the excellent Overcooked 2 (the ultimate relationship test, in my eyes) and the compelling puzzle platformer Planet of Lana . Also available will be the likes of Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, Tomb Raider: Underworld, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, Dredge , Quake II and Predator: Hunting Grounds. Once you claim these games, they're yours to keep forever, even if you cancel your Prime membership. Here's what you can snap up and when, along with the launcher you can play each game on: December 2 Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (GOG) Tomb Raider: Underworld (GOG) Overcooked! 2 (GOG) Call of Juarez: Gunslinger (GOG) Dredge (GOG) December 5 Quake II (GOG) DisneyPixar Wall E (Amazon Games App) December 12 Planet of Lana (GOG) Heros Hour (GOG) The Coma: Recut (GOG) Electrician Simulator (Epic Games Store) ReDrawn: The Painted Tower Collectors Edition (Amazon Games App) December 19 Nine Witches: Family Disruption (Amazon Games App) Predator: Hunting Grounds (Epic Games Store) Aces of the Luftwaffe Squadron Extended Edition (Amazon Games App) Simulakros (Amazon Games App) Christmas Fables: The Magic Snowflake Collectors Edition (Legacy Games Code) December 26 The Town of Light (GOG) That December 26 lineup looks suspiciously light, so there's a chance that Amazon will reveal more additions to the lineup as a holiday treat. In the meantime, if you act quickly, you can still snap up many of the previously added offerings , including Overcooked: Gourmet Edition, Super Meat Boy, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Mafia: Definitive Edition and BioShock: Remastered. This article originally appeared on Engadget at ...-month-183907865.html?src=rss

should give you ample space at least until you start filling it up with all of the huge Call of Duty games that have started hitting Game Pass . Let's face it, proprietary storage stinks, but the choice for Series X/S owners looking for more space is largely between Seagate's Storage Expansion Card and WD's Black C50. It's possible to store Series X/S games on a regular external drive, but you'll need to move them to internal storage or an expansion card anyway to actually play them. If you don't want to deal with shifting large files around and waiting for transfers to complete, or you don't want to delete and download games more than is necessary, an expansion card is the way to go. Check out all of the latest Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals here. This article originally appeared on Engadget at ...0119160.html?src=rss

remaining protestors that they were now trespassing. Protest at the Apple store in U Village, the store has now shut down on Black Friday and protestors say they've been trespassed and told if they don't leave they will be arrested @komonews pic.twitter.com/ZcgRTlpzjx ??? Lynnanne Nguyen (@LynnanneNguyen) November 29, 2024 Continue Reading on AppleInsider Discuss on our Forums

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46 percent off the regular price. Seagate's version is one of our picks for the best Xbox Series X/S accessories . The 2TB version should give you ample space at least until you start filling it up with all of the huge Call of Duty games that have started hitting Game Pass . Let's face it, proprietary storage stinks, but the choice for Series X/S owners looking for more space is largely between Seagate's Storage Expansion Card and WD's Black C50. It's possible to store Series X/S games on a regular external drive, but you'll need to move them to internal storage or an expansion card anyway to actually play them. If you don't want to deal with shifting large files around and waiting for transfers to complete, or you don't want to delete and download games more than is necessary, an expansion card is the way to go. Check out all of the latest Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals here. This article originally appeared on Engadget at ...0119041.html?src=rss

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46 percent off the regular price. Let's face it, proprietary storage stinks, but the choice for Series X/S owners looking for more space is largely between Seagate's Storage Expansion Card and WD's Black C50. It's possible to store Series X/S games on a regular external drive, but you'll need to move them to internal storage or an expansion card anyway to actually play them. If you don't want to deal with shifting large files around and waiting for transfers to complete, or you don't want to delete and download games more than is necessary, an expansion card is the way to go. Seagate's version is one of our picks for the best Xbox Series X/S accessories . The 2TB version should give you ample space at least until you start filling it up with all of the huge Call of Duty games that have started hitting Game Pass . Check out all of the latest Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals here. This article originally appeared on Engadget at ...tml?src=rss