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Ubisoft is not afraid of the upcoming launch of GTA 6 in 2025. CEO Yves Guillemot said when a game on the size and scale of GTA releases, it can help bring people back to gaming. And more people in the market means more money spent across not just GTA 6 but other games, too. "What we've seen in the past is each time there is a big release like GTA, there are more and more people coming back to the industry and that helps other games to sell as well," he said during Ubisoft's latest earnings...

A rendering of the PACE spacecraft as seen from afar. | Image: NASA Who knew you could see plankton from space? NASA, of course. The space agency successfully launched a new mission today called PACE — short for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite — that will study its namesake. It’ll examine microscopic plants and particles — things so small they’re invisible to the naked eye — from hundreds of miles above Earth. The goal is to better understand how such teeny tiny...

Image: Cory Hendrixson (YouTube) Windows 11 will soon have a built-in sudo command designed for developers. Sudo, short for “superuser do,” is widely used on Unix-based operating systems like Linux and macOS to run programs with higher security privileges or as another user. It’s useful for developers wanting to test scripts, for example. Microsoft is using sudo inside Windows to let developers run elevated tools directly from an unelevated console session. “It is an ergonomic and familiar...

Lego Fortnite. | Image: Epic Games In 2021, Facebook’s parent company got a new name and a new goal. “Over time, I hope we are seen as a metaverse company,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the time. He later called the metaverse “the successor to the mobile internet” and noted that the concept would be so big that it was too much for any one company to take on, spanning an entire industry. That hasn’t happened yet. Even Meta employees barely use the company’s flagship metaverse app, Horizon...

You can use the $50 to add the wireless charging functionality these earbuds should have shipped with. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge There are no better earbuds for muting the world than the Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds, which remain our pick for the best noise-canceling earbuds. While there aren’t enough meaningful changes for QuietComfort Earbuds II owners to upgrade, the $249 price ($50 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Bose makes them easier to recommend for newcomers or those...

Media Molecules ended support for Dreams in September 2023, essentially ending the PS4 game while the studio began focusing on its next project. Dreams never saw a native PS5 release--although it is playable via backwards compatibility--and the game was never ported to PC, platforms where its audience could have potentially grown. Several months later, reports began circulating that PS5 and PC ports were in development and that these versions of Dreams were nearing completion, but these...

For a limited time, you can pick up almost every Mega Man game available on PC in a single collection at Humble Bundle. Humble's Mega Man Franchise Pack features 25 Mega Man titles spanning the Blue Bomber's near-40-year legacy, including the entire mainline series, the popular Mega Man X spin-off series, and the GBA and Nintendo DS Mega Man games. See at Humble The Humble Mega Man Franchise pack comes in three versions, starting at a $2 tier that includes the Mega Man Legacy Collection 1...

Season 2 of Call of Duty: Warzone is live, returning the popular Fortune's Keep map to battle royale. Similar to the Vanguard-era version of the map, there's a new vault Easter egg to complete, and here's how you can unlock it. How to complete the throne vault Easter egg You'll want to head to the map's Keep point of interest, which is the main part of the castle. Head into the courtyard and enter the large throne room, and you'll see a wall-mounted torch on each side of the throne...

After an hour or so in Skull and Bones, you'll arrive in Sainte-Anne and get the chance to build your first ship. While your tiny raft with a sail can get where you need to go, you need a proper ship if you want to fully experience what Skull and Bones has to offer. Before you can christen your new ship, though, the Shipwright at Sainte-Anne needs you to gather some supplies. One of those supplies is a resource called Acacia, and it's tricky to obtain. To see how you can acquire Acacia and...

Atlus has revealed that Persona 3 Reload is its fastest-selling game to hit one million units. The game launched on February 2 and has already hit a big milestone within its first week on the market. Over in Japan, Persona 3 Reload took the top spot in terms of its release week, selling 116,392 physical copies across PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. The Persona series has been becoming increasingly popular over the years due to the success of Persona 5, as well as its gradual shift to other...