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There’s no denying that retro horror aesthetics are incredibly popular in the videogame sphere at the moment. You only have to look at the success of hits like Crow Country and Signalis, as well as the interest in the upcoming Holstin. But there’s another new game on the scene, Pulsebreaker, that’s worth keeping an eye on.
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You might well be knee-deep in Mario Kart World at the moment, but if you’re keen to try out a track that’s currently unplayable on any mainline MK title, then you might want to get Mario Kart Tour downloaded pronto.
From 9th July 2025 (today!) until 22nd July, the Pipe Tour is back for its second rerun following its introduction in 2023 and first rerun in 2024. So why is this such a big deal? Well, it’s the only place you can experience Piranha Plant Pipeline, a track specially created for Mario Kart Tour that can’t be played elsewhere.
Read the full article on nintendolife.com
The day the ActiBlizz takeover was essentially secured.
Two years ago, we were spending so much time covering the Activision Blizzard acquisition here at Pure Xbox. It felt like something new was happening every day with it, especially when it started to be opposed from various angles.
The FTC was the big one. In the US, the Federal Trade Commission confirmed it would be looking into Xbox’s takeover of the company back in February of 2022, but it wasn’t until December that the FTC filed a lawsuit to try and block it – a decision that caused all sorts of turbulence at Microsoft and Activision Blizzard.
Read the full article on purexbox.com
Apple is in active talks to acquire the rights to broadcast the sport of Formula 1 on its own streaming service platform, through the Apple TV app, according to a new report from the Financial Times. The league’s current deal with ESPN expires at the end of this year.
If a deal materializes, Apple would stream Formula 1 in the US starting with the 2026 season. However, Apple is not believed to be the only bidder and exact nature of the company’s proposal is currently unknown.
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Dungeon Stalkers, the free-to-play PvEvP dungeon crawler from developer ONEUNIVERSE, is getting a PS5 version in addition to the previously-confirmed PC release, which launches in Early Access on August 13, 2025.
The PS5 edition of the game is in the early stages of development, and as such there’s no release date available yet. Studio HG were the original developers behind Dungeon Stalkers, but the “entire development studio” has since transitioned to ONEUNIVERSE, meaning the game is still in the care of “the exact same development team.”
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Dungeon Stalkers marries classic dungeon crawling RPG antics with intense, moment-to-moment extraction-based gameplay. Players descend into the Witch’s cursed dungeon with their selected Stalker (each one featuring unique skills and personality), teaming up with up to three companions or solo, battling against corrupted monsters,
In the past week or so, Umamusume: Pretty Derby has taken the world by storm – but if you haven’t already been sucked into it, it’s difficult to understand exactly why. Umamusume has actually been around for a while: although it just became playable in the US last month, it was originally released as a Japan exclusive way back in 2021. Since then, it’s gotten multiple anime and manga animations, a Kentucky Derby sponsorship, » Read More
For all their impressive capabilities, large language models (LLMs) often fall short when given challenging new tasks that require complex reasoning skills.
While an accounting firm’s LLM might excel at summarizing financial reports, that same model could fail unexpectedly if tasked with predicting market trends or identifying fraudulent transactions.
To make LLMs more adaptable, MIT researchers investigated how a certain training technique can be strategically deployed to boost a model’s performance on unfamiliar, difficult problems.
They show that test-time training, a method that involves temporarily updating some of a model’s inner workings during deployment, can lead to a sixfold improvement in accuracy. The researchers developed a framework for implementing a test-time training strategy that uses examples of the new task to maximize these gains.
Their work could improve a model’s flexibility, enabling an off-the-shelf LLM to adapt to complex tasks that require planning or abstraction.
The days of buying headphones and getting a static feature set are long gone. Since the launch of AirPods Pro 2 in particular, Apple has consistently upgraded AirPods products with new features via firmware. In iOS 26, there are five more new features coming—but more than half are exclusive to AirPods with an H2 chip.
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It looks as though AMD is prepping a new budget gaming GPU that will be cheaper than $299, undercutting the existing Radeon RX 9060 XT. The new AMD Radeon RX 9060, without an XT suffix, has just appeared in the release notes for the latest version of AIDA64, a diagnostics and monitoring software package for PC hardware, suggesting that AMD is planning a new release to counter the recently announced Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050.
While the Radeon RX 9060 XT is now the top recommendation for a budget gaming GPU on our guide to buying the best graphics card, » Read More
A strange situation.
We’ve seen an increasing number of people asking about the status of Xbox Design Lab over the past few weeks, and that’s no surprise considering the service has been mostly unavailable for the past six months.
For those who aren’t aware, Xbox Design Lab allows you to create your very own custom Xbox controller, but this part of the service has been “temporarily on hold” since January while Xbox switches to a new payment platform.
Read the full article on purexbox.com