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Resident Evil legend Shinji Mikami’s new studio, Unbound Inc., has been acquired by Shift Up, the company behind Stellar Blade and Goddess of Victory: Nikke. Unbound’s unannounced games will be fully supported and distributed by South Korean publisher Shift Up, which is led by CEO Hyung-Tae Kim.Mikami is an icon of Japanese horror as the director of Resident Evil, its 2002 remake and Resident Evil 4, as well as a founder of PlatinumGames and Tango Gameworks. Tango was responsible for The Evil Within series, Ghostwire Tokyo and Hi-Fi Rush. Shift Up recently developed the hit action game Stellar Blade, with…

NASA’s Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft and the launch gantry at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 31, 2026. NASA/Keegan BarberFifty-four years after the last Apollo mission to the moon, NASA’s Artemis II mission is set to return. The Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft is scheduled to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday afternoon. The four-person crew, made up of American and Canadian astronauts, will be 250,000 miles from Earth at its farthest point in the journey to orbit the moon. This is everything you…

Evercade has revealed a new gaming handheld, the NexusIt offers dual thumbsticks and a 5.89 inch screenIt comes bundled with two Banjo-Kazooie games adapted specifically for the deviceRetro handheld maker Evercade has announced a brand new product, and it looks like the PlayStation Portable successor I’ve been waiting for.Dubbed the Evercade Nexus, this handheld console has been carefully designed with the feedback from the company’s previous releases in mind. It’s a little device with dual thumbsticks that makes it look a lot like the PlayStation Vita at first glance.A dive into the spec sheet reveals that it’s got a slightly…

The move, recently proposed by influential researcher Scott Aaronson, is a complete turnaround from the strict 90-day disclosure policies Google’s Project Zero pioneered two decades ago and an accepted norm that has driven security research for even longer. Other researchers are already criticizing the lack of details. “I think it’s alarmist to claim an immediate security risk from an algorithm that requires a computer that doesn’t exist,” Matt Green, a professor at Johns Hopkins University who studies cryptography, said. “Given that the stakes here are so low (for the same reason) I’d classify it as less harmful, and more on…

Two pieces of good gaming news today. First: Dinosaur Polo Club has shadow dropped a brand new game today. Second, it’s available for free on both PC and Mac from Itch.io. The project is called Read the F*cking Manual, or RTFM, and it is a co-op game based on working in tech support.Dinosaur Polo Club is known for previous games Mini Metro and Mini Motorways. Both are stellar examples of simple, elegant game design, and a small group within the company took this game jam concept from passion project to a fully fledged release.Per the description, “Players must work together…

Gardens, poetry and kinship await you this spring. CNETAs a self-defined plant nerd, I read and write about plants whenever I can. I’m embarking on a new plant book project and recently picked up three books for “research.” Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer, an Indigenous writer, scientist and naturalist, wowed me with her book Braiding Sweetgrass, so I dove into her previous works, including this one. As luck would have it, it’s also on sale: down to $12 from the usual $19 retail price. I’m also sinking my teeth into Jared Farmer’s Elderflora: A…

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Oakcastle MP300: Two-minute reviewOkay, I’ll fess up: this Oakcastle MP300 review wasn’t meant to take a month. I thought this super-cheap MP3 player would be a quick in-and-out style of review where I’d listen to a few tunes and take it on a trip, but it ended up being a really useful addition to my audio set-up. Good for it, not so good for my deadlines.This is the kind…

Are you feeling a little anxious? That’s likely because today, March 31, is World Backup Day. It was first established in 2011 as a made-up day to raise awareness of data backups and the growing role of digital information in daily life. If you wonder who made it up, nobody knows for sure since it was from a Reddit group, but the day also helps storage vendors sell products. So, go figure! And here’s the list of excellent storage deals you can get today! In all seriousness, keeping backups is crucial. Today is one of those special days we should…

Your game collection says a lot about you. With a cute new game, you can also give your collection a space that’s just as personalized. BOXROOM is a building sim where the whole purpose is creating a space to show off your game library. You can select furniture, paint and lighting, then you choose games from your Steam library to display on your virtual shelves. Titles appear in game boxes, giving it a throwback feel to the days where a game collection had to be physical. Once complete, the room serves as a launcher, allowing you to boot up a…

Google’s live translation, a major selling point for newer Apple AirPods, is now available on Apple devices and can be used with any headphones.The feature, which uses Gemini AI, was introduced in a beta version in December with the ability to translate 70 languages, but it was only available on Android devices. The continued rollout is also making the feature available in more countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Thailand and the UK, according to Google.A representative for Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The translation is done on the mobile device, so users can access…