The Tetris: My Play Watch may look like an Apple Watch, but it eschews most of the functionality you’ll typically find on a smartwatch to focus on two things: playing Tetris and celebrating the game through a UI that’s thoroughly Tetris-themed. It’s very good at making you want to play Alexey Pajitnov’s iconic tetromino-stacking puzzler, … Read more
If you’re not already seeing it, this is how the redesigned watch page is laid out. The YouTube watch screen has been given a new look on TVs. The redesign aims to provide a “more intuitive experience with easier navigation,” according to YouTube’s announcement, relocating the video title and several controls, and adding a new … Read more
Carlos-Manuel Vesga as Manousos. The theme of this week is isolation. That’s always been a part of what makes Pluribus so unsettling, of course; in the show there are only a handful of human survivors left on Earth, while the rest of the population has turned into an interconnected hive mind, some 7 billion people … Read more
Native Union’s Weighter managing one of up to three cables. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Warning: I’m going to make an attempt to justify a $40 paperweight for cable management. I’m not sure how I ended up in this position, or who hurt me. All I can say is that I’m not … Read more
While Geoff Keighley had already announced that Tomb Raider would be making a Game Awards appearance, the surprise was that instead of one game announcement there’s two. Crystal Dynamics and Amazon Game Studios are releasing two Tomb Raider games back-to-back in 2026 and 2027. First up, coming in 2026 is Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. … Read more
Shortly after appeals court judges ruled against Apple’s contempt appeal in a years-long antitrust dispute against the makers of Fortnite, I got to talk to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney in an interview. According to Sweeney, today’s ruling “completely shuts down” Apple’s App Store rules that allow it to collect “junk fees.” The three-judge Ninth … Read more
Remedy Entertainment is finally showing off the much-anticipated sequel to Control. The new game, dubbed Control Resonant, expands on the original with a new action-RPG framework. It takes place seven years later and shifts the setting from the unsettling Oldest House of the original to a more open Manhattan, while putting players in the role … Read more
The next Star Wars game is coming from the director of Mass Effect and Knights of the Old Republic. Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic was revealed during The Game Awards with a brief trailer that got Geoff Keighley so excited his voice started cracking. Like any announcement trailer, it was brief, featuring a … Read more
President Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick look on as White House artificial intelligence (AI) and crypto czar David Sacks speaks On Thursday evening, with White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks looking over his shoulder, Donald Trump signed an executive order aiming to grab unilateral power over regulating artificial intelligence for the … Read more
The Game Awards are back once again to showcase a metric ton of commercials, provide the gaming public with their monthly dose of Muppets, and validate gamers’ opinions on which title should be named the Game of the Year. I don’t wanna say it’s a foregone conclusion what this year’s GOTY will be — Silksong … Read more
Disney and OpenAI’s new $1 billion partnership feels emblematic of the terrible times we’re living through. In exchange for access to the generative AI firm’s APIs and tools like ChatGPT, the studio plans to let users of OpenAI’s Sora AI video generator create clips featuring hundreds of Disney-owned characters. Sora AI users will be able … Read more
Built-in Gemini AI features in Chrome are now becoming more widely available on the iOS version of Google’s browser, as reported by 9to5Google and Engadget. They’re popping up several months after the features’ rollout on the desktop version started in September. Once the new Gemini features are active on your iPhone or iPad, Chrome users … Read more
At a congressional meeting to vote on the future of kids online safety, the most spirited debate of the day was about a bill that wasn’t even on the agenda and Apple CEO Tim Cook. 18 bills that aim to regulate the internet to protect children are now headed for a vote before the full … Read more
Amazon Prime Video has pulled its AI-powered video recap of Fallout after viewers noticed that it got key parts of the story wrong. The streaming service began testing Video Recaps last month, and now they’re missing from the shows included in the test, including Fallout, The Rig, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Upload, and Bosch. The … Read more
Apple has lost its appeal of a massive district court ruling in its ongoing antitrust dispute with Epic Games. That April ruling from Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said that Apple “willingly” failed to comply with a 2021 order allowing mobile app developers to link to payment options outside of Apple’s, and she barred Apple from … Read more
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill Thursday that will require advertisers to identify if an ad includes AI-generated people. Hochul’s announcement said the bill, S.8420-A/A.8887-B, was the first of its kind in the US, describing it as a “common sense” law that would bring increased transparency and protect consumers. A separate bill also … Read more
Fortnite players on Android devices in the US can once again download the game directly from the Google Play Store, not long after it returned to Apple’s App Store in May. Its return comes five years after it was removed from Google’s app store as Epic Games pushed back against Apple and Google’s app store … Read more
The Google Stadia Controller. December 31st, 2025 is the deadline to save the Google Stadia controller. That’s less than three weeks from today – but there’s never been a better time. Last month, I discovered the controller is finally a first-class citizen in Steam and SteamOS. The Stadia controller was originally designed to connect to … Read more
Hoto’s PixelDrive is $20 off. | Image: Hoto Hoto’s PixelDrive electric screwdriver is designed to make everyday fixes a lot easier, and now it’s seeing its first discount. You can currently buy the sleek electric screwdriver for just $59.99 ($20 off) at Amazon. Hoto PixelDrive Where to Buy: $79.99 $59.99 at Amazon Despite its small … Read more
The Chrome team at Google recently built a new browser. It takes a query or prompt, opens a bunch of related tabs for you, and then builds you a custom app for whatever you’re trying to do. Ask it for travel tips and it’ll build you a planner app; ask it for study help and … Read more
We’ve seen NSFW offerings from Grok and other chatbots, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been teasing adult content within ChatGPT for a while. Now, we have a timeline. Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications, told reporters during a Thursday briefing about GPT-5.2 that she expects “adult mode” to debut within ChatGPT in the first … Read more
Amazon’s Luna cloud gaming service is coming to cable boxes from Comcast and Rogers. The Luna app is already available via web browsers, Fire TV devices, Fire tablets, and many smart TVs from Samsung and LG, and this new expansion will bring the service to “millions” more devices, according to Amazon. Starting Thursday, Luna will … Read more
GPT-5.2 is here, and with it, OpenAI wants “to unlock even more economic value for people,” Fidji Simo, the company’s CEO of Applications, told reporters in a Thursday briefing. She said it’s been in the works for “many, many months.” The company calls GPT-5.2 its “best model yet for everyday professional use” in a release, … Read more
Hamlet is having something of a renaissance in 2025. This year’s edition of the Toronto International Film Festival featured three different takes on the idea, including Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of the play’s inspiration and Aneil Karia’s rendition set in modern-day London. But the most out-there version came from Belle director Mamoru Hosoda, who transformed Shakespeare’s … Read more
Rivian announced that it was designing its own AI chips for fully autonomous driving, in a bold – if belated – move to catch up with Tesla and other automakers that have working on the technology for far longer. At an “AI and Autonomy” event at the company’s office in Silicon Valley on Thursday, Rivian … Read more
The AirPods Pro 3 are better than their predecessors in every way. Apple’s latest gadgets have gotten some notable discounts lately — including the recently released Apple Watch Series 11, which is still on sale for $100 off at Amazon. Now, we’re seeing the AirPods Pro 3 drop down to their lowest price to date, … Read more
The first trailer for DC Studios’ Supergirl feature is finally here to give us a look at what the Woman of Tomorrow is made of. Though Superman’s (technically) older cousin Kara Zor-El (Millie Alcock) was kind of a mess when we first met her, she’s trying to pull it together in Supergirl‘s new trailer. The … Read more
Disney has accused Google of engaging in copyright infringement on a “massive scale,” claiming its AI models have generated content resembling characters from Frozen, Deadpool, Star Wars, and others, according to reports from Variety and Deadline. In a cease-and-desist letter sent on Wednesday, Disney demands that Google stop allegedly infringing on its copyrighted works. Disney … Read more
WhatsApp says it’s making “voicemails a thing of the past” by introducing a new feature that pretty much works like voicemail. Missed call messages are rolling out as part of WhatsApp’s latest feature drop, which makes it easier for you to leave voice or video notes in chats after you’ve called someone who doesn’t answer … Read more
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. When news broke last week that Meta may cut the budget of its Meta Reality Labs unit by as much as 30 percent, followed by reports that the company is … Read more