Revenant Hill. | Image: The Glory Society Revenant Hill, the much-anticipated follow-up to indie hit Night in the Woods, has been canceled. According to development studio The Glory Society, the decision was made after members of the team were forced to step away from the project due to “recent serious health issues.”“Making anything complex poses challenges along the way,” reads a posting on the studio’s site. It continues on to say the following: Games take a while to make and usually require a good team working together. We’ve been lucky to have one such good team. Unfortunately, recent serious health issues have necessitated two key members stepping away from the project indefinitely. We are a small team and we each wear multiple hats. This is a loss of several hard to... Continue reading…

YouTube’s conversational AI tool can summarize videos and answer questions. | Image: Google YouTube’s latest AI experiments includes a new chatbot that’s designed to give you more information about a video you’re watching. The conversational AI tool, as Google’s support post calls it, aims to answer your questions about a video and can also recommend related content. It can also quiz you on a topic if you’re watching an educational video. The experimental feature has been announced alongside another AI tool that aims to organize a video’s comments into topics.Both features come as part of a wider push from Google to integrate AI across its services including Search, Gmail, and its office productivity suite. In YouTube specifically we’ve already seen the company announce a host of AI features aimed at video creators, like... Continue reading…

The holiday season is looming ever closer, which means it's time to shop for gifts for your loved ones and pick up a few for yourself at the same time. We've already had big deals thanks to two Prime Days this year, and now it's time for the more traditional shopping holiday, Black Friday. It's always a great time to save on tech since companies clear the shelves ahead of the big announcements from the trade shows that start in January.

Photo by Stephen J. Cohen / Getty Images This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more.Hope you all had a great weekend. Today, I’ve got news on James Corden’s new SiriusXM deal, Theo Von’s rise on the charts, and, in what I will admit is a significant tone shift, a look at which podcasts are actually helping the discussion around the Israel-Hamas war.James Corden inks SiriusXM dealDon’t call it a podcast deal (so I’ve been told). The former Late Late Show host will have a new weekly program on SiriusXM that is exclusive to subscribers. This Life of Mine with James Corden will be a weekly celebrity chat show, because literally what else would it be? The show, which will launch in early 2024, was announced in the... Continue reading…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit is beginning to test the first of its own add-ons built through its Developer Platform. The company’s first add-ons, available to a small number of subreddits and only to mods, will include tools for mods to more easily monitor and remove comment threads; ban spammers and remove their content; and for sports-focused subreddits, create posts that are live scoreboards, spokesperson Courtney Geesey-Dorr tells The Verge.Reddit announced the Developer Platform in August 2022 as a way for developers to more easily host and develop things like apps, bots, and mod tools for Reddit. At the time, Reddit opened up a waitlist for interested developers, and although the platform is still in closed beta, Geesey-Dorr says a “handful” of... Continue reading…

iOS 17.1 and macOS Sonoma 14.1 debuted last month with plenty of enhancements across the respective devices. Though, expectedly, these recent releases didn't address all of the known bugs and vulnerabilities that affect Apple's latest iPhones and Macs. iOS 17.1.1 and macOS Sonoma 14.1.1 are now available to patch some of these issues and enhance the overall user experience.

Image: Ubisoft Ubisoft, the game publisher behind franchises like Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry, is laying off 124 employees at its visual effects studio and on its global IT team.Hybride — the name of Ubisoft’s Montreal-based visual effects studio — has worked on several big-name projects, including Ahsoka, The Mandalorian, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Beau Is Afraid, and more. Of the 124 impacted workers, Ubisoft spokesperson Antoine Leduc-Labelle says 98 people are based in Canada, making up less than 2 percent of the company’s workforce in the country. (Ubisoft has studios in Montreal, Quebec City, Chicoutimi, Toronto, Winnipeg, Halifax, and Sherbrooke.) Leduc-Labelle adds that this doesn’t affect Ubisoft’s production teams.“Over the past few months,... Continue reading…

For the most part, you can get around not having a printer. But every once in a while, there are those special occasions where you absolutely need to print, so it's always a good idea to have a printer around, even if you only use it occasionally. Of course, on the opposite end, there are people that use printers every day, and if you've been looking to upgrade or replace your printer with something new, right now's going to be a great time to shop during Best Buy's early Black Friday sales event.

The ROG Ally certainly isn’t perfect, but it’s still a big step forward for Windows handhelds. Thanks to the rousing success of the Nintendo Switch and Valve’s Steam Deck, it’s safe to say that portable gaming is having a moment — something The Verge’s David Pierce discussed at length with the Polygon crew on a recent episode of The Vergecast. Asus also entered the handheld fray earlier this year with the ROG Ally, and now, thanks to an ongoing Asus promo, it’s available with an AMD Z1 Extreme chip for an all-time low of $599.99 ($100 off) with offer code NC100.We had some serious reservations with the ROG Ally when we first reviewed the handheld gaming PC. Asus has since ironed out some of our initial concerns, but some remain, including the console’s mediocre battery life and a bizarre performance gap between the retail units... Continue reading…

The slightly thicker shape of the Creator Edition S Pen should feel more natural to grip — like a real pencil. | Image: Samsung The S Pen Creator Edition tablet stylus that Samsung unveiled alongside its Galaxy Tab S9 series in July is now available to buy in the US for $99.99. Designed with writing, sketching, and digital painting in mind, the S Pen Creator Edition is a more premium stylus compared to the standard $59.99 S Pen that ships with Galaxy Tab S9 devices, providing more benefits for creative professionals like additional tilt-sensitivity and a thicker shape for improved grip.The S Pen Creator Edition is compatible with Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra and higher, Galaxy Note10 and higher, Galaxy Tab S Series, and PCs that already support the existing S Pen. It cannot be used with any Galaxy Z series of folding devices. The stylus is battery-free and doesn’t... Continue reading…

Apple's iPhone 14 Pro Max is the best iPhone released in 2022. Not only does this powerhouse pack one of the most capable mobile chips yet, but it also features other flagship specifications that make it future-proof. For it to actually last long, however, you also must take proper care of its exterior. This includes shielding its delicate front panel with a screen protector. To help you find a solid product for your iPhone 14 Pro Max, we've listed some of the best screen protectors below.

Following AMD's late-2022 launch of the Ryzen 7000 series, Intel's own next-gen CPUs became official. The 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" desktop CPUs hit the market on October 20, 2022 and in the usual way, there's a lot to talk about.