At its big State of Play show on Tuesday, Sony shared new look Marvel's Wolverine, the next big title from Insomniac Games that's launching exclusively on PS5 on September 15th. Dressed in the iconic yellow Wolverine outfit, Logan slunk around and stabbed his way through a bunch of enemies, using his blades to take them out. Combat looked weighty and satisfying - though the game is extremely bloody, with red flying everywhere as Logan fought his opponents. Wolverine has been a long time coming, with Sony and Insomniac initially announcing the game all the way back in 2021. At the time, details were scarce. But Sony finally showed off some …Read the full story at The Verge.

ESPHome continues to deliver significant overhauls with its monthly updates. The May update transforms the Device Builder from a cosmetic refresh to a fundamental overhaul. Also, Device Builder isn't just a UI refresh; it's a workflow overhaul for anyone scaling beyond a couple of smart devices.

Well, it's finally here. After OpenClaw set the world on fire in late 2025 and showed us all what an agentic system can do, companies have been scrambling to get their own automatic assistant out the door.

The new MSI Claw with Intel Arc G3 Extreme. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Intel couldn't catch a break. Layoffs. Shakedowns. Crashing CPUs torpedoing its reputation, sending desktop gamers fleeing to AMD. Apple and Qualcomm pushing Intel out of multiple flagship laptops. A gaming graphics card going MIA. But its Panther Lake laptop chip, the first on its all-important 18A process, turned out excellent - and a handheld version might make Intel the leader in portable gaming chips.On Monday, I spent two hours with an MSI Claw 8 EX AI Plus handheld atop Intel's new Arc G3 Extreme. I walked away thinking that next-gen handhelds have finally arrived. The true leap in performance and battery life we've been waiting for …Read the full story at The Verge.

While the majority of Summer Game Fest takes place over the weekend, Sony is getting a jump on things with its next State of Play showcase, which airs on June 2nd at 5PM ET. It’s coming at a pivotal time for the PlayStation brand: The PS5 keeps getting more expensive and Sony’s big bet on live-service games has largely fallen flat. A good showing at SGF won’t fix everything, but it could help show that PlayStation is on the right path moving forward.For its part, Sony says its latest State of Play will feature “more than 60 minutes of updates, announcements, and gameplay reveals from top studios around the world.” The only confirmed part of the event’s lineup is Wolverine, from Spider-Man developer Insomniac, which is slated to launch in September. But given the length of the stream, there’ll be plenty more detailed. Maybe we’ll see the just-announced third expansion for The Witcher 3, or the long-awaited final installment of the Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy, or some more of Intergalactic, the next big project from The Last of Us developer Naughty Dog. It’s also likely the event will provide some insight into the uncertain future of Marathon.Whatever Sony shows, you can watch along on YouTube or Twitch, or follow along with the latest developments right here.And for everything announced at the rest of Summer Game Fest, be sure to check out our event hub. God of War Laufey is coming to the PS5 Remedy’s Control sequel launches in September Until Dawn gets a little sun. Marathon season 2 kicks off. Ace Combat 8 release date: October 2nd. A different take on Silent Hill. Onimusha: Way of the Sword launches in September — and a demo is launching today. Arrakis on console. Dino crisis. The Tomb Raider reboot is getting a small delay. Yokai-slaying fun. Dave the Diver is getting a prequel game. Rayman reimagined, revealed. A little more Marvel. Here’s seven bloody minutes of Wolverine on the PS5 PlayStation’s next big State of Play kicks off soon. Summer Game Fest is getting off to an early start.

Let's say you're playing a competitive game on your ROG Ally X or Lenovo Legion Go. You drop your settings, cap the frame rate to 60fps, and lower the APU wattage to a conservative 12W. Yet somehow your battery percentage is still plummeting much faster than it does when you're playing a massive, visually demanding single-player title.

Control Resonant, the upcoming sequel to Remedy Entertainment's Control, will be released on September 24th, 2026, according to a trailer that premiered during Tuesday's PlayStation State of Play show.The trailer also gave a preview of the game's story, which stars Dylan Faden, who was imprisoned for much of the first game. He will be the "sole playable character," Remedy's Mikael Kasurinen says in a blog post, but his sister Jesse, who was the protagonist of Control, also "shapes the path" in Resonant."In Resonant, we go further into the Fadens' complicated past. Their lives have been anything but easy, and the cost of what they carry i …Read the full story at The Verge.

The stress is real when you’re the friend who has to pick the place where everyone’s going to grab something to eat. If the place is too small or the menu isn’t what everyone agreed on, you’re the one to blame. I thought I was being smart by having Claude create a PDF with all the information I figured we needed for the get-together, but after trying Gemini in Google Maps, using Claude to pick felt like a shot in the dark. Google added Gemini to Google Maps on March 12, 2026, and now I can see all the advantages I was missing by using Claude instead.

When I first traded in my PlayStation 5 and brought home a PS5 Pro, nobody in a ten-mile radius could've been more excited than me. Immediately, I got to playing Death Stranding 2, and a couple of months later, Ghost of Yotei looked absolutely gorgeous on the more powerful console. Fast-forward to mid-2026, however, and I'd be lying if I said it doesn't collect a layer of dust every day.

I've always preferred Android phones to iOS since college, when I'd spend hours designing Zooper Widgets on a Galaxy S4 to create a good-looking setup limited only by my imagination, the app's features, and device battery life. Until very recently, the OS wasn't a pain point. It was only when I tried unlocking the bootloader on a Xiaomi phone around 2020 that I realized how cumbersome it was to email the company and wait. For power users, the ability to compile an open-source tool, host it on a personal server, and install it on a daily driver without asking a massive corporation for permission seems fundamental to their digital rights.

Microsoft just kicked off Build 2026 with a keynote from CEO Satya Nadella and other company leaders. As expected, it was filled with announcements, ranging from new Surface hardware to an always-on personal assistant and updates across Microsoft's in-house AI models.If you didn't watch the event live, you can catch up on all the latest news in the roundup below.A mini Surface PC designed for AI developmentThe Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is geared toward developers who want to run local AI models on their device, serving as a substitute for Qualcomm's canceled dev kit. It comes equipped with Nvidia's new Arm-based Spark RTX chip and 128G …Read the full story at The Verge.

When running multiple services, platforms, and operating systems, one wouldn't be blamed for immediately considering virtual machines (VMs). They're easy to set up and forget, but there are some problems that arise from using multiple VMs within a home lab setting. With the increased availability of Linux containers (LXCs), largely with Proxmox and the release of TrueNAS 26, there's almost a better way for running self-hosted services. Linux containers won't be the greatest choice for everything, but I moved most of my home server to LXCs, and I'm not looking back.