There were a ton of great announcements and reveals during The Game Awards 2025. New trailers for beloved franchises and fresh original ideas had everyone talking. Although many of the big surprises during the show most likely won't be arriving in 2026, the future of gaming is looking very bright. However, gamers who watched The Game Awards noticed a few missing games that had no presence whatsoever.

The Nintendo Switch is one of the best gaming consoles you can buy. But the one place where it stumbles is its graphics. It doesn't provide the highest fidelity, and can leave something to be desired. Of course, you can always upgrade to the Switch 2, but there are alternate solutions that actually cost less if you want to stick with the original model.

Dolby Atmos FlexConnect technology debuted this year with the TCL Z100 speakers, and now we're getting our first FlexConnect soundbar thanks to LG. The new H7 soundbar - which runs on the same Alpha 11 Gen 3 chip as LG's OLEDs and new Micro RGB LED - is a part of the LG Sound Suite, a modular home audio system the company will debut at CES 2026. In addition to the soundbar, the Sound Suite will include the M5 and M7 surround speakers and the W7 subwoofer. All of the speakers feature Peerless Audio components.The two main drawbacks of TCL's Dolby FlexConnect implementation were the limitation of only allowing four connected speakers, includ …Read the full story at The Verge.

On Wednesday evening, OpenAI launched an App Directory to browse all the tools currently available and opened its SDK for developers to build new interactive experiences that operate within the bot's UI. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said last month that "We are planning to build the obvious features that you would expect for a robust platform over time," and opening an app store is certainly a huge step in that direction.Another change is that OpenAI has renamed the "connectors" that helped users pull data from other services (like Google Drive or Dropbox) into ChatGPT, and is now calling those apps too. As a support page explains, chat connector …Read the full story at The Verge.

Sometimes, you record a video (or download it) and as great as it is, you wish you could cut certain parts out. It sounds like a simple task, but it's not always as easy as you might expect. Not every operating system includes a tool for trimming and splitting videos, and when they do, you might have to deal with lower-quality output due to the encoder used by those built-in tools.

A proper desk setup is an absolute must. But if you're someone that likes to prioritize their budget on PC parts, it can be hard to find a desk worth investing in. Luckily, we've managed to find this one on sale that might be right up your alley. Not only do you get plenty of space thanks to its 51-inch size, but you also get an L-shape, which makes it easy to fit, even in tighter spots. The best part, it only costs $45 right now.

In July, Sony sued Tencent to prevent the release of Light of Motiram, a game Sony alleged was a "slavish clone" of its popular Horizon series. But the legal battle is already over; the two companies have reached a "confidential settlement" and the case has been dismissed with prejudice, according to a court document filed on Wednesday.Light of Motiram is also no longer listed on Steam and the Epic Games Store despite the game's website showing links to listings on both stores as of this writing. A user on the game's official subreddit also noticed the removal, pointing to a SteamDB link that says "this app has been retired and is no longe …Read the full story at The Verge.

Snap just launched a new Quick Cut video editing tool right inside Snapchat that "helps Snapchatters turn their favorite Memories into beat-synced, ready-to-share videos in seconds."With Quick Cut, you can select multiple photos or clips and then "instantly preview a rendered video," and the feature is accessible from multiple places in the app, including from Memories and your camera roll. When you're making a video, Quick Cut also automatically adds music and syncs it to the clips you're putting together, though you can change the track if you'd like, and you can add lenses to your Quick Cut video, too. If you want to do more detailed ed …Read the full story at The Verge.

My home network hasn't always used quality networking equipment. For many years, I used whatever the ISP provided as my only network appliance, since I didn't need anything beyond Wi-Fi and a few wired ports. Then I found out about custom router firmware like DD-WRT, and I upgraded to the legendary WRT54G, and spent no time at all flashing it with Tomato.

When planning a NAS build centered around SSDs specifically, you might be tempted to follow a similar script as when you buy SSDs for a PC: something fast with a high capacity from a brand you recognize.

I test a lot of productivity tools, and while a handful are impressive enough to stick around, it’s rare for one to replace my long-time go-tos — let alone stay in my workflow years later. NotebookLM was one of those rare exceptions. I first tried it back when it was a Google Labs experiment, and nearly two years later, after a steady stream of major updates, it’s still one of my most-used tools.

The Senate confirmed Jared Isaacman's appointment as the head of NASA on Wednesday, a decision that comes just months after President Donald Trump pulled his nomination before picking him yet again in November, as reported earlier by CNBC.Isaacman, the founder and CEO of a payments platform called Shift4, has flown to space twice through private missions with Elon Musk's SpaceX. After choosing Isaacman as head of NASA in December 2024, Trump pulled his nomination in May, later saying in a Truth Social post that he thought it would be "inappropriate that a very close friend of Elon, who was in the Space Business, run NASA."Isaacman attemp …Read the full story at The Verge.