If you have the option to choose a laptop with better specifications than you need, it's a good idea to get it. And we think that the MSI Summit 13 AI+ Evo laptop hits all the right notes, offering impressive power in a sleek chassis that comes in at a price that's also relatively affordable. Sure, this isn't some bargain buy, but it's still a good price if you're looking for a powerful laptop.

Nintendo amiibo figures have become a topic of discussion among Nintendo fans lately following the release of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond on the Nintendo Switch 2. Normally, this would be a good thing as people have been purchasing new amiibo figures alongside a new game release, but not this time. Amiibo figures and their functionality with various games have gotten under the skin of Switch 2 owners, more specifically if they give buyers enough for the price they purchase them. This is something that's been debated about since amiibo figures were first released on the original Nintendo Switch.

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 federal government. The order can't by itself unilaterally override state AI laws, but it directs federal agencies to take steps to reduce or eliminate their influence, and discourage states from passing laws that the federal government might challenge, or put crucial funding for other programs at risk.It specifically calls out Colorado's recently passed consumer protection law, making the claim that "banning 'algorithmic discri …Read the full story at The Verge.

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 of Dylan Faden, brother of Control protagonist Jesse. It's expected to launch in 2026.Here's the basic setup, per Remedy:After years in confinement at the hands of the Federal Bureau of Control (FBC), Dylan Faden's former captors are deploying him at the peak of a supernatural crisis. Charged with …Read the full story at The Verge.

One of the easiest things to do during the holidays is spend too much money. It happens to many of us, even when we swear that things are going to be different this year. We want to help you stay true to your intentions to save money when possible, and we're doing that with a gift guide focused on products that cost no more than $50. We've already posted a guide to the best gifts under $100, but you might be surprised how many good gifts can be purchased for half the amount.You can delight a lucky recipient who's looking for a quirky addition to their home with an heirloom tomato beeswax candle. Or present a set of rechargeable hand warmer …Read the full story at The Verge.

Tonight, The Game Awards return, offering up a mix of exciting new video game announcements and an award-fueled celebration for the year's best titles. Games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Donkey Kong Bananza are up for the biggest awards, while new announcements related to Tomb Raider, Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Night, Saros, and more are expected.

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 Circuit Court of Appeals panel largely affirmed an April ruling that Apple failed to comply with Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers's 2021 order allowing app developers to link to external payment options, which Sweeney said "… is really awesome for all developers." Perhaps the most notable part of the app …Read the full story at The Verge.

For a while now, my home network has felt a bit like an elaborate experiment; mostly stable, occasionally chaotic, and always one poorly timed migration away from my fiancée asking, “Why did the Wi-Fi just die?” My home lab had grown slowly and organically: a Proxmox machine here, a NAS there, a stack of self-hosted services, and whatever Docker container I was testing that week. Individually, they weren’t a problem. Together, they formed a noisy background hum of broadcast traffic, constant updates, and unpredictable workloads.

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 spaceship landing on a rainy planet and a woman in white robes staring into the camera as a lightsaber zhooms to life. According to the trailer's YouTube description, Fate of the Old Republic is a single-player narrative game and the spiritual successor to the KOTOR series.Developed by Arcanaut Studios in collaboration with Lucasf …Read the full story at The Verge.

We've seen Linux running off a few interesting things here at XDA. But have you ever witnessed someone install Linux on a floppy disk? And not just any distro, either; I'm talking one that came out recently?

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. Don't let the fancy name fool you though, Legacy of Atlantis is the Unreal Engine 5 version of the first Tomb Raider game, a remake similar to Tomb Raider Anniversary which updated the 1997 original PlayStation game for the PS2. But that's not all. In 2027, the Tomb Raider team will release another game, To …Read the full story at The Verge.

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 to generate as much uncanny Pixar / Marvel / Star Wars slop for themselves as they want, and Disney will share some of it in a special section on the Disney Plus platform. It's not hard to see where this is going to go.Disney CEO Bob Iger described the partnership as marking "an important moment for our i …Read the full story at The Verge.