As AI gets more heavily integrated into Windows, enhanced cybersecurity is required to prevent it from being used against us. Take Reprompt, for example. Reprompt is a Copilot exploit, that can use multi-stage prompts to steal user data, but thankfully it's already been patches. So as long as you haven't already been victimized and your Windows
Apple appears to be pulling out all the stops when it comes to the engineering effort going into its long rumored foldable iPhone, as the company looks to breath new life into its mobile phone lineup. The company seems to have been laser focused on making the device’s display crease-free per previous info, but according to fresh leak, other
AMD's extant "X3D" processors include a feature called 3D V-Cache, which involves bonding a slab of SRAM cache to the logic die in such a way that it physically extends the L3 cache of the CPU to triple its original capacity. What if we could do the same thing for L2 cache? AMD may actually be investigating that, as one of its employees filedHenning Koczy was offered an unusual gig in October of 2012.
He was invited to spend a little over two months on an island in tropical Belize with Lucas Martell and other artists to make an animated short film together. You should really go spend 10 minutes with the film, embedded below, but if you don't have the time right now let me give you a quick overview.
A lighthouse pokes out of a vast desert stretching to the horizon. The world wasn't always like this and, above this desolate landscape, a lone pilot flies toward a small cloud. The pilot doesn't seem to have a plan, exactly, but they've strapped a dream to this plane anyway. Hope is little more than a sketch the pilot put on paper labeled "Rain Maker" and the pilot isn't alone in these dangerous skies. Other planes with vast funnels flying behind them aim to pull the last bit of water from the air first.
Can the pilot complete their mission and make it rain before so many others, desperate for water too, knock them out of the sky?
Martell's gathering of artists did everything on that island from storyboarding to animation over that two-month span, drawing inspiration from one another and their island surroundings. That's where a company was born called Mighty Coconut.
"I had about a quarter of what it would've taken to pay everyone their typical day rates, but that turned out to be enough to fly everyone down, rent houses, pay for food, small per diems, etc.," Martell wrote on a diary video recalling that 'Destination Production'. "This trip was all self-funded through my own freelance gigs."
Martell hasn't taken any outside investment for Mighty Coconut and didn't release a VR game until 2020, when he crested the wave of Oculus Quest 2 headsets selling during the pandemic with the release of Walkabout Mini Golf. These days enough people pay for a safe and fun escape inside each new course he releases that Mighty Coconut employs 34 people contributing oceans of art, animation, music and gameplay.
Martell feels some pressure.
Other independent studios, like Pistol Whip developer Cloudhead, reduced headcount in the face of changing priorities at platform companies. More than a decade after that creative getaway in Belize founding Mighty Coconut, is it possible Martell feels a bit like that pilot flying toward the cloud? My exclusive tour of Tiki à Coco with Koczy recalls his time on that island and the origins of Mighty Coconut as we move along the Walkabout path.
We start at a crashed plane on the beach of a tropical island with drums pounding in the distance. Huts cover the island but, somehow, the one that's furthest away is the biggest. That curiosity drawn straight into the landscape invites us to investigate further and, along the way, we discover the mythical origins of mini golf.
Long ago a coconut fell from a tree and rolled into a hole in the ground.
His name was Jerry, and the game of golf was born to a bunch of coconuts who saw the very first hole-in-one. Jerry's fall led to a whole culture of happy coconuts living on a volcanic island in virtual reality.
"Jerry fell out of a coconut tree and fell into a hole and in doing so created golf," art director Don Carson explained on the tour. "And so it's an island inhabited with coconuts that worship the game of golf. And so that's the story basically."
Mighty Coconut's artists offer us a tapestry across the back wall of a tiki hut depicting the fall of Jerry. Exit the side of the hut and you make your way into a bustling village. You might want to stop for a photo with the CocoVision camera in front of the coconut baby taking its first rolls between mom and dad.
Walkabout introduced some of its first animated characters to the game with the release of Labyrinth in 2022. Now with Tiki à Coco, Walkabout's animators find their footing in a place without any. That's Mighty Coconut canon. The Coconuts, as the artists call themselves, decided their virtual coconuts lack feet. At one hole, a bunch of bandaged coconuts cheer on their fearful friend at the very edge of rolling off a plank above and into a "Jerry's Fall" recreation.
Koczy said after my interview he doesn't stop and think about how unusual his job is until I bring it up on our tours. But it's a bit striking, isn't it?
In 2012, he worked for Lucas Martell on a tropical island making a 10-minute animated film about a visionary producing a spark of something magical from almost nothing at all.
In 2025, he worked for Lucas Martell from home designing 36 holes of mini golf for a tropical island inhabited by happy little coconuts in virtual reality.
Meta has canceled the Batman: Arkham Shadow sequel, UploadVR has learned, and conducted significant layoffs at Camouflaj, the developer of the first game.
Unlike Twisted Pixel Games (Deadpool VR), Sanzaru Games (Asgard's Wrath), and Armature Studio (Resident Evil 4 VR), Camouflaj has not been entirely shut down. But it has seen significant layoffs, and will no longer be developing VR games.
Further, UploadVR can confirm that Sanzaru was working on the Arkham Shadow sequel, and the studio's closure earlier this week ended this work.
UploadVRDavid HeaneyBatman: Arkham Shadow was the blockbuster bundled title for Quest 3S, given for free with new headset purchases for well over a year, and we strongly praised it in our review.
In 2024, the founder and studio head of Camouflaj, Ryan Payton, told UploadVR that he would "love to" make a sequel. Then, four months ago, the voice actor for Commissioner Gordon confirmed that a sequel was about to enter development.
Work on that sequel had started – at Sanzaru Games rather than Camouflaj – but has now fully ended, and the sequel will no longer be happening.
UploadVRDavid HeaneyTaking into account the Camouflaj layoffs, we can now confirm that only three game studios still remain meaningfully active at Meta:
Beat Saber and Population: One are live service games, and there's no indication of a sequel arriving for either. Meanwhile, Ouro Interactive's focus remains entirely on Horizon Worlds.
The closure of three studios and significant layoffs at Camouflaj are part of a wider strategy shift at Meta, seeing funding from VR reallocated toward smart glasses, a reaction to the sales momentum the company saw last year for each type of device.
Through at least the first three quarters of the year, Quest headset sales were down compared to 2024. Meanwhile, sales of Ray-Ban Meta glasses skyrocketed, with several variants selling as fast as they can be manufactured. This week, Bloomberg reported that Meta was considering doubling or even tripling smart glasses production capacity.
Last month, Meta officially confirmed "shifting some of our investment from Metaverse toward AI glasses and Wearables", and the layoffs at its acquired studios are some of the first casualties of this shift.
Memory chip makers are trying to keep the AI beast fed, and as part of that effort, SK hynix is speeding up plans to open a new chip fab a few months ahead of schedule, according to Reuters. Before you get excited thinking that the memory chip shortage is about to end, the accelerated schedule still amounts to an opening that is more thanEcco the Dolphin is one of SEGAs more underrated franchises from back when the publisher made its own console hardware. Following years of silence, the publisher confirmed back in May of last year that not only is Ecco the Dolphin returning, but that multiple projects are planned. Now SEGA seems to be gearing up for a proper unveiling – officially launching a brand new teaser site.
Following the announcement last year that Ecco the Dolphin would be returning with remasters and new projects, studio A&R Atelier (headed by the creator of the franchise) have now published a new website. Available HERE, little has been officially shared in the way of concrete details, however the team wrote:
“We're dedicated to expanding the Ecco the Dolphin IP to the level it has always deserved. We're currently working on new Ecco games and products that honor the spirit of the original while bringing fresh experiences to both longtime fans and new players discovering Ecco's epic world for the first time.”
Alongside this, the website itself features a timer in the bottom left which appears to be counting down to the 22nd of April 2026. Perhaps we will learn more then?
Regardless, the Ecco the Dolphin series was highly unique and so it is exciting to see the franchise coming back.
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Ford has just unleashed the 2026 Mustang Dark Horse SC, a supercharged beast designed to bridge the massive gap between the standard 500-horsepower Dark Horse and the $325,000 limited-run Mustang GTD.
Revealed ahead of the 2026 Detroit Auto Show, the SC (supercharged) designation marks the return of the factory-blown V8 to the Mustang lineup.
The White House has announced a 25% tariff on certain advanced computing chips, including NVIDIA's H200 silicon based on its Hopper architecture and AMD's Instinct MI325X accelerator based on CDNA 3, both of which now have the green light to ship into China. Interestingly, the levy is described as a tariff on chip imports, not exports.
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After two decades of quiet data processing on millions of crowd-sourced home computers, the SETI@home project has narrowed down billions of space whispers to 100 signals. Could one of these point to intelligent alien life?
Launched in 1999, SETI@home turned the search for extraterrestrial intelligence into a global phenomenon by allowingOver the past decade Josef Fares has made a name for himself in the video games industry not only due to his unique personality, but thanks to the creator’s constant push towards innovating in the co-op space, with each successive project receiving higher praise than the last. While Fares and Hazelight Studios’ latest release Split Fiction continues to find a growing audience, the team’s previous project – It Takes Two – is nearing another massive sales milestone.
In an interview conducted by Christopher Dring of TheGameBusiness, Hazelight Studios CEO Josef Fares spoke on a wide range of topics including 2025’s GOTY winner Clair Obscur: Expedition 33; the state of the industry, generative AI and more.
In discussing Hazelight’s last game prior to Split Fiction – It Takes Two – Fares revealed that the 2021 game of the year winner is continuing to sell millions of copies, confirming that the co-op title is now closing in on hitting 27 million copies sold.
While an incredible achievement in its own right, as with many of Hazelight’s games, It Takes Two included a friends pass allowing you to play through the whole game online with a friend without them needing to own a copy. This means that at this point over 50 million people have experienced the game.
Considering the fact that the game is set to receive an adaptation of some kind at some point (though we have heard little from the project since its initial announcement), It Takes Two will likely continue to sell well for many more years.
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Verizon confirmed that it has resolved a frustrating service outage that left many wireless subscribers scrambling through posts on social media to see what was going on. Details are still light, but those who found their way to X (formerly Twitter) in search of answers on why their service suddenly went dark would have seen rivals AT&T andFollowing its official announcement back during Tokyo Game Show 2025, Microsoft confirmed that we would be learning more about Forza Horizon 6 during the console maker’s upcoming Xbox Developer Direct. Set to go live on the 22nd of January, users have reported receiving a pop-up inside Forza Horizon 5 which seems to have leaked the release date for its sequel.
As shared by Twitter user XboxF10, an in-game pop-up within Forza Horizon 5 appears to have offered full details on the upcoming Forza Horizon 6, including its release date, Premium Edition content and more.
Though unable to be directly replicated by others so far, the pop-up claims that Forza Horizon 6 will officially launch on the 19th of May – with Premium Edition owners gaining 4 days of advanced access (starting on the 14th).
Beyond this, the message includes the full list of Premium Edition content, namely:
Last but not least, all those who pre-order the game are said to receive “a pre-tuned and exclusive Ferrari J50”. Of course, this should all be taken with a pinch of salt for now, but with the Xbox Developer Direct set to go live in one week’s time, we likely won’t have to wait long to learn all about Forza Horizon 6 in an official capacity.
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The post Forza Horizon 6 release date seemingly leaked thanks to in-game pop-up first appeared on KitGuru.Each month, Sony updates its PlayStation Plus Extra/Premium tiers with a selection of titles, from old games to new games, and classics on occasion. For the first month of 2026, PS Plus subscribers can look forward to playing a number of high profile releases, including the latest Resident Evil Village, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and more.
Making the announcement via the PlayStation Blog, Sony officially listed the full line-up of titles set to join PS Plus Extra/Premium, with the following arriving on the service next Tuesday, the 20th of January:
The headliners for the month are of course Resident Evil Village and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, with the former being the latest mainline entry in the RE series – arriving just in time for a playthrough ahead of Resident Evil 9: Requiem’s launch in February.
Infinite Wealth meanwhile is one of the most content-rich entries in the Yakuza (Like a Dragon) series, offering a compelling story alongside countless side activities, missions and mini games – making for an experience which you likely won’t want to end.
As mentioned, January’s PS Plus Extra / Premium line-up will be available to play from Tuesday the 20th. In case you missed it, PS Plus’s Essential line-up went live earlier this month, the details of which can be found HERE.
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With 2025 behind us, many services have already released their annual recaps, with the likes of PlayStation going live with its own wrap-up back in December. Though slightly later than others, Nintendo’s annual year-in-review is now available to view – including data stretching as far back as the Switch 1’s launch.
With 2025 marking the year that Nintendo finally released the Switch 2, the console maker’s annual recap this time round includes much more than just data on your past 12 months of gaming.
Though you can of course read about your most played games, player milestones, monthly breakdowns and more from the past year, 2025’s recap also allows you to go all the way back to 2017 when the Switch first launched to see a breakdown of whichever year you please.
Annual wrap-ups are always a fun time, which is why it is disappointing that Microsoft opted not to create their own Xbox wrapped this time round. Next year perhaps.
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The post Nintendo Switch 2025 year-in-review recap available now first appeared on KitGuru.The PlayStation 5 Pro arrived in November 2024 with the promise of being the definitive way to play console games, but its first year has been somewhat muted. While it is technically the most powerful console on the market, some still feel that its specialised hardware remains underutilised. A particular sticking point has been the initial iteration of PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution), which, in many titles, has been prone to visual glitches and shimmering rather than providing a consistent “next-gen” leap in image clarity.
That narrative may be about to change. According to @Gust_FAN (via PC Guide), a reliable Japanese insider with a proven track record for accurately leaking the PS5 Slim and the Hyperpop collection, the PS5 Pro is scheduled to receive a major system overhaul this quarter. This update would include “PSSR 2.0”, which has been reportedly designed to fix existing image quality issues while also improving performance across the board.
Supposedly, PSSR 2.0 will have features similar to AMD's FSR 4, which makes a lot of sense considering the strategic partnership in place between AMD and Sony. This shift in upscaling logic aims to deliver a “double win” of higher image fidelity and improved frame rates. For some, the most exciting prospect is probably the push to 120 FPS, as titles that currently sit in the 70–80 FPS range on the Pro are expected to receive a boost to hit that mark.
The update also appears to focus heavily on legacy content. The leak suggests that PSSR 2.0 will provide a high-resolution boost for “traditional low-resolution games”, implying that backwards-compatible titles and classic games available through PlayStation Plus could see a visual upgrade at the system level. If successful, this feature could make the more expensive PlayStation Plus tiers slightly more attractive.
To ensure developers can make the most of this transition, Sony is reportedly preparing a suite of new debugging tools too. These resources are intended to help studios iron out issues and ensure that PSSR 2.0 doesn't have the artifacting problems of its predecessor.
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KitGuru says: The first year of the PS5 Pro has felt lacklustre for many. PSSR 1.0 was bold, but the visual “ghosting” did it no favours. If PSSR 2.0 can truly deliver FSR 4-level quality and a system-wide boost in resolution for classic games, the Pro might finally have the software backbone to justify its price tag.
The post PlayStation 5 Pro PSSR 2.0 is reportedly launching in Q1 2026 first appeared on KitGuru.Throughout 2025 we saw an increasing number of leaks and rumours surrounding Ubisoft’s long-awaited Prince of Persia The Sands of Time Remake, with recent reports claiming that the title is scheduled to launch as early as this month. While Ubisoft have yet to officially let the cat out of the bag, the ESRB has now published a rating for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake – indicating an imminent unveiling.
Ahead of the leaked launch date for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake (which is purportedly planned to arrive some time this month), the Entertainment Software Ratings Board [ESRB] has published an official listing for the long-awaited remake.
With a T for Teen rating, the Sands of Time Remake is said to include “Blood, Partial Nudity, Sexual Themes, and Violence”. While we did not get too much in the way of gameplay details, the summary does feature a section which confirms that the game will include 2D side-scrolling elements – to some degree at least.
Though wholly expected, the remake is also confirmed to include puzzles, platforming challenges and a plethora of traps (including spike pits, wall-mounted blades and saws).
Despite being announced all the way back in 2020, we know very little about the Sands of Time Remake – especially in the wake of its development reboot. As such, it will be interesting to officially learn all about the project, likely in the coming days.
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