Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is updating its Play Store to make it easier to discover and download apps across the full range of Android devices — whether that’s Wear OS watches, Android TVs, Android tablets, or vehicles fitted with Android Auto. There are three updates in total: a new device-specific search…
Intel’s top A770 GPU goes on sale next month. | Image: Intel Intel is officially announcing pricing for its top Arc graphics card today. The top-of-the-line Arc A770 will arrive on October 12th, starting at $329. This price matches that of Nvidia’s RTX 3060, a card that the A770 is expected to comfortably outperform. “We’ve…
Image: Nickelodeon Netflix just revealed the full cast for its live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, giving us a look at who will play alongside Aang and the rest of the Avatar gang. On the side of the Fire Nation, we have Arden Cho (Partner Track) playing the bounty hunter June, Momona Tamada (Secret…
We now have dates for Steam’s next three big seasonal sales. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Valve is making a change to its schedule of big Steam sales. Starting in 2023, the company will be replacing the Lunar New Year sale, which it has run since 2016, with an annual spring sale,…
Image: Blizzard The launch date of Overwatch 2 slowly approaches, bringing with it a new battle pass, a new hero, and, announced today in a blog post, a new anti-cheat, community protection, and moderation tool called the Defense Matrix. Named after the D.Va ability that allows her to absorb and negate incoming attacks, the Defense…
The Roombo Combo j7+. Sick spoiler, bro! Wait, that’s a mop?! [credit: Roomba ] iRobot—soon to be owned by Amazon—is announcing a flagship Roomba with a new feature: It can vacuum and mop simultaneously. Meet the Roomba Combo j7+, a $1,100 combo cleaning robot that ships on October 4. iRobot is not doing a ground-up…
Naowh explains how he got to level 80 in Wrath of the Lich King Classic in just a few hours. When it comes to World of Warcraft‘s long-demanded “Classic” servers, players understandably want an experience that’s identical to the MMO experience they remember from years ago. At least one player has taken that concept to…
Pedro Pascal stars as a hardened survivor in HBO’s new series, The Last of Us. A traumatized survivor of a zombie apocalypse must face hordes of the “Infected” to protect a teenage girl who might hold the key to a cure in The Last of Us, a new HBO series based on the blockbuster action/adventure game…
Enlarge / The Mercedes-Benz EQE sedan’s shape has been designed to create as little drag as possible. Mercedes-Benz provided flights from DC to Denver and back, plus two nights in a hotel, so we could drive the EQE sedan and the EQS SUV, which you’ll be able to read about on September 29. Ars does…
Official Facebook accounts of Russian embassies reportedly amplified misinformation. Karollyne Hubert/Unsplash Meta announced today that it has successfully dismantled what David Agranovich, the company’s director of threat disruption, called “probably the largest and most complex” Russian misinformation and propaganda social media campaign since the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine earlier this year. As first…