The Neo family of devices. | Image: Elgato If you watch a Twitch streamer, it’s almost guaranteed that they will be using at least one Elgato product. After dominating this part of the market for years, Elgato is now shifting its primary focus away from gaming with its new Neo line while also preparing a bevy of AI features to improve new and existing gear. Neo is a collection of Elgato’s most popular products made simpler, more affordable, and more compact so they can be used easily with a laptop or iPad. “They look more accessible, they look more friendly,” says Julian Fest, general manager ..read more

Image: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Last March, Panic launched a curated game shop called Catalog for its Playdate handheld. And one year later, the company says it has sold more than 150,000 games through the store. “We want to let everyone who enjoys games know that there is a vibrant game dev community making hundreds of inventive and thoughtful games for Playdate,” Arisa Sudangnoi, head of Playdate developer relations, said in a statement. The news comes exactly two years after the handheld first launched. At the beginning of 2024, Panic revealed that it had sold 70,000 Playdate units, and it ..read more

Image: Bay 12 Games Though you could always go on adventures in Dwarf Fortress, with the game’s Adventure Mode expansion entering public beta today, you can now sally forth with a full complement of updated graphics. In Adventure Mode, there are all sorts of shenanigans to get up to in the ridiculously large and detailed procedurally generated world. It’s an RPG campaign complete with character creation, quests to complete, and bandits to fight. With the public beta, your adventures on the surface world will look a lot more detailed than smiley faces and ASCII art. There’s still the same level ..read more

Tyner Rushing as Samantha Massey in For All Mankind. | Image: Apple Folks hoping to see more of Apple TV Plus’ For All Mankind series are in for a treat, but the streamer is working on more than just a new season. Today, Apple announced that For All Mankind has been renewed for a fifth season that will continue to chronicle the alternate history of a world in which the Soviet Union is the first nation to put a man on the Moon and the United States set out to catch up with its rival. Following the show’s season 4 finale, news of the renewal doesn’t exactly come as a surprise, but Apple also rev ..read more

That €1.50 per year subscription does not include tax but does offset Apple’s Core Technology Fee. | Image: AltStore PAL After we recently tested it in beta, the third-party iOS app store AltStore PAL is now live in the European Union thanks to Apple’s compliance with the region’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Installing AltStore PAL requires clicking through a lot of Apple’s clumsily implemented scare sheets that double and triple check your desire to install apps from outside Apple’s App Store. But with persistence and enough clicks it eventually installs. The new app marketplace is arriving wi ..read more

Image: Riley Testut The Delta emulator is coming to Apple App Store — for free — outside of the European Union, where it’s available via the third-party AltStore PAL app marketplace that just went live. The app will mark the first significant and officially sanctioned game emulator for the iPhone since Apple began allowing them, with wide-ranging console emulation from the original Nintendo Entertainment System to the Nintendo 64 (and even the Sega Genesis, for when you want to play those games that Nintendon’t). Delta developer Riley Testut told The Verge via email that the app will be identi ..read more

Image: Netflix Gus and his friends are coming back to Netflix very soon. The streamer just announced that the post-apocalyptic series Sweet Tooth is returning on June 6th, and as part of the news, there’s a first-look trailer at what this season has in store. Based on the comic books by Jeff Lemire, Sweet Tooth is a different take on an end-of-the-world story. It takes place after a mysterious virus killed off much of humanity, while at the same time, new hybrid children — humans with animal features like antlers or pig noses — started appearing (also a mystery). While it’s set during a dark t ..read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge New year, new Nintendo indie showcase. Nintendo’s getting a jump start on the summer video game announcement season with its Indie World showcase event. Earlier this year, Nintendo put on its first Direct showcase, announcing a remaster of Epic Mickey, a sequel to Endless Ocean, and that a couple of Xbox exclusives — Grounded and Pentiment — would be arriving on the Switch. As with every Nintendo showcase announcement since checks watch 2019, rumors are swirling that this Indie World will finally be the one in which we get a release date for Hollow Knigh ..read more

The new PlayStation PC overlay. | Image: Sony Sony is introducing a new PlayStation PC overlay and shared Trophies with its upcoming release of Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut on May 16th. It’s the first PlayStation game for PC that uses Sony’s new PlayStation overlay, which, much like the Steam overlay, will provide access to a friend list, Trophies, Settings, and your PlayStation account. “This feature is available on Windows PCs and will be accessible from the in-game menu or, for keyboard players, by pressing the “SHIFT +F1” shortcut on your keyboard,” explains Julian Huijbregts, online c ..read more

The company expects to complete its downsizing efforts by the end of this year. | Image: Take-Two Interactive Take-Two Interactive, the gaming company behind franchises like Grand Theft Auto, NBA 2K, and Bioshock, has announced cost-cutting measures that will lay off “approximately five percent” of its global workforce and scrap several projects already in development. The company said in an SEC filing published on Tuesday that it is “streamlining its organizational structure, which will eliminate headcount and reduce future hiring needs.” Take-Two says it will incur charges of up to $200 mill ..read more