Today’s Helldivers 2 patch notes: Fewer Bile Titans, you can one-shot Chargers now, and the worst modifier? Gone

What you need to know Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has released a new patch for the game. The patch is available to download now on both PC and PS5. The update reduces the spawn rate of Bile Titans and Chargers at high difficulties, while simultaneously increasing the number of other units that spawn in swarms […]

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Ubisoft is killing off a game millions have bought thanks to one of gaming’s worst trends

What you need to know Ubisoft’s The Crew is being shutdown in 2024 when the servers will be turned off.  The game has been delisted from stores, but players who own the game have until March 31, 2024 to play it. Then it’s gone for good.  The lack of an offline mode for The Crew […]

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Remembering Windows Longhorn: David Culter laments ‘the worst code he’s ever seen’

What you need to know Well-respected software engineer David Culter discussed Windows Longhorn and its development in a 9-minute-long video interview. He explains that a buggy codebase impacted the operating system’s development, with the “worst code he has ever seen” causing severe bugs. Culter started working on a new 64-bit system after AMD reached out […]

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This neat feature could fix the worst part of Windows 11’s Start menu

What you need to know Users might soon be able to preview files in Windows 11’s Start menu Recommended section. The hidden feature was discovered in Builds 23506 and 23493. Aside from letting you preview the content hidden in the file, the feature will also let you know when the file was last edited and […]

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Your worst fear about the Galaxy S23 FE will come true

Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S23 FE has popped up in an online benchmark today, and the phone’s most controversial hardware detail is now confirmed — or at least as close as it can be to the “confirmed” status without Samsung spilling the beans. Namely, the Galaxy S23 FE is powered by an Exynos 2200 chipset. The […]

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The worst thing about Samsung’s One UI Watch 5 beta

Samsung fans are aware that the company has been testing the next major software update, Wear OS 4 and One UI Watch 5, for the Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 5 lineups for some time. And earlier this week, Samsung launched a One UI Watch 5 beta program that will allow some users to […]

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Capcom just confirmed that Exoprimal’s worst feature is optional

Exoprimal is an upcoming PvPvE shooter pitting teams of players in a truly absurd (but awesome) futuristic arena in a fight to the death against swarms of dinosaurs. Some crazed A.I. forces you and your comrades to battle in various theoretical wargames, as it studies how and why a plague of random dinosaurs has suddenly […]

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Overwatch 2 is fixing Lifeweaver’s worst gameplay feature

What you need to know One of the Overwatch 2 community’s main criticisms of Season 4’s new hero, Lifeweaver, is that he’s awkward to play. The reason why this is the case is because Lifeweaver players have to manually switch between two different weapons for healing and damage constantly. Overwatch 2 Game Director Aaron Keller […]

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Samsung Pay suffers nationwide outage at the worst possible time

South Korea was the first market where the Samsung Pay mobile payments service was launched. The company eventually made it available to markets across the globe. It’s been several years since this service has been operating and as you’d expect, millions of people rely on it to make payments daily, particularly in Samsung’s home country […]

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Feral Hogs Are the Worst Invasive Species You’ve Never Thought About

Think of the worst invasive species you know. Kudzu: smothering trees and houses, growing a foot a day. Burmese pythons: stripping the Everglades of small animals. Asian carp: hoovering streams clean of plankton and swimming toward the Great Lakes. They all came from somewhere else, arrived with no natural predators, outcompeted local flora and fauna, and […]

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This is the worst upgrade the Galaxy A54 brings over the A53

There’s a question many Samsung fans have been asking for a few years: Why do its mid-range phones not come with a glass back when some phones from the competition do, often at a lower price? Samsung used to have metal backs for its Galaxy A series phones for some time, before it eventually switched […]

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Canalys: 2022 sees China smartphone market decline to worst levels in a decade

Canalys published its latest report on smartphone sales in China regarding the final quarter of 2022 and the full calendar year. The results are bleak, as the market saw a 14% decline in overall shipments, dipping below 300 million units for the first time since 2013. During Q4, Apple was the top maker with a […]

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2022 was the worst year for smartphone shipments globally

The smartphone market suffered its largest-ever shipment decline in 2022, with all the major OEMs posting negative growth year-on-year compared to 2021. Thankfully for Samsung, the company maintained the lead in the declining smartphone market and kept the largest share. According to market research firm IDC, Samsung shipped 260.9 million smartphones in 2022 and held […]

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Overwatch 2’s Battle for Olympus event is the worst in the game’s history

Recently, Overwatch 2’s Battle for Olympus limited time event went live, offering players the chance to play an alternative free-for-all deathmatch mode of the same name. Rooted in the Greek mythology theme of Season 2, the Battle for Olympus sees eight players go head-to-head using seven heroes (Ramattra, Roadhog, Reinhardt, Junker Queen, Pharah, Widowmaker, and […]

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The MacRumors Show: Looking Back at the Best and Worst Apple Releases of 2022 With Jon Prosser and Sam Kohl

Jon Prosser and Sam Kohl join us this week on The MacRumors Show to take a light-hearted look back at the best and worst of Apple in 2022 – a year that brought some major changes to many of the company’s product lines and platforms. Jon and Sam are well-known content creators in the Apple […]

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Overwatch 2: Tragically, Ramattra’s coolest ability is also his worst

Ever since Blizzard first showed off gameplay footage of Overwatch 2’s latest tank hero, Ramattra, the ability he has that I was the most excited to get my hands on was Ravenous Vortex. When using it, the omnic juggernaut hurls an explosive clump of nano particles that bursts into a spiraling violet field. This field […]

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Samsung and Apple improve market shares in the worst Q3 since 2014

Market watchers say that the smartphone segment in 2022 has recorded the worst Q3 since 2014 in terms of global shipments. The market declined 9% year-on-year, marking a third consecutive quarterly decline. Samsung remained the top smartphone vendor globally. The Korean company was followed by Apple, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo. Samsung and Apple are the […]

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Apple is about to fix the worst part of transferring music to the Apple Watch

While streaming music with the Apple Watch is one of the true joys of the smartwatch, the process of actually transferring your tunes over has proven relatively tedious ever since its introduction. Until now. With the upcoming release of watchOS 9.1, Apple is set to roll out a big change to how users add music […]

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Apple Hikes iPad Mini Prices Outside US, With Europe Faring Worst

Apple significantly increased the price of existing iPad mini models in non-US markets after updating its online store with new entry-level iPad and iPad Pro models on Tuesday. In the UK for example, the 64GB ‌iPad mini‌ now costs £569, up from £479 earlier in the day, while the 256GB model costs £749, up fro […]

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Counterpoint: European smartphone market falls 12% in Q1, the worst first quarter since 2013

The European smartphone market experienced its worst first quarter in nearly a decade and analysts at Counterpoint Research warn that things will get even worse before they get better. The market fell 12% compared to the first three months of last year. With only 49 million smartphones shipped, this was the worst Q1 since 2013. […]

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