The Sims 4 High School Years expansion adds a Depop-created ‘virtual thrift store’
The Sims 4 High School Years pack will be available on July 28th. | Image: EA Clothing from the fashion marketplace Depop will be available in an expansion pack for The Sims 4, called High School Years, later this month (via Polygon). Depop describes itself as a “circular” and...
Stranger Things Season 4 Ending Explained
On July 1, Volume 2 of Stranger Things Season 4 was released. While it was only two episodes long, it clocked in at four hours, with the finale coming in at nearly two and a half hours. A lot happened towards the end, and it may be a bit...
Avatar: The Way of Water’s going to turn Sigourney Weaver into a teenage Na’vi
Jake Sully and Dr. Grace Augustine in the first Avatar. | Image: 20th Century Studios Though Sigourney Weaver’s Dr. Grace Augustine ultimately died in the first Avatar film, one of the first surprising details director James Cameron shared about the film’s sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, was that...
Monster Hunter Rise Gets DLSS Support On Steam, With An Unfortunate Side Effect
Enabling the newly added Nvidia DLSS feature for the PC version of Monster Hunter Rise comes with the unfortunate side effect of giving furry friends and foes a shaven appearance. Via Rock Paper Shotgun, the feature comes as part of a new update for Monster Hunter Rise released alongside...
Sucker Punch Has “No Plans” To Revisit Sly Cooper Or Infamous Series
To celebrate nearly 25 years of Sucker Punch Productions, the studio has released a blog post offering an update on some of its most beloved series. However, Sly Cooper and Infamous fans be warned–this one does not end too happily for us. According to the blog post, Sucker Punch...
You should probably skip the base M2 MacBook Pro model
The base model MacBook Pro is not a good buy. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The base model 13-inch M2 MacBook Pro with 256GB of storage and 8GB of RAM is available to buy right now. You probably shouldn’t buy it. With more details coming...
Rocket League Celebrates Its 7th Anniversary With The Birthday Ball Event
In honor of its seventh anniversary, Rocket League is holding a special in-game event to celebrate the occasion–no RSVP required. Rocket League’s Birthday Ball event brings with it a multitude of new features including new challenges, limited-time modes, and free rewards–including a very special type of reward that players...
EA makes a bad joke, gets relentlessly flamed
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Electronic Arts, the unmitigated king of unforced errors, made a woefully ill-advised tweet yesterday, and the company’s Twitter mentions have not known peace since. They’re a 10 but they only like playing single-player games — Electronic Arts (@EA) June 30, 2022 The...
Finding the limits of Dish’s new 5G network
A Project Genesis-specific Samsung Galaxy S22 | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Dish is trying something no one’s succeeded at for a very long time: build a new nationwide cell network from the ground up. The 5G service, called Project Genesis, finally went live in “over...
TikTok assures Republicans it’s working to protect US data security
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After years of mounting pressure, TikTok provided US lawmakers with more details into how it limits Chinese access to American data in a new letter dated Thursday. In a letter addressed to nine of the app’s most prominent Republican critics, TikTok CEO...
