LG’s 2023 Soundbars Include A Model Designed For The Brand’s C3 OLEDs CES may still be a few days away, but we already have news aboutLG’snew range of soundbars. The creatively named SC9S, SE6 and S77S are set to be unveiled as the company’s new range of audio devices, and the high-end SC9S has been specifically designed to work with the electronics manufacturer’s C3 range of OLED TVs. One key feature of the new soundbars isn’t audio related but is very welcome....

If there’s one sign we can take from theunprecedented number of layoffsacross the games industry these past two years, it’s that we’re in the midst of an identity crisis. The industry isn’t in any danger of crashing, but publishers and studios are now being forced to adapt to the new market in ways they may never have had to before. The two major strategies seem to be falling back to the safety of established IP, and rolling the dice in the hopes of launching a successful live-service game....

Member the games you used to play? We member. The basement at the Hardcore Gamer office has a section known as the Crust Room, with an old grey couch and a big old CRT TV. All the classic systems are down there collecting dust, so in an effort to improve the cleanliness of our work space, we dust off these old consoles every so often and put an old game through its paces, just to ensure everything stays in working order....

Between bands like Duran Duran, Guns N’ Roses, New Edition, and many more, the 1980s became one of the most memorable eras within the medium of music. While the vocalists themselves were temporarily honored with bedroom posters and magazine clippings at the epitome of their popularity, the albums they released will forever hold a place not only in fans’ minds but also in history. Just between the aforementioned groups, many accomplishments include a plaque on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and over thirty various accolades in the industry....

The next free couple of games for Epic Games Store is the turn-based strategy title Mutant Year Zero and the hack ‘n’ slash pixel action RPG Hyper Light Drifter. Mutant Year Zero and Hyper Light Drifter Free on Epic Store Starting next weeks on August 15th you will be able to pick up Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden and Hyper Light Drifter for absolutely nothing. Epic Games have been dolling out free games which have includedMoonlighter,This War of Mine,Alan WakeandFor Honor....

Bandai Namco and Level-5 just released a beautiful new trailer of their upcoming JRPG:Ni No Kuni II: Reveanant Kingdom, as the gaming industry gets ready for Gamescom. Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom coming to the PS4 and PC! The trailer reveals a nice mix of cutscenes and battle gameplay, including the introduction of two new characters,Nerea, the beautiful queen of the land ofThalassea, and Leander, her advisor. To accompany the new trailer, a batch of gorgeous screenshots are released to celebrate the presence of the game at GamesCom in Cologne, Germany....

Summary One Piecehas taken the world by storm for its 25th anniversary. The legendary manga and anime series by Eiichiro Oda is currently celebrating 25 years in the best way possible. The series has become an icon in Japanese entertainment and, in 2023, became one of Netflix’s most popular shows in a live-action adaptation. The anime series first aired on August 20, 2025, andstarting on June 11, 2025, it is celebrating over two decades of worldwide domination....

OnePlus has confirmedthat it will launch its OxygenOS 15 update, based on the latestAndroid 15platform release, at a press conference on October 24 at 6am ET / 3am PT. The event will be livestreamed on the company’sofficial YouTube channel. While we don’t yet have all the details about whatOnePlushas in store for its next generation ofOxygenOS, the company is teasing improvements in the form of AI, smoother animations, and a refreshed visual design....

Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FS15 And FS7 With 29mm Wide-Angle Lens Panasonichave announceda pair of new LUMIX FS-series cameras today, the 12.1-megapixel DMC-FS15 and the 10.1-megapixel DMC-FS7. Each has a 29mm wide-angle lens, Panasonic’s Venus Engine IV image processor, and as well as stills can record 30fps 16:9 WVGA (848 x 480) video. To that, the DMC-FS15 adds a 5x optical zoom with the company’s Mega OIS (Optical Image Stabilization). The LUMIX DMC-FS7 has to make do with a 4x optical zoom with Mega OIS, but lacks its FS15 sibling’s intelligent exposure and AF tracking....

For fans of thePokémonseries, who have managed to catch a lot of pocket monsters over the years, Nintendo is changing its cloud storage option. The Pokémon Company introduced the Pokémon Bank years ago, allowing players to store their digital monsters in the cloud and, with a sister app, transfer the creatures to newer games (as long as the old Pokémon are supported in the new titles). But now the company is moving away from that system and transitioning to what it calls “Pokémon Home”....

Traveling has long been a nightmare especially when airports are involved. New technology could eventually end one of the biggest headaches of this type of travel: having to remove items such as laptops and iPads from our bags during the security check. According toAmerican Airlines, it’s testing new 3D scanning technology through a collaboration with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The scanner currently at the Terminal 8 security checkpoint at New York’s John F....

Coincidental it may be to have recently played two puzzle games in quick succession, a benefit to such a schedule is the ability to marvel at the subtleties developers (or even lone creators as the case may be here) can harbor in such a genre. As risky these types of games might be on the basis of their challenge – the way puzzles themselves are constructed and how little they give away – there’s always respect and admiration to take away in the type of releases that excel, maybe above all else taking place, in doing so much with so little....

Sanyo Xacti HD1010 1080i Camcorder With Face Chaser Sanyo have updated their popularXacticamcorder, introducing new “Face Chaser” technology that can recognise and keep in focus up to twelve individual faces simultaneously. TheHD1010also has a 10x optical zoom, records video in 1080i high-definition, and can capture 4-megapixel stills. Both video and still image stabilization are present, as is a 2.7-inch fold-out LCD viewfinder, 40MB of internal memory (which you’ll want to add to via the SDHC card slot, since an hour of 1080i footage gobbles up around 1GB) and all in the same, ergonomic shape that helped make the camcorder so popular....