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The Last of Us Season 2 release date teased with haunting new clip

CES 2025 hit us with a curveball when Naughty Dog Studios' creative director Neal Druckmann unexpectedly stepped onto the Sony press conference stage to drop a brand new trailer for The Last of Us Season 2 — and yeah, it’s as intense as you’d hope.

It's the latest in a few teasers dropped over the last few months. In this one, not only do we get to see our favorite post-apocalyptic duo, Joel and Ellie (Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey), back in action, but we also learned that the new...

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NYT Strands hints, answers for January 7

If you're reading this, you're looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game.

Strands requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram," a special,...

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NYT Connections Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for January 7

Connections: Sports Edition is a new version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans.

Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for...

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NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for January 7, 2025

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for today's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve...

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Wordle today: Answer, hints for January 7, 2025

Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer.

If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

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Sony and Hondas collab EV AFEELA will cost an outrageous $89,900

CES 2025 has brought us some major information about Sony and Honda's collab electric vehicle, AFEELA, and wow it's a doozy. The AFEELA 1, a sleek EV five years in the making, is set to hit the streets — but only if you’re in California and ready to shell out a cool $89,900.

Sony Honda Mobility (SHM) revealed pricing and preorder details for the AFEELA 1 lineup at their CES press event. The base model, AFEELA 1 Origin, will start at the aforementioned $89,900, while the premium AFEELA 1...

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Nvidia reveals powerful Blackwell RTX 50-series GPUs in CES keynote

"Today we are announcing our next generation: the RTX Blackwell family."

What a way to open CES 2025, Jensen Huang.

Nvidia's newest GeForce RTX graphics cards may have leaked extensively ahead of the consumer tech event, but that doesn't make the company CEO's official announcement any less exciting for gamers, crypto miners, and people who do AI stuff.

SEE ALSO: CES 2025 highlights: What we've seen so far

During the PC hardware titan's CES...

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CES 2025: Acers new Aspire Vero 16 laptop is partially made from *checks notes* oyster shells

The journey of Acer's latest eco-conscious laptop begins in the brackish waters near its home base in Taiwan.

The tech company announced on Monday a next-generation Aspire Vero 16 that's made partially out of oyster shells, which have been cleaned, crushed, and mixed with a blend of more than 70 percent post-consumer recycled plastic. (You best believe it's a world's first.) Acer showcased the PC ahead of CES 2025, and it'll be available for purchase this April starting at $799.99.

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Sony announces Ghost of Tsushima anime series

If you spent hours mastering the art of the samurai and composing haikus as Jin Sakai in Ghost of Tsushima, you'll want to sit and meditate on this news: Sony has confirmed that Sucker Punch's epic 2020 action-adventure game is now being adapted into an anime series.

Announced at CES 2025 by Asad Qizilbash, head of PlayStation Productions, an anime series based on Ghost of Tsushima is set to launch on Sony-owned platform Crunchyroll in 2027.

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Alienware revives its Area-51 lineup and debuts positive pressure desktop at CES 2025

As CES 2025 innovations roll in, we're keyed into the intersection of product launches. Nvidia kicked off CES with a highly anticipated keynote that unveiled the brand's next generation of graphics cards, the GeForce RTX 5000 series.

While there's plenty of excitement around this innovation in graphics, Alienware's CES announcement is putting the Nvidia graphic cards to use.

Dell's flagship gaming brand debuted its most advanced monitor yet, already lauded at CES. Plus, the brand is reviving...

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Source: Chargers plan to add depth with RB Elliott

The Los Angeles Chargers plan to sign running back Ezekiel Elliott to their practice squad Tuesday pending a physical, a source confirmed to ESPN.

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Umar Shakir

HP’s Omen Max 16 is its most powerful gaming laptop yet

The new Omen Max 16 alongside HyperX accessories. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge

HP is announcing an updated lineup of notebooks at CES that includes new EliteBooks, a new Ryzen AI-powered ZBook workstation, and a fresh 16-inch Omen Max gaming laptop that can spin its fan in reverse to help clear out dust from its vents.

The Omen Max 16 could surely benefit from a cooling system that doesn’t get mucked up too quickly, considering it will come with next-gen Nvidia...

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Antonio G. Di Benedetto

Alienware’s new Area-51 laptops have light-up trackpads and fans

It’s like an extraterrestrial light show.

Alienware is bringing back its Area-51 computer line, and its new flagship laptops are much showier than the secretive air base they’re named after. The bombastic, UFO-like Area-51 laptops are paired with a range of top-flight specs featuring Intel Arrow Lake CPUs and next-gen Nvidia GPUs — coming in two sizes: big (16-inch) and bigger (18-inch). They’ll start at a pricey $3,199 when select configurations launch by the end of Q1 2025,...

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Antonio G. Di Benedetto

The Titan Dragon Edition is MSI’s latest all-out gaming laptop

There’s a part of me that wants to casually stroll into a cafe with this thing and act totally normal.

Lots of gaming laptops go for maximum performance with maximum RGB showiness, but nothing goes harder than MSI’s Titan. The company announced its Titan 18 HX laptop at CES 2025. It’s an 18-inch behemoth with an illuminated touchpad, Intel’s Core Arrow Lake processor, and Nvidia’s new RTX 50-series GPU for a starting price of around $5,000.

But is that really outrageous...

The Verge

Antonio G. Di Benedetto

MSI’s 2025 gaming laptops have the latest from Nvidia, Intel, and AMD — plus lots of RGB

Image: MSI

Nvidia’s launch of its new RTX 50-series graphics cards is a big moment for a gaming-focused company like MSI. The PC component maker is refreshing most of its laptop line with new Nvidia GPUs, revised designs, and of course, plenty of AI branding fluff. It’s also offering more CPU options from AMD across its dizzying array of models and configurations. But while there’s a plethora of choices here for gamers, they’re best if you’re partial to jumbo-sized laptops,...

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Quentyn Kennemer

HP put Google TV inside a gaming monitor

HP’s Omen 32x monitor. | Image: HP

HP is jumping into the smart monitor space with the Omen 32x, a gaming monitor that doubles as a streaming device running Google TV. It’ll ship this April for $749.99, the company announced at CES 2025.

The HP Omen 32x Smart Gaming Monitor has a 31.5-inch 4K IPS display with a 144Hz refresh rate, 1ms response time, 400 nit peak brightness, and DisplayHDR 400 with Dolby Vision. The panel covers 95 percent of the Display P3 and 99 percent of the...

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Jay Peters

Get ready for virtual AI cohosts that chat with Twitch stars and control their streams

Image: Inworld AI, Streamlabs, and Nvidia

Inworld AI, Streamlabs, and Nvidia are partnering on a new AI assistant for streamers that can provide technical support for streams in real time and even act as a quippy cohost.

As a cohost, the “Intelligent Streaming Assistant” can understand what’s happening in games like Fortnite and offer “contextually relevant commentary,” according to a press release. “This awareness enables the assistant to do things like highlight a...

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Sean Hollister

Alienware’s 27-inch 4K 240Hz OLED monitor is only a couple months away

Image: Dell

Alienware is joining Asus, Samsung, and MSI in making a silly “world’s first” claim — all four of them are now set to launch a genuinely exciting new wave of 27-inch 4K QD-OLED gaming monitors with an excellent 240Hz refresh rate. Remember when I called Alienware’s 32-inch version the best monitor of CES last year because it finally offered the best of all worlds? Now, you’ll be able to buy a smaller 27-inch version, without a curved screen, in a far more...

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Sean Hollister

Alienware’s flagship desktop finally ditches proprietary parts

The new Alienware Area-51 desktop. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge

Alienware has built some of the easiest-to-open toolless gaming PCs around — but for years, the Dell-owned brand has stifled their upgrade potential by limiting them to Dell’s own proprietary power supplies and motherboards.

But the 2025 Alienware Area-51, an 80-liter tower just introduced at CES in Las Vegas, finally ditches the proprietary parts in favor of standard ATX components.

Even though the...

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