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Cybersecurity researchers at McAfee Labs have identified a widespread malware distribution campaign dubbed “ClickFix” that uses fake CAPTCHA pages to infect users with Lumma Stealer malware, PCMag reports. The attack is said to have a global reach and mainly targets users looking for cracked pirated games and GitHub users. The infection spreads in two main

The free-to-play mobile game Pokémon Sleep has this week received an update allowing you to now pair your smartwatch. To enable this feature, you’ll need to link your account to Apple Health or Health Connect. Below is a list of compatible devices. You can get detailed instructions on how to pair your specific smartwatch brand

There’s a big spotlight on Nintendo right now, as the company is on the verge of unveiling their next console. So, people are paying close attention to just about everything that Nintendo is doing. For example, there’s something that Nintendo has filed to the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, earlier this weekend. The company has

If you’ve gotten all excited about Linkin Park making a return, and are still powering through 2AM ranked games in League of Legends, you may be excited to hear that these two interests are coliding tomorrow. This is thanks to this year’s Worlds anthem which has been created by the band. Announced via various Riot

Samsung is officially announcing mass production has begun for a new M.2 SSD that has the highest capacity and performance ever offered by the company. The drive has the flashy name of PM9E1 (pardon the pun); it’s likely an OEM drive or one aimed at enterprise, as it doesn’t have the company’s typical 980/990 naming

Image: Private Division After being slapped with a delay earlier this month, Private Division and Wētā Workshop took to today’s Hobbit Day showcase to reveal that Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game will arrive on Switch on 25th March 2025 (which is, canonically, the day that Frodo and Samwise destroyed

The latest Sword Art Online game will be releasing on October 4 for Nintendo Switch and other platforms and Bandai Namco has provided a new six-minute long “System” trailer ahead of the launch to provide players with some info on how the game plays in both solo and online play. After the Galaxia system malfunctions,

There’s now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber – check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don’t worry if that’s not for you, the main show will always be free. Who

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Janice Lee (STScI), Thomas Williams (Oxford), PHANGS Team On a clear night with dark skies, you can catch a glimpse of the Milky Way, a luminous arc stretching across the horizon. To the unaided eye, its translucent clouds are simply beautiful splashes in the night, their grandeur inspiring hundreds of

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube778k It finally happened: Lego and The Legend of Zelda have come together, and the form they’ve taken is that of the Great Deku Tree in two delicious flavours. Whether you prefer Ocarina of Time’s or Breath of the Wild’s incarnation, this kit covers both. Not at the same time,

The Netflix anime for Capcom’s Devil May Cry series, teased last year, has received its first proper trailer and will debut in April 2025. Animated by Studio Mir (The Legend of Korra, X-Men ’97) and produced by Adi Shankar (Castlevania), Devil May Cry will see series protagonist Dante cut through hordes of demons with blades

I’ve gone through what I can only describe as emotional and financial turmoil over the PS5 Pro. My brain flicks between absolutely refusing to buy it and insisting I must buy it every other second I’m awake. It’s been a hard time, for me personally, as I worked through these very important issues. The good

Scientists in Canada have devised a new way to tackle the two gases most commonly implicated in climate change: carbon dioxide and methane. Using a touch of sunlight, their process converts both gases into methanol, which can be used for fuel, manufacturing, wastewater treatment, and more.  In a paper for Nature Communications, researchers at McGill

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube778k Following a release date announcement at the World Championships in August, The Pokémon Company has now released a gameplay video for its upcoming mobile title Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket. This new video takes trainers through the steps of joining in on the fun. It’s as simple as opening

A remaster of the PS VIta action RPG Freedom Wars has been announced for a January 10, 2025 release on Switch and other platforms. Readers can check out the announcement trailer and a description of the game from Bandai Namco below: “Good morning, Sinner. For the crime of existing, your 1,000,000-year sentence begins today. Fulfill

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has a marketing line that sounds like the usual bluster you get around any publisher’s big tentpole game. It is, the publisher and its developers claim, “the most ambitious sim ever undertaken”. I see marketing taglines like that all the time, obviously. I usually filter them out. But this one… it

Some of today’s high-end televisions contain quantum dots, tiny components that can help screens produce more vibrant colors. At least, that’s what TV manufacturers claim. If you don’t observe the quantum dots, are they even there? In the case of TCL’s smart TVs, the answer is apparently “no.” Testing of three TCL TVs that claim

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube778k Publisher Knights Peak and developer VEA Games have announced that their upcoming platformer Nikoderiko: The Magical World will be launching on the Switch eShop on 15th October 2024. Looking like a bit of a cross between Donkey Kong Country and Crash Bandicoot, Nikoderiko sees you follow the story of

Update: VGC says that these leaked Switch 2 images lineup with the final design Nintendo partners were shown: “While the images are unverified, one source, who has not seen the final ‘ Switch 2’ console but has been briefed on Nintendo’s plans, told VGC that the Reddit images match what the company has told partners to

Sul Sul! It’s official, Sims fans: a movie based on the beloved life-sim is in the works, and Barbie’s Margot Robbi and Loki’s Kate Herron are at the helm. Way back in March of this year it was reported that warm off the heels of all that Barbie success, its producer and star

After years of speculation, Sony finally took the wraps off the PlayStation 5 Pro last week. The revamped game console looks much like its predecessor, but it has more stripes. Naturally, that means it’s faster, but how much faster? A new analysis of the machine reveals that despite the faster hardware, most of the improvements

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube777k Pathea Games has revealed My Time at Evershine, the successor to My Time At Portia and My Time At Sandrock. There’s no release window available yet, as it’s revealed that development is still in the early stages, with a Kickstarter campaign planned to go live on 24th September 2024.

Prepare to sink your teeth into a new season of the Castlevania anime, because Netflix has revealed that Season 2 of Castlevania: Nocturne will premiere in January 2025- promising a dance with darkness and a race against the clock to start off the new year. The announcement was made through a new trailer that can

If you’re looking forward to digging into Starfield‘s Shattered Space expansion when it arrives later this month, you’re in luck, as Bethesda’s just put out a fresh deep-dive video that sees some of the DLC’s developers talk you through what you’ll be in for when you head off to discover what on Earth’s up with

Apple has secured the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) first-ever approval for Bluetooth earbuds to be sold as over-the-counter hearing aids. Beginning this fall, AirPods Pro 2 users with hearing loss can leverage companion software to adaptively amplify sounds from their environment in real time. During its “Glowtime” event on Monday, Apple debuted a

The current order isn’t set in stone and is based on each game’s overall User Rating, which means that things can change in real-time. So, if you haven’t had a chance to share your thoughts on some of your favourites yet and you want to get involved, you can click on the Star Rating of

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Master Works recently launched in Japan and one of the many things touched upon in the book is the world beneath Hyrule which is known as the Depths. The game’s art director Satoru Takizawa and game director Hidemaro Fujibayashi outlined what they had in mind visually when

Apologies to those of you hoping to escape to a cosy Hobbit life, but Tales of the Shire has been delayed into 2025. While there’s a seemingly infinite number of cosy games to play at any given moment, Lord of the Rings fans were unsurprisingly particularly excited by Tales of the Shire. You

When we first began giving advice on tweaking your graphics card performance, it was a rough time for PC gamers. The rise of cryptocurrency collided with the pandemic, making it almost impossible to buy PC hardware at reasonable prices. AMD and Nvidia were selling every single card they made to bot farms, which scalpers sold

Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media’s sites from an editorial perspective. He’s also the editor of Time Extension, the network’s newest site, which – paradoxically – is all about gaming’s past glories. View original source here.