MapTap is a daily geography game where players solve puzzles and can share scores on Discord or clipboard. The interface includes features like login, MapTap+ subscription, and an Antipode Hunter game mode.
Sony is reportedly testing a cashback incentive program for digital PS5 game purchases, offering select users wallet credit on games like The Blood of Dawnwalker. The feature, which appears to be in limited US testing, could help offset criticism over the removal of physical media support.
Good Start Labs, a startup spun out of Every with $3.6 million in funding, uses games like Diplomacy and 1830 as training environments to teach AI models strategic reasoning and real-world skills. The company found that training a 30B model on the railroad strategy game 1830 improved its performance on financial research tasks, demonstrating that gaming mechanics can transfer to practical work applications.
MultiTool Pro is an all-in-one application offering 80+ free utilities including calculators, converters, QR code generators, and AI tools like paraphrasing and grammar checking. It also provides access to 100+ online resources spanning media platforms, games, translation services, and productivity tools, with support for 25+ languages and features like a built-in browser and smart chatbot.
Nintendo released a new batch of Switch 1 backwards compatibility fixes for Switch 2, including games like Attack on Titan 2, Go Vacation, and Ninja Five-O. The fixes are tied to firmware version 23.0.0, with a full list of 22 newly compatible games and 6 currently unsupported titles also provided.
At Tokyo Game Show 2026, Hideo Kojima announced that Swedish actor Bill Skarsgård will play the lead role in PHYSINT, an upcoming action-espionage game from Kojima Productions. Skarsgård joins an ensemble cast including Charlee Fraser, Don Lee, and Minami Hamabe, with Kojima expressing confidence in the project based on costume fittings and camera tests conducted earlier in the year.
Xbox Game Pass is receiving a major September lineup including Ninja Gaiden 4, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, and Dune: Awakening, though Microsoft has recently limited cloud gaming hours and may remove day-one releases by 2027. Eight games are leaving the service on September 30.
PlayStation 5 received a system software update introducing new widgets that display the most popular and trending games by region, alongside features for speaker identification in party chats and enhanced image quality settings for PS5 Pro users.
DER DIE DAS is a free app that teaches German noun genders (der, die, das) through spaced-repetition flashcards using the FSRS algorithm, eight solo games, and real-time 1v1 duels. It covers vocabulary from telc levels A1.1 through B2 across ~3,000 words, supports custom vocabulary, and offers an interface in 17 languages.