NEW YORK (AP) — By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe tea parties. The ability to make something out of nothing may seem ...

Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker face off in one of Lego's new Smart Play sets (Nathan Ingraham for Engadget) Lego’s Smart Play system announced at CES 2026 earlier this week is a new embrace of digital ...

Consumers who made purchases on the Google Play Store between August 2016 and September 2023 may be eligible for a payout. Eligible users will receive a minimum of $2, with most receiving automatic ...

Google has settled a $700 million Play Store lawsuit. Users who made purchases will receive automatic payments. Google also has to make it easier to access and pay for apps. If you made a purchase on ...

A paralyzed man says he can now play first-person shooters like “Battlefield 6” using a Neuralink brain implant. “I can now aim with my thoughts,” wrote Rob Greiner, who is paralyzed from the ...

Gamers have found ways to play Doom on all sorts of devices, but swapping your screen for an Epson thermal printer spitting out frames as fast as it can on receipt paper could be the worst. According ...

Xbox Play Anywhere lets you buy a supported digital game and use it on both Xbox and Windows PC. The feature creates one connected library that follows your Microsoft account. This guide shows you how ...

Google will start taking action on Android apps in the official Google Play store that have high background activity and cause excessive battery draining. Apps that exceed a "bad behavior threshold" ...

The New York Jets are no longer winless. On Sunday, Justin Fields helped lead a fourth-quarter comeback against the Cincinnati Bengals to secure the Jets their first win of the NFL season and the ...

AV1 is a next-generation open video codec that offers high-quality playback at smaller file sizes. However, not all players or devices support it by default. Here’s how to play AV1 files on your PC ...