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Jessica has written for online outlets since 2008, and she joined Engadget in 2015 after four years as senior reporter at Joystiq. As Engadget’s primary video game editor, her work spans reviews, interviews with prominent developers, in-depth articles about indie creators, and videos on industry trends. She’s published several tech-industry features, including a breakdown of nuclear technology and an investigation into a metaverse scam. Jessica has a B.A. in digital media from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and has appeared on Al Jazeera, Reply All, Spawn On Me, Tech News Today and other platforms. She has moderated multiple panels at venues including CES, E3 and the Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. Jessica is also a novelist currently working on her second near-future, sci-fi-adjacent book.
EngadgetAll the hilarious corporate BS you might have missed in the Xbox leaks
It's the day after the largest document leak in Xbox's history, and now that the important news is on the record, we can all take a step back and process the ridiculousness of the whole situation.
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Amazon's Echo Show 8 offers spatial audio and a dynamic, proximity-based UI
Amazon debuted an updated Echo Show 8 during its live event today, highlighting the device's new display, camera, microphones and spatial-audio capabilities.
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Xbox head Phil Spencer responds to a day of massive leaks
Xbox head Phil Spencer has spoken publicly — and semi-privately — about today's big document leak for the first time.
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Talos Principle 2 and the quiet subversion of optimistic sci-fi
In terms of sci-fi themes, The Talos Principle 2 is way closer to the original Star Trek than Picard.
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Baby Steps inches toward a summer 2024 release
Baby Steps, an indie game that generated a ton of buzz when it was announced in June, is coming out in summer 2024 for PC and PS5.
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Princess Peach: Showtime hits Switch on March 22, 2024
Princess Peach Showtime puts everyone's favorite pink-draped mini monarch under the spotlight on March 22, 2024.
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Apple Watch Series 9 can handle Siri requests without your iPhone
It's September, which means the air is thick with the promise of fall and Apple just revealed a new Apple Watch.
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Forza Motorsport preview: A warm welcome for casual racing fans
I’ve had a lot of fun tinkering around in the first few hours of Forza Motorsport’s serious, car-obsessed world.
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Starfield review: You will like some of it
Starfield has moments of beauty, but it features just as many instances of drudgery and disconnection in its main quest line. Playing on pre-release code on Xbox Series S, these issues are only exacerbated by chugging framerates, low-resolution set pieces and roughly one hard crash every five hours. Starfield is big and largely bland, and while it gets some open-world gameplay aspects right, it doesn’t offer anything new for the sci-fi or RPG genres.
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Panic's first games showcase highlights five deliciously weird titles
Panic just unveiled a fresh slate of projects it's publishing in its first-ever games showcase. Panic showed off five games and teased new titles from the makers of FAR and the team behind Untitled Goose Game.
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Little Nightmares III will let you drag a friend through The Nowhere in 2024
Not only does Little Nightmares III exist, but it's also bringing two-player co-op to the series for the first time. Little Nightmares III is due out in 2024.
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The cozy cat game that escaped from Valve
Little Kitty, Big City is basically the opposite of Left 4 Dead, Half-Life or Counter-Strike -- which is surprising, considering its creator helped design those games over the past 17 years.
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'Skate Story' and four other Devolver games have been delayed to 2024
The indie publisher's inaugural Devolver Delayed showcase delivered on its promise, featuring five games whose release windows have been pushed out of 2023 and into 2024.
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Why Baldur’s Gate III is an accidental PS5 console exclusive
Larian is having trouble fitting Baldur’s Gate III on the Xbox Series S, the lower-priced and lower-powered console in Microsoft’s ninth-generation lineup. Microsoft requires games to run equally on the Xbox Series X and Series S. With Baldur’s Gate III, this parity rule means the game will be console-exclusive to the PS5 for four months, at least.
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Indie games have entered the era of bespoke publishing
For anyone with an eye on video game news, it’s been hard to ignore the recent rise of names like Annapurna Interactive, Devolver Digital, Private Division, Humble, Epic Games and Netflix tied to independent projects. The distribution process for indie developers has shifted over the past few years from a self-publishing-first model, to one that prioritizes deal-making and acquisitions. For the moment, this shift is powering a small but highly visible boom in the world of indie games.
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Simogo tries to explain the mysteries of ‘Lorelei and the Laser Eyes’
“We had the title which we really liked, and from there we have been trying to figure out what laser eyes are," Simogo co-founder Simon Flesser told Engadget.
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'Storyteller' is the latest hot indie game coming to Netflix
Storyteller is a game about writing, word puzzles and the twisted tales we tell ourselves just to get through the day, and it'll be playable via the Netflix app on September 26th.
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'to a T' is a coming-of-age game about a T-posing teenager
In to a T, players have to navigate the world as a teenager who can't lower their arms from an outstretched, T-shaped position.
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Bloober Team is done making psychological horror games
Layers of Fear was Bloober Team’s final psychological horror game. The studio didn’t advertise this fact, but behind the scenes, a switch flipped weeks ago: When the remastered and expanded Layers of Fear collection came out on June 15th, it marked the end of a phase that was known internally as Bloober Team 2.0.
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'Simpler Times' is the coziest game I've played in a long time
Simpler Times provides a supremely peaceful environment and invites players to get lost in it. Tje game comes from Transylvania studio stoneskip and is due to be published by iam8bit in 2024.