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Sunday, 8 February 2026

Stream Super Bowl 2026 in Canada: How to Watch the Show Today

Stream Super Bowl live in Canada! Get today's kickoff time, free streaming options, and don’t miss Bad Bunny's halftime show!

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PS Plus Users Get Free PS5 Upgrade for Hit Adventure Game

PS Plus users have been informed that they are entitled to the recently released free PS5 upgrade for one of the best PS4 action adventure games. Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition‘s PS5 port is already available to existing owners at no additional cost. However, PS Plus users have yet to receive the freebie.

Hollow Knight PS5 game free for PS Plus members, but there’s a catch

Team Cherry has confirmed that the PS5 upgrade should be available to PS Plus subscribers. The studio is aware that the new release hasn’t gone live for members yet, and said that it is “speaking to Sony to resolve this issue.”

At the time of this writing, the freebie still hasn’t become available. But there are two things players need to note: 1. As usual, the PS Store listing update for Hollow Knight has triggered the long-running glitch that causes games to disappear from the PS Plus Extra catalog. 2. The free version apparently won’t be available to those who claimed Hollow Knight as a monthly freebie back in 2020.

On the first point, we’ve written about this issue at length before. The gist is that Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition is part of the PS Plus Extra and Premium catalog. However, those who didn’t add the game to their library/download it before the PS5 port’s launch won’t be able to see it in the catalog until the PS Store is updated properly. Do not purchase the game yet if you’re a PS Plus Extra/Premium member! Wait for Hollow Knight to reappear in the catalog.

On the second point, Team Cherry’s statement says that the free PS5 upgrade is “for PS+ Game Catalog players.” Since Essential/monthly games are not the same as the PS Plus “catalog,” we don’t think this freebie will be available to those who claimed the game in November 2020.

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Saturday, 7 February 2026

Apple iPad (A16 Chip) Sees Another Drop, Catch a Falling Star at a Record Low Near AirPods Pro Pricing

The underrated and unsung hero of the iPad family is back down to just $300, a great alternative to premium-level tablet prices.

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Friday, 6 February 2026

PS Store Finally Gets Feature Inexplicably Removed Years Ago

A bizarrely removed PS Store feature has finally returned to the Sony storefront’s web version, making browsing a little less cumbersome. For some reason, Sony removed the ability to view game images on its web store, forcing users to look up games that they weren’t familiar with elsewhere.

Game images feature returns to PS Store web version, but no trailers

The PS Store still has a long way to go to match the likes of Steam and Xbox, and we still don’t have the ability to view trailers on PS Store web, but we’ll take small victories for now.

Strangely enough, videos and trailers are available on the console store and PS App, so we’re not quite sure what Sony’s reason is for removing the feature from the web store.

What’s particularly odd is that game screenshots were always available on PS Store web’s backend. They did turn up in Google image searches, and tech-savvy folks could scrape them from the store’s backend, so it beggars belief that it took Sony years just to enable viewing them normally.

Here’s hoping we get game trailers next, as well as a permanent solution for all the shovelware clogging the PS Store. For its part, Sony has been cracking down on scam developers, but has failed to nip the problem in the bud.

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PS5 Gets Surprise Free Demo for Gorgeous Upcoming RPG

PS5 players have been surprised with yet another free demo for a highly anticipated upcoming game, this time a promising RPG. Pragmata wasn’t the only Capcom game to drop a demo on the PS Store, as Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection also made a welcome appearance in the demos section.

Play upcoming PS5 RPG Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection’s free demo without PS Plus

All PS5 players can play Monster Hunter Stories 3’s free demo. It’s not locked behind PS Plus Premium, nor does it require a subscription to play any aspect of it because it’s an offline single-player game.

That said, a PS Plus subscription is required if you want to cloud stream the demo. PS Portal users can also remote play.

As for what the demo entails, you can play the beginning of Monster Hunter Stories 3, and all of your save data will transfer to the full game when it launches on March 13.

“Azuria and Vermeil: two countries, on a path to destruction. When all hope seems lost, an egg is found. Inside is a Rathalos, a species thought to be extinct,” a synopsis reads. “But this quavering light of hope is quickly extinguished, giving way to the darkness of despair. Born from the egg is not a single Rathalos, but twins, bearing the Skyscale marking that hearkens back to the disastrous civil war of 200 years prior.”

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The Morning After: The Switch is officially Nintendo’s most popular console ever

With over 155 million sold, Nintendo’s Switch is officially the company’s biggest console hit ever. It’s been a long road to surpassing the DS, which reached 154 million consoles over its seven-year lifespan. The Switch, meanwhile, is a year shy of its 10-year anniversary.

We’ve seen the original console, the non-hybrid Lite and the OLED versions of the Switch over the decade, but despite being replaced by Switch 2, the original is still selling at a strong pace: 1.36 million units in Q3. Just think how many Joy-Cons it sold/replaced?

Next goal: try to be the best-selling console of all time. Currently, that’s the PlayStation 2.

Nintendo is just shy of five million units to go.

— Mat Smith

The biggest stories you might have missed

Are they talking about us behind our backs?

Moltbook is a “digital petri dish,” a Reddit-style forum populated entirely by AI agents that post, follow and even gossip about their owners in dedicated submolts. Built using vibe coding, it’s a surreal experiment in autonomous socialization — though there’s no shortage of user-data security flaws. Is Moltbook a profound look at the dead internet theory or just a very loud AI echo chamber? Or something in the middle? Karissa explains it all. (Sorry, Karissa.)

Nintendo’s Virtual Boy is a niche slice of gaming history.

Lean in.

Nintendo’s worst-selling console was probably the Virtual Boy. It sold less than 800,000 units, with only 22 games in Japan and 14 in North America. And it didn’t even have the guts to launch in Europe or Australia.

But Nintendo doesn’t care. It’s brought the Virtual Boy back, baby, as an add-on for the Switch 2, in all its red monochrome ’90s-tech glory. And we finally got to test it.

It even includes the original bipod, which you use to prop it up and lean into it. Yes, you still can’t just wear the thing like modern VR headsets. The Switch 2 console, sans Joy-Cons, then slides in, acting as display, battery and processor.

It seems more of a historical nod than anything else. This is pretty much 30-year-old VR tech, as-is. But… I still want one as a gaming objet d’art. A hundred bucks is a fair chunk of change for that, though. Read on for our full impressions.

Surprise! Google teases the Pixel 10a

Pre-orders open later this month.

Google posted a teaser video revealing its new entry-level smartphone, the Pixel 10a, in a lovely lilac colorway. We don’t know much more, however. You can see it’s another dual-camera Pixel, with that same flush body — which I like. (How does that already seem retro?)

Leaks suggest a 6.3-inch display and a large 5,100 mAh battery. It otherwise looks and seems like the Pixel 9a, although Google promises that there’s “more in store.” Last year’s A-series launched at $500 — will this land at a similar price? You can pre-order the Pixel 10a on February 18.

AMD suggests a 2027 launch for next-gen Xbox

Shouldn’t Microsoft be saying this?

AMD CEO Lisa Su revealed on the company’s latest earnings call that Microsoft’s development of an Xbox with a semi-custom SOC from AMD is “progressing well to support a launch in 2027.” Maybe Microsoft can chase that best-selling console crown too?

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