Everything you may have missed from the past week.

The Otter 2 Feature Drop is the final stable release of Android Studio in 2025, and it’s available now with Gemini 3, Backup and Sync, Agent Mode improvements, and other updates. “This final stable ...

Splash Damage is now facing massive layoffs as the company enters studio-wide consultation. Consultation is part of the process in the UK when it comes to layoffs. Splash Damage was acquired by ...

A consultation process has kicked off at Splash Damage that will affect all staff and is expected to conclude with major job losses at the studio, the company announced this week. Here’s the full ...

Two months ago, storied shooter studio Splash Damage parted ways with Tencent and ended up in the hands of private equity investors. I said at the time that it probably wasn't a good development, and ...

Longtime English studio Splash Damage is facing an uncertain future as it begins a consultation process that will affect all staff and likely lead to layoffs. On November 26, Splash Damage publicly ...

The quiet expanse of a once-active United States military base is about to be transformed into one of Hollywood’s most ambitious new playgrounds. After years of searching for the perfect hub to scale ...

If you want to share your Android phone’s screen content, you have a few options: take a screenshot, cast the screen, or record it with the built-in screen recorder. The screen recorder has been ...

Splash Damage is now no longer owned by the Chinese video-game giant Tencent, having been acquired by private-equity investors. The UK-based studio confirmed in a statement that it would continue to ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

In Ron Howard's Emmy-nominated guest stint on The Studio as a fictionalized version of himself, he receives a note from the film studio that he does not take well. "Oh God," he says with a laugh.

Fair warning: The tip you’re about to ingest has nothing to do with any of the fancy-schmancy, accuracy-challenged AI ballyhoo that dominates most tech news coverage at the moment. Nope — it’s just a ...