In a nutshell: Apple has announced it is holding an unexpected event on December 2 in New York City. It has asked members of the press to "Join us for an Apple special event honoring our favorite apps and games of 2019."

CNBC notes that Apple usually sends out an annual press release celebrating the best apps, games, TV shows, podcasts, and more. Last year saw iPhone game Donut Country, musician Drake, and the Black Panther movie, among many others, honored. This

Rumor mill: It appears that Sony may not change the look and feel of the PlayStation 5's controller much from the current generation. Other than a few feature, diagrams of the new controller look to be about the same as the PS4's gamepad.

Sony’s next PlayStation is at least a year away, and some allegedly leaked photos of a developer kit shows the company is taking a radical new approach in terms of its physical design. However, according to recently published documents from the patent office

Something to look forward to: Valve has announced a new Half-Life game is on the way, but it’s not Half-Life 3; it’s a VR game featuring Half-Life 2 co-star Alyx Vance.

It was way back in February 2017 when Valve boss Gabe Newell said the company was making three “full” VR games. It didn’t generate a whole lot of excitement, but Half-Life: Alyx, as it’s called, could be

In context: iOS 13 users were faced with a pretty annoying software bug last month. The flaw in question caused background apps to close or reload aggressively and unexpectedly, which in turn led to users losing important unsaved work or their spot in a YouTube video.

According to the official patch notes for iOS 13.2.2 , Apple addressed those issues, as well as a problem that led to iPhones "temporarily" losing cellular service after a call ends.

However, as is often the case with software

Through the looking glass: The Sonic the Hedgehog 3 prototype ROM was likely created in October 1993 and contains a lot of leftover data. It's likely that there are plenty of assets here that haven't yet been uncovered so there's a lot for data miners to dig through still.

A piece of Sonic the Hedgehog history has made its way online after more than 25 years.

Sega Technical Institute (STI) started work on the sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog 2 in 199

In brief: While Apple is preparing for longer smartphone replacement cycles, the decision to price its iPhone 11 $50 lower than its predecessor has certainly had an effect in China, which is the second-largest market after the US.

When Apple revealed the iPhone 11 earlier this year, it was clear that this would be the phone that most people would want to buy. Compared to last year's iPhone XR, it's the same size phone with an improved camera system, better internals,

PC gamers have been eagerly awaiting AMD's response to Nvidia's RTX series GPUs. The Red Team did receive the Radeon RX 5700 and 5700 XT cards, which are both fantastic values for their respective costs, but they lack any form of ray tracing (like all of AMD's other GPUs). This lack of specific competition has effectively allowed Nvidia to dominate this side of the market and set its own rules (and outlandish prices).

Fortunately, things could be about

Straight from the dark side: The debut of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is only a month away. In celebration of its release, Samsung has announced it is offering a Sith special edition Star Wars Galaxy Note 10 Plus.

The black Note 10 comes with a themed case featuring the First Order badge and Star Wars logo on the back and red trim around the camera lens array. To complete the look, it comes bundled with a lightsaber-red S Pen and black Galaxy Buds. The charging case