Hasta La Gadget!

Resident Evil Village is a haunting horror romp starring a very tall and elegant vampire lady (and some other monsters, sure), and it’s heading to iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max on October 30. It’ll hit the M1 and M2 models of the iPad Pro and iPad Air on the same day. The base game will cost $40 and its Winters’ Expansion DLC will be an additional $20.

Resident Evil Village originally came to PC, PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S in 2021, and it became a cultural touchstone for its monster-mashing storyline. The game includes werewolf creatures, a mutant fish man, a murderous cult leader and festering, zombie-like enemies, though its breakout star was Countess Alcina Dimitrescu. She’s an exceptionally tall, undead, razor-fingered villain who leads a trio of vampiric daughters, and she’s simply fantastic.

Village landed on Mac in 2022. Apple revealed the iPhone and iPad versions during its annual iPhone event on September 12, 2023, but it didn’t share a release date at the time. Capcom provided the date on its site this week. The Resident Evil 4 remake, which landed on PC and consoles this year, is also due to hit Apple’s mobile devices in 2023, but no date has been confirmed just yet.

Other games coming to the iPhone 15 Pro — thanks to the new A17 Pro chipset — include Death Stranding and Assassin’s Creed Mirage. Death Stranding is due out this year, while Mirage is scheduled to hit in early 2024.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-iphone-15-pro-version-of-resident-evil-village-lands-on-october-30-153334740.html?src=rss

Barbie—a movie so big it had already won the U.S. box office in August—is also a movie so big that on Friday, it made the leap to IMAX for a one-week run. As usual, Barbie is on the forefront of what’s in fashion, something Dune director Denis Villeneuve, who’s very pro-IMAX, seems to agree with.

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The “Abbot Elementary” star remembered the AIDS crisis as an “ugly time in America” while accepting an award over the weekend.

Repairability website iFixit has published its teardown of the iPhone 15 Pro Max, and the results are a mixed bag. Local repair shops still have to deal with the company’s software-restricted “parts pairing” requirement, which means they need to order official components directly from Apple and get on the phone with a company employee before iOS will accept individual part replacements.

On the positive side, iFixit praised Apple for returning to a “dual-entry” removable glass back cover with the iPhone 15 Pro models — a feature that debuted with the standard iPhone 14 line last year. “This is a win for consumers as back glass repairs have been outrageously expensive on the high-end models until now, costing as much as $550,” iFixit said in its teardown video.

iFixit also examined the phone’s titanium frame and came away less than impressed. While noting that titanium is dirtier to produce than stainless steel and aluminum (mocking Apple’s “Mother Nature” skit in its launch event), the site also said the material scratches easily. “Unfortunately for the cool factor, we found that the color on the titanium shell scratches easily, a process that is only satisfying under the magnificent magnification of the microscope,” the teardown video said. “I could scratch this thing up all day.”

Elsewhere, iFixit found that the iPhone 15 Pro Max’s logic board appears to be the same as the one in the iPhone 15 Pro, and you have to remove the speaker and Taptic Engine to access the battery-removal tabs. Interestingly, the website also noted that the main and wide camera sensors on the iPhone 15 Pro Max appear identical to those on the iPhone 14 Pro Max, suggesting the “Tetraprism” periscope lens, which enables 5x optical zoom, is the only hardware-based camera update this year. “Any improvement in image quality has more to do with a new A17 SoC than the camera hardware itself,” iFixit said.

Dinging Apple for parts pairing appears primed to stand as a primary focus of iFixit’s Apple teardowns from now on. The repair advocacy website views it as significant enough of a problem to have lowered the iPhone 14’s repairability score from 7 out of 10 to 4 out of 10 nearly a year after launch because of it. “And as we’ve now come to expect, each year brings new parts pairing issues and bugs,” the video said. “This year’s edition is the LiDAR sensor, which now crashes if the sensor is swapped out. Calibration issue or not, these bugs need to be fixed, or else they might as well be paired with the logic board with a tiny Apple warning saying, ‘Hey, this phone is property of Apple.’”

Due to the parts pairing requirement, iFixit gave the iPhone 15 Pro Max a mere 4 out of 10 repairability score. “This phone won’t accept salvaged parts, it complicates at-home repair, and it won’t be any fun for your local repair tech,” the website said.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/iphone-15-pro-max-teardown-reveals-a-mixed-bag-for-repairability-164720796.html?src=rss

Crafted by Etsy shop Brahe Art Company, this acrylic Life Savers wall art is inspired by the classic fruity hard candy to provide a colorful addition to any room. Will I be hanging one over the fireplace mantel? My heart is saying yes, but my wife is firmly saying no.

The giant candies each measure approximately 3.5″ in diameter and are available mounted on an acrylic board (with choice of backing color) or in an open acrylic frame (also with choice of backing color), with a size of 24″ x 8″. Unfortunately, there is no closed frame option, which is a shame because there’s no doubt in my mind if they’re reachable, a friend will try to eat one, and I’m not getting stuck paying their dental bill.

I used to love Life Savers when I was a kid. Especially those Wint-O-Green ones that you can see spark if you bite them in the dark. Just be sure to keep your tongue away from all the sparking because a kid on the back of the bus told me it can catch fire. He also told me Pop Rocks can make your stomach explode, so I’m pretty sure he knew what he was talking about.