The Google Pixel 6 Pro is the search company’s most serious contender for the flagship smartphone crown yet. Between Google’s first-ever self-made Tensor processor, the massive 6.7-inch display, 120Hz refresh rate, 50MP main camera, 4x telephoto camera, and a remarkably reasonable $899 starting price, the Pixel 6 is throwing down everything to make itself the preeminent phone above the iPhone 13 Pro – not to mention all the Android phones from other companies like Samsung and OnePlus.

From the get-go, the Google Pixel 6 Pro looks unlike any of the other five Pixel phones that preceded it. The gentle curves and modest screen size of the previous devices are all thrown to the wayside to make way for a massive 6.7-inch device with a curved display, sharp corners, a center-positioned hole-punch camera, and a huge camera bar on the backside.

In many ways, these drastic changes make the Pixel 6 Pro a less distinct smartphone among the sea of glass rectangles in the Android phone market. But at the same time, it feels like a huge modernization of Google’s flagship phone.

That camera bar is easily the most distinguishing feature of the Pixel Pro 6 as it gives it an unmistakable rear face. Which is to say, it basically looks like the Geordi La Forge of smartphones. On the plus side, this expansive camera bar eliminates the issue of the device rocking from side to side, as it just sits on an even angle.

Going back to the new 6.7-inch display, it’s an LTPO OLED display with a gorgeously sharp QHD+ (1440 x 3120) resolution and a 19.5:9 aspect ratio made to watch widescreen movies. It also features an adaptive 120Hz refresh rate that makes it a step up from most Android phones and its little Pixel 6 brother. Google hasn’t listed the exact screen brightness and instead only states it has a high brightness mode, but to my eye, it’s as bright as the iPhone 13 Pro that hits 1,000 nits of sustained brightness.

Like I experienced on the iPhone 13 Pro, the new 120Hz screen makes scrolling through apps and news, flicking between screens, and generally navigating around the interface feel incredibly snappy. Unfortunately, just like the iPhone 13 Pro, you won’t be able to experience everything animating at 120Hz.

In my short testing so far, I can see that the Google Now feed and Facebook are operating at 120Hz, but Twitter jerks around at 60Hz. So it’ll be some time before all the apps can make full use of the Pixel 6 Pro’s speedy refresh rate.

Under the hood, the Pixel 6 Pro rocks Google’s first-ever self-made Tensor chip rather than utilizing a Qualcomm chip that’s powered almost every Android device until now. So far, the handset seems just as performant as any top-of-the-line Qualcomm Snapdragon 888-powered smartphone I’ve used this year, but the real power of Google Tensor will come to play with its ability to learn and adapt.

Google promises the Tensor chip can learn which apps you use most and stop wasting power on ones you never use. The new chip also powers all the AI-powered features that Pixel devices are already known for, such as live transcribing and translation and image processing. Having said that, I’ve only had the phone for half a day, so the phone has yet to acclimate to my usage yet.

As for the Pixel 6 Pro’s other specs, it comes equipped with 12 GB LPDDR5 RAM, plus your choice of either 128GB, 256GB, or 512GB of storage space. The battery on this device is also massive at 5,003mAh, and it’s rated for 24 hours of battery life. With Extreme Battery Saver mode, which turns off your non-essential apps, this device can last for a whopping 48 hours. And when you plug in the Pixel 6 Pro with a 30W power brick – sadly sold separately – you can get up to 50% battery back in just 30 minutes.

Cameras are easily the second most revised part of the Pixel 6 Pro. The main wide-angle camera now features a massive 50MP Bayer sensor with a 1/1.31-inch sensor size, dual pixel autofocus, as well as optical and image stabilization.

The telephoto camera is just as impressive with its new 48MP sensor and 4x optical zoom lens that completely 1UPs the new 3x zoom lens on the iPhone 13 Pro. Even better yet, with Google’s Super Res Zoom, you can shoot up to 20x that should look passable if Google’s optical and image stabilization is decent. This is something I’ll put to the test in my full review.

Unfortunately, the 12MP ultrawide camera has seen the least love, but it now features lens correction. The selfie camera also now uses an 11.1MP sensor and an up to 94-degree ultrawide field of view for group photos.

Alongside the new cameras, Google has introduced a boatload of new camera features. Most prominently, Magic Eraser lets you remove unwanted people and photo bombers from your photos, while Real Tone promises to capture more accurate skin tones better. The Pixel 6 Pro also introduces new Motion Modes to help you capture long exposures and action pans, the latter of which lets you capture motion blur around any moving subject you’re shooting.

The Google Pixel Pro brings a lot to the plate in the world of flagship smartphones and for a reasonable starting price of $899. We’ll have to see if it’s just a promise on paper in our forthcoming full review. The Google Pixel 6 Pro is available for preorder now and will release on October 28th.

Be sure to checking out the newly announced Google Pixel 6 that goes for an even more affordable $599.

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Following months of rumors, Google has officially announced the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro smartphones, as part of today's Pixel Fall Launch event.

Instead of a Qualcomm processor, the Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro feature a Tensor chip, which the tech giant says has been designed specifically around its artificial intelligence. Google says the Tensor chip will allow the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro to run smoother and launch apps faster with up to an 80 percent performance increase over the Pixel 5. Google promises five years of Android updates.

Another noticeable change coming to the latest Pixel smartphones is the camera bar that stands out from the rest of the phone. Both phones include a 1/1.3-inch sensor on the back of the camera and a 12MP ultrawide camera. While the Pixel 6 Pro exclusively includes a pro-level telephoto lens capable of four times optical zoom.

The Google Pixel 6's display is a 6.4-inch full HD+ display with a refresh rate of 90Hz, while the 6 Pro includes a 6.7-inch display with a refresh rate of up to 120Hz. Both phones have an all-day adaptive battery that supposedly lasts beyond 24 hours even when using 5G. The Tensor chip will allow the AI to identify your favorite apps and learn not to consume power on applications you rarely open.

The Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro will come in Black, but both phones have two exclusive colors with the Pixel 6 offering Coral and Seafoam while the Pixel 6 Pro will offer White and Sort Sunny (the latter is basically a Goldish color). Pricing for the Pixel 6 starts at $599 while the Pixel 6 Pro starts at $899. Both phones are available to preorder today and will release on October 28.

Ahead of today's Pixel event, we had a chance to do a hands on preview of the Google Pixel 6 Pro.

Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.

Four prominent members of the Stargate cast are reuniting for a performance of a brand new Stargate script that has been written by an artificial intelligence.

On November 6, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, David Hewlett and Jewel Staite will reprise their roles of Dr. Daniel Jackson, Samantha Carter, Dr. Rodney McKay and Jennifer Keller respectively as part of a Stargate table read. The script from which they will read has been written by Google Artificial Intelligence, and covers both character dialogue and stage directions.

"Some lines are surprisingly good, other lines are hilariously bad, but all the performances are heartwarming as expected," said a press release.

The event, which will be streamed online and followed by a Q&A session, has been put together by Stargate co-creator Brad Wright and Google AI’s Laurence Moroney. You can register to view the script read right here.

Stargate has largely been a quiet franchise for many years, with the most recent additions being prequel web series Stargate Origins. A fourth Stargate show is currently in production, according to Brad Wright.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer.

The Eternals just held its red carpet premiere and folks who were able to watch the upcoming MCU film early are beginning to share their thoughts and feelings on it online.

But be aware as one big spoiler seems to have slipped into the public sphere.

We will not be reporting on the spoiler in this story or anywhere else until the film is officially released, so feel free to keep reading.

Following the red carpet premiere for Marvel movies, audience members are typically allowed to share their initial thoughts on the film. While not a full review, these opinions form an early consensus on an upcoming Marvel movie, though they typically skew positive.

This time, it seems a big spoiler has slipped through from a couple of Tweeters who have seen the movie early.

For the particularly spoiler-averse, there are steps to keep yourself on the safe side of these spoilers on social media. On Twitter, you can mute certain terms like "Eternals" and "Spoilers" in this case. But unfortunately, you may have to tread carefully when visiting sites like Reddit and Facebook.

The Eternals is set to premiere on November 5, which means there are about two and a half weeks until the wider public can watch the film. It's a big ask, but hopefully, you'll be able to keep yourself afloat.

The Eternals will focus on Marvel's cosmic entities who have watched over humanity for centuries. The Cast includes Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, and Kit Harington and is directed by Academy Award winner Chloe Zhao.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

The entire 10-episode first season of Only Murders in the Building is available to watch on Hulu. Below is a spoiler-free review.

Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez play a mismatched trio of amateur sleuths in Hulu's charmingly wicked Only Murders in the Building. Now that the show's first season finale, "Open and Shut," has aired and the introductory mystery's been put to bed, we're doing an official review of the run as Only Murders is one of the most whimsical, wise, and venomous shows of 2021.

Previously a weekly release, Only Murders is now available for Season 1 binging for those who don't enjoy waiting too long between episodes when a puzzle is being pieced together and justice is on the line. The series is a pulpy patchwork of pleasantries, from besties Martin and Martin collaborating once again, to the inclusion of 40-years-their-junior (but still a showbiz veteran) Gomez, to the mild love letter being written to historic courtyarded New York co-ops, to an expertly executed meta through line about crafting a podcast (that also includes some fourth wall-breaking).

Only Murders in the Building is a winner, and even if you're able to get ahead of the "whodunnit" aspect a few episodes before the reveal, you'll enjoy being in this world so much that it won't matter.

With Season 2 already a go (and currently in production), Only Murders will return with more ghoulish goings-on at the Arconia, though this first season's only notable drawback is the finale's split-focus: resolving the murder of Julian Cihi's prickly loner Tim Kono (the main murder mystery) while simultaneously setting up next year's misadventures. But that's indicative of most season enders, to be fair. And, in fact, if you look back through Season 1, there are plenty of moments that solidly point to where the show is headed in Season 2. Heck, the series even opens with a flash-forward look ahead at where everything lands.

Only Murders works on multiple levels. Firstly, it stands as a joyous showcase for two elder icons of comedy, and then as a warm friendship tale involving three outcasts, each inhabiting their own fair share of loneliness and self-imposed isolation, learning to open up and experience life again. Steve Martin's socially anxious actor, Charles; Martin Short's extravagant and flighty director, Oliver; and Selena Gomez's closed-off artist, Mabel, bond over their true-crime podcast addiction, and then quickly congeal as misfits trying to distract themselves by playing detective in their own building after a neighbor turns up dead.

What begins as a lark for our heroes becomes a bonding journey that winds up in equal, if not greater, standing than the solving of the case itself. Their separate peculiarities and backstories, along with their collective delusion of podcast glory, make for a captivating team who are drawn together despite Mabel's age difference. Along the way, there are red herrings, dead ends, twists, and betrayals that not only make for a fun case, but also coat the entire series with a medium-within-the-medium element as Oliver leads them all through creating a podcast that grabs people with great traditional storytelling — despite the fact that they're supposedly tackling real life.

Nathan Lane and Amy Ryan are featured in formidable recurring roles, Tina Fey pops in for a cameo (that may get a bit more screen time in Season 2), and rock star Sting has a grand time playing a fictionalized version of himself. Siddhartha Khosla's melodic score makes for a bouncy ear-worm that's haunting enough to accompany doom and dread while also being malleable enough to make its way into other pieces that accentuate camaraderie and romance.

Akin to Wes Anderson, Steve Martin and co-creator John Hoffman (Looking, Grace & Frankie) have delivered a hilarious and heartfelt bit of R-rated whimsey that occasionally presents itself like a dream, or even a recollection. Characters address the audience, evening speaking from beyond the grave, as the show sometimes lets you know it's aware of your own addiction to true crime and solving cases from your couch.