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Google Photos Unveils Fresh Features for Effortless Year-End Video Montages

No more switching apps!

What you should know

– Google Photos unveils improved video editing features for tailored highlight reels.
– New capabilities include customizable templates, music, and chic text overlays for effortless editing.
– The launch of editing tools starts on Dec. 9, simplifying video creation for users.

With numerous platforms providing year-end summaries to reflect on your favorite moments and glimpse into 2025, Google Photos is joining the fun! Today, they’ve revealed a suite of video editing options allowing you to effortlessly combine your cherished images and clips, add text, and incorporate some great music to produce a reel that you can easily share across various social media networks.

Google is simplifying the process for users to craft a reel that includes several video clips and photos in Google Photos by clicking the “Create” tab and choosing “highlight video,” selecting the desired content, and Google Photos will compile a single video for you.

But that’s not all. Now, you can avoid hopping around multiple editing applications to refine your highlight video. From using pre-made templates and a revamped video editor to integrating music and personalized text, the tech giant is introducing five new features to enhance the personalization of these reels.

Google Photos will present a variety of templates to choose from, providing a creative boost for your highlight reel if you’re unsure where to start. The platform has significantly revamped its editor to be more user-friendly and intuitive, giving it a substantial upgrade. The upgraded editor accommodates multi-clip editing and storytelling, and also includes an “adaptive canvas” to streamline the editing experience, such as rearranging clips within the video or modifying the duration of video clips, all in one convenient location.

Moreover, users will have the ability to edit and personalize each video clip within the reel by incorporating music or custom text as well.

Speaking of having everything consolidated, users will also be able to select audio from the Photos’ music collection and choose the ideal track that adds “emotion or captures the right essence for your highlight video on Android and iOS.”

Google Photos is introducing text editing capabilities, effectively eliminating the need to transition to other apps like Instagram or TikTok. Android users can now use “stylish text overlays” for their highlight videos, with customizable choices for fonts, colors, and backgrounds to ensure their message stands out.

Google indicates these editing tools will commence rolling out today (Dec. 9), allowing you to try them out within the Photos app.

TMNT: Empire City – A Meta Quest Reimagining Resurrecting Iconic Ninja Turtles Arcade Action

Choose your Turtle and plunge into Empire City. Bash baddies, conquer bosses, explore the sewers, and make sure to grab some pizza!

What you should know

– TMNT: Empire City is a 4-player cooperative beat-em-up for the Meta Quest, SteamVR, and Pico headsets.
– Players can take on the role of any of the four Ninja Turtles, fighting Footclan soldiers in the streets of NYC, using each Turtle’s unique weapon and full movement capabilities.
– The game is slated for release in early 2026, and we got an early look at the introductory segment.

As a child, one of my all-time favorite games was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the NES. It seemed like the ultimate gameplay interpretation of one of my favorite TV programs, and it was great to be able to team up with friends and bash the bad guys disrupting NYC.

Fast forward several decades, and now I’m actually stepping into the shoes of those same Ninja Turtles in a new VR game for the Meta Quest, Steam VR, and Pico headsets. You can wishlist the game through those links, which is anticipated to debut in early 2026. TMNT: Empire City was teased since August, and now we finally have some gameplay to grasp what you’ll be doing in the game.

In summary (halfshell?), this experience is an almost flawless adaptation of the beloved 2D gameplay into a 3D environment, granting you complete control over your selected Turtle through the liberties offered by a VR headset. Slashing Footclan members with Leo’s katanas, whacking them on the head with Michaelangelo’s nunchucks, smacking them with Donatello’s staff, or stabbing them with Raphael’s Sai felt as genuine as a comic book come to life could be. It was exhilarating in every sense.

My gameplay session lasted approximately 30 minutes and consisted of the tutorial segment you’ll encounter in the final game. The narrative in this section revolves around all four turtles “gaining entry” into a building, as Leonardo so poetically stated, only to have three of them captured by a nefarious villain working for The Shredder.

The Turtles seemingly believe that the Footclan and Shredder were meant to be defeated, but it turns out some dark sorcery is preventing Shredder and his minions from properly transitioning to the afterlife. That’s where the turtles step in, although the demo wraps up right as the boss’s schemes are foiled.

You control each turtle during the tutorial, picking up movement techniques, understanding how each weapon operates, and learning to decisively defeat every Footclan member in your path. You’ll scale pipes and walls, leap higher than any human could dream of, and unleash kicks and a flurry of weaponry that makes you feel just like the arcade beat-em-up, simply transformed into 3D movement.

The final game supports 4-player cooperative gameplay just like the classics, allowing you to fully roleplay your way through the streets and sewers of NYC. All the signature moves are here, including the flying jump kick that has you leaping into the air and pressing the dash button to unleash a powerful thwack to the villains.

The last 10 minutes of the demo were spent in the Turtle’s lair, which serves as the main hub for this pseudo-open-world game. The lair’s design is unmistakable, carefully crafted and enjoyable to explore. You can check out all four Turtle’s rooms, converse with Master Splinter, strategize the next mission with April O’Neal, and head upstairs to craft unlockables throughout your journey.

While none of the levels were accessible during this demo, venturing out into the sewers takes you to different parts of the city for action-packed mayhem. Based on the earlier parkour video, it appears there’s a considerable amount of space to traverse, with climbable structures and thrilling parkour elements everywhere. I’m incredibly excited to play this game with friends and can’t wait to finally immerse myself in the role of a Ninja Turtle next year!