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The second half of Marvel Rivals’ first season kicked off on Feb. 21, bringing with it two new characters — Fantastic Four mainstays Human Torch and the Thing — as well as a third New York City map that turns a popular Moon Knight meme into an official part of the competitive shooter’s lore. If you’re...

No, it's not flash sales.

Cowboy Bebop characters Spike Spiegel and Faye Valentine are continuing their bounty hunting duties in Fortnite, officially coming to the game on Wednesday, Feb. 26. The space bounty hunters are crash landing in the world of Fortnite with new outfits and items that will be available in the shop. Additionally, the collaboration will come with...

Monster Hunter Wilds is set to release on Friday, and it’s possible you’ve already placed a pre-order for one of the game’s editions. Oh, you haven’t? Well, if you need a new PC gaming component now or in the near future, both your patience and your purchase will be rewarded with a free copy of...

The streaming platform Dropout has announced the season premiere of its actual play series, Dimension 20: Titan Takedown, will feature WWE Superstar talent.

There's a new M4 MacBook Air reportedly on the way soon, but if you can't wait or don't need the extra power of Apple's M4 chip, you can get a M3 MacBook Air for $200 off on Amazon right now. That lowers the current MacBook Air's price from $1,099 to $899 — not the $850 low we've seen before for the Air, but pretty close. Engadget picked the M3 MacBook Air as the best MacBook overall because of its lightweight design, bright screen and the reliable performance of the M3 chip. Besides support for...

The FDA has granted clearance to a potentially lifesaving feature for Google's Pixel Watch 3. The smartwatch will start offering "loss of pulse detection" for US customers at the end of March. Once this aspect of the watch is enabled, the Pixel Watch 3 can automatically place a call to emergency services if it detects that the wearer's pulse has stopped. That could help a user receive critical medical attention even if they are responsive in situations such as cardiac arrest, respiratory or circ...

With iOS 18.4, Apple made a small tweak to Safari that could be polarizing because it puts your search history front and center. When you open up a new Safari tab and then tap into the search field, Safari shows your recent search history. In iOS 18.3.1, opening up a new tab and then tapping into search does not show your history, and the view remains on the personalized Safari home page. iOS 18.3.1 has no clear view of prior searches at all, except that a recent search will show up in your sugg...

Riot Games is hitting "undo" on its recent massively unpopular changes to League of Legends that essentially made everything in the game harder for players to unlock without spending money. After the company saw negative comments spammed across social media, widespread talk of a player boycott and over 32,000 signatures gathered on a petition to fire CEO Dylan Jadeja, the company acknowledged that the recent updates "didn't hit the mark for everyone." As a result, Riot is (among other changes) b...

The Callisto Protocol studio Striking Distance has been hit with more layoffs, parent company Krafton has confirmed, amid claims "most of" its developers have lost their jobs.

Riot says changes meant to streamline League of Legends' reward systems "missed the mark."

The new iPhone 16e is equipped with Apple's custom-designed C1 modem for 5G and LTE connectivity, whereas all other current iPhone models rely on Qualcomm modems. While the average customer is unlikely to care about this change, it is a big deal for Apple, which had been working on its own cellular modem since at least 2018. We are still waiting on C1 modem speed tests, but it is expected that Apple's first modem will provide slower 5G speeds compared to Qualcomm's Snapdragon X75 modem in iPhone...

Steam Deck has sold roughly 4 million units. As the Steam Deck turns three years old, and many of us laud its praises for allowing accessible PC gaming on-the-go, market research firm IDC has estimated that the handheld console has shifted roughly around 4 million units since its arrival in February 2022. The Verge spoke to the IDC, which uses supply chains to estimate the amount of gaming systems have been shifted worldwide in order to create spending forecasts (via Push Square). According to I...

A science-fiction writer’s Destiny 2 lawsuit has forced the lawyers to rely on YouTube.

Come learn the ins and outs of the game before it launches next month!

The mod is available now, albeit "in an alpha state".

I am a strong believer in the philosophy of starting with the bad news and ending with the good news, so let’s get the first part out of the way: It’s probably going to be a while before we’re all able to curl up on the couch and dive into The Witcher 4. And so...

Warner Bros Discovery recently shut down a trio of game studios, including the well-regarded Monolith Productions. This has put one of the coolest game mechanics of the 2010s in limbo. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor's excellent Nemesis system is locked behind a patent owned by Warner Bros all the way until 2036, according to reporting by Eurogamer. The Nemesis system was featured in both 2014’s Shadow of Mordor and the follow-up Middle-earth: Shadow of War. Simply put, it’s a gameplay mechanic i...

The Blue Bomber returns with a new comic book series this spring!

The Nintendo DS' stylus-based messaging app PictoChat wasn't the first place I instant-messaged (that would be my friend's AIM account) but it was absolutely the least overwhelming and most pleasant place it happened. PicoChat, an iMessage app from developer Idrees Hassan that you can download right now, attempts to recapture some of that peer-to-peer messaging magic on your iPhone. PicoChat looks like a version of PictoChat that’s been squeezed into the lower-third of your iPhone, complete with...

Dungeons & Dragons’ new anthology of adventures, Dragon Delves coming on July 8, “is a little experimental,” Wizards of the Coast vice president Jess Lanzillo told Polygon during a press panel at MagicCon Chicago. “I’ll absolutely admit that, in the sense that this is something that we haven’t done in this specific way for D&D...

Sometimes, a mod is so great and so popular, it becomes its own beast entirely. PUBG and DayZ spawned from the versatile world of Arma. The Forgotten City was birthed from Skyrim. And Total Chaos is a bleak and brutal horror FPS that is basically an Unreal Engine 5 remake of an epic Doom 2 mod. Developed by a team that includes the original creator of that mod, Total Chaos offers up Silent Hill-style scares and some Stalker-esque survival mechanics, and as well as dropping a brand new demo for S...

Tetris Forever, last year's excellent interactive history of the classic block-dropping puzzler, has added two more games plucked from the series' past as part of its "biggest-ever update".

The Boys is getting the boys back together. Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins will reunite with their former Supernatural co-star Jensen Ackles in the Prime Video series’ fifth and final season. The news was announced Wednesday on The Boys’ social media channels. “Hey Jared, we’ve got work to do… again,” Ackles says in the video,...

The 25th season of Dimension 20 mixes Greek mythology and professional wrestling, with a new cast and a new setting — as seen in Dropout’s trailer for the next installment of the actual play series. The trailer for Titan Takedown shows off a newly themed set, with a prominent wrestling ring festooned with Greek columns...

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"If one day Nintendo wants to knock on our door". Davide Soliani, the creative mind behind Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle and Sparks of Hope, left Ubisoft last year and formed his own indie studio, Day 4 Night, with the help of Red Dead Redemption’s Christian Cantamessa and composer extraordinaire Grant Kirkhope. Now, in an interview with VGC, the director has spoken a little (and we mean a little) more candidly about his new team's original IP, his decision to leave Ubisoft and his "fantastic" ...

Amazon today announced the launch of Alexa+, a new version of Alexa that includes large language models, agentic capabilities, services, and devices at scale to redefine "the way we interact with digital assistants." Alexa+ is smarter, more personalized, and more proactive about making suggestions to users, according to Amazon. The experience is designed to improve as users interact more with Alexa, and Alexa has been updated to have more personality. Users can expect a smoother and more intuiti...

With former Blizzard developers involved in the StarCraft, Warcraft, and Diablo series on its team, Frost Giant Studios certainly has a solid pedigree. But its new RTS game Stormgate landed last year to a decidedly mixed reception. Players felt it had arrived too soon, with criticisms of a lack of visual polish and low production values on its campaign cutscenes. Since then, however, the team has been hard at work on improvements, and a new Stormgate update out today looks to make some serious c...

The 8Bitdo Ultimate wireless controller quickly established itself as one of our favorite third-party controllers thanks to its extensive features and relatively low price. Three years after its launch, 8Bitdo is bringing a significant series of upgrades to the already amazing controller with the 8Bitdo Ultimate 2, available to buy on Amazon for $59.99 in...

If you've been counting down the minutes to Monster Hunter Wilds' release, you might need to sit tight for just a tiny bit longer, depending on your internet speed: Capcom has noted physical edition owners will need to download a "required" day one patch before they can play.

A new month is almost upon us, which means Sony is about to refresh the lineup of games that all PlayStation Plus members can claim and keep in their collection as long as they maintain their subscription. Between March 4 and March 31, you'll be able to snag Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Sonic Colors: Ultimate and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection. Dragon Age: The Veilguard (PS5) is the clear headliner this time around. Fans had to wait a decade between new installments in BioW...

"Our priority remains delivering on past commitments". With plenty of physical game lovers resisting the shift to digital distribution, the world of boutique, limited-press publishing is booming, with multiple options for anyone desperate to have smaller-scale releases on disc or cartridge rather than a hard drive or SD card. It's a risky business, though, with even the biggest players having some major blots on their record, and companies frequently overpromising and underdelivering - if they d...

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