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We hear Signal is in the news. As longtime fans of the app, and secure messaging more broadly, we feel like it's our duty at Engadget to ensure you know how to use the software properly.    Download Signal Signal is available on Android and iOS, as well as nearly every desktop operating system, including Windows and macOS. You can download the app by clicking one of the links provided above, or typing in "Signal Messenger" in your device's app store. Once you've installed the app, proceed to set...

Long-time holders of the BattleTech tabletop gaming license, Catalyst Game Labs, have something surprisingly grim and dark to talk about at this week’s AdeptiCon convention. BattleTech: Gothic, formally revealed on Facebook, adds massive monsters to the game of big stompy robots. It’s described as a “themed-box release” — something entirely new for the roughly 40-year-old...

Fortnite fans have been waiting for the return of its original 50v50 limited-time mode (LTM) for years, but the renewed version is reportedly full of more bots than real players. In 50v50, two teams of 50 players fight to be the last ones standing on the original Fortnite map — at least that’s the pitch....

As you shop at the service station in REPO, you’ll notice energy crystals among the items. While a lot of the shop items are self-explanatory (guns? grenades? health packs?), these mysterious and expensive crystals don’t really have any instructions. Below we explain what energy crystals do in REPO and how to use them. What are...

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again. Publisher Paradox Interactive announced today that it is now targeting release in October 2025 instead of the first half of this year. "Paradox Interactive and The Chinese Room are committed to delivering this game, and we believe that ensuring great technical quality is more important than sticking to a specific date," the company said. Creating the sequel has been a trial of endurance that would test even an immortal undead's patie...

We don't know when it will release, but at least now we know when it won't.

Collecting Lost Pages in Assassin’s Creed Shadows is a time-consuming process, but is one of the least dangerous ways to earn knowledge points (and thus get even stronger). They’re located in Temples. In this in-progress Assassin’s Creed Shadows guide, we’ll not only show you where to find Temples but where to find all Lost Pages...

Water hazards keep us all humble.

Smuggling resources in Assassin’s Creed Shadows lets you move large quantities of resources to your Hideout. You’ll find stockpiles (pallets) of resources in castles, some camps, and enemy-controlled temples. Smuggling them requires scouts. Our Assassin’s Creed Shadows guide will tell you how to smuggle resources, and help you figure out why you might not be...

It's all about the verticality.

The new feature will be added in April as part of Pacific Drive's "largest update" ever.

If you’re getting started in REPO and you’re ready to deliver some antique goods to your generous creator, you’ll want a heads up about how some of the mechanics of the game work. While playing the tutorial may teach you the basics of how to play, it won’t explain REPO’s systems further. REPO is the newest...

The post Dreamhaven Showcase Recap: All the News From a New Publisher With a Legendary Past appeared first on Xbox Wire.

If you’d like to upgrade your daily driver with a solid mechanical keyboard without spending a mint, Woot is offering discounts on a wide variety of keyboards from the Keychron catalog through April 3, many of which are on sale for their lowest prices ever. Several members of the Polygon staff use Keychron keyboards every...

Leaker Jon Prosser today shared a mockup of what he says the Messages app will look like in iOS 19, demoing an interface with rounded, translucent bubble-shaped navigation buttons at the top and softer, rounder corners for the keyboard and word suggestions. ‌Jon Prosser‌'s Messages app mockup The return button, a button for going back to the Messages list, and the FaceTime button have a deeper blue shade that has a bit of a glow about it, but Prosser's mockup does not show fundamental changes to...

On Friday, Netflix released the first official trailer for The Summer Hikaru Died, the upcoming adaptation of Mokumokuren’s 2021 slice-of-life horror manga from anime studio CygamesPictures (Brave Bang Bravern!), slated to premiere in July. The series centers on Yoshiki, a teenager living in a small town in rural Japan who is inseparable from his classmate...

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is, for the most part, a pretty unexceptional game that does most things pretty competently, though it does manage to slip into that coveted 7/10, imperfect but has something special about it to keep you thinking about it. I'm talking about its Nemesis system, a mechanic that means certain enemies you face off against remember you and your actions as they get stronger, maybe even calling out certain occasions where they killed you. It's a lovely bit of design that,...

Team Rocket is back in a big way!

Wildgate looks like some promising space piracy.

Free League Publishing launched a Kickstarter campaign for Alien RPG Evolved Edition. The campaign was fully funded within 15 minutes.

Apple today announced that WWDC 2025 starts June 9, and the logo for the conference hints at iOS 19's rumored new design. Multiple sources have claimed that iOS 19 will feature a new design that is inspired by visionOS, the software platform for Apple's Vision Pro headset. The new design is expected to include more translucent buttons and menus, with a glass-like appearance. The "25" in this year's WWDC logo also has a subtle visionOS-like appearance. iPadOS 19 and macOS 16 are also expected to ...

If you live in a rural area of the UK, you may soon be able to use your phone for satellite calls, messages and other standard data use. On Tuesday, the nation's telecom regulator, Ofcom, proposed using direct-to-device satellite tech to connect people in the UK's "most rural and hard-to-reach places," like mountains and remote villages. Ofcom sees the tech complementing traditional networks, aiming to provide 100 percent mobile coverage in the UK. The regulator said the tech could also provide ...

Dreamhaven has revealed a number of in-development projects at its showcase presented by The Game Awards, including the release date of its tabletop-inspired adventure Sunderfolk.

Video games have long taken inspiration from tabletop games, but more recently we've seen this trend in reverse. There are tabletop adaptations of countless video games, but between all the individual cards and counters, long setup times, and lengthy campaigns, they're not always that easy to play.

"Here's a mod that can be both funny and scary."

Sunderfolk, the ambitious co-op tactical adventure game built on a love of tabletop games, is coming to consoles and PC on April 23, developer Secret Door and publisher Dreamhaven announced Tuesday. Curious players can try out Sunderfolk with a first look demo through Nvidia’s GeForce Now game-streaming service from March 25 through April 7. Secret...

Take a step back and forget for a second it’s not an RTS, and Mechabellum looks like classic Command and Conquer, reimagined with giant, missile-and-laser-equipped robots. Hundreds of units. Explosions everywhere. Total chaos. Gorgeous and grim in equal measure, Mechabellum is spiritually reminiscent of erstwhile hits like Total Annihilation and BattleTech, but plays like a modern autobattler. Boasting great user scores, if you haven’t played it yet, there’s a completely new edition available no...

Sunderfolk, a game that borrows elements from tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons and couch party games like Jackbox, has a launch date. The fantasy RPG from Dreamhaven (the stomping ground of Blizzard co-founder and former CEO Mike Morhaime) arrives on April 23. You can play a demo today through April 7. While virtual tabletops like Wizards of the Coast's Sigil act as video game-like extensions of a traditional tabletop experience, Sunderfolk's premise is in using modern technology to simula...

I am very much in my Dungeons and Dragons era (insert sparkle emojis on either side). I'm still on my first real playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3, I've got an IRL campaign running, and I lull myself to sleep to the absolute chaos of Brian Murphy's Not Another DnD Podcast. When I first caught wind of Sunderfolk, a new turn-based fantasy RPG from ex-Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime's Dreamhaven, I knew for a fact that it was an absolute must-play. I've been keeping track of it ever since, and during this ...

Developer Moonshot Games, which is part of the studio founded by former Blizzard Entertainment CEO Mike Morhaime, revealed its long-in-development debut game on Tuesday. It’s call Wildgate, which its creators describe as “a crew-based first-person shooter.” That description seems to be underselling Moonshot Games’ ambitions for the multiplayer action game. Wildgate, like Secret Door’s Sunderfolk,...

Apple today released new firmware for the Powerbeats Pro 2 earbuds that came out earlier this year. The updated firmware has a version number of 7B30, an update to the prior 7B24 firmware that Apple seeded out just after the ‌Powerbeats Pro‌ 2 launched. We don't know what's included in the firmware, but the ‌Powerbeats Pro‌ 2 have a unique heart rate monitoring feature that's new to Apple earbuds, so it's possible the update is related to that feature. Along with heart rate monitoring that's don...

Whether it’s as part of the experience in games like Starfield and No Man’s Sky, or is a main component in something like Star Wars Squadrons, the beautiful galactic backdrops and chaotic dogfights of spaceship combat will always win me over. Imagine my glee, then, when I see an array of pilotable, boardable spaceships in the newly revealed FPS game Wildgate. While at its heart it’s a co-op shooter with some extraction shooter elements woven in as well, spaceship battles play a huge role. While ...

Google has the pedal to the metal on its AI development. Just a few months after the debut of Gemini 2.0, the tech giant has unveiled another upgrade in Gemini 2.5. As with any new AI launch, Google is touting a strong performance on LMArena for Gemini 2.5, particularly its capabilities in coding, mathematics and science. The first model in this series is Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental. Google said this is a thinking model that's intended to provide responses grounded in more reasoning, analysis an...

"This game is everything I want in a good 'build your own empire' game."

Nate Purkeypile released his first solo game, The Axis Unseen, last year.