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Colours! They exist, right? They're all around us, everywhere you go, and as of yesterday, Marvel Rivals did something revolutionary: it made them customizable. Taking my sarcasm hat off for a moment, that means developer NetEase added in the ability to choose different colour palette options for your costumes. It's just a small little way to add some amount of uniqueness to your version of the game's extremely pre-established characters, really. Except, the catch is that you have to pay actual ...

Nintendo’s Mario Kart World Direct showed off a variety of cool new wrinkles coming to the open-world racing game for the Nintendo Switch 2, like a rewind feature and some new items you can huck at opponents. However, Nintendo didn’t share some key information: how much those of us in North America can expect to...

Details are sparse, but Neon Giant says its next game is "ludicrously ambitious", first-person, and focused on "player agency and creativity,"

Polygon sat down with Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu, the stars of Doctor Who’s latest season, recently by video chat, and when we asked for their favorite things they got to do while filming, there was one that they truly gushed about.  “I love the outfits,” Sethu said. “Honestly, I love the outfit reveals. […]...

Instagram is adding yet another way to liven up your Reels recommendations. The app is rolling out “Blend,” a feature that allows you to create a custom feed within a DM that combines your recommendations with a friend’s. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Blend has been in the works for some time. It was first spotted in the app more than a year ago, but was only an internal prototype at the time. Now, Meta is finally making it official, describing it as an “invite-only Reels feed for you an...

Gold prospecting in Venezuela has led to a malaria resurgence, but researchers have developed AI to take a bite out of the problem. In Venezuela’s Bolivar state, deforestation for gold mining in waters has disturbed mosquito populations, which are biting miners and infecting them with the deadly parasite. Venezuela was certified as malaria-free in 1961 Read Article

And it's not getting much better. Nintendo had a pretty quiet year in 2024, all told. Sure, it launched some pretty significant games like The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, but there was definitely a sense that the company was starting to wind things down ahead of its big Switch 2 reveal early in 2025. As such, Nintendo's performance in 2024 has been greatly attributed to a staggering drop of 26% in UK physical game sales. As highlighted by Chris Drin...

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Tempest Rising is a polished, performant and brilliant real-time strategy (RTS) game powered by Unreal Engine 5. That's a sentence I never really expected to say just a few years ago, but a whole host of contributing elements here make this game fun to play and, thankfully, technically sound. This is not typical multi-platform game that I'd review for DF, but a PC exclusive in a genre that defined the platform's earliest days. Slipgate Ironworks and 3D Realms have crafted a new entry into that c...

Where can you find Runescape Dragonwilds tin? Like most other survival games, high-level gear is gated by the acquisition of rare crafting materials. One such material in Runescape Dragonwilds is tin. It's fairly useless on its own, but when combined with another in a furnace, it can produce a material that will overhaul your entire build. If you haven’t ventured far in Runescape Dragonwilds map, then you may not have come across tin or Runescape Dragonwilds copper. Without these, you’ll be stuc...

Honestly, I kinda get it.

A trackball? In MY keyboard? I'll roll with it.

Where can you find Runescape Dragonwilds copper? It isn’t long before you hit a wall in Dragonwilds, when your gear feels next to useless, and you need a big upgrade before taking on the next challenge. One of the main components of high-level gear is copper, and here’s where you can find it and how to refine it. You’ll have to put all of your Runescape Dragonwilds skills to use if you want to collect and refine copper, as it generally lives in the same place as the most difficult enemies in the...

What are the latest Mobile Legends codes? With one of the world’s most popular MOBA titles now available on PC, we’re expecting a whole host of more reasons for Mobile Legends Bang Bang codes to drop. Keep an eye on the ever-changing list to score loads of free currency for champion unlocks, shards for new skins, and even some entirely free skins from time to time. Up for giving some similar games a try? From Dota 2 to League of Legends and everything in between, we’ve rounded up the best MOBAs ...

Back when Fortnite was getting properly big, Carlton from the Fresh Prince famously tried to sue Epic Games for the use of his dance in the game. (You could also buy the Carlton dance in Destiny, I remember, which I absolutely did, but I suppose Fortnite had just become the biggest game on the planet at the time.)

When I first wrote about Mandragora: Whispers Of The Witch Tree in January, I worried I might have spotlighted a dud. Or at least, something fairly routine. Mandragora sure does look like a lot of dark fantasy side-scrollers - gritty yet plump and colourful, like they stuck a bike pump in Castlevania, or took a chisel to Trine. It sure does have RPG classes and skilltrees. It sure does have crafting, with hundreds of items to acquire. I confess, I covered it in large part because they have Vampi...

A federal judge has ruled that Google is a monopolist in online advertising. The New York Times reported on Thursday that Judge Leonie Brinkema of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia said the company broke the law to maintain its ad tech dominance. “In addition to depriving rivals of the ability to compete, this exclusionary conduct substantially harmed Google’s publisher customers, the competitive process, and, ultimately, consumers of information on the open web,” the ju...

Metro 2033 Redux is having a birthday to remember. Marking 15 years of the apocalyptic survival FPS series, developer 4A Games and publisher Deep Silver gave away copies of the original game’s remastered edition, and it’s had a surprisingly big impact. Previously peaking at just under 15,000 active players back in 2018, Metro 2033 has just reached a new high of more than 50,000 concurrent users on the Valve platform, and it’s looking likely to continue that success for a third day straight as pl...

Looking for a good VPN service? ExpressVPN is offering one heck of a deal right now. You can snag a 28-month subscription, which is well over two years, for 61 percent off the typical price. This boils down to $5 per month, but there’s one catch. You have to pay up front, which comes out to $140. That’s a hefty initial payout, but having access to a good VPN service into late 2027 sounds pretty dang nice. To that end, ExpressVPN is one of the more reputable companies out there and it easily made...

The new Beats charging cables added to Apple's online store on Tuesday can also be purchased at Apple's physical stores in many countries starting today. The cables are available in a variety of colors and lengths, with USB-C to USB-C, USB-C to USB-A, and USB-C to Lightning options. All of the cables have a Beats logo, along with a woven design that increases durability and helps to prevent tangles. In the U.S., prices range from $18.99 to $34.99 for one to two cables. Notably, this is Apple's f...

I personally maintain that Resident Evil, going all the way back to 1996, has always been more of an action game than a horror game. Nevertheless, it’s undeniable that RE4 marked a shift not just in Capcom’s own flagship series, but the greater gaming world. The Leon-led 2005 shooter served as the high watermark for over-the-shoulder, third-person ‘action horror,’ and the following five years were marked by successive variations on the theme: Gears of War, Dead Space, The Last of Us, The Evil Wi...

At the core of Remnant Protocol is a relentless, slow-turn tension. A first-person space dogfight shooter in the vein of TIE Fighter and Wing Commander, at the start of your missions, the gorgeous pink-and-orange galaxy feels boundless. The controls are smooth. The engine hums along. You can hold the trigger to freely turn your head in the cockpit, and admire the sights and stars around you. But then the enemy drops out of warp speed and everything becomes a desperate scramble. You’ve trained th...

The battle with Ornstein and Smough will always be the most iconic part of Dark Souls, but I personally love the moment when you first meet Solaire. For the opening couple of hours, Lordran has been a bleak, cruel, and empty world, devoid of both literal and proverbial warmth - but suddenly, you have a buddy. Companionship is fundamental to the soulslike. The multiplayer-based Elden Ring Nightreign, and also The Duskbloods, will take that principle to its conclusion. But don’t overlook Lords of ...

Get ready to Rewind. After a decade of playing with Mario Kart 8's driving mechanics, we've all got pretty used to the techniques required to nab a win. However, it looks like Mario Kart World is taking us back to school with a new roster of cool moves. Today's Direct presentation introduced us to the first of these new techniques: Charge Jump. By holding the drift button (ZR) and driving straight, you'll be able to build up charge, which is released with a burst into the air. You can use this m...

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The new gameplay trailer for Cronos: The New Dawn, out Wednesday from Bloober Team, debuts some tense gameplay featuring the protagonist — a time traveler with futuristic armor and an arsenal of weapons — facing off against misshapen, humanlike enemies with oozing, wiggling tendrils emerging from various parts of their bodies. I got to see...

Sat in a San Francisco hotel room with the lights off and the curtains closed watching a hands-off demo of Bloober's survival horror Cronos: The New Dawn, it's clear the Polish horror developer has newfound confidence after the success of its Silent Hill 2 remake.

So tariffs on foreign chips and hiked prices on domestic ones?

Marvel’s latest trailer for Fantastic Four: First Steps digs deeper into the lives of the Fantastic Four, and the plot of the movie that’s set to kick off a new era of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Not only do we get get our first look at Reed Richards stretching like rubber and our first look...

I was barely five minutes into the new Hatsune Miku anime movie that hits theaters on April 17 when I realized I was definitely in over my head.  I already knew that Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing was the first-ever movie for Hatsune Miku, the virtual idol and synthesized singing software....

Subclasses? New builds? I'm out here voguing in the Forgotten Realms.

Mario Kart World is the next installment of the Mario Kart series coming exclusively to the Nintendo Switch 2. In addition to showing changes like new items and the game’s massive roster of characters, a Mario Kart World Direct on Thursday shared additional details on the game’s open world-style exploration and new courses coming to...

Wikipedia has been struggling with the impact that AI crawlers — bots that are scraping text and multimedia from the encyclopedia to train generative artificial intelligence models — have been having on its servers, leading to increased costs and slower load times for human users in some cases. Perhaps in an effort to stop the bots from pummeling the public Wikipedia website and soaking up too much bandwidth, the Wikimedia Foundation (which manages Wikipedia's data) is offering AI developers a d...

Chinese authorities have banned automakers from using terms such as "smart driving" and "autonomous driving" for ads in the country, according to Reuters. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has tightened its rules for advertising driving assistance features following a fatal crash involving a Xiaomi SUV7 (pictured above), which raised concerns about the technology's safety. Based on Xiaomi's report, the vehicle's driving assistance mode was switched on when the vehicle was appro...

It's about drive, it's about Ice Flower. Mario Kart World having some kind of Rainbow Road track seemed like a no-brainer, but Nintendo's playing its cards close to its chest with the details (apart from that one leaked image from the official website). However, during today's Direct, the jolly announcer dropped one big hint that the iconic raceway will make an appearance in the game, just don't expect to play it right from the jump. It seems that Rainbow Road will be an unlockable course, only ...