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Vivo has introduced its latest offerings, the Vivo Y18 and Vivo Y18e, in the Indian market. These smartphones boast octa-core MediaTek Helio processors and pack 5,000mAh batteries with fast charging capabilities. Featuring dual rear cameras and a distinctive water drop notch, both devices run on Android 14-based UI. Notably, they inherit the design language of the previously launched Vivo Y03, unveiled in select markets earlier this year.

Forgotten Gems is a regular column about notable games that have moved out of the public eye and may not be easily accessible anymore. To see all the other games I've covered so far, be sure to check out the 11 previous issues of Forgotten Gems in our Columns section.

After beating the final boss in , there is still plenty to do in the post-game. Aside from new dresses and ribbons available for purchase, players can customize the Sparkle Theater itself with elaborate decorations. Previous Darkle bosses can be rematched with new challenges to complete for Sparkle Gems, new pictures for the Photo Album can be collected, and hidden Ninja Theets located in every standard level.

Each stage in will contain several Sparkle Gems, key collectibles that are required to challenge the game's many bosses. These Gems are often hidden in sneaky ways, which is especially true for the Ninja Peach levels. Collecting every Ninja Sparkle Gem will require sneak-attacking guards, prowling over rooftops, and collecting Gem Fragments during high-speed wall-running sequences.

In the costumes that Peach wears have gotten a lot of the spotlight as they provide Peach with unique abilities and personas, but the multitude of dresses that Peach can unlock in the game are no less spectacular. Over the course of her adventures in the Sparkle Theater, Peach can unlock almost 40 gowns that she can wear while walking around the theater and at the beginning of many levels. These beautiful dresses will even appear in her cutscenes, can add a bit of unique flavor, and are often tied to achievements.

Having some of the best Jokers in Balatro is essential to going far in Balatro. With only a limited amount you can hold at once, choosing the right Jokers can make or break your run.

There's a new update for Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered, which includes updated textures which will make keys more visible in TR1 (hurrah!) and improved lighting in those dimmer areas of the games overall (another hurrah!).

Some say it’s the Lifestream that makes the world go round in Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth, but we all know the real answer is Gil. Cloud may be on a quest to save the world from Sephiroth, but he’s still a merc who wants to get paid for his efforts. Plus, there are a ton of expensive items to gather up on your journey, such as Materia, Accessories, Armor, and Queen’s Blood cards. You’ll need some very deep pockets if you want to buy everything that catches your eye, but Gil isn’t the easiest thing to come by. We’ve done all the odd jobs and activities around Gaia to give you the best ways to grind for Gil in Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth.

While the majority of your success lies in which weapons and armor you carry when facing off against the Terminids and Automatons on various missions in Helldivers 2, you shouldn’t overlook what your ship can do to support you. Besides just naming your destroyer, there’s far more you can do to customize it with modules. Whereas weapons and Boosters will impact you and your squad on a more constant basis, ship modules come in clutch when you need to bring out the big guns, aka Stratagems. These power weapons are already enough to turn the tide of a tough fight, but when you add in the right ship modules, you’ll be cooking bugs for breakfast.

The major focus of Foamstars is on its characters and their abilities. Once you find one you like, it isn’t obvious that there’s a bit more you can do to tweak them outside of unlocking new cosmetics. Bubble Gems are hard to come by, but offer passive bonuses to whichever character you equip them to. However, you don’t get them for free, and each character can only hold three at a time. If the process all seems a little muddled to you, we’re here to wipe away any confusion and explain the best Bubble Gems to use in Foamstars.

The main currency of is Gems, or special items that can be farmed to purchase various materials and upgrades. Vault Breakers, Runes, and other resources needed to pull banners are all bought through the number of Gems you have. A few tricks to obtaining many jewels at once can prevent you from always undertaking a tedious grind for this currency.

Sanctuary is oozing with maladies to be eradicated, wanderer—go forth and defend your home!

Nothing can stop your road to victory now! In celebration of its 7th Anniversary, Konami has launched an exciting new event for Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links. So, obviously, they’re treating Duelists to a plethora of gifts and goodies. Want to know more? Keep reading as we give you a lowdown on Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links 7th Anniversary rewards and events.

Smite 2 is making a clean break from the original game, and it won't launch with all the content you might've bought in the MOBA over the years. As a result, developer Hi-Rez Studios is giving you money back for every penny you've spent in Smite.

SMITE 2 was announced by Titan Forge Games and Hi-Rez Studios, bringing the next evolution of the MOBA series to PC, console, and Steam Deck. Built using Unreal Engine 5, Titan Forge Games states that the sequel to the God battling MOBA «distills ten years of learning» into the upcoming sequel.

Today, Hi-Rez Studios has announced SMITE 2, the sequel to the popular free-to-play action MOBA game released ten years ago on PC before making the jump to consoles. Over 40 million users have played the game at some point, but now Hi-Rez is moving into the future.

is packed with side content to complete while working toward the ultimate goal of defeating Ganondorf, but one of the most prevalent throughout all of Hyrule is finding Bubbul Gems and bringing them to Koltin at his shop. Bubbul Gems can only be found within the many caves that have appeared following the Upheaval, and are looted from Bubbulfrogs, who drop them after being struck – usually by an arrow. Koltin provides frequent rewards for bringing him Bubbul Gems, but gathering every single one across Hyrule is a tall order that dedicated players will nonetheless be rewarded for.

In the new DLC for , there are three new biomes with multiple regions to explore and unlock on Eternity Isle, which also houses new gems to find and sell. These gems are scattered throughout the biomes and have both regular and shiny versions that sell for more when brought to Goofy's stall. This will count toward any mining goals and achievements and fill the player's pockets with Star Coins to purchase new outfits and decorative items.

lets you combine Leon's best treasures in different combinations to sell for large amounts of money. The number of Pesetas you get from selling separate items is never as high as the number you receive giving away objects fused with multiple trinkets. A few combinations, in particular, yield some of the largest rewards in the game.

It's been over a decade since was released, but a continual influx of mods ensures that the experience remains fresh year after year. From its atmospheric setting to roleplaying possibilities, is a uniquely compelling game, and mods help smooth over the rougher aspects or add new features to make it better than ever. Although many great mods have been around for a long time, recent excellent options show that the well never seems to run dry.

Patch 28.2, launching tomorrow, brings Battlegrounds Season 6, the Spellslinger’s Saloon, updates to the shop and new player progression, and more!

India's push for local IT hardware manufacturing receives a boost as Noida-based Sahasra Group, a recent beneficiary of the government's production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme, secures its first order to produce laptops for French electronics brand Thomson. Under the deal, Sahasra will manufacture budget-friendly and readily available Microsoft Windows 11 laptops for the Indian market.

It is an underappreciated fact that most shows and movies would be funnier if one member of the cast was inexplicably recognizable diegetically as their real-life celebrity self — think Kevin Garnett in Uncut Gems or LeBron James in Trainwreck, but with all the meta jokes of Julia Roberts “playing” herself in Oceans 12. Imagine how much more fun Shazam! Fury of the Gods would be with one or two added jokes about Hespera looking exactly like Dame Helen Mirren or passersby asking if she was in The Queen. In Loki season 2, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has its best chance yet to make this excellent bit a reality, and it had better make good on it.

Along with all of the quality-of-life and general improvements coming to Diablo 4 in Season 2, the developers have also announced changes to several Stash and Vendor locations coming to the world of Sanctuary! Enchantment Costs Reduced in Season 2 Low-Quality Gear Drop as Crafting Materials The developers are already doing a lot to alleviate the cramped Stashes of players by moving Gems into the Materials tab, automatically Salvaging low-quality gear, and adding Search and Filter options to the Stash. However, there are two additional changes coming to Stashes in Season of Blood:

During this week's Season of Blood Developer Update Livestream, the team unveiled a plethora of new quality-of-life and general improvements coming to Diablo 4 Season 2. These general improvements include the automatic usage of Scrolls of Escape whenever a Hardcore character becomes disconnected from the game, increased experience gains, account-wide Renown rewards, and more! Enchantment Costs Reduced in Season 2 Crafting Materials to Replace Low-Quality Gear Among the various experience improvements coming to Season 2, the developers highlighted the following:

Paintballs are a unique mechanic in Monster Hunter Now and one of the most well-received among players. Other augmented reality games haven’t put something similar into practice, so this may open the door to more save-for-later mechanics.

During the recent Diablo 4 Season of Blood Developer Livestream, the developers gave us a glimpse at the new Armor Set coming to the this Season's Battle Pass! Changes Coming to Gems in Season 2 5 New Endgame Bosses Coming to Diablo 4 Distinctly Vampire-themed, the set sports a bat-winged waist cloth and fully closed helm, complete with bat wings as well. The armor is spattered with blood, obscuring the elegant gold detailing in places and invoking a sinister tone to the backdrop of a very gothic-inspired suit of plate.

During the Developer Livestream on October 4th, the team shared many significant changes coming to Diablo 4 with the release of Season 2 — Season of Blood. Some of these changes include Gems dropping as materials, Sort & Filter options for the Stash, and other huge quality-of-life improvements! Players have been vocal about their dislike of late-game itemization and having their inventories cluttered with low-quality gear. But Blizzard is taking a unique approach in order to address these issues moving forward. Season 2 Developer Livestream Summary Everything We Know About Vampiric Powers The new process will make it so that the low-quality items that players would previously leave on the ground will no longer disappear into the abyss. Instead, these items will now automatically be converted into crafting materials:

In a previous Developer Livestream, the team discussed the topic of Gems, and how they took up so much inventory space. With each quality of Gem taking up its own inventory slot, players would quickly lose out on a very large portion of Stash space. In order to somewhat remedy this, players have been forced to condense all of their Gems to the higher qualities in order to save space, which makes socketing gear for lower-level characters more tedious. Even still, Stash space is a precious thing in every ARPG. Season 2 Developer Livestream Summary Everything We Know About Vampiric Powers However, there is good news for all of the hoarders out there! The first Developer Livestream for Season 2 has revealed that Gems have been entirely reworked:

While many seasoned Sanctuary-goers might have already learned this, either through someone else's experience or experiencing it themselves, one thing that is not obvious is that Glyph XP does not accumulate between Nightmmare Dungeons. It's a use it or lose it system, and that means you'll often find yourself upgrading other glyphs as it will be more efficient for player power to upgrade a lesser glyph than wasting the xp. Diablo 4 Paragon Glyphs Guide Wowhead's Diablo 4 Paragon Calculator All veterans of Sanctuary already know that every build has a handful of glyphs that are very important to squeezing out the extra damage to comfortably push Nightmare Dungeons.

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The Gauntlet of Shar is a massive, puzzle-filled dungeon that’s required if you want to complete Act 2 of Baldur’s Gate 3. Before you can take on Ketheric Thorm, you’ll have to fight through this gauntlet of tough enemy encounters and trials. Before you can even reach the area, you’ll need to unlock special protection against the Shadow Curse. After that, getting there is a breeze — but the tough enemies protecting this lair are going to be a challenge if you’re not prepared.

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