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Blizzard has partnered with AbleGamers in support of gamers with disabilities to drop some devilishly Legendary prizes in the Hellish Giveaway fundraiser. The grand prize includes round-trip airfare for two to California, a three-night hotel stay, and a personal tour of Blizzard’s Irvine campus! To enter this sweepstakes, simply purchase entry tickets or make general donations through the Diablo IV: Hellish Giveaway Fundraiser site — all entries grant a chance to win any of the available prizes. Note that eligibility requires US residency.

For those who are thinking about seriously pursuing streaming as a hobby or career, you’ll need a dependable microphone and headset to boost the quality of your streams. Here’s a bundle that should get you started — the HyperX QuadCast S microphone and the HyperX Cloud Alpha S gaming headset for only $172 from HP, which is $118 cheaper than their regular price of $290. You’re going to have to be quick with your purchase if you’re interested though, as the 40% discount will only be available for a limited time.

Alien: Rogue Incursion has been announced for PSVR 2, Meta Quest 3 and Steam VR, in a dream come true for VR gaming fans of Alien: Isolation. The single-player action-horror VR game will be coming out in Holiday 2024.

The Dead Boy Detectives are a cult favorite that never quite found a cult. Introduced in the pages of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, the undeniable strength of the premise — a ghost boy from the 1910s is best friends with a ghost boy from the 1990s; they solve ghost mysteries! — regularly lures in comics creators, but rarely for longer than a single story arc every five to 10 years.

Heroes are called to once again experience a dramatically reforged Azeroth and defend it from utter devastation with a smoother and accelerated leveling experience. Two new races—worgen and goblin—join the Alliance and Horde, each bringing their unique edge to Azeroth.

Join Game Director Ion Hazzikostas and Associate Art Director Tina Wang as they sit down with Community Manager and host Bethany Stout to take you into The War Within™.

The (unofficial) theme of new TV this week: reality.

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Ghouls have been part of the Fallout world since the first game in 1997. But despite being a series mainstay, we never learned how a ghoul goes from having all of their senses intact to turning completely feral.

The internet is often accused of annihilating the personhood of other people, encouraging everyone on it to regard only themselves as whole, complex individuals worthy of empathy, and everyone else as pond scum. This is a dire read, but not an inaccurate one. Driving, however, should get some credit for doing the same first.

One UI 6.1 is finally making its way to Galaxy S23 and all the other supported devices. The new update brings a number of improvements, including Galaxy AI. However, the latest update now appears that the latest update appears to be throttling the charging speed, which could be an issue for a lot of people.

Holstin is a psychological survival horror game that boasts a throwback pixelated aesthetic and a genuinely unsettling tone. Its latest trailer - which just dropped at the Future Games Show - shows off its seamless switching between first and third person in its isolated and haunted 90s Polish town setting, and, wow, it's as eerie as it gets. 

We have the solution to Wordle on February 23, as well as some helpful hints to help you figure out the answer yourself, right here. We’ve placed the answer at the bottom of the page, so we don’t ruin the surprise before you’ve had a chance to work through the clues. So let’s dive in, starting with a reminder of yesterday’s answer.

James Baldwin is, to put it mildly, foundational. Oft-quoted and adapted across media, Baldwin’s work still forms the spine of our modern understanding of racial and sexual liberation, yet — perhaps out of reverence — he’s rarely been portrayed dramatically on-screen. Chris Chalk, in other words, had monumental shoes to fill in portraying the beloved writer, who, as a well-documented orator, many Americans are intimately familiar with. Chalk takes on the challenge with aplomb, giving a scene-stealing turn in this week’s episode of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.

We have the solution to Wordle on February 22, as well as some helpful hints to help you figure out the answer yourself, right here. We’ve placed the answer at the bottom of the page, so we don’t ruin the surprise before you’ve had a chance to work through the clues. So let’s dive in, starting with a reminder of yesterday’s answer.

Nintendo Switch now supports a wide variety of headsets and headphones. Whether you need the functionality of a wireless connection or something affordable and durable for your kids, here are our five favorite headsets for Switch.

Today is the day, bargain hunters. It's time to pounce on some "whole shebang" collections that have all entries included. Alternatively, I've also found a bunch of isolated single-shot games that can be ruthlessly picked off for next to nothing. Get amongst it. Show those deals no mercy.

The second Mythwind dropped on my table I began creating content for it, and I don’t regret it for a single minute. While not everything is perfect in Mythwind town, the overall experience has been incredibly positive, giving me that “just one more day” feeling I always had when playing Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley.

Over the years, a lot of impressive native Nintendo Switch ports have happened. Games like Doom, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and Alien: Isolation all seem like they shouldn’t run that well on the console, but do. With the hybrid console’s more powerful successor on the horizon, only a few of these kinds of ports are probably left. Today, we learned that one of those will be Bandai Namco Entertainment’s Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, which will come to the system on July 11.

Arriving hot on the heels of the first issue of Duke, Cobra Commander #1 is the latest entry into the rapidly expanding Energon Universe. Written by the ubiquitous Joshua Williamson, drawn by Andrea Milana and colored by Annalisa Leoni, it focuses on the origins of the infamous G.I. Joe villain. 

Beginning in 1989, the Prince of Persia series enjoyed consistent attention, with its longest break between releases being six years between Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame and the better-left forgotten Prince of Persia 3D. 2003’s Sands of Time and its two sequels marked a new era for Prince and, in many ways, laid the foundation for Ubisoft’s most successful franchise, Assassin’s Creed. The 2008 Prince of Persia reboot didn’t reignite the series as Ubisoft had hoped, and 2010’s Forgotten Sands felt closer to a movie tie-in than a new, proper entry.

There's officially a new Sentry on the block as of January 10's The Sentry #2, but how long will the new incarnation of the troubled Marvel hero last? 

One of the most striking shots in the Dragon’s Dogma 2 release date trailer is a shot of a giant, eerily grinning feathered monster with fiery red eyes, ominously approaching the Arisen. To me, it stuck out as a uniquely non-confrontational encounter with a giant and imposing monster, which is not something you see very often in the world of Dragon’s Dogma.

The Clockwork Labs team recently shared a new devblog on BitCraft , this time on how players will be able to shape the world. 

A Chinese exchange student who fell victim to a "cyber kidnapping" scam in which his parents were extorted for $80,000, was found alive but "cold and scared" in a tent in the Utah wilderness, police said. Kai Zhuang, age 17, was reported missing on Thursday after his parents in China told officials at his host high school in Riverdale, Utah that he appeared to have been kidnapped and a ransom had been requested.

Apple recently rolled out the iOS 17.3 Beta 1 for those who have signed up for Apple's Developer program and are eligible to receive beta updates. The rest of the users will likely get the global stable version in January 2024. This update added a couple of interesting features, among which, Stolen Device Protection is a notable one. The feature adds another security layer for sensitive actions on your iPhone by using your biometrics. This makes it quite an important feature for users. So, check out how exactly this feature works and how can you turn it on.

Joyce Loaiza lives alone, but when she returns to her apartment at a Florida senior community, the retired office worker often has a chat with a friendly female voice that asks about her day. A few miles away, the same voice comforted 83-year-old Deanna Dezern when her friend died. In central New York, it plays games and music for 92-year-old Marie Broadbent, who is blind and in hospice, and in Washington state, it helps 83-year-old Jan Worrell make new friends.

The existence of the Upper Lunch Hut implies the existence of a Lower Lunch Hut, but as far as I can tell, no such building exists. It's one of many mysteries that surround the edifice, which I discovered during a holiday in the Cairngorms this August, while everybody else at RPS was writing about some tyrannous entity called Gamescom.

It couldn’t have gone any other way, right?

Well ahead of the upcoming launch of its premium smartphone Samsung Galaxy S24 in the middle of January, 2024, Samsung has revealed it will be launching two new smartphones during the next week. Samsung has set the launch of Samsung Galaxy A15 5G and Samsung Galaxy A25 5G on December 26 in India. The latest addition to Samsung's popular Galaxy A series touts a Super AMOLED display with Vision Booster technology that provides enhanced visibility against strong illumination in outdoor situations.

If you’re looking for new TV this week, you’ll probably want to head to Disney Plus — not officially, but that’s where you’ll find a lot of the big new releases in the lead-up to Christmas Eve this week (and, not for nothing, a lot of the family-friendly content for being home for the holidays too). There you’ll find familiar tentpoles like the MCU’s What If...? season 2 and the new Percy Jackson and the Olympians. But you’ll also find Dragons of Wonderhatch, a new world with a partially animated schtick.

There’s something shameful I must admit about myself: I’m a native of Miami, Florida. It’s where I spent the first 18 years of my life growing up, and even after leaving, I look back on my time a lot.

There are plenty of Nintendo Switch deals on the shelves for Christmas this year, but one sits on a newly released accessory that's caught the attention of Switchers everywhere - including mine. What's more, the CRKD Nitro Deck is now back down to its lowest ever price - one I've only previously seen over Black Friday. 

Sometimes, the desire to fall backward through time is hard to resist. This year’s Game Awards showcase strongly brought this feeling on for me. As I watched the passionate crowd cheering on the titles that had shaped them through the year, a core memory of my own came creeping up, scented in 2006 fixation and drenched in video games that changed the tides of the industry, conventions, and the lives of sensitive young gamers. Gamers like me.

One of the real-time idle surprise hits of 2020 is coming to mobiles soon. Available on PC and Switch since 2020, The Longing will drop on Android and iOS on December 18, 2023.

UK developer Creative Assembly, after a brief dalliance with first-person projects on PlayStation like 2014's Alien: Isolation and the recently cancelled Hyenas, will shift focus back to strategy games and PC. It's likely the last console players will see of the Horsham-based company, at least for the foreseeable future.

As we end what was supposed to be Microsoft’s first big Xbox year in a while, there are questions (some fairly trolly) about the future of the brand. And besides that, the green team are making it easier than ever to play their games without needing to buy a console. So should you buy their box?

Epic Games has changed the speed of Fortnite's storm circles following player feedback.

Capturing the perfect photo is often hindered by unwanted background elements. After all, there is no telling when the best opportunity for a perfect photo arises. Whenever that happens, you just point and clock your photo, but realise only afterwards that the background is somehow ruining it all and perhaps it may even cause you to junk one of the best images you ever took, simply because of the background. But thankfully there are various tools available these days that can easily remove those elements. Samsung also introduced one such feature to the Samsung Galaxy S23 smartphone. You can now make full use of the Image Clipper tool in One UI 5.1. The Samsung Galaxy S23 Image Clipper feature, is now making its way to older models such as the Galaxy S22, S21, S20, and the Galaxy Fold series through the April One UI update. Follow the steps below to know how to use this amazing tool.

Video games, like other art forms, allow you to revel in escapism. But only video games can give you the keys to your dream ride without making you sign for it, then let you tear it around the world’s most scenic raceways. Heck, you can mercilessly cake your ride in mud on challenging rally courses, too.

Have you ever wished you could effortlessly extract information from photos or videos? Well, now you can. With iPhone 15 Live Text, you can do it easily. This feature not only allows you to copy text from images, but also enables language translation, making calls, and more. To know more about how this feature works, follow the steps below:

The devs at Creative Assembly have had a rough time of it recently. Back in September, the studio was blindsided by the sudden cancellation of its upcoming live-service shooter Hyenas, barely two weeks after it had concluded an open beta and one month after an appearance at Gamescom. The result was layoffs, uncertainty, and now the studio is going to attempt to pivot back to what it knows best: real-time strategy.

The LUMINKEY 80 is a love-letter to the keyboard community, authored by the designers of Create Keebs , creators of some of the most popular custom keyboards of the last several years (most notably, the Thera75 ). Available as a barebones kit for $215 or fully built and tuned for sound and feel at $280. It comes with an anodized aluminum case, complete with a copper badge and rear weight, tri-mode wireless connectivity for gaming and productivity, and the best sound and feel I’ve experienced in a pre-built custom keyboard yet. 

Hype for Fede Alvarez's Alien movie is pretty colossal with Ridley Scott already giving it high praise. Now, we finally know when it sits on the franchise’s timeline, and it’s got us speculating what this might mean for the plot of Alien: Romulus. 

Massdrop x Sennheiser HD 6XX Headphones | 40mm drivers |  10-41,000Hz | Open-back | Wired | $219 $179 at Drop (save $40)A hot collab between Drop and Sennheiser, the HD 6XX headphones are essentially a variant of Sennheiser's ever-popular HD 650s in misty midnight blue. They have the same sound profile as the HD 650s—a nice, crisp and clear response on the mids and highs—meaning you're set for some seriously nice audio for a seriously decent price.

SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro + GameDAC | 40mm drivers | 10–40,000Hz | Closed-back | Wireless | $349.99 $297.49 at Amazon (save $52.50)SteelSeries have a reputation for making fantastic gaming headsets, and the Arctis Nova Pro is where the company brings together all it's knowhow. From incredible comfort, to smashing sound quality and isolation, and hot swappable batteries that charge within the DAC cross battery dock. It's multi-connection, so you can quickly switch between Bluetooth, or 2.4 Wi-Fi on Xbox and PC.

Marvel built its comic book revolution on the back of one idea: rendering colorful superheroes as relatable. In the mid 20th century, DC do-gooders were essentially square-jawed Sunday school teachers, which let Marvel corner the market on heroes with human depth and fragility. The Fantastic Four were vulnerable to insecurity and in-fighting. The X-Men represented the cost of bigotry on a wide scale.

Here's a question few of us will ever have to answer. Would you rather have $23 billion living in the United Arab Emirates with no US extradition treaty, or sacrifice a chunk of your wealth and perhaps spend 18 months behind bars to resolve all your issues with the US Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission?

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League of Legends continually updates, adding new champions and features to the multiplayer battle arena game. This weekend, during League’s yearly Worlds tournament, Developer Riot Games shared some of the next big additions coming to the game. This includes new champion Hwei, the Visionary, a young Ionian man who uses his massive brush to paint a dizzying array of spells, as well as a host of changes for the upcoming season including adjustments to Summoner’s Rift and the nasty Baron boss.

League of Legends' new champion Hwei is a human mage designed to be played in the mid-lane, and he has 10 different spells that take more than one button press to cast. If you happen to be a Dota 2 fan that might sound a little familiar, as Invoker—a wizard dating all the way back to Warcraft 3 mod Defense of the Ancients—basically does the same thing.

In a cosmic twist, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled a celestial supply chain involving ice-covered pebbles shuttling water to newly forming planets around young stars. This groundbreaking discovery challenges traditional beliefs about the origin of Earth's water and sheds light on the interconnectedness of solar system regions from its far regions to its very centre.

Last week, Riot expanded its Valorant agent roster with the release of Iso, a Duelist with abilities designed to aid in pushing onto sites. This is Valorant's seventh Duelist, making it the most prevalent class in the game. 

There’s a particular disreputable character type that used to be all over the thriller genre, but that we don’t see much in media anymore — at least, not until The Marvels, which summons it back from the grave, howling all the way. It’s one of the movie’s worst, most ludicrous moments — a beat that’s meant to feel like an emotional crisis, and lands more as cheap manipulation. But at the same time, The Marvels eventually makes it meaningful and even touching, in a slapdash sort of way.

With Patch 10.2 already live and Season 3 starting this week, it is a good moment to highlight our Demon Hunter class guides. Both Havoc and Vengeance received substantial change with Patch 10.2 and both currently are among the most promising specs in the new season.

I’ve written about a lot of games in this column in the last year, all of which I’ve loved very much. But I don’t think I’ve been totally obsessed with any of them in the way I’ve been obsessed with In Stars and Time. For a week, I stayed up late every night because I couldn’t put it down. I dreamed about it. I sat at my desk at work, watching the clock, eager for the hour when I could finally get home and try again to unravel the mystery of what was really going on in the hearts and heads of protagonist Siffrin and his companions.

You there, at the back. Stop sniggering. That isn't what it looks like, its an important artifact from ancient Herculaneum, okay? And it's just been decoded by something almost as elderly, but significantly less crappy; none other than an Nvidia GTX 1070.

RICOCHET has been a huge help for Call of Duty’s anti-cheat efforts, and this year’s update – which coincides with Modern Warfare 3’s release – includes the unique potential to punish hackers in the funniest possible way.

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During BlizzCon 2023, Blizzard Entertainment revealed what many Diablo players knew was coming — a new expansion for Diablo 4. Vessel of Hatred will expand upon the events that took place through the campaign and introduce a new class to the roster that has never been seen before in the Diablo universe. Polygon spoke with members of the core development team for Diablo 4 to ask about the various production cycles the now-live service game has gone through, and how the team plans to deliver content and make adjustments through planned updates.

Players have flocked to Fortnite with the Fortnite OG season that’s currently live. However, some are reporting experiences of a strange bug that teleports them seamlessly across the map with no explanation as to why.

Some very unofficial Hogwarts Legacy Switch gameplay has leaked, and everyone's wondering what sort of Dark Magic is being used to make it look so good.

Green Hell’s Building update has now been released for PS4 and Xbox One, following its PC earlier this year. The Building update allows players to take to the trees and build treehouses to evade the danger on the ground. It is not going to be 100% safe, but you can put in doors and use the new heavy axe to keep the unwanted out of your treehouse.

Xal'atath and Alleria Windrunner are going to be front and central to the next World of Warcraft expansion, The War Within. Xal'atath is confirmed to be the Harbinger, and she and the Void Elf will have a «unique rivalry».

With another year comes another Call of Duty, and this time, we’re diving into Modern Warfare 3 and all it has to offer. Now, with the campaign in early access, players are not pleased with how Infinity Ward has handled the story.

During the World of Warcraft®: What’s Next panel at BlizzCon 2023, Cinematic Narrative Director Terran Gregory, Associate Design Director Maria Hamilton, and Associate Game Director Morgan Day dove into an overview of the world, story, and features coming in the next chapter of World of Warcraft—The War Within™.

Blizzard has released a recap of the WoW: What's Next panel, highlighting the world, story, and features coming in World of Warcraft: The War Within!

The WoW: What's Next panel has just begun at BlizzCon 2023, and we're liveblogging all of the most interesting highlights!

Sofia Coppola brings a delicate touch to Priscilla, the A24 biopic of Priscilla Presley (née Beaulieu), who married Elvis Presley in 1967 and separated from him six years later. The movie runs out of steam in its final act, due to a scattered structure aimed more at tracing a real-world chronology than following character drama through to its most rigorous emotional outcomes. But until that point, it’s kept afloat by Coppola’s gentle conception of Priscilla’s story, which she unfurls through a pair of brilliant, alluring performances.

XRHealth, a healthcare spatial computing platform, will send a VR headset and mental health apps into space to treat astronauts at the International Space Station.

3D platformers have made something of a resurgence in recent years in the indie scene. Titles like A Hat in Time and Frogun show there’s a market for inventive platforming ideas with amazing worlds to explore.

Over a nearly 50-year career, Stephen King has done plenty to earn his title as the American master of horror — but his 60-plus novels to date also spend a lot of time in the arenas of fantasy, suspense, crime, and drama. Not all Stephen King novels are scary, really, which isn’t at all a complaint: Plenty of them are breathlessly and compulsively readable without being the kind of book that pushes you to sleep with the lights on after you put it down for the night.

Foxhole is a sandbox-style war MMO and, while it officially released last year, it's been available in early access since 2017. Its schtick is one persistent and gigantic war game where thousands of players simultaneously battle for one of two factions, both seeking domination over a gigantic map, but with the twist that, as in a real conflict, the logistics, resource and supply side of the armies is just as important, if not more so, than the soldiers firing guns and piloting vehicles. 

Streaming services constantly try to make their new shows the next big thing, but the power of the nostalgia watch is unrivaled. It’s not just about Friends andThe Office — every so often, an old show just starts to gain traction again, and it seems like everyone across social media is rewatching it at the same time. Columbo, The Sopranos, and Breaking Bad, for instance, have all risen back into the zeitgeist within the last couple of years.

The Forest is available on multiple platforms, but does it have cross-play or cross-progression? This would allow people to survive together in The Forest if the developers made this option viable.

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Slay the Princess begins with a simple scenario: There is a princess chained to a wall in the basement of an isolated cabin. You need to murder her (hence the name of the game) or the world will end.

The World of Warcraft Avaloren expansion might have leaked ahead of an official announcement at this year's BlizzCon event next week.

Darkness falls upon the land earlier during this time of the year, giving you a little more time with each passing day to enjoy spooky video games with a suitably dim, moody setting. If you need some activities to fright and delight you, check out Steam’s Scream sale that discounts tons of games — some of which aren’t so scary, actually. Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered is 40% off, of all games.