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Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced launches on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on July 9, and ahead of the game’s release, Ubisoft has launched a real-life hunt for a $500,000 treasure out there somewhere in the Caribbean. Before you make way, though, you bloomin’ cockroaches, understand that you’ll need to pay at least $40 to participate in the hunt. This treasure hunt is a result of a collaboration with real-world scavenger hunt maker Unsolved Hunts, and in order to get started, you’ll need to pay for clues, starting with the Deckhand pack that you can purchase for $39.99; it…
I did not go into Arc Raiders planning to play like a rat. After a few bad runs, I had lost some of my good gear and just wanted to blow off some steam in the game’s unofficial PvP arena “Stella Montis”. In the best-case scenario, the goal was to go in guns blazing, borrow some fine piece of equipment from some raiders, and book it to extract. The worst-case scenario, where I lost everything, didn’t bother me since I was running a free loadout. Stella Montis has a reputation. It is built for tight and tense corridors that encourage…
Epic Games and Blizzard Entertainment have revealed the Overwatch content coming to Fortnite as part of an upcoming collaboration. Overwatch will make its way to Fortnite in an update that goes live tomorrow, on May 14, and will feature skins/outfits of heroes Tracer, Genji, D.Va, and Mercy.Plus, the Fortnite battle island will get new landmarks based on the following Overwatch maps: Hanamura, Busan Drum Pavilion, King’s Row, and Watchpoints. New hero weapons like Mercy’s Caduceus Staff and Tracer’s Pulse Pistols will be added to the battle royale’s loot pool (and in an interesting twist, Tracer’s Pulse Pistols will let you…
Instagram has never been shy about borrowing ideas, and its latest move makes that clearer than ever. The platform just globally launched Instants, a new feature that lets you share disappearing, unedited photos with your Close Friends or mutual followers. The standalone Instants app is now available on iOS and Android, which opens directly to the camera when you log in with your Instagram account. Introducing Instants: the newest way to share photos in real time with your Close Friends (or mutual followers) that disappear after 24 hours and can’t be edited, so you’re sharing your most authentic moments. You…
Bungie has revealed that Season 2 of its first-person extraction shooter Marathon will begin next month on June 2. Ahead of the new season, the team has detailed the finale update for Season 1, alongside information Runners should know about the progression reset and more. Season 2, dubbed Nightfall, begins on June 2, but before that, Bungie says UESC security (the NPC enemies in the game’s various maps) efforts will be renewed and amplified in the final days of Season 1. When update 1.0.9 launches on Tuesday, Runners will find that locked room keys are guaranteed to drop from Wardens for…
After years of using Alexa to answer questions, control smart homes, play music, and handle everyday tasks, Amazon has found a more obvious job for it. Alexa is becoming your personal shopper, meant to help you find what you need faster and get it into your cart with fewer second thoughts. Amazon is rolling out Alexa for Shopping to U.S. customers on the Amazon Shopping app, Amazon.com, and Echo Show devices. It combines the existing Rufus shopping chatbot with Alexa+ personalization, enabling the assistant to use product knowledge, shopping history, browsing behavior, past purchases, preferences, and Alexa conversations to improve…
Earlier this year, I dove deep into the Early Access hit Witchfire and came away so impressed that I had to rethink my entire approach to Early Access games. Not only is it a unique shooter from studio The Astronauts, which also developed 2014’s The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, but it’s an admirable attempt at a team responding to its community feedback as it heads towards a 1.0 release sometime this year. Wanting to learn more about this team and the development of Witchfire, I interviewed various members of the studio, and I highly encourage you to read my full feature…
Amazon’s Fire Phone was a spectacular failure that marred the e-commerce giant’s hardware attempt. More than a decade later, Amazon appears to be eyeing the mobile segment again with an AI twist. But it may not be preparing a straightforward smartphone sequel. In a Financial Times interview, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay says that the company has no plans to simply try to build another phone. Panay said Amazon is “not necessarily going after phone,” while acknowledging that mobile technology is changing and that new AI-powered form factors could blur the usual lines around what counts as a phone. How…
Developer Croteam and publisher Devolver Digital have announced The Talos Principle 3, the finale of the critically acclaimed puzzle game series. The brief teaser trailer doesn’t show any gameplay, but a batch of screenshots, posted below, reveals new twists on the series’ signature light-bouncing puzzles as well as some pretty fantastical locations, such as a giant mushroom forest. The series takes place hundreds of years after mankind’s extinction; intelligent robots have inherited the Earth and possess the sum of mankind’s knowledge, which is tested in various puzzles and philosophical dilemmas. As for The Talo Principle 3’s plot, the trailer’s description only offers…
Googlebook is launching this year, but Google isn’t cutting every Chromebook loose. In an interview with Chrome Unboxed, Google VP John Maletis said some Chromebooks will be able to move into Googlebook-style software through a firmware update. This means Googlebook shifts Google’s laptop plans toward an Android foundation, with Gemini built more deeply into the laptop experience and Android apps no longer sitting behind the same emulation layer. The caution flag is still big. Google hasn’t named the eligible models, shared rollout timing, or said whether upgraded Chromebooks will match new Googlebook hardware feature for feature. Which Chromebooks make the…