Review: It's Truly Disappointing How Death end re;Quest: Code Z Turned Out

When approaching anything from developer Compile Heart, players tend to know what they’re going to get. Assets will be recycled to save on development costs, the plot will be silly and take a bulldozer to the fourth wall, and the gameplay won’t be extraordinary or even particularly original. Understanding that Faustian bargain, the player will tend to get a fun romp with enjoyable characters, a bubbly tone and goofy fun, which seems like a fair trade....

July 14, 2025 · 8 min · 1507 words · Steve Burns

Roblox Bad Business Xbox port launches with Update 2.14

Team Rudimentary announced a plannedBad Businessport to the Xbox version ofRoblox. The Xbox port will launch with Update 2.14, the first of three major updates that Team Rudimentary detailed in the 2021Bad BusinessRoadmap.A new Ranked form play inBad Business,along with a brand new Team Rudimentary game, are also planned for the future. TheBad Businessdevelopers released the 2021 Roadmap, which thanked fans for a successful 2020 and detailed this year’s plans. The next three major updates—2....

July 14, 2025 · 2 min · 284 words · Stephen Richardson

RPG News Weekly Round Up – November 26th, 2017

Happy weekend fromFextralife! If you’ve been too busy to keep up on the latest in the games we cover or are looking for a refresher, we’ve got your back. Let’s take a look at the comings and goings across theFextralifeWiki Network. Check out the video above and read on for the text! Bloodborne Over the past week,Bloodborneplayers were reunited with a long-lost enemy called the “Flaming Undead Giant”, a variant of theUndead Giantwhich had a blazing scythe on one hand....

July 14, 2025 · 4 min · 831 words · Wendy Bryant

Sanditon Cast and Character Guide

The regency historical dramabased on Jane Austen’s unfinished novelfrom 1817 with the same name has been airing since 2019 with a total of three seasons. After its rocky start of being dropped after season one and being picked up and renewed for two more seasons,Sanditonhas arrived at its final season. The seaside town, Sanditon, is filled with ambitious and lively people looking for their own happiness. A girl from a quiet village comes to the fastly developing seaside town and gets tangled up in all its business....

July 14, 2025 · 6 min · 1078 words · David Lyons

Shortcuts in iOS 13 get conversational, suggestions, and a built-in app

Apple is launching an updated version of Shortcuts later this year, which includes a handful of new elements to help improve the feature. During this year’sWorldwide Developers Conference, Apple unveiled a few key changes to the Shortcuts experience, which will be getting improved with the launch ofiOS 13later this year. The newShortcutsapp is getting built into the mobile operating system, it’s getting more conversational in general, and users will now get suggestions as well....

July 14, 2025 · 2 min · 314 words · Mr. Micheal Stevens DDS

Spotify rolls out podcasts, video, news, Running feature, activity-based playlists and more

Spotifyis determined to give Apple’s vertically integrated iTunes ecosystem a run for its money. At a media event in New York City, the Swedish streaming-music startup has moved into video, aspreviously suspected. The service will now host video podcasts and other types of video content like news, much like Apple’s iTunes.Accordingto TechCrunch, Spotify will also serve up playlists that are more personalized and relevant to what you’re doing at the time....

July 14, 2025 · 4 min · 728 words · Rebekah Khan

Star Wars Outlaws Smuggler Camp location and rewards

Part of what makes Star Wars Outlaws so enjoyable is the fact that you can explore an open-world game set within one of the most iconic sci-fi franchises of all time. It’s up to you to scour the moons and planets to find as many pieces of intel and collectibles as possible. With that in mind, let’s carve our path in the galaxy and take a look at the Star Wars Outlaws Smuggler Camp location and rewards....

July 14, 2025 · 3 min · 501 words · Robert West

Steam Deck 2 features are already being teased

Steam Deck has only just launched, but Valve is already looking to the future and teasing its successor, the Steam Deck 2. Gabe Newell, the co-founder of Valve, has teased in an interview that the next-gen Steam Deck will be much more powerful and may offer virtual reality (VR) capabilities. Does that mean it’s better to wait for Steam Deck 2 rather than to buy the new handheld right now?...

July 14, 2025 · 4 min · 715 words · Joseph Walters

Taiwan university sues Apple over Siri speech recognition

A university in Taiwan has sued Apple over its use of dictation feature in Siri and the underlying speech recognition engine, claiming Apple’s implementation violates its patents. National Cheng Kung University has on Monday launched a lawsuit against the iPhone maker and is seeking undisclosed damages, though its lawyers noted that any calculation would be based on Apple’s U.S. sales of devices that use Siri, quite possibly amounting to millions of dollars in damages…...

July 14, 2025 · 2 min · 307 words · Madeline Stewart

The 5 Best Apple Pencil Alternatives

The 5 Best Apple Pencil Alternatives We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you use your iPad for sketching, illustration, annotation, or calligraphy, anApple Pencil or Apple Pencil 2is almost mandatory. The catch is, as with most Apple products, the Apple Pencil is quite expensive. You can expect to pay $99 for the first incarnation of the stylus, and $129 for its sequel. However, despite Apple’s best attempts at creating a closed ecosystem, third-party alternatives do exist....

July 14, 2025 · 6 min · 1236 words · Gregory Morgan

The Acolyte Makes The Biggest Disney Star Wars Criticism Canon

This article contains spoilers for The Acolyte episodes 1 & 2. Summary The new Disney+ seriesThe Acolyteis bringing to light one of the biggest criticisms fans have of modernStar Warsstories in an interesting, meta way. Starting in 2014 with the animated seriesStar Wars: Rebels, newStar Warsstories have been releasing on screen every single year - whether in animation or live-action. Many DisneyStar Warsmovies and TV showshave been heavily criticized, however, for overusing nostalgia....

July 14, 2025 · 4 min · 698 words · Leah Gomez

The best to-do list apps for iPhone

Not everyone needs a super duper comprehensive getting-things-done list. I may need to be able to schedule out every moment of my day, but it wasn’t always like that. I used to just make lists, which I think is the best way to be the most productive. Sometimes, you need a little bit of both. A solid list-making app can go hand-in-hand with a robust scheduling app. Whether you need something simple, or something complex, we’ve got a list for you today of what we think are thebest to-do apps for iPhone....

July 14, 2025 · 5 min · 997 words · Max Bailey

The Boys season 3 is best yet: Here's how to watch it

Prime Video’s The Boys third season is proving to be the most controversial and, arguably, the best yet. Adapted from the comic books by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, The Boys season 3 ramps up the insane, extremely mature action ten-fold, with the introduction of several new “supes” for Butcher and the team to take on and plenty of jaw-dropping (and jaw-ripping) sequences. Here’s everything you need to know about it....

July 14, 2025 · 4 min · 718 words · Isabel Wu