Mass Effect Andromeda New Apex Mission Available June 22nd

BioWare has released the next limited timeApex missionforMass Effect: Andromeda’smultiplayer. It is available from today until June the 26th on every platform. Mass Effect Andromeda Apex Mission Details Players can join the elite APEX forces and take part in the next of several ongoing story-based missions that will feature new playablecharacters,weaponsanditems. This Mission, “Don’t Go Looking for Trouble” takes place in the Firebase Aqua, this time under cover of darkness, to face your greatest challenge as the Kett fight to take control of this lucrative base....

August 10, 2025 · 1 min · 185 words · Dylan Allen

Metroid Prime Remastered Review

Oh hey, Metroid is back again. That’s weird! If feels like we spent so much time wondering “where Metroid?” and then a switch (har har) was flipped and that question’s been answered rapid-fire. This time it’s a remaster of a classic, and I don’t mean classic in the usual sense. Metroid Prime is a bonafide masterpiece, and this new coat of paint only reinforces its status. Metroid Prime’s iron-clad pedestal makes even more sense today in our post-Dread world, showing what it actually means for an outside party to treat a creative work with some serious reverence....

August 10, 2025 · 5 min · 894 words · Chad Crawford

Motorola has returned to form in 2023 and the Moto Edge 40 neo looks like a star in the making

I’ve seen a number of Motorola phones in 2023 - there was theMotorola Edge 40and before that theMotorola Edge 40 Pro. Both phones come from the same family and both were impressive devices, with a design that really impressed, great performance and wonderful displays. The Moto Edge 40 particularly impressed me and I loved the vegan leather back - it’s a premium finish and a refreshing change from the sterile uniformity of glass....

August 10, 2025 · 4 min · 668 words · Timothy Lara

New Hyundai Azera Is A Stunning Sedan America Can't Have

New Hyundai Azera Is A Stunning Sedan America Can’t Have Within Korea, the Hyundai Azera was called the “Grandeur.” While the Genesis brand has been spun off into its own full-fledged brand, Grandeur sedans have always been Hyundai’s pride and joy, high-end flagship. The Azera left America’s shores in 2017. Genesis quickly took its place for anyone wanting a luxury car from Hyundai. Last year, Hyundai unveiled aGrandeur concept electric vehiclethat looks like it rolled right out of 1986....

August 10, 2025 · 2 min · 331 words · Allen Castillo

On unscalable fences and impassable invisible barriers

In this article I will discuss unscalable fences and invisible walls in RPGs and their impact on immersion. I’ll also suggest some alternatives to them and look at games that already do this well. If my Dexterity level is so high, why can’t I climb a fence? I’ve shoved the majority of my attribute points into the Dexterity stat. I can now dance around the battlefield like a hyperactive ninja after one too many coffees....

August 10, 2025 · 5 min · 890 words · Marcus Cochran

Patent Shows Apple Working On Universal Touchscreen TV Remote

As noted by9to5Mac, the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) published an interesting patent application today with Apple’s name on it. The filing pertains to a universal touch screen controller, capable of controlling TV sets and a range of other devices, lending at least some credibility to therecent rumorswe’ve heard that Apple has aconnected televisionin the works… As with most patent applications, Apple’s universal remote filing outlines the problems with current offerings and suggests a solution....

August 10, 2025 · 2 min · 306 words · Destiny Hawkins

Polestar 2 review: Electric car superstar

The electric car revolution has come a long way in a very short period of time. Gone is the time when range was ultra-limited and charging networks barely existed. Pricing has also gone from supercar levels of ridiculous to approaching something that resembles sensible within just a matter of years. While Tesla has largely been the catalyst to help normalise EVs, it has also effectively become ‘normal’ as a car brand on today’s roads....

August 10, 2025 · 10 min · 1954 words · Joan Jennings

Recording spatial sound with ARKit & moving through virtual 3D waveforms

Code artist Zach Lieberman has leveraged Apple’s new ARKit framework in iOS 11 to build a trippy proof-of-concept spatial audio app which can be used to record sound in augmented reality and play it back by literally moving through virtual 3D waveforms. Here’s a quick video showing this in action (be sure to turn on sound) https://twitter.com/zachlieberman/status/905414787550642176 He built it using ARKit and OpenFrameworks, an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding....

August 10, 2025 · 2 min · 337 words · Shane Lee

Reeder update enables Feedly and Feed Wrangler on iPhone

Silvio Rizzi’s RSS client for the Apple platform, Reeder, has built quite a loyal following. It’s one of the first full-featured RSS readers on the iPhone which won me over with its elegant and sophisticated user interface, clever use of gestures and the ability to efficiently manage hundreds of feeds without crawling to a halt. Silvio has been diligently updating the software with new features and today he pushed a new version which enables two popular Google Reader replacement services just as Google’s web-based RSS client went offline yesterday…...

August 10, 2025 · 2 min · 333 words · Lisa Peters

Review: Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus is Superb, Expertly-Crafted Metroidvania Game

If I had a nickel for every hand-drawn metroidvania game released this year that centered around themes of Eastern cultures and mythology while also featuring an adorable-looking protagonist that contrasted with the…oh wait, we did this but already?Okay, never mind then, but it does seem interesting that we receivedNine Solsjust less than two months ago, and now we have another game that gives off similar vibes on the surface, Squid Shock Studios’Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus....

August 10, 2025 · 8 min · 1556 words · Jeremy Adams

Review: TombStar

The planet TombStar is in trouble. The GrimHeart gang has taken over the place and run wild, driving away the settlers to use the planet as a base for their lawlessness. A trio of gunslingers has been sent to deal with this problem starting with whitehatted not-quite-sheriff with mid-range stats Jack Galloway, branching out to the fast and deadly sniper AJ Starchild, and finally the tough but slow alien Benson Gara....

August 10, 2025 · 5 min · 967 words · Joseph Martin

Ring Battery Doorbell Pro Vs. Nest Doorbell

Ring Battery Doorbell Pro With 3D vision, the Ring Doorbell Pro can exclude busy sidewalks from your alerts. The wide-angle lens captures more of your yard, plus the removable battery makes recharging simpler. The doorbell will also record night vision in full color. You can’t save video without a subscription, however. Google Nest Doorbell (Battery) The Google Nest Doorbell does more without a subscription, allowing three hours of video history and person detection in the free plan....

August 10, 2025 · 7 min · 1360 words · Mr. Brian White

Rogue DMCA takedowns wrongfully targeted the jailbreak community [updated]

It’s never a dull moment for thejailbreakcommunity, and this week, the spotlight isn’t so much on jailbreak tool releases as it is on a series of baseless DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) take-downs that appear to be targeting jailbreak-oriented software and iOS security research. All the hubbub began with a simple Tweetsharedby respected community hacker @siguza, which contained an iPhone encryption key. This key was comprised of a long string of randomized letters and numbers and would have appeared as gibberish to most common folk....

August 10, 2025 · 2 min · 291 words · Gregory Briggs