To stay popular for a long time, an action game needs more than just a good story. It needs a huge world to discover, detailed ways to improve your character, and plenty of extra things to do. The games we’ve highlighted have successfully combined all of these elements, offering constant thrills and enough content to keep players engaged for weeks on end.
The Switch 2, like the original Switch, was hard to find when it first came out. Some experts believe shortages could continue in certain areas until 2026, though it’s becoming easier to purchase in other places. Because of these limited supplies and concerns about the price, many gamers might have decided to wait for the initial excitement to fade and for the console to be more readily available. While waiting might seem smart, current trends in the hardware market suggest delaying a purchase could end up costing you more in the long run.
Bloomberg reports that Warner Bros. Discovery’s board is likely to advise shareholders to decline Paramount’s recent offer. They’re leaning towards accepting a competing bid from Netflix, which they consider more favorable.
After a painfully slow shuffle through November and December, HBAR has settled into a snug little corner-imagine a squirrel hoarding acorns-debating whether this pause is a springboard for a jaunty bounce or just the calm before the next big belly flop.
Researchers are exploring a radical departure from traditional cryptographic methods, building security on the principles of higher-arity operations and non-derived algebraic structures.
After a two-week pause, One Piece is back, and fans are eagerly awaiting chapter 1169! This chapter will finally kick off the long-awaited Elbaf flashback, something the author has been carefully preparing for months. Oda has been steadily building towards this moment, and now it’s here.
Great open-world games don’t just point you to objectives; they create vast maps that encourage you to explore and discover things on your own. With so many open-world games available, there are countless unique places to find and enjoy, making the experience truly rewarding.
The latest update for Final Fantasy 14, Patch 7.4, nicknamed “Into the Mist,” launched on December 16th after a short period of server maintenance. This update acts as a transition between the current story arc and the next, currently unnamed, expansion. Patch 7.4 includes a continuation of the main story, the conclusion of the Arcadion raid series, and a major update to the glamour system. Now, most armor and accessories can be used to change your appearance regardless of your job, level, or role – though weapons and tools still have job-specific appearances. The patch also adds new cosmetic items inspired by rewards from the discontinued Feast PvP mode, a new strategic board for raid planning, and a customizable command panel to help players organize frequently used actions, emotes, and macros without cluttering the user interface.
When economists submitted their predictions of unemployment for the past two months, they expected bad news, and on Tuesday, jobs data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) lived up to the gloomy projections. November gained 64,000 jobs, significantly more than the 50,000 experts predicted, but October saw 105,000 job losses, and now, the unemployment rate has crept up to 4.6%, its highest level in four years. Stocks were in the red, but surprisingly, bitcoin, in another counterintuitive move, climbed 2.5% 🦄.
Now, let’s talk about Kled, the company that compensates users for their personal data by making them label photos and essays. Sounds like a delightful way to spend your weekend, right? They then sell this goldmine of information to AI companies, who presumably use it to train software to do… well, something advanced that we don’t understand. 🤖