Best weapons to upgrade first in The Last of Us Part II

Best weapons to upgrade first in The Last of Us Part II There are a lot of weapons you can find and upgrade in The Last of Us Part II, and here are the ones you should upgrade first to get you through the early hours of the game. The Last of Us Part IIisNaughty Dog‘s follow-up to the belovedThe Last of Us, and the world is more brutal and unforgiving than ever in the sequel....

August 2, 2025 · 4 min · 746 words · Samantha Morris

Black Friday’s best PC hardware deal is still live, and you’re sleeping on it

I’m not mad, just disappointed. A couple of weeks ago,I covered the insane dealthat essentially allowed you to score a Ryzen 5 7600X — still one of thebest processorsyou can buy — for just $105. At the time, I thought, surely, this will sell out in a matter of hours. Who would pass up on a deal this good? And yet, two weeks later to the day, the craziest deal I’ve seen during all of Black Friday and Cyber Monday is still live on Newegg....

August 2, 2025 · 3 min · 545 words · Andrea Coleman

Blink Wired Floodlight Camera offers heaps of features and an affordable price tag

Blink, an Amazon-owned company that produces a wide variety of smart home gadgets, today announced theBlink Wired Floodlight Camera. The affordable device clocks in at just $99 yet manages to offer 1080p video capture, 2,600 lumens of LED lighting, motion detection, and several other premium features. While Blink’s catalog is comprised of several indoor and outdoor cameras, this is the company’s first true floodlight. Previously, homeowners needed to purchase aBuy at Kohl’s, Inc....

August 2, 2025 · 2 min · 336 words · Sylvia Kelley

Buying an RTX 3070 Ti laptop? Check this key spec first

You’d think that buying a laptop with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti graphics card guarantees a certain level of performance, but it turns out that may not always be the case. According to benchmarks done on two laptops with theRTX 3070 Ti, there may be an up to 20% performance difference between different variants of the RTX 3070 Ti, even though they are technically the same GPU. It all comes down to the maximum power consumption....

August 2, 2025 · 3 min · 496 words · Christina Jacobs

CoD legend Formal says he would consider coming out of retirement

CoD legend Formal says he would consider coming out of retirement Call of Duty world champion and gold medal winner Formal says he would consider coming out of retirement under the right conditions. Formal played CoD for nearly a decade, most of which was spent playing on OpTic Gaming. He was considered one of the ‘OpTic Dynasty’ members alongside big names like Crimsix, Scump, and Karma. He won his first and only CoD world championship while on OpTic Gaming but decided to leave the scene in 2021 after two rough years of playing online....

August 2, 2025 · 2 min · 369 words · Beth Knight

Cowboy Bebop review: A gorgeous but soulless spectacle, space cowboys

“Why you may trust Digital Trends – We have a 20-year history of testing, reviewing, and rating products, services and apps to help you make a sound buying decision. Find out we test and score products.“ If there’s one thing any baker — or let’s face it, any baking show — can teach us, it’s that even the most straightforward recipe can take a disastrous turn if you leave out a key ingredient....

August 2, 2025 · 6 min · 1106 words · Jacob Young

Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 2 Episode 4 Ending Explained

This article contains discussion of murder, violence, AI-generated porn, PTSD, and other mental health issues. Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for Criminal Minds: Evolution season 2, episode 4. Summary Criminal Minds: Evolutionseason 2, episode 4 did what the series does best by answering “Gold Star” questions and faking out the audience and the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) Team.Criminal Minds: Evolutionseason 2, episode 3ended on a cliffhanger that promised more answers about “Gold Star” in episode 4, which did not disappoint....

August 2, 2025 · 9 min · 1792 words · Victoria Stanley

David S. Goyer offered to help with the Blade reboot, but Marvel said no. Here’s why

Another day means it’s for another wild update involvingMarvel’s Blade reboot. This update comes fromDavid S. Goyer, the screenwriter who penned New Line Cinema’s Blade trilogy. While speaking withVariety, Goyer revealed that many people asked him to help Marvel on theirBladereboot starringMahershala Ali. “It’s so funny, about eight months ago — when, not the latest hiccup hit, but like the prior hiccup — I had so many people that would say to me, ‘Dude, would you get in there onBlade?...

August 2, 2025 · 2 min · 394 words · Ronald Hernandez

Elgato Facecam Pro review: unbeatable quality and smoothness

“Why you can trust Digital Trends – We have a 20-year history of testing, reviewing, and rating products, services and apps to help you make a sound buying decision. Find out we test and score products.“ I’m no professional streamer, but I know quality plays a big role in making even casual streams more enjoyable. If you’re a content creator chasing increasingly high production value, Elgato’s Facecam Pro might be what you’re looking for....

August 2, 2025 · 8 min · 1504 words · Roger Edwards

Everything we know about Hitman 3: Release date, locations, and VR support

It’s hard to believe that the Hitman series is now 20 years old. The stealth action franchise spawned a dozen games, two movies, and even a successful mobile spinoff. Despite all that, the series has only taken off in recent years thanks to a 2016 reboot. After four years of momentum, the series’ next installment is poised to be its biggest yet and cement Hitman’s legacy. Here’s everything we know aboutHitman 3....

August 2, 2025 · 4 min · 690 words · Travis Davila

Facebook boss reportedly ‘really worried’ over possible TikTok ban

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly voiced serious concerns about the possibility of the U.S. government banning the popular video-sharing app TikTok. Speaking to employees at an all-hands meeting on Thursday, August 6, the CEO said that such a move, which has beenthreatened by President Trump, would set “a really bad long-term precedent,” according to aBuzzFeedreport. Trump has told ByteDance — the Chinese company behind TikTok — to sell its U....

August 2, 2025 · 2 min · 344 words · Andrew Carrillo PhD

Facebook deletes 288,000 posts due to hate speech a month — here’s how

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech — so what happens to hate speech that is posted online? In a blog post on Tuesday,Facebook sharedhow it defines and enforces guidelines to keep hate speech off its social media platform. Globally, Facebook deletes around 288,000 posts a month after the posts are reported to include hate speech. As part of the series Hard Questions, Facebook is sharing how it handles hate speech and to do that, it has to define what, exactly, hate speech is....

August 2, 2025 · 3 min · 445 words · Stephanie Cohen

FIFA Club World Cup 2025: What is it, and what new tech is it bringing?

The FIFA Club World Cup 2025 kicks off June 14 in North America, as the best club sides from domestic soccer leagues around the world take to the field in a tournament which will crown the best club in the world. This isn’t to be confused with the very similarly named FIFA World Cup – which is also being hosted by the US in 2026 along with Canada and Mexico – where the top nations from around the world (think the USMNT, Brazil, England etc) compete to be the best country in the world....

August 2, 2025 · 7 min · 1478 words · William Hampton