Elden Ring Nightreign Remembrance quests & how to complete them

Elden Ring Nightreign Remembrance quests & how to complete them Remembrances are one ofElden Ring Nightreign‘s more obtuse features, but they’re important to understand as each contains unique rewards. Instead of exploring the history of its world like Elden Ring did, FromSoftware’s spin-off focuses its attention on the backstories ofplayable charactersand how they came to be recruited to fight against theNightlords. Fully uncovering the motives and relationships between every Nightfarer is key to unlocking some of the best ability-altering Relics in Nightreign, so here’s everything you need to know about Remembrances and how they work....

July 27, 2025 · 3 min · 592 words · Ms. Stephanie Taylor

Epic Games boss reveals next Fortnite season’s theme

Epic Games boss reveals next Fortnite season’s theme Mark Rein, co-founder of Epic Games, has finally revealed the theme for the next Fortnite season, which will be experienced by players in Chapter 4 Season 5. Here’s what it is and how players reacted to it. FortniteChapter 4 Season 4 is nearing its conclusion on July 13, 2025, when a new season will begin. As players prepare to travel back in time to Chapter 1, the anticipation and rumors surrounding the upcoming season are at an all-time high....

July 27, 2025 · 2 min · 393 words · Ruth Hughes

Everything new announced at Amazon Alexa Live 2021

Amazon Alexa is one of today’s go-to voice assistants. Available on hundreds of devices, fromsmart speakerstodisplaysandthermostats, Alexa grows more popular every day, with over 100 million device owners and 900,000 registered developers producing Alexa-powered products. Speaking of the latter,Alexa Live 2021has finally arrived. This year’s free virtual symposium is a great place to learn about all of the new developer tools and services that Alexa will be capable of in the near future....

July 27, 2025 · 6 min · 1143 words · Stephanie Cooper

Game Pass is coming to your Amazon Fire TV, even if you don’t own an Xbox

You’ll soon no longer need an Xbox console if you have an Amazon Fire TV. Microsoft and Amazon announced Thursday that the Xbox app is coming to Fire TV devices in July. The Xbox app works with Cloud Gaming, which means with anXbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, you can stream a huge catalog of games from the Xbox library, including many first- and third-party titles that come to the service on launch day....

July 27, 2025 · 2 min · 345 words · Jose Collins

Google Home too boring? You want Gatebox’s cute virtual character in your life

We are one step closer to a sci-fi future where we can choose to live with artificially intelligent robots and digital humans. This is theGateboxand at its most basic, it’s a piece of Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology for controlling your smart home. However, look closer and you’ll find that inside lives Hikari Azuma, an artificially intelligent virtual character ready to share your life. Moving beyond our simple interactions withAlexaorGoogle Home, Hikari-sanwill encourage you throughout the day, welcome you home, remember anniversaries, and ultimately, be your own digital companion....

July 27, 2025 · 3 min · 503 words · Mark Oneill

How a tiny social media break can give you surprisingly big health benefits

Social media is not the healthiest recreational activity out there; I can personally vouch for that. Aside from a ton of independent research that has established a clear link between social media usage and adeteriorating graph of mentalhealth,leading to depression, anxiety, bogus trends, and rampant misinformation are even known to spur self-harm tendencies among users. To make matters worse, social media platforms don’t make it any easier. The algorithms lean on the addictive side of online content consumption and try to keep users hooked with an endless barrage of interest-based recommendations....

July 27, 2025 · 4 min · 698 words · Robin Ellis

How to unlock AMR Mod 4 in Black Ops 6 and Warzone

How to unlock AMR Mod 4 in Black Ops 6 and Warzone The AMR Mod 4 is a brand-new Sniper Rifle inBlack Ops 6andWarzone Season 1 Reloaded, but you’ll need to put some work in to unlock it. Each major update brings a selection of new guns to Warzone and BO6, and themid-season update for Season 1is no exception. While the Malestrom Shotgun will be deadly at close range, it’s the AMR Mod 4 that has caught the eye of players in both games....

July 27, 2025 · 3 min · 456 words · Joseph Williams

How we test headphones and earbuds

Our evaluation ofheadphoneandearbudsbegins the moment the product lands on our desk. We take note of the product’s packaging and presentation before diving into the unboxing. Out of the box Nicely packaged products can have an effect on your overall experience. But we’re a lot less concerned with beauty and design than we are with a box’s impact on the planet. Even a $1,000 set of headphones can be packaged responsibly — with fully recyclable materials — without compromising the protection offered....

July 27, 2025 · 10 min · 1971 words · Brian Miller

If you love Into the Breach, try this fast-paced spin on it

In video games, simply copying the competition isn’t a winning strategy. Why play something that apesHadeswhen you could just playHades? To survive on gaming’s fierce battlefield, developers need to be strategic about how they iterate on what came before to create something new. If you want to see a good example of what I mean this month, check outGrit and Valor 1949. On its surface, Milky Tea Studios’ new tactics game sure looks likeInto the Breach....

July 27, 2025 · 5 min · 870 words · Bryan Williams

Inkbound’s wildly powerful builds make it a 2023 rougelike to watch

The measure of a great roguelike is in how much you can absolutely break it. Some of my favorite games in the genre allow me to piece together wildly overpowered builds capable of squashing fierce bosses in a few fell swoops. Based on my first hands-on demo withInkbound, the upcoming game fromMonster Traindeveloper Shiny Shoe, I wager the monsters of its storybook world will fear me as an unstoppable force of nature when the indie title enters early access....

July 27, 2025 · 4 min · 795 words · Jeffery Morgan

Is a smart grill worth it? We weigh the factors

When they launched, smart speakers made sense: The ability to talk to your speaker from across the room to ask for mundane tasks like volume adjustment is a good idea. Then everything started to get smart, but some smart products seemed like a dumb idea: smart toilets, smart water bottles, smart hair brushes. Now there are smart grills. But do we really need to add technology to the most basic of human acts: Cooking over fire?...

July 27, 2025 · 4 min · 748 words · Karen Griffith

Jabra Elite 7 Pro review: The perfect set of true wireless earbuds

“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.“ How do you improve on an awesome set of true wireless earbuds? That’s the question that faced Jabra as it contemplated the design for its new $200Elite 7 Pro, the successor to its excellentElite 75t, which proved to be some of thebest true wireless earbudsyou could buy when they debuted in 2019....

July 27, 2025 · 10 min · 2021 words · Nicole Roberts

Jenna Ortega heads to the afterlife in new Beetlejuice Beetlejuice trailer

Jenna Ortega is front and center in the new trailer forBeetlejuice Beetlejuice. TheWednesdayactress stars as Astrid Deetz, the teenage daughter of Lydia Deetz, played by Winona Ryder. In the latestfootage, Astrid does not believe in ghosts, noting that “only gullible people believe that kind of crap.” However, Astrid comes face-to-face with these spirits after being abducted into the underworld. As a result, Lydia has no choice but to team up withMichael Keaton’s Beetlejuiceand form an uneasy alliance to save her daughter....

July 27, 2025 · 2 min · 271 words · Russell Green