Salt and Sanctuary: An Interview With Ska Studios

Salt and Sanctuary is a 2D side-scrolling dark action RPG coming to PC, PS4, and PS Vita in the late summer or fall of this year. The game is very much inspired by the Souls franchise and you will notice immediate similarities to these games. Some examples: you have a Stamina bar, which dictates the amount of attacking, rolling and blocking (with your shield) you can do before you have to wait for it to refill....

August 20, 2025 · 2 min · 382 words · Paul Perez

Sphero CEO talks coding, education, Disney and what's next

“When Sphero was founded back in 2010, the iPad had just been announced. We didn’t know anything about how these smart devices would end up in children’s hands, but as a company we always had this DNA of wanting to build an inexpensive approachable robot that people could hack on and code and have fun,” Paul Berberian,SpheroCEO tells Pocket-lint. It’s the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show and we’re on the Sphero stand....

August 20, 2025 · 8 min · 1515 words · David Jones

The 20 Best BMWs Ever Designed

The 20 Best BMWs Ever Designed Regarded as one of the leading manufacturers of luxury and high-performance cars in the contemporary world, BMW has a historythat dates back over 100 years. The German auto brand was founded in 1916 and initially produced aircraft engines used in World War I. Soon after the war ended, the company swiftly worked its way up to become an auto manufacturer with its first-ever motorcycle, the BMW R 32, produced in 1923....

August 20, 2025 · 23 min · 4836 words · Olivia Ballard

The Solus Project review: A space survival VR adventure that'll sends chills down your spine

Many of us dream of going to space, blasting off through the atmosphere in a spacecraft destined for other worlds. Though that might not be a possibility for most, even within our lifetime, it doesn’t mean we can’t daydream of the adventure. With the wonder that is virtual reality, that space adventure can be made tangible. That’s what the developers of The Solus Project have tried to do, by creating a single-player space adventure/survival game for theHTC ViveandOculus Rift, that puts you on a distant alien planet fighting for survival....

August 20, 2025 · 5 min · 941 words · Kevin Carson

Tint your favorite apps with the new Meredith jailbreak tweak

One of the most obvious benefits to jailbreaking is that you can customize how your system looks and behaves without Apple look over your shoulder and limiting what you can and cannot do. While installing themes would certainly be one of the easiest ways to make your handset look different than it does out of the box, the addition of aesthetically-drivenjailbreak tweakslike the newly releasedMeredithby iOS developerLuki120can help push your user experience on to the next level....

August 20, 2025 · 2 min · 387 words · James Scott

TommyInnit under fire after asking KSI for shoutout in DMX tribute tweet

TommyInnit under fire after asking KSI for shoutout in DMX tribute tweet TommyInnit is under fire for inappropriately asking KSI to give him a shoutout in a comment underneath a tribute tweet mourning the tragic death of iconic rapper DMX. Hip-hop fans around the world, including Olajide William ‘KSI’ Olatunji, are mourning the death of Earl ‘DMX’ Simmons on social media after he suffered a “catastrophic” cardiac arrest. However, their attention turned to Thomas ‘TommyInnit’ Simons after the Minecraft YouTuber commented on KSI’s tribute tweet and ask him for a birthday shoutout, which has been labeled “insensitive....

August 20, 2025 · 2 min · 337 words · Jennifer Cole

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide beginner’s guide — The mission board and more

When you first start playingWarhammer 40,000:Darktide, you’ll jump into a tutorial that teaches you the basics of the gameplay. What itdoesn’tteach you is everything else. You’ll have no idea how toget new weaponsand, more importantly, the mission board itself won’t make a lot of sense. This beginner’s guide forDarktideis going to break down what everything in the hub means, as well as what on Earth is supposed to be going on with the mission board, as that might not be clear to you without a few hours of gameplay....

August 20, 2025 · 4 min · 800 words · Laura Davidson

What Are The Different Types Of Aircraft Carriers? (And Which Ones Does The US Navy Have?)

What Are The Different Types Of Aircraft Carriers? (And Which Ones Does The US Navy Have?) In modern times, the aircraft carrier is one of the most important pieces of military equipment that a nation can field. While naval vessels have always played a key role in establishing power and defending against foreign threats, the aircraft carrier gives countries the ability to extend their military reach across the planet and launch attacks quickly without the need for a land base....

August 20, 2025 · 10 min · 1997 words · Paul Richardson

What Is A System On A Chip (SoC), And What Is It Used For?

What Is A System On A Chip (SoC), And What Is It Used For? With every new smartphone release, the spotlight does not usually fall on the System on a Chip (SoC) powering the device. New and innovative features attract the most attention. It’s only when the dust settles that general consumers start to notice what’s the most important — the microchip system. An SoC is an integrated circuit that unifies and controls all the major components of an electronic system or device....

August 20, 2025 · 4 min · 760 words · Evelyn Chavez

What is Amazon Build It and which concepts can you preorder?

Amazon is launching its own version of Kickstarter or Indiegogo. It’s for concept products it plans to produce itself, so long as enough people preorder the concepts. Called Build It, it’s actually an extension of the company’sDay One Editions initiative. What is Amazon’s ‘Build It’ program? A few years ago, Amazon launched Day One Editions, a program designed to offer early hardware, such asEcho Frames, which might not be ready or right for a global release....

August 20, 2025 · 3 min · 501 words · Mallory Morgan

What is Facebook Creator and what can you do with it?

Facebook is going all in on video. The social network has been focusing hardcore on video lately, with a big push intolive video broadcasts, 360-degree videos,stories, auto-playing clips in the news feed, as well as the launch of a dedicated place towatchvideos on Facebook. Now, taking a page from YouTube’s playbook, it wants to cultivate video creators. In doing so, ithas releasedan appjust for them. Here’s what you need to know....

August 20, 2025 · 2 min · 421 words · Kenneth Wilkerson

What is Google Maps AR navigation and Live View and how do you use it?

Google Maps AR navigation was first demoed at Google I/O back in 2018, getting a tease in early 2019 before seeing wider availability in August 2019. Originally called Google Maps AR, the system now appears on compatible devices as Live View, but it’s the same overall function, just labelled as Live View in Google Maps on your phone. What is Google Maps AR/Live View? Google Maps AR or Live View is designed to let you use augmented reality to help you navigate when walking....

August 20, 2025 · 3 min · 527 words · Autumn Carpenter

What to Expect from Star Wars: The Force Unleashed on Switch

The seventh-generation of consoles was a weird era for Star Wars games. While LucasArts worked with third-party developers and publishers to give the PS2, Xbox, and Gamecube era the likes of the Jedi Knight, Knights of the Old Republic and Battlefront series, the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii era saw the majority of development move in-house. That meant greater control of the IP, but also less Star Wars games. That’s how we ended up with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed from LucasArts, a major new initiative that was meant to usher in a new era of Star Wars....

August 20, 2025 · 5 min · 954 words · Emily Houston