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Dispatch, AdHoc’s superhero workplace comedy (also known as “Twilight for dudes”), has two love interests for protagonist Robert Robertson III. Blonde Blazer is the more standup superhero, while Invisigal is the angsty ex-villain. They contrast each other pretty well, and which relationship players choose can change a fair bit of the game. However, regardless of which lady you woo, Invisigal has substantially more screentime and interactions than Blonde Blazer. However, AdHoc claims this wasn’t a matter of the studio favoring her. In fandoms where shipping and romance are a central point of community conflict, the perception that some options are…

Volcanic activity takes on many forms in western El Salvador. The land near the city of Ahuachapán is pockmarked with craters and covered with recent lava flows. Meanwhile, a geothermal field feeds geysers, heats mineral pools, and powers a long-operating energy plant. The area is part of a volcanic landscape that stretches more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) along the Pacific coast from Guatemala to Panama, composing the Central American Volcanic Arc.  On the right side of the image, Santa Ana stands at 2,381 meters (7,812 feet) above sea level as the country’s tallest volcano. Its summit features several crescent-shaped ridges…

GameStop wants to slash eBay marketing budget Morgan Stanley similarly doubted the potential cost savings. “On the expense side, we also think the potential opportunities would likely be minimal as physical and digital business require different cost bases, as do 3P marketplaces vs. 1P wholesalers. To add another challenge, GameStop has already undergone a series of large cost cuts,” the research note said. Morgan Stanley analysts expressed skepticism about “how a deal would be financed given the material valuation gap.” If completed, they said it could end up as the largest leveraged buyout ever, “surpassing the recently announced $55 billion Electronic…

Target stores are running a Pokémon merch promotion for the next few months encompassing clothing, toys, makeup, lifestyle items, and more, and fans have predictably gone just a liiiiiittle overboard in their enthusiasm. In addition to lining up outside stores and buying up lip balm like it’s going extinct, some people are managing to make a little money by scalping one weird product in particular: Pokémon Pop-Tarts. Pokémon Pop-Tarts come in Pikachu-emblazoned boxes of 12 pastries (six wrapped packages of two each). They are “Frosted Vanilla Cupcake” flavored, and cost $2.89 per box. These snacks are proving quite popular—they just went on…

Sign Up For Goods 🛍️ Product news, reviews, and must-have deals. Golf driver faces have been almost exclusively titanium for more than three decades, with some detours into carbon fiber. Callaway tried one of those detours itself with the all-composite C4 in the early 2000s. Its new Quantum drivers take a different approach to the problem: keep the titanium, add the carbon, and bond the two with a polymer the company describes as “military-grade.” The layered build, which Callaway is calling the Tri-Force Face, debuts across all five of its flagship Quantum driver heads this season. The titanium-carbon trade-off It’s…

A study that claimed OpenAI’s ChatGPT can positively impact student learning has been retracted nearly one year after publication. The journal publisher, Springer Nature, cited “discrepancies” in the analysis and a lack of confidence in the conclusions—but not before the paper racked up hundreds of citations and made the rounds on social media. “The paper’s authors made some very attention-grabbing claims about the benefits of ChatGPT on learning outcomes,” said Ben Williamson, a senior lecturer at the Centre for Research in Digital Education and the Edinburgh Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, in an email to Ars.…

Reggie Fils-Aimé, former Nintendo of America president, has remained fairly on-message and diplomatic in his retirement doing speaker circuits. But he recently had a few…well, not sharp, but certainly carefully chosen words for all the companies conducting mass layoffs lately, referring to this behavior as a “red flag” and encouraging senior developers to use caution when considering working for such companies. Speaking at NYU in a conversation with professor Joost Van Dreunen, Fils-Aimé touched on a number of subjects, including Nintendo’s decision to stop selling games on Amazon. Toward the end of his time, Fils-Aimé took questions, and heard from…

This is a developing story and will be updated as new information is released.One confirmed and five suspected cases of hantavirus infection have struck passengers of a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean.Of the six affected individuals, three have died and one is currently receiving intensive medical care, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a May 3 statement on X. You may like What are hantaviruses?Hantaviruses are a family of viruses typically carried and spread by rodents. People can catch the germs if they are exposed to the urine, droppings or saliva of infected animals, or rarely, if an…

In a world awash in high-tech security tools like passkeys, quantum-safe algorithms, and public-key cryptography, it can be refreshing to get back to the simple things… like a good old-fashioned canary trap. The canary trap is a simple tool often used to identify leakers or double agents. To make one, you simply share a document, image, or database but make tiny changes that are unique to each recipient. That way, if those changes show up verbatim in any leak of the information, you know immediately which recipient was behind the leak. You don’t often see canary traps in the news,…

Folks, we’ve finally reached a bit of a lull in the spring game release calendar. While the second half of May is packed with Subnautica 2, Forza Horizon 6, Lego Batman, 007 First Light, and some other heavy-hitters, this week offers a brief respite before the onslaught. The most notable game coming out is probably Mixtape, a new narrative adventure from publisher Annapurna Interactive. We’ll have a review for you on that later this week. In the meantime, take note of two other releases this week that you probably haven’t heard of before. The first is Motorslice, an atmospheric anime…