The Guard won’t participate in 2024 VCT Americas after failing to meet Riot deadlines

The Guard won’t participate in 2024 VCT Americas after failing to meet Riot deadlines Riot Games has announced that VCT Americas will remain a 10-team league as The Guard will not join due to missing deadlines to agree to enter the competition. Riot Games has announced via astatement on social mediathat The Guard will not be joining VCT Americas for the 2024 season. The statement said that after months of communication with the organization, it has “failed to meet the deadline to agree to the Team Participation Agreement of VCT Americas....

August 21, 2025 · 3 min · 546 words · Ann Stuart

The MacBook Pro 14 still obliterates this Windows laptop

Several of Apple’s latest MacBooks are on our list of thebest laptopsaround, and theMacBook Pro 14is arguably thebest 14-inch laptopyou can buy today. Any new machine that wants to compete has to offer an incredibly compelling combination of features and value. Lenovo’sSlim Pro 9i 14is a laptop that’s obviously aimed directly at the MacBook. It has some powerful components inside and it performs just as well. It’s also less expensive. Unfortunately, even those things fail to give it a leg up....

August 21, 2025 · 6 min · 1269 words · Jeffrey Cordova

The new Insta360 X4 looks like the ultimate action camera

Insta360 just announced its new X4, which will be one of the first cameras to bring 8K to 360-degree videos. The new Insta360 camera lets you capture its highest resolution at 30 frames per second (fps) for detailed and sharp output. you’re able to reframe the footage after shooting, and the company claims that it remains “detailed and sharp after reframing.” The Insta360 X4 also features the ability to shoot in 4x slow-motion at 4K 100 fps, which sounds tremendous in theory....

August 21, 2025 · 2 min · 420 words · Tommy Williams

The System Shock remake stays true to its ’90s roots

Even if you’ve never playedSystem Shock, you’ve probably played something that was inspired by it. The 1994 classic has been hailed as an influential masterpiece that helped pave the way for emergent shooters likeBioshock. So, how do you go about remaking a game that’s been iterated on to the extent that this game has been? By staying true to the source. I went hands-on withSystem Shock’supcoming remake atGamescomand was happy to see how developer Nightdive Studios is approaching the project....

August 21, 2025 · 4 min · 715 words · John Reeves

The Vivo X100 Ultra might be 2024’s new smartphone camera champion

Vivo X100 Ultra color optionsVivo The Vivo X100 Ultra is the latest and greatest in the X100 and X100 Pro line, which wasfirst announcedin November 2023 in China. As the rumors hinted at, the X100 Ultra is designed to be a photography beast and the new flagship in the lineup. The main sensor is a 50-megapixel 1-inch Sony LYT-900, the same as theVivo X100 Pro, but the Ultra comes with a 200-megapixel telephoto camera with 3....

August 21, 2025 · 3 min · 550 words · Paul Walker

The Watchers' Creatures Explained: History, Powers, & What They Look Like

Ishana Night Shyamalan’s directorial debut movieThe Watcherscenters around a group of strangers beset by mysterious creatures who watch them every night, and as it turns out, the creatures' origin is based on real-world folklore. Based on the A.M. Shine novel of the same name,The Watchersstars Dakota Fanningas a young woman who finds herself lost in an uncharted Irish forest. Together with three other similarly stranded strangers, she must find her way back to civilization while dodging the dangerous monsters that emerge from the forest each night....

August 21, 2025 · 8 min · 1504 words · Rebecca Irwin

The Worst & Best Episode Of Every X-Men: The Animated Series Season

Summary X-Men: The Animated Seriesfeatured many great episodes throughout its legendary run, though some episodes were notably less effective. The acclaimedMarvelcartoon boasted 76 episodes across five thrilling seasons. Among these, the verystrongestX-Men: The Animated Seriesepisodeshelped cultivate an impressive reputation that led to a triumphant revival decades later with Marvel’sX-Men ’97. Other episodes, on the other hand, were far less effective – though sometimes merely by comparison. X-Men: The Animated Seriesadapted many classic Marvel Comics stories, often depicting them across multiple episode sagas and two-part narratives....

August 21, 2025 · 9 min · 1763 words · Jacob House

There’s A Good Reason The New Fable Looks So Much Different Than The Originals

Summary After lying dormant for over a decade,Fablewill finally have a new title in its main series, with the latest entry aiming for a 2025 release. Back in its heyday, theFableseries was a mainstay of the Xbox’s extensive games library, known for its dry humor and charm as well as its morality system. The games always had a stylized cartoon aesthetic and were never massively praised for their graphical fidelity, but the latest title looks like an Unreal Engine 5 tech demo....

August 21, 2025 · 6 min · 1092 words · Heidi Rogers

Twitter wants to make it easier to spot ‘good’ bot accounts

Twitter is testing a feature that would allow automated accounts to identify as such, giving users more information about the nature of the account that they follow or are considering following. The microblogging company announced the feature in a tweet on Thursday, September 9, and also added information about it to itsHelp Center. The label includes a bot symbol and the word “automated” and appears on the account’s profile and each of its tweets....

August 21, 2025 · 2 min · 359 words · Caitlin Mcclure

UConn vs. South Carolina: How to watch, highlights and results

In women’s college basketball, UConn and South Carolina are two of the blue bloods in the sport. These two titans will square off on Sunday afternoon in what should be an epic showdown. On one side, you haveGeno Auriemma and the No. 7 UConn Huskies (23-3). No coach has more national championships in women’s college basketball than Auriemma’s 11. However, Auriemma’s team has not won the title since the 2015-2016 season....

August 21, 2025 · 3 min · 446 words · George Davis

Watch as Bugatti torture-tests a 3D-printed titanium brake caliper

Bugatti doesn’t do anything normally. From the way itbuilds carsto the way ithandles recalls, the French automaker does everything in a grandiose and elaborate way. So, it doesn’t surprise us that Bugatti has reinvented the manufacturing process for a crucial part most drivers ignore until they really need it. Though it might look like an ordinary brake caliper, Bugatti claims this supersized chunk of metal is the world’s first caliper produced using a 3D printer....

August 21, 2025 · 2 min · 418 words · Kelly Henry

What kind of view will ISS astronauts get of the solar eclipse?

In case you haven’t heard, a total solar eclipse is about to happen. The spectacular celestial event on Monday, April 8, will see the moon come between Earth and the sun, casting a dark shadow over an area stretching across the U.S. from Maine to Texas, as well as into Canada and Mexico. If you live along the115-mile-wide path of totality, you’re in for a real treat. Oh, and also expect millions of your fellow Americans to be joining you as they head to your neck of the woods to experience this rare phenomenon....

August 21, 2025 · 2 min · 377 words · Joshua Cross

Young Sheldon fans have definitely missed Georgie & Mandy’s most heartbreaking Easter egg

Young Sheldon fans have definitely missed Georgie & Mandy’s most heartbreaking Easter egg We’d started to get overGeorge’s death, butGeorgie & Mandy’s First Marriagehas quietly included the most emotional Young Sheldon Easter egg possible. But did you spot it? Now Georgie and Mandy are living with the McAllisters in thenew TV show, we don’t get to see much more of Medford. In fact, almost none of the same locations or sets are used this time around....

August 21, 2025 · 3 min · 497 words · Theresa Burnett