PlayStation today revealed the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for December 2024 that all subscriber tiers can download and play.

PlayStation Plus Library Adds Dying Light 2, Digimon Survive This Month Grand Theft Auto V also returns to PlayStation Plus for November. Games for all PlayStation Plus Subscribers It Takes Two, Aliens: Dark Descent, and Temtem are your PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for December 2024. You’ll be able to claim them starting Tuesday, December 3 until Monday, January 6. At that point, these titles will be replaced with January 2025’s monthly games....

June 17, 2025 · 2 min · 328 words · Judy Anderson

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet December 1 patch notes: Performance fixes, Ranked Season 1

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet December 1 patch notes: Performance fixes, Ranked Season 1 Pokemon Scarlet & Violet has released its Version 1.1.0 update on December 1, which targets performance, general bug fixes, and the beginning of the first ranked season. Here’s the full patch notes. Players have been anxiously waiting on the The Pokemon Company to update Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, the newest entries to the franchise. These games have been criticized for their manyperformance issues and bugs, which the developers are targeting directly in this Version 1....

June 17, 2025 · 2 min · 286 words · Anthony Mcfarland

Powers and Setting Shown for The Occultist in New Trailer

Even though it’s not exactly new anymore, there’s still something about eldritch horror that makes every new game focused on it into an exciting prospect. When done well, it always manages to elevate whatever it’s incorporated into, some prime examples beingDredge, Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem andAmnesia: The Bunker. Dredge Casts a New Switch Demo, Pre-Orders Begin Even games that’d struggle otherwise get a boost(The Sinking City comes to mind here).So, now that its latest trailer has confirmed the presence of otherworldly terror and strange powers, the wait for Daedelic Entertainment’s The Occultist 2026 release has just gotten that much more difficult....

June 17, 2025 · 3 min · 479 words · Justin Villarreal

Rain and Hellfire DMZ Mission Guide

Call of Duty: Warzone DMZ Season 3 introduced a new vehicle called theHeavy Chopperto the game. The Rain and Hellfire mission for the Tier 3 Redacted faction tasks you to destroy enemies and vehicles from the bird. You may be familiar with this helo if you’ve completed theFlight Risk mission. Rain and Hellfire Mission DMZ Before you drop intoAl Mazrahto complete the mission objectives, add anyLauncherof your choice as an insured weapon to your loadout, preferably anRPG-7....

June 17, 2025 · 2 min · 381 words · Tracy Johnson

Resident Evil Village Winters' Expansion Provides Quality Substance

It may have taken a year and a half for the DLC for Resident Evil Village to arrive, but it’s finally here just in time for Halloween. The Winters' Expansion has added meaningful content to Resident Evil Village as Capcom has eyed quality over quantity as players get a epilogue story, updates to the Mercenaries mode and a new way to play. WhileResident Evil 7offered an expansion as well,Villagebrings much better content that specifically impacts the original game to the point that it may alter how future games in the main franchise are designed....

June 17, 2025 · 6 min · 1224 words · Matthew Newman

Reuters profiles Apple’s Cook as ‘methodical’ and unafraid of tough decisions

Apple CEO Tim Cook, often compared to the iPhone maker’s mercurial co-founder Steve Jobs, is pictured in a new profile as a nuts-and-bolts technocrat able to balance a softer corporate image with the ability to make hard choices. After two years at the helm of the consumer electronics giant that is Apple, Cook is being described as a“methodical”and“no-nonsense”guy not afraid to make tough decisions. Ahead of launchinganew versionof the flagship iPhone, Reuters speaks with Cook’s co-workers and colleagues, showing the Apple CEO is“as different as could be from that of his predecessor”…...

June 17, 2025 · 4 min · 739 words · Kayla Vasquez

Reuters: the FBI pressured Apple not to encrypt iCloud backups

Reuterstoday alleged Apple did bow to pressure from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) which reportedly demanded that the Cupertino firm dropplans to roll out end-to-end encryption for iCloud device backups, claiming doing so would harm investigations. Although Apple withstood pressured from the FBI which in 2016 wanted it to add a backdoor to iOS to bypass code which limits password guesses to ten consequential attempts, it’s never employed end-to-end encryption for iOS device backups in iCloud, and now we know why....

June 17, 2025 · 6 min · 1080 words · Tammy Skinner

Rumor: Apple’s $149-$229 iWatch is coming in second half of 2014

It’s been a while since we heard anything on the Apple smartwatch front so today’s report by the Taiwanese trade publication DigiTimes (I know, don’t start) asserted that the iWatch is at least a year away. Specifically, the publication claims that the iWatch is expected to release in the second half of 2014. The device is expected to retail for between $149 and $229. More details right after the break…...

June 17, 2025 · 2 min · 246 words · Edwin Nichols

Screenshot Saturday Featuring Mechajammer, Fuser, More

Hello everyone, and welcome to another edition of Screenshot Saturday, where we show off some of the best little peeks into upcoming games that developers show off each weekend via the #screenshotsaturday tag! And it looks like developers are also gearing up for the online Gamescom 2020 event, with a few already preparing virtual booth for theIndie Arena Booththis year, as seen with a few Screenshot Saturday posts. Granted, it’s going to be near-impossible to topDevolverland Expo,but it certainly looks like everyone involved will be giving it the old college try!...

June 17, 2025 · 4 min · 797 words · Angelica Estes

Shadow of the Erdtree – All Scadutree Fragments in Shadow Keep

Shadow Keep is one of the most important Legacy Dungeons introduced in theShadow of the Erdtree DLCforElden Ring. The Legacy Dungeon houses main bad guyMessmer the Impaleralong with a good chunk of his army. Among other things, you may also find quite a few Scadutree Fragments while you’re exploring the area. Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree – All Scadutree Fragments in Gravesite Plain Every Scadutree Fragment found in Gravesite Plain and surrounding areas....

June 17, 2025 · 3 min · 616 words · Eddie Robinson

Sigma 16mm F1.4 Contemporary review

“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.“ We recently called theOlympus 17mm F1.2 Prothe best wide-angle Micro Four Thirds lens money can buy. That remains true, but at $1,200 it isn’t exactly a lens that just anyone is going to add to his or her kit....

June 17, 2025 · 8 min · 1568 words · Nicole Bell

Some iPhone 5s owners plagued with blue screen of death

In the past week or so, we have been inundated with numerous tips about an apparent issue with Apple’s iWork productivity suite running on the iPhone 5s. Folks have been emailing us about their top-end iPhone abruptly restarting each time they’d fired up Apple’s Pages, Numbers or Keynote app. Digging deeper, the problem raises its ugly head not just with iWork but some third-party apps as well. I’m just scatter-shooting here, but this could be due to the iPhone 5s’s A7 chip and the transition to 64-bit computing....

June 17, 2025 · 4 min · 749 words · Margaret Ray

Sprint activates 1.5M iPhones in Q1, but posts $863M net loss

Just as Apple posted itsmassive earnings, Sprint Nextel, the third largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, behind Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility, published on Wednesday their first-quarter earnings ahead of the bell. According to apress release, subsidy costs climbed from $1.1 billion in the year-ago quarter to $1.6 billion in the first quarter of 2012, largely due to Apple’s device: The quarterly year-over-year increase in net subsidy is primarily due to the launch of the iPhone, which on average carries a higher subsidy rate per handset as compared to other handsets....

June 17, 2025 · 2 min · 337 words · Sherry Golden