Pokemon Scarlet & Violet fans convinced two more DLCs are on the way

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet fans convinced two more DLCs are on the way Pokemon Scarlet & Violet fans believe that the logo for the current expansion pass is hinting that more DLC is on the way. Pokemon Scarlet & Violetcurrently have two DLC expansions,The Teal Mask and The Indigo Disk. These can only be purchased together as part of The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero expansion pass, as their stories are connected....

August 17, 2025 · 3 min · 454 words · Heather Jones

Pokemon TCG Pocket Pikachu ex decks are in trouble thanks to these cards

Pokemon TCG Pocket Pikachu ex decks are in trouble thanks to these cards Pokemon TCG Pocket decks centered around Pikachu ex dominate the game, but the Mythical Island expansion introduces a few new cards to shake up the current meta. Pikachu exis one of the best cards in TCG Pocket because you can play the card without evolving, and the Move Circle Circuit only requires two Energy. With three Benched Pokemon, Circle Circuit does 90 damage and doesn’t discard any eEnergy after use....

August 17, 2025 · 3 min · 456 words · Christine Singleton

Qualcomm just squashed its own desktop ambitions

Qualcomm has been on a tear with its Snapdragon X Elite CPUs inCopilot+ laptops, but the company is struggling to expand beyond the initial lineup. Just days after the first orders arrived, Qualcomm has abruptly canceled its Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows and promised refunds to developers who had ordered the mini PC. We first heard about the Snapdragon Dev Kit in May, when Qualcomm announced it alongside the release of Copilot+ laptops....

August 17, 2025 · 2 min · 396 words · John Evans

Roku makes free movies and TV shows even easier to find

Roku makes some of ourfavorite streaming devices, and one of the reasons is the sheer amount of streaming services — Roku calls them “channels” — available on those devices. This includes a fair number of services like Sony Crackle,Pluto TV, andTubithat let you watch movies and TV shows absolutely free of charge. The only problem is that it can often be difficult finding what you want to watch without browsing through all of the various services....

August 17, 2025 · 2 min · 306 words · Madison Nelson

Samsung launches the Galaxy J, a metal-look mashup of the Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 3

Samsung has announced a new smartphone, theGalaxy J, a device which takes the best elements from the Galaxy S4 and the Galaxy Note 3 and mashes them together into one. However, while the phone is only available in Taiwan and Japan, its design makes it interesting to everyone, as it could give a hint of what’s to come from Samsung in 2014. To promote the Galaxy J, Samsung has released the very brief video you can see below, which highlights the phone’s design simplicity....

August 17, 2025 · 2 min · 371 words · Joseph Ryan

Sony A6600 vs. Sony A6100: A choice with no wrong answer

When Sony announced A6100 and A6600 on the same day, many were left wondering which one of the APS-C cameras was right for them. Although there are several similarities in both systems, the differences could be enough to sway your decision when picking the right camera for you. The A6100 is currently available for $600, while the A6600 is $1400. That’s quite a difference, but higher cost doesn’t always equate to better quality....

August 17, 2025 · 5 min · 989 words · Joel Wilson

Sony’s next gym-ready, noise-canceling true wireless earbuds make FCC appearance

We don’t have much to go on except for a federal Communications Commission filing, but that’s more than enough to predict that Sony will soon launch the successor to its gym-orientedWF-SP700Nnoise-canceling true wireless earbuds, which will unsurprisingly be called the WF-SP800N. The filing doesn’t reveal much. We can see a diagram of the WF-SP800N’s case (or a portion thereof) accompanied by some labeling around charging specifications. Still, the shape of the charging case is a clue — the WF-SP700N uses a fairly chunky, square charging case with rounded corners, while the more recentWF-1000XM3uses a more compact design....

August 17, 2025 · 3 min · 442 words · Eric Williamson

Soul Hackers 2 beginner’s guide: 9 tips and tricks to get started

Shin Megami Tensei is a series that may have more spinoff games than any other. There’s the core series, of course, but even that has been overshadowed by the Persona games. Of the other series, such as the Devil Summoner and Devil Survivor series, one of the more unique games that only saw one entry in 1997 wasSoul Hackers.Unlike the other SMT games and spinoffs, this series went more in the sci-fi and cyberpunk directions rather than modern or historical settings while still keeping the core devil summoning gameplay....

August 17, 2025 · 10 min · 1940 words · Katie Gonzalez

SpaceX just launched another mission to the moon

SpaceX has successfully launched Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander toward the moon in the IM-2 mission. Athena is scheduled to reach the lunar surface on Thursday, March 6. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the uncrewed lunar lander lifted off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:16 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Febraury 26. Liftoff of IM-2!pic.twitter.com/iJ3BCekqJs — SpaceX (@SpaceX)June 23, 2025 As usual, about eight minutes after launch, SpaceX brought home the Falcon 9’s first stage, landing it on a droneship stationed off the coast of Florida....

August 17, 2025 · 2 min · 354 words · Deborah Lee

Streamer’s five-year hardcore Minecraft run is ended by a baby zombie

World-record runs have to end at some point, but some conclusions are more unexpected than others.Polygonreports that streamer Philza, who has been maintaining the longest hardcoreMinecraftrun in history, met his untimely demise at the hands of a … zombie baby. Fans have shared various strategies and theories on how Philza could have survived his ordeal, but the run is officially over. “No,” Philza yelled once he got the “game over” screen....

August 17, 2025 · 2 min · 360 words · Frank West

The 5 best tech deals in the Kohl’s Memorial Day Sale

We’re fully in the thick of this year’sMemorial Day salesas the holiday weekend draws closer, and given all the fantastic bargains we’ve already seen so far on just about everything under the sun. We’re all about the tech deals here, though, and while Kohl’s might not have the name recognition of Best Buy or Walmart when it comes to discounts on electronics, the Kohl’s Memorial Day Sale has some worthy price cuts on some of our favorite gadgets....

August 17, 2025 · 4 min · 731 words · Brandy Shields

The back of this phone changes color, but something else makes it excellent

I’m not deliberately torturing myself as I type these words with almost frozen fingers, as my weather app tells me it “feels like 1-degrees Celsius.” I’m actually testing the Realme 14 Pro Plus’ big party trick. When it gets cold, the back of the phone changes color, and between getting out of my warm car and now, it has changed from an off-white color with gold flecks to a frigid white with blue waves....

August 17, 2025 · 5 min · 930 words · Caleb Bass

The best backpack you can buy

Shopping for a new backpack can be a daunting task. First, you need to decide what type of pack you want based on the kind of hiking you intend to do. Next, you have to wade through a laundry list of features, some of which prove useful on the trail while some are more hype than helpful. To help, we sifted through the sea of available options to carefully select a variety of our favorite backpacks for a range of different hikers....

August 17, 2025 · 16 min · 3216 words · Debra Butler