An old logo design gives it away.

Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly alleges the companies are selling illegal off-brand versions of its best-selling diabetes and weight-loss drugs, Mounjaro and Zepbound.

Videos on the social media app, filmed at factories in China, urge viewers to buy luxury goods directly, as tariffs drive up prices. Americans are receptive.

When the Nintendo Switch 2 launches roughly a month and a half from now, the console will have plenty of titles available right out the gate, and another major game has now been added to that growing list. Konami has announced (via Gematsu) Suikoden 1 and 2 HD Remaster: Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars for the Nintendo Switch 2. The combined remaster of the beloved original JRPGs will be available for the next-gen console on the day of its release, on June 5. Suikoden 1 and 2 HD Remaster will run at 1440p in console mode on the Switch 2, while in handheld mode, it will target 1080p. Both modes will see the game running at 60 FPS. In our review of the game, we awarded it a score of 8/10, saying, “Suikoden 1 and 2 HD Remaster: Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars brings the two beloved classics to modern platforms with smart and sensible updates that only reinforce all the reasons the series was so beloved in the first place.” Read the full review through here. Suikoden 1 and 2 HD Remaster is currently available on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC.

A PvPvE multiplayer roguelike may not be when one expects from FromSoftware or from Elden Ring, but Elden Ring Nightreign has turned its fair share of heads nonetheless, and new details continue to be revealed on the title.  Publisher Bandai Namco and FromSoftware have released new gameplay trailers to showcase four of the eight playable characters that will be available in Elden Ring Nightreign. The trailers show gameplay for the arcane magic specialist Recluse, the deadly and nimble archer Ironeye, the heady damage dealing Raider, and the quick and roguish Duchess. Check out the character trailers below to see all four in action.  Elden Ring Nightreigns launches for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, and PC on May 30. The game will also receive DLC before the end of the year, at some point in Q4, adding more playable characters and bosses. Stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks. 

html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd" Epic Games has made a set of 262 modular assets for creating a Wild West-style abandoned building available to download for free from Fab, its new online marketplace.Game art outsourcing firm JustB Studios‘ 1850s Post Office Environment is part of the latest set of time-limited free content released on Fab, and will be free until 6 May 2025. Over 260 modular 3D assets for building a Wild West-style abandoned building The 1850s Post Office Environment is a set of modular assets for building a dilapidated wooden building and its surrounding environment.It comprises 262 unique meshes, at three LODs, including walls, roofs, flooring, benches and props like barrels, crates, sacks, plus two wagons and even a rowboat. The assets come with textures at resolutions up to 4,096 x 4,096px. The assets also come pre-assembled into an Unreal Engine map with four different lighting setups: day, sunset, night and fog. System requirements and availability The 1850s Post Office Environment is available as an asset package for Unreal Engine 5.0+ under a Fab Standard license.The terms of the Fab Standard license permit content to be used in “any engine or tool”, including for commercial projects, subject to the restrictions set out in the Fab EULA. Get JustB Studios’ 1850s Post Office Environment asset pack from Fab (Available free until 6 May 2025) Have your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we don’t post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects.

html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd" VFX artist and tools developer Thomas Marcos has released a handy free Procedural Clouds Shader for Blender.The lightweight shader is designed for use in real production conditions, and is compatible with Blender’s Eevee and Cycles renderers. A lightweight cloud shader for VFX and motion graphics production Marcos has over five years’ experience in VFX, as a 3D Generalist at Belgian studios benuts and Mac Guff Belgium, and the cloud shader is designed for a “production-like context”.It generates realistic-looking cloud layers without external textures, with the clouds shown in the demo video above rendering in 30-60 seconds per frame. Price and system requirements Thomas Marcos’s Procedural Clouds Shader compatible with Blender 4.4+. It’s free, but if you like it, you can make a voluntary donation when downloading the file.Download the free Blender Procedural Clouds Shader from Thomas Marcos’s Gumroad store (Enter a figure of €0 to download the add-on for free, or add a voluntary tip) Have your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we don’t post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects.

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In a recent update to its website about its direct sales program for the Switch 2, Nintendo says that due to “the very high demand” for the console, “delivery by June 5 is not guaranteed” and that “your invitation email may arrive after the Nintendo Switch 2 launch.” Nintendo has already said that the initial invitations for eligible registrations on its My Nintendo Store website would go out on May 8th. The requirements to be eligible are quite strict, seemingly to thwart scalpers. But now, as it did for Japan yesterday, the company is signaling that US demand for consoles through its own store is quite high. If you were banking on getting a Switch 2 through the platform, you might want to be prepared to potentially wait. In its update, Nintendo suggests visiting “our participating retail partners,” but the preorders that have happened so far, which kicked off at 12AM ET on Thursday at Best Buy, Target, and Walmart, have been messy. Ahead of those preorders, the list of retail partners on Nintendo’s website included Best Buy, Target, Walmart, and GameStop. As I write this, only GameStop, which opens online preorders at 11AM ET on Thursday, has a logo on the page.

Nintendo’s delayed Switch 2 preorders finally kicked off in the US at 12AM ET on Thursday at Best Buy, Target, and Walmart, and almost immediately, there were some big problems. After nearly an hour of frustration, many of us here at The Verge secured preorders, but it seems like preorders are out of stock at the retailers.Target seemed to open first, but trying to order was rough. Many of us were able to get to the checkout screen, but ran into issues from there that stopped a purchase, like being asked to update our addresses over or Target losing our payment details. Some users online who did appear to get Target orders also reported that they were canceled. Although stock appeared to float in and out after preorders were live, Target now says both the console and the bundle with Mario Kart World are out of stock.Walmart’s website, for me for a while, had a vague queue. “This deal is almost gone,” according to the page. But eventually, many of us at The Verge (including me!) were able to snag our Switch 2 preorders from the retailer. Like with Target, Walmart eventually showed a handful of the consoles and bundles in stock here and there before they both sold out.Best Buy, which promised to launch preorders at 12AM ET, showed a gray “coming soon” button on the Switch 2 and Mario Kart World bundle pack for about 30 minutes. As of 12:31AM ET, I was in a line for the bundle, but Best Buy kicked me out of it shortly before 2AM ET and said that the bundle was out of stock. Although I wasn’t able to buy one from Best Buy, I saw many reports online of success there.Nintendo originally announced that preorders would go live in the US on April 9th ahead of a June 5th launch for the console, but the company delayed the preorders over tariff concerns without sharing a date for when they would kick off.The preorder problems follow Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa issuing a supply warning in Japan on Wednesday. Nintendo also announced this week that invitations to its direct sales in the US might not be available to everyone ahead of launch.Last week, Nintendo finally announced that preorders would start on April 24th and that the price would still start at $449.99 in the US. Accessories got price hikes. Preorders started earlier this month in some other territories, including the UK.See More: