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One of the cool things about Amiibo figures is that they don't just look good; they also offer some neat extras inside of a game, and for Street Fighter 6 fans, those collectibles offer quite a bit of useful functionality. While Amiibo figures have received exponential price increases ahead of the launch of the Switch 2 console in June, there is a "budget-friendly" alternative in the form of Amiibo Cards, and for Street Fighter 6, you can get 22 of these in a handy pack. The Street Fighter 6: Year One Collection Amiibo Cards will be available exclusively through GameStop, and it's currently priced at $40--the same price as a single Street Fighter 6 Amiibo. Street Fighter 6 Amiibo Cards $40 The pack includes 22 brawlers from the first year of Street Fighter 6, including DLC characters like AKI and Akuma. These Amiibo Cards can be used to save player settings like the character outfits, colors, and button settings, so that makes them useful for quickly loading up your gameplay preferences when you hop onto a Switch 2 console for some digital fisticuffs. Preorder at GameStop In case you need a reminder, here's the full roster of characters from Street Fighter 6's first year, who'll all have their cards in the pack:Street Fighter 6 Amiibo CardsLukeJamieManonKimberlyMarisaLilyJPJuriDee JayCammyRyuE.HondaBlankaGuileKenChunk-LiZangiefDhalsimRashidAKIEdAkumaIf you do want to grab some Street Fighter 6 Amiibos, there are three to choose from currently. Luke, Kimberly, and Jamie have all gotten the plastic collectible treatment, and the nice thing about these figures is that they echo the visual design language of Street Fighter 6. Each one is priced at $40, and like the cards, you can use them to access character-specific settings.Continue Reading at GameSpot

Developer 11 Bit Studios has revealed that Frostpunk is getting an Unreal Enging 5 remake, along with a bit of a name change. The city-building survival simulator immediately grabbed the attention of gamers when it launched in 2018, thanks to its intriguing setting, challenging mechanics, and intuitive gameplay. It has an 86 average critic rating on OpenCritic, and seven years after launch, Frostpunkhas a “Very Positive” user rating on Steam.

The launch of the Nintendo Switch 2 is only a few weeks away, and with it comes a healthy spread of games to play — and that are now available to pre-order. Releasing alongside the Switch 2 on June 5 is the brand new Mario Kart World and a handful remastered original Switch games, including The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. You can also reserve copies of Switch 2 games that are slated to bed released throughout the summer, including the anticipated Donkey Kong Bananza and Super Mario Party Jamboree. (Though, we’ll need to wait a bit to enjoy highly anticipated titles like Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Pokémon Legends: Z-A, and The Duskbloods.) Below, you’ll find a comprehensive collection of every game you can currently pre-order for Switch 2. And don’t forget to check out all the Switch 2 accessories and new Zelda amiibo you can get ahead of the console’s release.

Many, but far from all, otherwise mobile-only applications are available on the Mac App Store for Macs with an Apple silicon processor. Such Macs can hypothetically run any iPhone or iPad application, though individual developers can choose whether or not to offer that functionality. There are multiple reasons why a company might not offer their iPhone app on Mac—maybe they don't want to optimize it for a bigger display, maybe it's broken in some way, or maybe they just aren't interested in supporting another platform.You might disagree with that decision, though, and wondering whether it's possible to use those apps on your Mac anyway. And it is, sort of: PlayCover is an app capable of running any iPhone application you can think of, at least in theory. The problem is, there's no straightforward way to get versions of the applications that will work with it.The iOS encryption problemApple encrypts the applications offered in the App Store, meaning you can't just download and install them directly—you have to go through the storefront. The main workaround requires you to jailbreak an iPhone and use software designed to decrypt applications. In this way, you can create .ips files from the apps you've downloaded or purchased that you can open in PlayCover.You could also, in theory, download the .ips files from a third party—there are a few websites out there that offer them. The issue there is that this method requires trusting software from internet strangers that you're then installing on your computer, which is hard to recommend for a bunch of security reasons. (You never know what malicious software may be hidden in those files.) There's also the question of piracy, as these sites let you bypass the App Store encryption, which is typically a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. PlayCover works, to a pointWith all of these caveats in mind, I did manage to get the iPhone version of Duolingo running on my Mac. This is ideal, because the web version is missing all kinds of features, but it still isn't a like for like experience, as I won't get automatic updates like I would on an actual iPhone.Beyond Duolingo, a few other iPhone applications and games I tried to open on my Mac either wouldn't launch, or couldn't reach the login screen. And because the games you're playing are effectively outside the Apple ecosystem, you won't have access to any of your in-app purchases, or even the ability to make new ones. It's an imperfect solution in many ways, with one main upside—running software you otherwise couldn't—and lots of potential downsides. Credit: Justin Pot All of these points aside, I have to say that PlayCover has some clever features built in that allow you to control games optimized for touch. You can use your keyboard to emulate a gamepad, for example, making it possible to play supported games using your keyboard. If that doesn't work, you can assign keys to simulate screen taps, so your key presses select the corresponding on-screen buttons to control games. It takes a little bit of work on your part, but it makes it possible to play games designed for a touchscreen using keyboards.Thanks to Apple silicon, the iPhone, iPad, and Mac truly are related platforms. There's nothing stopping you from running any iPhone application on your Mac, at least in theory. But for most people, it's probably a good idea to stick to the iPad applications you can find in the Mac App Store.

The joint ESA and NASA Solar Orbiter mission has delivered a stunning new image of the Sun and its corona. The sun-observing satellite originally launched in 2020, and besides making the Sun look cool, the data it's captured has impacted things like our understanding of solar wind. Today's photo shows off the spun-sugar-like particles caught in the magnetic field of the Sun's atmosphere, the dark "filaments" of cooler material weaving their way in between and bursting active areas that emit solar flares. The ESA says the photo is technically a composite of 200 separate images taken with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager, around 77 million km from the Sun. The EUI allows the traditionally unobservable parts of the Sun's atmosphere or corona to be visible in photographs. ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team, E. Kraaikamp (ROB) Solar Orbiter has regularly provided a clear look at our closest star, and even offered insights into Venus as it made its way to its current position observing the Sun. For more details on the image, and interactive labels explaining the different regions of the Sun, check out the ESA website. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/science/space/can-i-offer-you-a-nice-image-of-the-sun-in-these-trying-times-181135043.html?src=rss

Switch 2 Edition upgrades packs won't all cost the same, as officially revealed by Nintendo.