Marvel Rivals is a fun, chaotic, third-person team-based shooter in which players can take on the role of their favorite Marvel heroes and Villains, utilizing unique abilities to fight against one another, and even utilize the Team-Up feature with allies to take each character's potential to new limits. Marvel Rivals already has over thirty different playable heroes across three different roles, each of which has a unique job to play on the field, which has caused players to jump headfirst into the fun and start to try mastering their main heroes and preferred picks.

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Whats it like bringing a K-Pop hit from Barbie the Album into a VR Rhythm game? Its kinda like opening the doors and walking into a party with a lot of pink all around you.Hi, Im Falcon from Kluge Interactive and this is the new Synth Riders Experience Barbie Dance n Dream. Its a Barbie-fueled ride to Fifty Fiftys Barbie Dreams (feat. Kaliii). In fact, this is the first time Barbie joins a VR rhythm game and its available right now!Heres a small taste of what you can experience yourself right now in Synth Riders with this new DLC.Play VideoYoull soak in some rays at the beach, groove at the roller disco, and dance through Barbie dreams in Synth Riders latest musical journey. Its a whole new audio-visual Experience, from the team that delivered the one-of-a-kind immersive tracks collaborating with Muse, The Offspring, and Lindsay Stirling to name a few.Associate Creative Director Jaime Nunez-Lopez told me The idea of Barbie dreaming that shes on a journey through different dream worlds really fit the Synth Riders game mechanics and perfectly matched the theme of the song itself.And, really, we needed an excuse to have pink dolphins in a game!Jaime adds, Its really all about bringing a huge smile to your face by the time the songs done. So pull out that power pink wardrobe and get yourself ready for the Synth Riders Experience Barbie Dance n Dream!We cant wait to see all of you dressing up in pink for the occasion!The Synth Riders Experience Barbie Dancen Dream DLC is available now on PlayStation VR2 for $2.99.

In our upcoming release of Star Wars: Episode I: Jedi Power Battles, which launches January 23 on PS5 and PS4, were excited to introduce the new Lightsaber Color Toggle. This update gives you the power to switch between the classic lightsaber colors from the original game or adjust to colors that align with what you have seen throughout the expanded Star Wars galaxy in books, movies, and TV series.Play VideoFor the first time, Mace Windu can wield his iconic purple lightsaber in Jedi Power Battles, a nod to his weapon seen throughout the Star Wars films and beyond. In a galaxy full of challenges, every color change adds a unique flair to your lightsaber combat.The new toggle feature gives you even more ways to personalize your gameplay experience with characters like Adi Gallia, Plo Koon, and Ki-Adi-Mundi. Get ready for the fight by picking your character and now your lightsaber color too!Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles is packed with memorable locations and action, from the Theed Palace on Naboo to the Trade Federation Battleship. Along the way, players will face off against droids and the merciless Darth Maul himself.Lightsaber colors: original vs. newMace Windu: Original Blue | New PurpleAdi Gallia: Original Red | New BluePlo Koon: Original Yellow | New BlueKi-Adi-Mundi: Original Purple | New BlueEach lightsaber color comes with its own sense of history and purpose. Mace Windus famous purple blade, for instance, signifies both his mastery of the Force and his unique combat style. Meanwhile, Plo Koons transformation to blue reflects his role as a respected member of the Jedi Council, upholding peace and justice across the galaxy. With this new feature, battles feel more immersive than ever.How to access the Lightsaber ToggleSwitching your lightsaber color is as easy as igniting your blade! On the character selection screen, tap the Square button. Choose the lightsaber color that best fits your vision of your favorite Jedi and prepare for the fight!Dont miss the battlePre-order Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles today. Join the galaxys heroes when the game officially launches on January 23 on PS5 and PS4. From fighting waves of battle droids to mastering the Force, theres never been a better time to jump back into the adventure or switch up your lightsaber color.

As we get even closer to the holiday season, now is the perfect time to spread joy and love to the PC gamers in your life, who can be especially tricky to find the right gift for. The market for great PC gaming gifts is overwhelmingly vast and somewhat confusing, with astronomical prices on some products that may seem similar in specs to cheaper ones. So to make it easier to shop, were focusing on popular categories that the recipients likely to be the most interested in unwrapping.Theres a wide range of gift ideas below, suiting veterans of PC gaming as well as those who may just be getting into the hobby. And, since the prices can vary so much between products, weve provided budget and high-roller options that we like in each category.

Ive played so many survival and crafting games that I have the opening routine down to a science. Heres how it usually goes: I wake up in a new environment and get straight to punching trees. Sometimes, I dont even get to punch trees I have to pick up sticks and rocks and make a makeshift axe, and then I can start chopping down trees to get logs. I am so tired of punching trees and gathering sticks. Overthrown, a wacky kingdom-building simulator designed to be enjoyed with friends, manages to shake up that stale formula.The first thing I do in Overthrown is claim a crown marked with a beam of light, which seems like a poor system of government, but it lets me find my footing. Then, I have to start getting some wood to start building my settlement. Sure enough, I have to punch trees, but developer Brimstone made the basic movement and combat of this game smooth and quick. So I dont just punch trees; I combo-strike them, spin dash into them, and beat the shit out of those mighty oaks. I dont have to upgrade my axe to level 3 to attack a big tree; I just need to pummel it persistently.Once the tree falls, the log rolls away, and I have to chase it down and hope it doesnt tumble down a cliff. I can also pick the log up and throw it into a sawmill to get instantly ground up into wood chunks. Convenient!This is the big appeal of Overthrown; its got room for a lot of physics-based antics. As I build up my base, I can move an awkwardly placed building by picking it up and tossing it. My base attracts NPC villagers, who help out with the day-to-day jobs. I can pick them up too, so if someones a little too sleepy, I can simply hurl them into bed like the benevolent monarch I am.Overthrown just entered early access, and I havent had the chance to try it out with a pack of pals, so Ill have to see whether the game continues to tickle my funny bone. For now, Im just pleased that I dont have to gather sticks and painstakingly build my first axe. If youre going to make me punch trees, at least make punching trees a little bit novel.

The algorithm has become the retina of the mindseye.George Tooker, The Subway,1950So much went wrong over the election plenty of blame to go aroundbut today, my focus is on one culprit: algorithms.The 2024 election wasnt just a political event; it was an algorithmic disaster.Democrats were stunned as red swept across the map, with Trump retaking the presidency. By the next day, pundits pivoted into told-you-so mode. But we, the viewers of Americas final season, remember their pre-election thinkpieces. Its like they were living in a parallel reality. And they were. We allare.Though the world feels bigger than ever, our experiences are more atomized. Weve all got our own unique information dietsand like all diets, theyre tailored to taste. Algorithms are the special sauce that keeps everything palatable, just spicy and varied enough. They dominate our perceptions, shaping everything we see across the platforms we usedaily.Neil Postman warned us decades ago in Amusing Ourselves to Death that entertainment media would distort public discourse. More recently, Kyle Chayka, in Filterworld, described how algorithms flatten culture, reducing it to simplest, most engaging partsturning everything into a personalized feed. Both dynamics worked at once to radicalize disconnected groups and blindelites.The result is a a fragmented, myopic electorate where everyone sees only what they want to seeor what an algorithm decides they shouldsee.Forget filter bubbles. Were soaking in filter bubble baths now. The waterswarm.Filter bubble bath courtesyDALL-ETikTok, propaganda, and the ManosphereLets talk about the Manosphere, which WIRED defines as the amorphous assortment of influencers who are mostly young, exclusively male, and increasingly the drivers of the remaining online monoculture.One key post-election is narrative is how menyoung, uneducated men, in particularhave been pushed to the right through misinformation and propaganda filtered to them via Joe Rogan and the like. On The Media did a great deep dive into this ecosystem. In it, they lament our new media environment:The news monoculture of old is dead the new administration has shown us that it will learn on a new generation of personalities and media networks to spread its lies and shape hearts andminds.Its a persuasive argument. Max Reads great piece on The TikTok Electorate adds a critical nuance: TikTok and other social media arent solely toblame.When you rely too much on the idea that propaganda works homogeneously and omni-directionally, its very easy to misdiagnose the problem. Is Andrew Tate really turning innocent, smooth-brained young morons into misogynists all on his own? It seems much more likely that some young men bring a set of misogynist assumptions and masculinist entitlements to TikTok and YouTube, and have those self-flattering ideas reinforced and strengthened into hardenedbeliefs.Algorithms amplify whats already there. The solution, then, isnt to launch a liberal version of Joe Rogan, but to address misogyny at its roots. As Jia Tolentino points out, young men have long been fighting for relevance in a gender war. Their sense of loss could help explain why men aged 1829 have shifted 30 points rightward since2020.The fact remains that a large swath of young men isnt participating in the same information ecosystem as the rest of us. They have their own channels, their own realities, nearly independent from ours. Our tweets wont save themor swaythem.The la carte electorateAOCs election-night Instagram polls provide another interesting case study of how algorithmic-inflected behavior might result in ticket-splitting. As it turns out, she has a growing group in her district of people who voted for Trump and her. She asked themwhy:via AOCs InstagramBoth AOC and Trump are seen as real and anti-establishment. Both care about the working class. Both promise change. Crucially, neither was tied to the current administration. In a filtered world, these politicians dont feel opposed; they feel like two sides of the samecoin.This kind of ticket-splitting defies conventional political logic, but in the algorithmic age, it makes perfectsense.Younger voters, conditioned to an algorithmic existence, maybe approach elections like their social media feeds: fragmented and hyper-personalized. They curate ballots, selecting candidates based on personal resonance rather than party loyalty. Its a choose-your-own-adventure style of politics, where down-the-line voting isnt thedefault.The algorithmic medium is themessageI want to push this idea bit further. I believe were living in a broad social experiment whose consequences we wont understand for sometime.Media theorist Marshall McLuhan famously posited that the medium is the message. He meant that the medium itselfTV, video, a social feedshapes human thought more than the content it delivers. Neil Postman expanded upon this idea, arguing that in a TV-dominated society, serious topics are simplified into entertainment. Public discourse shifts from logic-driven to spectacle-driven. (Is it any surprise that TV-star Trump is a repeat president?)What is the message of the algorithmic feed? What does it do to itsusers?Heres how I seeit:Information must be entertaining: Users expect even run-of-the-mill information to be engaging.Successful messages have successful messengers: Parasocial relationships are highly effective.Simple ideas fly far: Algorithms prioritize emotionally resonant, easy-to-digest content.Content is participatory: Likes, swipes, and other signals shape what users see. The content feels co-created by viewers, giving them ownership ofit.Trump and AOC win feeds. Both exude authenticity, a currency that platformsand votersreward. Both have simple ideas told in engaging ways (with Trumps obviously leaning hard into fear, sexism, and xenophobia). Both offer a way for their viewers to participate. AOC sparked this great discussion via Instagram poll.Meanwhile, establishment figures falter. Their campaigns feel stiff, lecture-like, and their complex ideas struggle to break out of theirbubbles.Max Read argues that these platforms change users in a deeper way: they condition users to embrace volatility. TikToks feed is a chaotic blend of hits and misses, encouraging a speculative, gamified mindset. The result is a generation of voters who approach politics like a gamble, chasing high-stakes wins with little regard for long-term coalition-building.Whose race is it, anyway? via ReductressThe algorithm has become the retina of mindseyeIn Cronenbergs Videodrome (1983), Marshall McLuhans ideas reach an eschatological extreme. The film shows a world addicted to television, where media rewires viewers minds, leading to hallucinatory ultraviolence. Its atrip.One of my favorite quotes comes from the films Professor Brian OBlivion, a media prophet, who declares that television is the retina of the mindseye.In 2024, that retina is algorithmic. Algorithms dont just shape what we see; they shape how we see, what we imagine, and how we empathize withothers.This election showed us what happens when millions of individual, algorithm-curated realities collide. The result isnt just political polarization; its the erosion of a shared cultural and political context. Rebuilding that context will require more than just better messaging. It demands a reckoning with the structuresboth digital and socialthat shape our perceptions. Until then, well remain stuck in our own personalized feeds, wondering why everyone and everything feels so incomprehensible.XMLFROM MYFEEDNeal Postmans Amusing Ourselves to Death and Kyle Chaykas Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened CultureMax Read on The TikTok Electorate (via his substack); Jia Tolentino on How America Embraced Gender War (The New Yorker); Brian Barrett on The Manosphere Won(WIRED).On The Media looks at the Manosphere (listen)Medium Cruel: Reflections on Videodrome (Criterion)Han Kangs The Vegetarian, trippy ecofeminist fable and recent Booker recipientThe Algo election: how 2024 revealed a fragmented reality was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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We may earn a commission from links on this page.According to a recent survey, Americans lose five things every month and spend about 17 hours searching for those things every year. If you lose your keys, wallet, or phone on a regular basis, youre not alone. And while repeatedly losing items can be a sign of conditions such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), for most people, losing stuff is usually the result of simple absent-mindedness.Just because its not a sign of a serious problem doesnt mean constantly losing stuff doesnt negatively impact your life. Losing a phone can be an expensive mistake, and losing a wallet or keys can ruin your day even if you have trackers on them and can retrieve them relatively easily. Plus theres the trouble of replacing things and possibly having to change the locks on your doors or take other precautionary measures. If you lose stuff all the time, there are some straightforward techniques you can (and should) employ to help you stop losing your stuff.Speak upGet into the habit of narrating your actions. When you put things down, say out loud what youre doing, e.g., Im putting the phone on the counter. Reading and speaking out loud can help improve memory in many different contexts, and this can help anchor the items location in your memory.Use dedicated storageStop dropping your stuff wherever you happen to be standing. At home, have designated places for your frequently lost itemsa bowl for your keys, a charging station for your phoneand always put them back there, even if its slightly inconvenient. On the run, have a designated pocket or bag where everything goes. Additionally, if you come across your stuff outside of that designated place, dont just think huh, thats not where its supposed to be and move onpick it up and move it to the right spot.Make it stand outA lot of the stuff we lose is pretty neutral in appearancea white or black phone, a brown wallet, etc. Its easy to overlook them. Adding something distinctive can make them jump out to you, making it less likely that youll leave them behind. Colorful key tags or striking keychains can help keep your keys top of mind, as can a colorful phone case.Scan your locationA simple habit to develop is to scan every location before you leave. Take a few seconds to just look around your restaurant table, seat on the train, rental car, hotel room, or gym before you walk out the door. This accomplishes two things: One, it helps you spot your stuff before you leave, and two, it stops you and forces you to think about where your stuff is.Attach items to yourselfRemember when you were a kid and your mittens would be sewn onto your coat so you wouldnt lose them? That trick still works. If youve tried to be more mindful and youre still losing stuff, try attaching it to yourself. Simple carabiner key chains can be hooked to belt loops or bags; wallets can be chained to you; glasses can be strapped around your neck; and phones can be strapped to your body, making it more difficult to leave spaces without your stuff.Take a photoWhen you put something down or store it someplace unusual, take a photo of it. If you realize hours later that you walked away without grabbing it, you can scan your phone to see exactly where you left it.Use a separation alarmFind Your Device apps are great for finding your lost phone, but they dont prevent you from losing it in the first place. A separation alarm for your phone will go off when you move more than 50 feet or so away from your phone, instantly alerting you when you leave it behind. You can also buy reverse separation alarms, so your phone will alert you if you move away from something elselike your wallet.