From a Star Wars-style droid for your home to a Pixar-inspired lamp bot, these are the most interesting and innovative robots we've seen so far at CES.

Bluey has collected tons of accolades over the years, including the TCA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Childrens Programming. The Australian animated show is extremely popular for viewers young and old, and later this year, Bluey and her family are getting their first official Lego sets. Specifics are yet to be revealed, but it has been confirmed that six Lego Bluey sets are arriving in 2025.The Lego Bluey lineup will span both the Lego 4+ and Duplo categories, making them smaller sets aimed at young builders. Duplo sets typically feature a few dozen large pieces to assemble, while Lego's Preschooler sets often have around 100 pieces each. You can expect the Bluey Lego and Duplo playsets to feature Bluey, Bingo, Bandit (Dad), and Chilli (Mom) as well as accessories that reference episodes of the show. Lego says the six sets will be revealed this spring and will give kids a chance to recreate scenes from the hit show. Continue Reading at GameSpot

Earlier this week, the ongoing saga of Destiny 2 reached a new turning point with the release of Revenant Act 3. But the conclusion of that chapter means that players are getting new weapons and other improvements going forward.Bungie has shared the details about Destiny 2's latest updates, including a pair of legendary weapons. The first is called Red Tape, and it's a stasis scout rifle; while the second is a stasis rocket launcher named Heretic's Fervor. You can see both weapons in action in the new trailer below, as well as a glimpse of the new exotic mission, Kell's Fall. Completing Kell's Fall will give players access to yet another weapon: A powerful exotic shotgun called Slayers Fang. Players can also replay Kell's Fall to upgrade Slayer's Fang with up to four catalysts. Starting with the next episode debut, Heresy, on February 4, Destiny 2 will also increase the caps for Strange Coins to 199, while Osirian Ciphers and Nightfall Ciphers will be bumped from 10 to 30. Bungie has also invited players to begin voting for next fall's Festival of the Lost Armor. Continue Reading at GameSpot

Severance Season 1 on Blu-ray $25.79 (was $43) Preorder at Amazon Season 2 of Apple TV's hit psychological thriller Severance is receiving high praise from critics ahead of its January 17 premiere. If you need to catch up or refresh your memory, Amazon has a great deal on the recently released Blu-ray of Severance Season 1. Normally $43, Severance Season 1 is discounted to $25.79.Now's a great time to sign up for Apple TV+. Along with Severance, Mythic Quest Season 4 premieres later this month (January 29), and it will be followed up by the spin-off anthology series Side Quest in March. In addition to the two premieres, you can catch up on Silo--an excellent adaptation of Hugh Howey's great sci-fi novel Wool--ahead of its Season 2 finale on January 17. Severance Season 1 on Blu-ray $25.79 (was $43) Severance was GameSpot's pick for the best TV show of 2022. The sci-fi series is set in the near future where technological advancements allow people to "sever" the memories of their work life from their personal life. The benefit for people who undergo the procedure is that they live their lives without ever remembering working (or other unpleasant things, as the show slowly begins to reveal). But in practice, this means that severed people are effectively two people--they're one person in regular life, an "outie," and a second person, or "innie," at work, because the work version of them never experiences anything but work. It's like falling asleep the second you step out of the office and waking up the second you step back in. Preorder at Amazon Across the nine-episode first season, that leads to some pretty spooky and dystopian situations, sprinkled with a lot of corporate culture satire. Severance is both funny and creepy in equal measure, and that's a lot of what makes it so good.Continue Reading at GameSpot

Cars have always been a major aspect of the Grand Theft Auto series, being a staple that players strive to collect. From regular cars to supercars, there has always been a wide selection of vehicles to drive. GTA 5 is no different, with a large array of cars to zip through the streets of Los Santos with.

While exploring the wide-open world of Jujutsu Infinite, you will encounter strong enemies. To defeat them, players must create a powerful build. To do this, you will need various resources, including extremely rare cursed items. This guide will tell you how to get a Purified Curse Hand in Jujutsu Infinite.

Born in 1963, Junji Ito began drawing manga from the young age of four-years-old, and by the age of just 24 he had his first major hit. In 1987, Junji Ito submitted a short horror story to the Monthly Halloween magazine. That short story ended up giving birth to the wildly successful Tomie series, which ended up running for well over a decade. Junji Ito has worked on countless horror manga over the last few decades, delivering a vast number of truly terrifying monsters, some of which are coming to Dead by Daylight.

It was to be expected that some details about Nintendo Switch 2 would leak before it was revealed. Details about upcoming game consoles always leak before their official announcement. Unlike a game in development, too many people outside the consoles parent company need to know about the device in advance for the secret to be kept: third-party publishers and developers, parts suppliers, accessory manufacturers, retailers, and the people in the factories that make the things. Somebody somewhere in this sprawling chain is going to crack. Somethings going to get out.Even so, the situation with Switch 2 at the moment is extreme. (Even the name has leaked.) The last few weeks have seen a blizzard of leaks, including apparent photos of final hardware. The dam has broken to the extent that peripherals manufacturer Genki, which claims to have obtained a real Switch 2 through back channels, has thrown caution to the wind and shown a mock-up of the console at CES. Genki even has a detailed, animated render of Nintendos new console on its website.Throughout most of last year, it was business as usual in Switch 2 leak land. A few details emerged in reports sourced from behind-closed-doors meetings with Nintendos partners, and a pretty complete, if hazy, picture of the consoles form and features was built up: the magnetic Joy-Cons, the AI-assisted upscaling tech, the backward compatibility.Then, in September, the leaks shifted up a gear. Molds, schematics, and hardware specifications emerged from manufacturers in China that were detailed enough for one YouTuber to 3D print a mock-up of the new console. Since then, corroborating evidence has piled up to the extent that only a handful of mysteries remain (mostly, what the new button, the extra USB-C port, and the optical sensor are for). Weve even got a good sense of the color schemes.Its an unprecedented amount of data on a console that hasnt even been announced yet. What happened?In all probability, its a simple matter of timing. Reports indicate that Nintendo originally planned to launch the Switch 2 in 2024, but delayed it into 2025 to allow time to finish new games and build up enough inventory to prevent stock shortages. But this delay must have presented the company with a dilemma. If it announced the new console in 2024, it could have the knock-on effect of thwarting original Switch sales during the crucial holiday period.This holiday season, I couldnt resist sharing this gift with you all. Some might call it an early reveal but I call it the best-kept secret of the year. pic.twitter.com/btAcUo9j0Q NextHandheld (@NextHandheld) December 25, 2024This hadnt been a concern when Nintendo announced the original Switch with a video in October 2016 the Wii U was a sales dud and Nintendo was keen to move on. But the Switch still sells in large numbers to this day, and it seems Nintendo likely judged that announcing its next move wasnt worth the potential hit to revenue.This strategy is consistent with Nintendos choice to reveal one detail about Switch 2 before the holidays that it would be backward-compatible, thus reassuring players that it was still worth buying Switch games.Nintendos strategy pulled its preparations for Switch 2 in opposing directions. On the one hand, it seemingly wanted a late announcement and short promotional campaign in order to protect Switch sales. On the other, it reportedly wanted a long manufacturing lead-in before launch to build up a healthy amount of stock. This resulted in an unusual situation: Nintendo was likely gearing up for full Switch 2 production months before the console was even announced. What appear to be final retail units have even started to appear in the wild all still before an announcement has been made.So why hasnt Nintendo a famously secretive and litigious company that just loves a takedown notice appeared to do anything to squash the leaks? This is essentially unknowable, and Nintendo is never likely to say. But it seems likely that Nintendo leadership was fully aware that leaks were an inevitable consequence of this launch strategy, and has decided to accept them, in this case, as the cost of doing business.The good news is that, with that holiday sales period out of the way, we can probably expect an announcement very soon. More than that: The Switch 2 is a tangible reality. It exists; its being made right now. That doesnt necessarily mean its launch is imminent. But it might not be too far off.

Finn the Human, Jake the Dog, and the rest of their friends will return to comics this April, when a new Adventure Time series kicks off seven years after the old comic series ended in 2018. The main Adventure Time series officially ended in 2018, but the Adventure Time world didnt end there. Limited series Adventure Time: Distant Lands brought four hour-long specials, each focused on a different set of characters, starting in 2020. Spin-off series Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake debuted in 2023, and followed Finn and Jakes gender-swapped counterparts and Simon Petrikov, the former Ice King. And it looks like the adventure continues on with this new comic line.The comic series will have new issues every month, with rotating artists and writers, including but not limited to Nick Winn (Bloody Mary), Caroline Cash (PeePee PooPoo), Asia Simone (Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Wreck and Roll), Jorge Monlongo (Over the Garden Wall: Hallow Town), Brenda Hickey (My Little Pony), and former Adventure Time writer and storyboard artist Derek Ballard. The first issue comes from Winn and kicks off a story arc called Best of Buds.Adventure Time was such a huge part of me growing up, Winn said in a press release. Not only was it hilarious, but it had such an emotional intelligence that very few shows could pull off back then. Being able to revisit the land of Ooo through Oni Press has really been such a joy and a challenge to build something new while still keeping the energy and charm the show cast on me in middle school!Adventure Time (2025) #1 will be available on April 9.

Polish tabletop board game manufacturer Archon Studio one of the biggest miniatures studios in Europe, second only to Games Workshop announced the upcoming crowdfunding campaign of Master of Orion: Ad Astra, a turn-based 4X sci-fi strategy miniatures game based on the video game of the same name. The Gamefound crowdfunding campaign launches Jan. 14, with additional perks for backers who follow the campaign before the official launch.In Master of Orion: Ad Astra, players will act as one of six alien species vying for dominance over the far reaches of the galaxy. While not the first tabletop adaptation, Archon Studio calls Ad Astra a true 4X game, invoking a term coined by game writer Alan Emrich in his preview of the original video game Master of Orion in 1993. The term describes the essential four Xs of any good strategic conquest game: EXplore, EXpand, EXploit and EXterminate.Backers who fund Ad Astra will receive a core game that includes 280 miniatures from a studio which Polygons Charlie Hall described as being created with Polish space magic, and a series of technology cards and unique components. Designed for up to four players, Ad Astra also includes a fully realized solo ruleset for players who want to experience the game on their own. The game will be available in five languages: English, German, French, Polish, and Spanish.Archon Studio will be hosting a YouTube livestream to coincide with the launch of the crowdfund. Backers who follow the campaign prior to that will receive a free dice tray and have the option to pay for the campaign over the course of six installments instead of one lump sum. The Master of Orion: Ad Astra crowdfunding campaign goes live Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. PST.