See at Paramount Plus Watch the Europa League in the US from $8 a month Paramount Plus See at Paramount Plus See more details See at ExpressVPN Best VPN for streaming ExpressVPN See at ExpressVPN See more details See at TNT Sports Watch Europa League games live in the UK with TNT Sports TNT Sports See at TNT Sports See more details See at DAZN Watch Europa League in Canada from CA$30 a month DAZN See at DAZN See more details See at Stan Sport Watch the Europa League in Australia from AU$27 a month Stan Sport See at Stan Sport See more details Table of Contents Fourth-placed Man United head to Bucharest on Thursday to take on eighth-paced FCSB, with both sides needing a win to seal automatic qualification for the UEFA Europa League's last 16.Man United claimed a last-gasp win in their "Battle of Britain" clash with Scottish team Rangers last week at Old Trafford to edge Ruben Amorim's side closer to the tournament's knockout stages.FCSB -- formerly known as Steaua Bucharest -- are just a point behind United, following their battling 3-2 win away at Qaraba FK in Azerbaijan last time out.FCSB host Manchester United on Thursday, Jan. 30, at the National Arena in Bucharest, Romania. Kickoff is set for 10 p.m. EET local time in Romania, making it an8 p.m. GMTstart in the UK. That means its a3 p.m. ET or 12 p.m. PTkickoff in the US and Canada, and a 7 a.m. AEDT start in Australia on Friday morning.Below, we'll outline the bestlive TV streaming servicesto use to watch the match as it happens, wherever you are in the world. Bruno Fernandes's injury-time strike earned Manchester United a crucial win over Rangers last Thursday. Sebastian Frej/MB Media/Getty ImagesLivestream FCSB vs. Man United in the USAmerican soccer fans can stream every fixture of this season's tournament via Paramount Plus, which has exclusive live English-language broadcast rights in the US for the UEFA Europa League. Sarah Tew/CNET Paramount Plus has two main subscription plans in the US: Essential for $8 per month and Premium for $13 per month. Both offer coverage of the Europa League as well as the Champions League.The cheaper Essential option has ads for on-demand streaming and lacks live CBS feeds as well as the ability to download shows to watch offline later. Newcomers to the service can take advantage of a 30-day free trial, while students may qualify for a 25% discount. Read our Paramount Plus review. See at Paramount Plus How to watch every UEFA Europa League 2024/25 game online from anywhere using a VPNIf you find yourself unable to view Europa League matches locally, you may need a different way to watch the games -- that's where using a VPN can come in handy. A VPN is also the best way to stop your ISP from throttling your speeds on game day by encrypting your traffic, and it's also a great idea if you're traveling and find yourself connected to a Wi-Fi network and you want to add an extra layer of privacy for your devices and logins.With a VPN, you're able to virtually change your location on your phone, tablet or laptop to get access to the game. Most VPNs, like our Editors' Choice, ExpressVPN, make it really easy to do this.Using a VPN to watch or stream sports is legal in any country where VPNs are legal, including the US, UK and Canada, as long as you have a legitimate subscription to the service you're streaming. You should be sure your VPN is set up correctly to prevent leaks: Even where VPNs are legal, the streaming service may terminate the account of anyone it deems to be circumventing correctly applied blackout restrictions. James Martin/CNET 2024 Latest Tests DNS leaks detected, 25% speed loss in 2024 testsNetwork 3,000 plus servers in 105 countriesJurisdiction British Virgin Islands ExpressVPN isour current best VPN pickfor people who want a reliable and safe VPN, and it works on a variety of devices. It's normally $13 a month, but if you sign up for an annual subscription for $100 you'll get three months free and save 49%. That's the equivalent of $6.67 a month.Note that ExpressVPN offers a 30-day money-back guarantee. 61% off with 2yr plan (+4 free months) See at ExpressVPN Livestream FCSB vs. Man United in the UKTNT Sports has the rights to broadcast Europa League fixtures in the UK, with this match set to be shown live today on TNT Sports 1. TNT Sports TNT Sports is the place to watch Europa League matches exclusively live this seasonin the UK. You can access TNT Sports in a number of ways, including via Sky Q as a TV package, or direct streaming from its range of mobile and smart TV apps. It costs 31 either way and comes in a package that includes Discovery Plus' library of documentary content. See at TNT Sports Livestream FCSB vs. Man United in CanadaIf you want to stream Europa League games live in Canada, you'll need to subscribe to DAZN Canada. The service has exclusive broadcast rights to the tournament this season. DAZN A DAZN subscription currently costs CA$30 a month or CA$200 a year and will also give you access to the Champions League, and the UEFA Conference League, plus EFL Championship soccer, Six Nations rugby and WTA tennis.As well as dedicated apps for iOS and Android, there's a wide range of support for set-top boxes and smart TVs. See at DAZN Livestream FCSB vs. Man United in AustraliaFootball fans Down Under can watch Europa League matches on streaming service Stan Sport, which has exclusive rights to show this tournament live in Australia this season. Stan Stan Sport will set you back AU$12 per month (on top of a AU$15Stan subscription), but the streaming service is currently offering a seven-day free trial.A subscription will also give you access to Champions League and Europa Conference League action, as well as international rugby and Formula E. See at Stan Sport Quick tips for streaming UEFA Europa League matches using a VPNWith four variables at play -- your ISP, browser, video streaming provider and VPN -- your experience and success when streaming Europa League games may vary.If you don't see your desired location as a default option for ExpressVPN, try using the "search for city or country" option.If you're having trouble getting the game after you've turned on your VPN and set it to the correct viewing area, there are two things you can try to fix quickly. First, log into your streaming service subscription account and make sure the address registered for the account is an address in the correct viewing area. If not, you may need to change the physical address on file with your account. Second, some smart TVs -- like Roku -- don't have VPN apps you can install directly on the device itself. Instead, you'll have to install the VPN on your router or the mobile hotspot you're using (like your phone) so that any device on its Wi-Fi network now appears in the correct viewing location.All of the VPN providers we recommend have helpful instructions on their main site for quickly installing the VPN on your router. In some cases with smart TV services, after you install a cable network's sports app, you'll be asked to verify a numeric code or click a link sent to your email address on file for your smart TV. This is where having a VPN on your router will also help since both devices will appear to be in the correct location.Remember, browsers can often give away a location despite using a VPN, so be sure you're using a privacy-first browser to log into your services. We normally recommendBrave.

See at Paramount Plus Watch the Europa League in the US from $8 a month Paramount Plus See at Paramount Plus See more details See at ExpressVPN Best VPN for streaming ExpressVPN See at ExpressVPN See more details See at TNT Sports Watch Europa League games live in the UK with TNT Sports TNT Sports See at TNT Sports See more details See at DAZN Watch Europa League in Canada from CA$30 a month DAZN See at DAZN See more details See at Stan Sport Watch the Europa League in Australia from AU$27 a month Stan Sport See at Stan Sport See more details Table of Contents Spurs welcome Allsvenskan team Elfsborg to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Thursday for this key UEFA Europa League match, knowing that a draw will be enough to secure a place in the last 16 of the tournament.Currently in sixth position, Ange Postecoglou's men are already assured of a playoff place following their 3-2 win at Hoffenheim last week. They will be keen for a positive result here as they look to put their alarming recent form in the English Premier League to one side.Currently in 20th place and out of the hunt for an automatic qualification spot, Elfsborg can nevertheless ensure their place in the playoffs by avoiding defeat today.Spurs host Elfsborg on Thursday, Jan. 30, at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in north London. Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. GMT local time in the UK, making it a9 p.m. CETstart in Europe. That means it's a3 p.m. ET or 12 p.m. PTkickoff in the US and Canada, and a 7 a.m. AEDT start in Australia on Friday morning.Below, we'll outline the bestlive TV streaming servicesto use to watch the match as it happens, wherever you are in the world. Micky van de Ven is set to hand Spurs a major boost by returning to the squad for the first time since Dec. 8. Marc Atkins/Getty ImagesLivestream Tottenham vs. Elfsborg in the USAmerican soccer fans can stream every fixture of this season's tournament via Paramount Plus, which has exclusive live English-language broadcast rights in the US for the UEFA Europa League. Sarah Tew/CNET Paramount Plus has two main subscription plans in the US: Essential for $8 per month and Premium for $13 per month. Both offer coverage of the Europa League as well as the Champions League.The cheaper Essential option has ads for on-demand streaming and lacks live CBS feeds as well as the ability to download shows to watch offline later. Newcomers to the service can take advantage of a 30-day free trial, while students may qualify for a 25% discount. Read our Paramount Plus review. See at Paramount Plus How to watch every UEFA Europa League 2024/25 game online from anywhere using a VPNIf you find yourself unable to view Europa League matches locally, you may need a different way to watch the games -- that's where using a VPN can come in handy. A VPN is also the best way to stop your ISP from throttling your speeds on game day by encrypting your traffic, and it's also a great idea if you're traveling and find yourself connected to a Wi-Fi network and you want to add an extra layer of privacy for your devices and logins.With a VPN, you're able to virtually change your location on your phone, tablet or laptop to get access to the game. Most VPNs, like our Editors' Choice, ExpressVPN, make it really easy to do this.Using a VPN to watch or stream sports is legal in any country where VPNs are legal, including the US, UK and Canada, as long as you have a legitimate subscription to the service you're streaming. You should be sure your VPN is set up correctly to prevent leaks: Even where VPNs are legal, the streaming service may terminate the account of anyone it deems to be circumventing correctly applied blackout restrictions. James Martin/CNET 2024 Latest Tests DNS leaks detected, 25% speed loss in 2024 testsNetwork 3,000 plus servers in 105 countriesJurisdiction British Virgin Islands ExpressVPN isour current best VPN pickfor people who want a reliable and safe VPN, and it works on a variety of devices. It's normally $13 a month, but if you sign up for an annual subscription for $100 you'll get three months free and save 49%. That's the equivalent of $6.67 a month.Note that ExpressVPN offers a 30-day money-back guarantee. 61% off with 2yr plan (+4 free months) See at ExpressVPN Livestream Tottenham vs. Elfsborg in the UKTNT Sports has the rights to broadcast UEFA Europa League fixtures in the UK, with this match set to be shown live today on TNT Sports 2. TNT Sports TNT Sports is the place to watch Europa League matches exclusively live this seasonin the UK. You can access TNT Sports in a number of ways, including via Sky Q as a TV package, or direct streaming from its range of mobile and smart TV apps. It costs 31 either way and comes in a package that includes Discovery Plus' library of documentary content. See at TNT Sports Livestream Tottenham vs. Elfsborg in CanadaIf you want to stream Europa League games live in Canada, you'll need to subscribe to DAZN Canada. The service has exclusive broadcast rights to the tournament this season. DAZN A DAZN subscription currently costs CA$30 a month or CA$200 a year and will also give you access to the Champions League, and the UEFA Conference League, plus EFL Championship soccer, Six Nations rugby and WTA tennis.As well as dedicated apps for iOS and Android, there's a wide range of support for set-top boxes and smart TVs. See at DAZN Livestream Tottenham vs. Elfsborg in AustraliaFootball fans Down Under can watch Europa League matches on streaming service Stan Sport, which has exclusive rights to show this tournament live in Australia this season. Stan Stan Sport will set you back AU$12 per month (on top of a AU$15Stan subscription), but the streaming service is currently offering a seven-day free trial.A subscription will also give you access to Champions League and Europa Conference League action, as well as international rugby and Formula E. See at Stan Sport Quick tips for streaming UEFA Europa League matches using a VPNWith four variables at play -- your ISP, browser, video streaming provider and VPN -- your experience and success when streaming Europa League games may vary.If you don't see your desired location as a default option for ExpressVPN, try using the "search for city or country" option.If you're having trouble getting the game after you've turned on your VPN and set it to the correct viewing area, there are two things you can try to fix quickly. First, log into your streaming service subscription account and make sure the address registered for the account is an address in the correct viewing area. If not, you may need to change the physical address on file with your account. Second, some smart TVs -- like Roku -- don't have VPN apps you can install directly on the device itself. Instead, you'll have to install the VPN on your router or the mobile hotspot you're using (like your phone) so that any device on its Wi-Fi network now appears in the correct viewing location.All of the VPN providers we recommend have helpful instructions on their main site for quickly installing the VPN on your router. In some cases with smart TV services, after you install a cable network's sports app, you'll be asked to verify a numeric code or click a link sent to your email address on file for your smart TV. This is where having a VPN on your router will also help since both devices will appear to be in the correct location.Remember, browsers can often give away a location despite using a VPN, so be sure you're using a privacy-first browser to log into your services. We normally recommendBrave.

With a new found sense of tension, and showpiece Contract missions, Citizen Sleeper is transformed. This follow-up has improved the RPG formula in every way.There's a moment a few hours into Citizen Sleeper 2 where I'm on the back foot and failing. The dice I use to do things in the game are breaking, and the mission I was confident about finishing is ending in failure. Timers tick down before I can do anything about them. Enemies I'm running from catch up with me and beat me down and break me. Things explode. Whatever I do, I can't seem to get a foothold in the game, and I realise at that moment I'm not having fun.Simultaneously I realise: I love it.Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector reviewDeveloper: Jump Over the AgePublisher: Fellow TravellerPlatform: Played on PCAvailability: Out 31st January on PC (Steam, GOG, Epic, Humble), Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S/X, and Game PassCitizen Sleeper 2 isn't afraid to let you fail. A whole new suite of mechanics is designed to pile the pressure on and put you in uncomfortable situations. And knowing you can fail does a tremendously powerful thing: it grips you, pulls you forward, and makes you pay close attention to what you're doing. It pulls you deeper into the sci-fi world, and in Citizen Sleeper 2, it's as though a whole new side of the game has emerged, coming forward to energise the tender-hearted formula of the original. Under tension, the series is transformed.At the heart of it all is the game's new set-up: a ship and crew. This time, you're not stuck on one station but immediately, in a ship, and on the run. From the beginning, you're also partnered with another other person called Serafin, who saved you from a vicious crime lord - Laine - the latter of whom will continue to dog you throughout the game. You - a sleeper (and a different sleeper to the one in the first game) were Laine's property, an android remotely connected to a person somewhere in the galaxy, destined to work off their debt. But as in Citizen Sleeper 1, there's something different about you, something more human, something that's changing, and you will have to find out what.Watch on YouTubeThis ship and crew set-up opens up the game enormously. It alters the structure to be about flying around an asteroid belt to different locales - asteroids, clusters of floating ships, small space stations, larger space stations, hidden habitats on moons, mining stations - and what this gives the game in abundance is variation, visually and tonally. Each of these places looks and feels like somewhere else, and has a personality of its own. Some have neon pink pops of colour and cyberpunk stylings, while others are icy asteroids with crevices where humanity clings like barnacles. Their smaller scale also allows the camera to get right in and blow up the dinky dwellings for us, so we can better imagine life there.The ship brings something else vitally important too: companionship. Not with the ship, that would be weird (although it does become something of a character in its own right), but with people who are drawn to it. Ships are rare and represent opportunity in this part of Citizen Sleeper's universe, and so like iron filings to magnets, people are attracted to them. Can you help someone out? They'll make it worth your while. Maybe they can hop on and join you? Whereas Citizen Sleeper 1 was a game about individually dealing with people, in relationships scattered across Erlin's Eye, Citizen Sleeper 2 is a game about a collective, about a group, which you're the shepherd (Shepard, perhaps) of. And what this allows the game to do is take stories on the move with you. It means it can tell your collective story while you travel and weave it in and out of everything you do. Rarely a day - a Cycle, in the game's parlance - goes by without something happening, a character approaching you for a chat, a complication, a conflict. It works much better this way.Mechanically, the other characters on your ship present a huge gameplay opportunity too - tied as they are to the game's big new development: contracts. These are special events involving great danger and reward, moments in the game where big things go down, and where the game's suite of new mechanics are really brought to bear.Contracts usually take place off-world (or off-asteroid or off-moon or whatever the hub is you're on), so you fly away a short distance to them, and then they lock you into a scripted adventure for a handful of Cycles that you will either succeed on, or fail. For example, you fly to recover something from a shipwreck, but when you arrive, you discover it's in such a volatile state it will fall apart if you disturb it too much - or worse, explode. Your mission is to find and retrieve something, but locating it and getting it will take a few steps, likely a few Cycles. There's also something of value out here to salvage too. You can't do everything - you don't have time - so what do you do? This is a Contract. Note the drone stress gauge in the middle of the screen - if I fluff things up, I'll aggravate it, and the whole mission could collapse.Your other crewmates will help you on these missions - you can take two of them with you - and they bring two dice each to use, plus their own set of skills. The dice-rolling system of the first game returns here. It's based around six-sided dice, which are automatically rolled for you each Cycle, then spent on actions in the game, your skills modifying the outcome up or down. Sixes are guaranteed successes, for example, fives are usually good, threes and fours are a risk, and ones and twos - well, only use them if you must, or on safe actions where the risk of a negative outcome is less harmful. Other characters, then, are enormously useful - they bring four more dice to the table and a wider spread of skills to use.Citizen Sleeper 2 has another trick here: you can tamper with crew dice using a Push ability, native to each individual character class. As an Extractor, I could add two points to their dice rolls, for example, potentially changing a four to a six, or a three to a five - both incredibly useful leaps. But there's a price: Stress. Every time I Push, I accrue Stress, and Stress is the most important new mechanic in the game.As Stress increases, the health of your dice can deteriorate, and if they break, they're temporarily out of the game. Similarly, if a companion's stress maxes out, they will be temporarily taken out of the game. This only happens on Contact missions, I should add, but it's when these elements start piling up that you can find the game not going your way. Already tight missions become orders of magnitude harder. Bowl into a mission blas, under the assumption you'll do everything, and you will come undone.Now, this might sound tense in a way you don't want, and quite different to the vibe of the original, but there's a safety net underneath it all (on normal difficulty; there isn't on the hardest difficulty). There's still a consequence to completely filling your Stress bar and breaking your dice, but it's not the end. Should that happen, you will be somewhat reset and gain a permanent Glitch die, which always appears in your rolled hand of dice and gets in the bloody way. It has an 80 percent chance of a negative outcome and a 20 percent of a positive one, so it's devilish, but it's not a complete write-off - there are situations where that's useful. And I love this; I think failure in tabletop RPGs especially is a really interesting thing to play with, and it feels like Citizen Sleeper 2 agrees.The game's newfound energy doesn't all come from mechanics. Solo developer Gareth Damian-Martin (who made the game with character art from Guillaume Singelin and music from Amos Roddy) has a knack for putting players in exciting situations. It's there in the 'run for your life' beginnings, but it's also laced into every activity in the game you do. Be it a conversation or a Contract, it always feels as though there's something inherently interesting to do. A forgotten archive encased in an asteroid, storing knowledge thousands of years old: tell me more. A prison-like mining planet ready to mutiny: let me at 'em. Deceptive crewmates: bring it on. I don't think I ever found myself bored - and the times I nearly was, a surprise soon appeared to turn it around.This craft is evident right down to the delivery of the writing itself. There's very little wastage - I've always loved this about Citizen Sleeper. Playing it feels like being led personally on a tabletop adventure, yanked into the eyes of a character and shown what they see. Short sharp chunks: that's how it's delivered. You see this, you do this, and someone says that. There's a motoring sense of momentum to it. Click to interact to receive another dollop. It never swamps you. And it's so important, this writing, because it's the engine of the game. The character art may be delicate and delicious, and the plinks and plonks and starry pops of music may be celestially transportative, but there's no inherent energy in them. The writing powers it all.And it's through this writing that Damian-Martin conjures the magic people remember Citizen Sleeper for: the heartfelt moments. Here is a world where people say what they mean, where in a few words they fire a truth into your heart like an unwavering arrow, popping it and causing the leaky rush of blood to warm your core. It's a game where people see people, see into the insecurities that make us up, and say it's okay, you're okay. Be yourself. There's a sense that here, on the edge of everything, amidst so much collapse, of course only hope can rule.To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Citizen Sleeper 2 tells a longer story (roughly 10 hours) than Citizen Sleeper 1, and a wider one, given the various companion permutations. But it's broken quite nicely into what loosely feel like chapters, encasing each new place you fly to. One or two a night feels like a nice pace to play the game at. These are self-contained stories, to a degree, dangling like baubles from the main string you're following - a story about falling apart. It's a theme you might remember that haunted Damian-Martin throughout development, as they struggled with their own health, and I think you can feel that lived experience palpably here.Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector accessibility optionsAdjustable text size and scroll speed, and three difficulty levels.There won't be any more Citizen Sleeper video games after this, as you might have already heard; the intention is to make a full tabletop RPG and hand it to the tabletop space that so inspired it, to do with as they will. I'm glad for many reasons, not least because I don't know how you'd follow this. I didn't know how Damian-Martin would follow Citizen Sleeper 1, to be clear, but in Citizen Sleeper 2 they've done that and done it in some style. They've found a way to make the game part of the equation make sense, to bring it forward from the shadows and weld the adventure inseparably to it. It works wonderfully.If I'm picky, I felt some threads in the game ended up dangling loose, and when I looked for closure with certain companions at the very end, I couldn't find them, our interconnected stories left hanging. Some aspects of the story failed to properly convince me, too, like the Overseer arc, and, I have to say, the main baddie. But I am really splitting hairs. Citizen Sleeper 2 is terrific. There are few other games that can reach out like this and clutch as unerringly at my heart, and few other games I would want to.A copy of Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector was provided for review by Fellow Traveller.

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You can trust VideoGamer. Our team of gaming experts spend hours testing and reviewing the latest games, to ensure you're reading the most comprehensive guide possible. Rest assured, all imagery and advice is unique and original. Check out how we test and review games hereFuncoms Dune Awakening MMO aims to bring players to the hostile desert world of Arakis later this year. However, it seems that the release date for the upcoming MMORPG isnt as solid as many players would hope.Dune Awakening devs play coy with release dateIn an interview with Eurogamer, Funcom revealed that the games tentative early 2025 release date is a very loose bar for launch. While the game is still scheduled to release in this early 2025 period, Funcom is cautious to give a specific slate for the title.I guess it depends how you define early, Dune Awakening executive producer Scott Junior told the outlet. It could be the first half of 25 that could be early. So Ill leave it there. It could be the first half of 2025.Alongside the games release date, the outlet picked the producers brain regarding the games monetisation strategy. Dune: Awakening will not be free-to-play and there will be no subsciptions to play, unlike World of Warcraft. Instead, players will pay a one-time fee to access the game and additional fees for expansions.We will announce our monetisation strategy a little bit closer to launch, Junior explained. There will not be any subscription, though I can say that. He was also happy to clarify, It will not be free-to-play. Chances are Dune: Awakening will be a premium-priced game.When Dune: Awakening does finally launch at some point this year, the MMORPG will be released in a full, finished state on PC. Afterwards, content updates will continue to add new storylines and quests to the game, and a console release is planned to arrive, although there are challenges in getting the game to run on Xbox Series S. Must-Listen: Publishing Manor Lords w/ Joe Robinson VideoGamer Podcast Listen Now While theres still little concrete information on when the game is actually coming out, its clear that Funcom is putting a lot of effort into making sure the game releases right. However, only time will tell if it actually launches in a good state.For more news on the upcoming MMO, read about why private servers wont be available on launch. Additionally, check out our interview with the games developers at Gamescom.DunePlatform(s):Commodore / Amiga, PC, SEGA CDGenre(s):Adventure, StrategySubscribe to our newsletters!By subscribing, you agree to our Privacy Policy and may receive occasional deal communications; you can unsubscribe anytime.Share

You can trust VideoGamer. Our team of gaming experts spend hours testing and reviewing the latest games, to ensure you're reading the most comprehensive guide possible. Rest assured, all imagery and advice is unique and original. Check out how we test and review games hereFromSoftwares three-player co-op spin-off Elden Ring Nightreign is scheduled to get its first beta Network Test on February 16th, 2025. While not all gamers will be able to get access to the beta test for the new multiplayer game, invites to the games Network Test are rolling out now.Elden Ring Nightreign beta invites roll outPlayers who previously registered for the Elden Ring Nightreign beta are starting to receive their official invitations to the games official Network Test right now. Players who have been selected to play the new game early are receiving emails with the following message: Youve been chosen to participate in the Network Test.Congrautlations! You will be one of the first fans to join forces with other players to take on the creeping night and the dangers within featuring 3-player co-op, reads the invite. The email also notes that codes will be sent out on February 11th, 2025.Players who are selected to test the game before its launch had to register for the experience here. The game can only be tested on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles. Unfortunately, no PC beta test will occur, likely due to the prominence of dataminers and FromSoftwares hatred of spoilers.The Elden Ring Nightreign Network Test is expected to include around three hours of gameplay, likely revolving around the starting area of the game. With the games true multiplayer focusa first for the seriestheres a much heavier focus on co-op play this time around.Its not known how many invitations are being rolled out for the new Elden Ring game. However, just because you signed up to play the game early before release doesnt mean you will be selected to play. Unfortunately, judging from previous FromSoftware games, a lot of players will be left high and dry. Must-Listen: Publishing Manor Lords w/ Joe Robinson VideoGamer Podcast Listen Now However, just because you havent been selected for this Network Test session, that doesnt mean you wont get access to others. Test 2 is scheduled to go live on February 17th, allowing more players to join the fray.For more Nightreign news, read about the return of many Dark Souls enemies and what that means for the new Sousllike game.Subscribe to our newsletters!By subscribing, you agree to our Privacy Policy and may receive occasional deal communications; you can unsubscribe anytime.Share

All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Its hard to think of a star with more maximalist tastes than Elton John. The iconic musician and EGOT winner, who is the subject of the 2019 biopic Rocketman and the recently released documentary Elton John: Never Too Late, has long been known for his over-the-top fashion sensibilitiessky-high platform shoes, oversized eyeglasses in every hue, feathers, and glitter are among his signature staples.That more-is-more philosophy is not limited to the stage; John has long been a collector, particularly when it comes to art and home decor. And when Elton John collects, he collects. Case in point: John owns one of the largest private collections of photography in the world, according to Christies. While his interior design style is still bold and eclectic, it has evolved into a considerably refined version over the course of his six-decade career. However, there was a time when the fledgling star quite literally filled his home with everything that caught his fancy. Below, we explore photos of John at home during his everything-goes design era.Photo: Kent Gavin/Mirrorpix/Getty Images1/15A new eraJohn poses with his car collection in front of his newly purchased home in Virginia Water, Surrey, in 1972. It was a meaningful year for the hitmaker. Not only did he buy his first house, but he had his name legally changed from Reginald Kenneth Dwight to Elton Hercules John. In honor of his new middle name, the songwriter named the abode Hercules. Later that year, he released a song by the same name on his album Honky Chteau.Photo: M. Stroud/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images2/1514 Abbots DriveAccording to Johns 2019 autobiography, Me, the brick bungalow pictured in this 1973 snapshot came with three bedrooms, a swimming pool, and a game room loft. The split-level dwelling cost the musician 50,000, or about $62,000 (an estimated $468,000, adjusted for inflation), per biographer Philip Norman.Photo: M. Stroud/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images3/15Making a menagerieJohn quickly filled the home with his various collections: art, lamps, onyx eggs, records, eyeglasses, platform shoes, and stuffed animals among them. An interviewer for a 1973 issue of Sounds magazine noted that aside from being eminent focal points, the huge plush toys that he collected were highly functional in helping guests find their way around the jam-packed abode. As the journalist Jerry Gilbert wrote, The lavatory is situated in the pink fluorescent bathroom and to locate the above you make a left turn at the bison and its first on the right after the warthog. The latter features in this photo, which was taken around the same time that the Sounds article was published.Photo: Carl Bruin/Mirrorpix via Getty Images4/15Music manThe pianist poses at his Hercules home in a photo from 1974, surrounded by his massive record collection. According to Norman, John kept his vinyls organised meticulously into categories and subsections, with neatly written index cards, even now when trips through Tower Records with a shopping trolley might increase it by 300 albums at a time.Photo: Carl Bruin/Mirrorpix via Getty Images5/15Budding art collectorShortly after moving to Virginia Water, the Rocket Man singer wandered into a local bookstore owned by filmmaker Bryan Forbes, and the two became fast friends. He taught me about art, and I started collecting under his influence, John wrote of the Stepford Wives director. First it was Art Nouveau and Art Deco posters, which were very fashionable in the early 70sRod Stewart collected them toothen surrealist painters like Paul Wunderlich. I began buying Tiffany lamps and Bugatti furniture. This 1974 photo of the artist posing between a pair of stuffed leopards showcases the gallery walls that displayed his homes ever-growing art collection.Photo: Carl Bruin/Mirrorpix via Getty Images6/15Elton the art patronForbes introduced John to the work of artist Bryan Organ, and the Im Still Standing singer wasted no time in commissioning the painter to make a portrait of him. In the finished work, pictured above the musician here in 1974, John gazes through an open window and wears a shirt printed with a picture of Marilyn Monroe in the style of Andy Warhol. Another painting by Organ hangs to the left, while a suit of armor guards the entrance to the next room.Photo: Carl Bruin/Mirrorpix via Getty Images7/15A well-appointed libraryIn addition to his hefty record collection, John kept an extensive library of books, a glimpse of which can be seen in the background of this 1974 photo. According to Normans 1993 biography of the artist, John continued to return to Forbess bookstore, often buying out the entire window display. He loved books, Forbess wife, actor Nanette Newman, recalled to Norman. He wanted to have them, like we did, all through the house. But not just for show. When you talked to him, you realized how amazingly well-read he was.Photo: Carl Bruin/Mirrorpix via Getty Images8/15Hanging out in the game roomThe iconic musicians game room, where he stands in this 1974 shot, was lined wall-to-wall with his RIAA certifications. He also decked it out with a pinball machine, a foosball table, a jukebox, a ping-pong table, a golf putter, and a neon Hercules sign.Mirrorpix/Getty Images9/15A magpies bedroomJohns display of his wide-ranging collections continued in his bedroom, which housed posters, paintings, Tiffany lamps, stuffed animals, and an intricately carved bed frameall of which can be seen in this 1974 photo. Im a magpie, the performer told AD in 1993 of his collecting nature. If I see something beautiful, I have to have it.Photo: Carl Bruin/Mirrorpix via Getty Images10/15An entertainer onstage and at homeApparently, youd be unlikely to find any dust atop the piano that John plays in this 1974 photo. [His] house was immaculate, Newman said, per Normans biography of the star. Elton did the housework himself, and was incredibly house-proud. I remember one day [he and his manager and then boyfriend, John Reid, had] been over to us for lunch, and we were going back to the bungalow for tea. Elton rushed off in the car ahead of us. When we got there, he was frantically Hoovering the living room.Photo: Carl Bruin/Mirrorpix via Getty Images11/15Glassware connoisseurIn this 1974 photo, John poses with the cabinet that housed his glasswareanother collection of the musicians that continued to grow and evolve. Im a huge collector of glass, the musician told The Guardian in 2016. I love it, and feel its the last great underrated area of creativity.Photo: Carl Bruin/Mirrorpix via Getty Images12/15Comforting collectionsArt Nouveau posters, paintings, and other works line the walls under the guard of Johns suit of armor in this 1974 photograph. For as long as I can remember, Ive always found collecting things oddly comforting, and Ive always enjoyed learning about things by collecting them, whether thats records or photographs or clothes or art, the musician wrote of his maximalist tendencies.Photo:Carl Bruin/Mirrorpix via Getty Images13/15Saying goodbye to HerculesJohn poses with his stuffed bear, Art Nouveau posters, and a neon Elton sign at Hercules in 1974. Within two years, the Your Song musicians bungalow could barely contain the myriad possessions stuffed into it and, in addition, had to be protected from marauding fans by an electronic security fence, Norman wrote. In early 1976, John listed the home for 125,000 ($1.17 million, adjusted for inflation), ultimately selling it for 80,000 later that year, according to Norman.Photo: Brian Cooke/Redferns/Getty Images14/15and hello to WoodsideJohn traded his Virginia Water dwelling for an estate in nearby Windsor, which he bought in 1974 for 400,000 (the equivalent of $5.4 million today). In this 1981 photo, the musician performs a song inside the eight-bedroom home, which he still maintains. The 37-acre estate, originally built in the 1500s, is just a few miles from Windsor Castle.Photo: Brian Cooke/Redferns/Getty Images15/15The Elton John aesthetic, in his own wordsIt was built in a mock-Georgian style, but when doing it up, I decided to eschew Regency or Palladian decoration in favour of a style known among interior design specialists as Mid-70s Pop Star On Drugs Goes Berserk, John wrote of the homepictured here in 1981in his autobiography. There were pinball machines, jukeboxes, brass palm trees, memorabilia everywhere. There were Tiffany lamps next to the pair of four-foot-high Doc Marten boots Id worn while singing Pinball Wizard in The Whos film Tommy. Ready for a fresh start, the Crocodile Rock singer auctioned off $8.2 million worth of his belongings in 1988 and then tapped designers Andrew Protheroe and Adrian Cooper-Grigg to completely rebuild the mansea three-year renovation that was featured in AD in 1993.

Hes known for playing goofy characters in movies. Adam Sandlers houses, however, suggest that the actor and screenwriter is fairly pragmatic when it comes to real estate. The Saturday Night Live alumnus and his wife of 20 years, Jackie, own numerous properties throughout Southern California, and some of their homes seem relatively modest when one considers that Sandler was named the highest paid actor of 2023 by Forbes, and his net worth has been estimated at $430 million.The Sandler family (the couple have two daughters, Sadie, 18, and Sunny, 16, who starred alongside their parents in the 2023 film You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah) have two properties in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, much of which was recently destroyed by a wildfire that erupted on January 7 and is still not, at the time of this publication, 100% contained. They have not confirmed publicly if their homes are still standing, but Sandler did take to X on January 9 to express his gratitude to the people fighting the fires, writing, Cant thank the firefighters, first responders, and law enforcement enough for risking their lives for all of us in Los Angeles.Adam Sandler, his daughters, Sunny Sandler and Sadie Sandler; a family friend; and his wife, Jackie Sandler, at the premiere of Murder Mystery 2 in 2023.Photo: Marc Piasecki/WireImageIt is not clear where the Sandlers are staying while their neighborhood is under evacuation orders, but during the fall of 2024, they were spotted at numerous locations in New Jersey, where they were reportedly living while Sandler filmed Happy Gilmore 2.The actor, who originally hails from New York and spent much of his childhood in New Hampshire, is notoriously private, so not a lot of information is available about some of his rumored properties, such as his condo in the celeb-friendly Sierra Towers building, but read on to find out what we do know about the comedians real estate portfolio.Malibu beach houseTwo years after forming Happy Madison Productions, Sandler dropped $3.1 million on the 3,000-square-foot Malibu home that hed been leasing for six months. The three-story property was originally built in 1947, but has since been remodeled to boast three bedrooms and three bathrooms, along with an entertainers haven out back: an enclosed deck on the bottom level that can reportedly fit up to 100 guests. Elsewhere in the home, there are 25-foot glass walls overlooking the ocean for incredible sunset views. According to reports at the time, Sandler paid an additional $650,000 for the former owners furnishings and art collection. The Sandlers still own this residence.Boca Raton, Florida, condoSandler was generous with his fame and fortune. In the early 2000s, he began to receive more critical attention with the release of 2002s Punch-Drunk Love, and he reportedly paid $640,000 for a condo in Boca Raton, Florida, for his mother to use as her primary residence. The property spans 2,600 square feet and boasts three bedrooms and three bathrooms. Though Sandler and his family primarily call Los Angeles home, theyve been known to spend time in Florida as well, like when, in 2018, Sandler made headlines when he surprised a newlywed couple by posing with them during their wedding.Pacific Palisades padsIn 2004, the Sandlers bought a Pacific Palisades home with a celebrity pedigreeand the transaction is quite the story. According to People, Sandler and his wife were at Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russells house for a New Years Eve party when his wife said shed like to buy it. And so they did. The Sandlers paid $12 million for the sprawling 13,000-square-foot residence, which Hawn and Russell had recently decided to sell. Sandler apparently made an offer without seeing beyond the kitchen and before the home had even hit the market. They still own this property and consider it their primary home.Join NowBecome an AD PRO member for only $25 $20 per month + receive an exclusive toteArrowIn 2022, the Sandlers purchased a second Pacific Palisades home, a 1,840-square-foot ranch, for $4.8 million. The three-bedroom, two-bathroom house was originally built in 1947 and has since been remodeled. Set on a small corner lot on a quiet cul-de-sac, the ranch-style residence features white wood shingles and blue shutters, with crown molding and other millwork throughout the home. A large black brick fireplace serves as a centerpiece in the living room, and the updated kitchen features stone countertops and built-in cabinetry. Its unclear whether or not the couple will choose to keep the property as is, however. The sale included plans for a possible 7,600-square-foot, two-story house with a basement that could take the place of this charming one-story pad.

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Machine LearningCitizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector reviewA thrilling and reflective dice-driven RPG that continues to subvert modern sci-fi as we know it.Image credit: VG247 Review by Rachel Watts Contributor Published on Jan. 30, 2025 As I played through Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, I couldn't get the image of a 'whale fall' out of my head. When whales die, their giant bodies sink to the dark depths of the seafloor, feeding and nourishing an entire ecosystem of deep sea creatures. The world of Citizen Sleeper has been through its own climatic event. This sci-fi story takes place in the shadow of the once monolithic Solheim corporation which has now collapsed. The fall of this giant has led to a new way of life. Everyone is surviving on the outcome of this collapse, scavenging its flesh and picking its bones clean. The Sleepers story is just one out of hundreds, all feeding off the guts of a fallen leviathan.To see this content please enable targeting cookies. As someone who loved the first Citizen Sleeper, my feelings were that it didn't need a sequel. It felt perfectly 'complete'. What else was left to explore in this world? Well, it turns out that there's a lot more, and I quickly fell in love with this harsh-but-beautiful transhumanist world all over again. I was genuinely sad when the credits rolled. Like its older sibling, Citizen Sleeper 2 is a reflective, subversive, and utterly absorbing sci-fi adventure.You once again play as an eponymous Sleeper, a human mind nestled in a prosthetic body of wires, skeletal metalwork, and synth meat. You wake up as an amnesiac, your long-term memories remain, but short-term memories are unmoored from your body. After a blur of panic and action, you find yourself once again on the run. You may have escaped your corporate creators, but this time youre trying to escape a 'friend' now turned powerful foe. Turns out space gangsters dont like it when you want autonomy over your own body.You're now forced to begin a new life as a runaway, surviving off gig work and dice rolls. Everything is told via evocative text, your Sleeper describing the sights, smells, and sounds of everything around you. Visually, you only see the exterior of locations and can click on location markers on a map to view events. Citizen Sleeper's RPG system works on a dice economy. You roll five dice at the start of your day (known as a cycle) and can apply the result of each dice to actions, moving clocks forward until you have finished your objective. The higher the roll, the more successful the outcome. Energy and money are your priorities, so gig work is vital to make ends meet. Locations you can travel and available contracts can be seen on the map, but youll need enough fuel and supplies to make the journey.Image credit: Fellow TravellerThe entirety of the first game's story takes place on a singular space station, so you slowly build up a familiarity with the location, like where to get regular work, which food vendor makes the best grub, and knowing a handful of friendly faces you can rely on. This feeling of safety has totally disappeared in Citizen Sleeper 2. Your Sleeper now needs to bounce between different locations because if you stay anywhere too long, youll be found.You now need to travel up and down a wider network of stations and satellites called The Belt, never staying in one place for too long. The safety of knowing your way around one location is entirely gone, and the tension of needing to stay ahead of your pursuer means you need to be prepared for whatever waits for you at the next location.This nomad mindset plays into the biggest difference between CS1 and CS2: tension. Delicious tension. Citizen Sleeper 2 really ramps up the pressures and stresses of being on the run and trying to survive. A criticism of CS1 is it's possible to get yourself to a place of comfort relatively easily. A small warning: that will not happen here. And it makes for a better game. I realized this at the start of Day Two when my shipmate shook me awake, with a morning greeting of "we're in trouble." This Sleeper cannot catch a break, and by extension, that means you too. You can choose between three classes: Operator, Extractor, and Machinist. | Image credit: Fellow TravellerIt's intense, but exciting. Citizen Sleeper 2 has a bold new set of systems that really amp up the thrill. One of the biggest new introductions are Contracts; big-risk, big-payout missions where you fly to a location and must carry out a mission under time pressure. You also need to hire a crew to come help you out, each member having their own skills and dice you can assign.So many things can go wrong with these contracts, a big one being stress levels. Whenever a skill check is failed the character takes one stress counter, and if a crew member takes on too much they bow out of the mission altogether. If your Sleeper takes on too much stress they can crack their dice making them unusable until they're fixed, which is Very Bad. Failed checks can also trigger an event crisis, which you'll have to resolve to keep the mission on track.With all the dice, stress counters, crisis events, and countdowns to keep in mind, these Contracts are deviously good fun. Carefully assigning my crew's dice, looking at numbers and symbols, and pushing my luck by pulling off risky moves, - it's like tinkering with the inner workings of a machine that could blow up in my face any second. I lost track of the number of times I crossed my fingers and prayed to whatever space God the 50% chance of a negative outcome wouldn't bite me in the ass. That feeling was a high I was forever chasing, and it meant I took bigger risks, way bigger than I ever would have in the first game.So important to pick the right crew. You need to mitigate, and anticipate, the shopping list of reasons of things that can go wrong. Your Sleeper has an RPG-style class with upgradable abilities, but one skill will always remain completely blocked off and unavailable to upgrade. This means you need to rely on others for your weaknesses. Just like real life.If you find yourself up against an event that requires a skill check none of your crew excels in, it can mean trouble. This system might lead you to see characters as walking dice sets to use at your disposal, but over time you learn that they're survivors just like you who have their own messy stories. You can decide who gets to permanently join your crew and over time, learn more about them. Its important to think about their skills and usefulness, but they feel more than just tools. They are kindred spirits just like the Sleeper. Your battered spaceship becomes a haven for them, a home to those found wandering The Belt. Guillaume Singelin's detailed character art returns for this sequel. | Image credit: Fellow TravellerYou might even run into some familiar faces on your adventures. Your current sleeper is different from the sleeper in the first game, but seeing them is still comforting is a little bittersweet. It's been many years since the first game, meaning that theyve changed. Hardened and rough around the edges. Its confronting, and really drives home how living in a world gripped by the cruelties of corporate capitalism can change a person.This sentiment is masterfully achieved through Citizen Sleeper 2s writing, which remains as rich, punchy, and visceral as the first game. Gareth Damian Martin gives a beating heart to bustling cities and breathes life into the machines - it's wonderfully evocative writing. I took screenshots of so many quotes I couldn't bear to forget. My screenshot folder usually acts as a photo album of holiday snaps from my virtual adventures. Here, its like dog-earring pages passages from your favourite book.A testament to how good the writing is when s**t does hit the fan, the direction the story goes in is just as interesting, sometimes even more so than when things go smoothly. Citizen Sleeper 2 has RPG-style story decisions that are thrust upon you during story sections. No dice rolls, just a reliance on your current skills. Whatever the outcome, you can always rely on something wild happening. I've drilled to the center of a frozen asteroid, failed to incite a mutiny on a labor ship, helped build the foundations of a colony on a meteorite, chatted with the broken mind of a dying machine - it's been an absolute rollercoaster. Skills checks during story moments might force you to a specific choice, unless you want to take a major risk. | Image credit: Fellow TravellerOne fantastic bit of writing Id like to highlight without giving away spoilers is about the character Serafin. When you wake up at the start of the game, Serafin is one of the first people you see and you soon find out the two of you have shared history. However, because of your amnesia, you dont remember him. You don't recall the friendship you shared, it is completely lost. This is pretty devastating. Serafin has to go through the grief of losing a friend and the Sleeper needs to grapple with the feeling of having someone know them but not able to return that connection. This situation is painful and fully felt by both characters. It's poignant human drama and that underlines the entire game, from beginning to end.But the two learn to rebuild what was lost, a microcosm of the bigger picture. That everything is in a constant state of change, that the Sleeper, and the world they exist in, is in a state of transformation, a process that will never end. To rebuild on what was there before, to see the ruins of something as not an end but a beginning.Between musings of transhumanism, capitalism, power, and technology are human stories about real people. No space wizards, no ship shootouts, no heroes. Just the everyday reality of folks trying to survive. Its incredibly grounded, and something I wish we would see more of in sci-fi. Citizen Sleepers world belongs to its junkyard scavengers, grubby engineers, repair technicians, cargo haulers, and everyone else on this ramshackle asteroid belt. I dont want the glitz and gloss of Starfield, Star Wars Outlaws, or Cyberpunk 2077. I want grounded, punchy stories about nobodies, and thats what Citizen Sleeper 2 is. What a fantastic start to 2025.Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector arrives on PC, Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 5 on January 31. This review is written based on PC code provided by the publisher.