Digital Arts and BioWare will sundown their on-line multiplayer recreation Anthem on January 12, successfully making it out of date. “Anthem was designed to be an online-only title so as soon as the servers go offline, the sport will now not be playable,” BioWare wrote within the announcement. On August 15, the sport will disappear from EA Play’s playlist.

Proper now, gamers can’t purchase in-game forex, however they’ll be capable to spend what they’ve till servers are offline. Builders at BioWare who’ve been engaged on Anthem is not going to be laid off because of the sport’s finish. Information of the sport’s shutdown comes because the trade, already going by way of an upheaval, faces elevated stress from gamers to create “finish of life” plans for service video games.

Anthem’s growth lasted virtually seven years, throughout which the sport struggled by way of main redirections. Its 2019 launch was extensively panned by critics, who described it as uneven in its execution, riddled with bugs, and tedious. Whereas BioWare and EA had initially deliberate to overhaul the sport after launch—an enterprise referred to as Anthem Subsequent—BioWare canceled the mission in 2021, citing Covid-19, to shift focus to different video games. Its reside service continued to run.

On-line, followers on locations like EA’s official boards are asking for an “offline mode” that might enable them to play Anthem even with out the servers. “To close down and utterly take away a recreation folks have put cash into (particularly with out refunds) is a worrying and harmful precedent,” one participant wrote. “In the event you purchased a recreation it’s best to be capable to play it.” One other participant wrote that “letting video games like Anthem disappear utterly additionally sends a harmful message: that live-service video games are disposable, irrespective of how a lot time or cash gamers invested.”

Video video games disappear for a lot of causes, whether or not it’s licensing points, code being misplaced, or bodily media changing into unplayable. The developer’s determination to finish Anthem’s server help speaks to an issue particularly being combated by Cease Killing Video games, a client motion out of the European Union that argues this observe is destroying some titles unnecessarily. “An rising variety of video video games are offered successfully as items—with no acknowledged expiration date—however designed to be utterly unplayable as quickly as help from the writer ends,” the marketing campaign’s web site reads. This observe, the motion’s organizers declare, “just isn’t solely detrimental to prospects however makes preservation successfully not possible.”

Cease Killing Video games received’t be capable to do something to cease the demise of Anthem. The group depends on petitions and tries to hunt authorities intervention—actions that couldn’t obtain outcomes earlier than January. Nonetheless, says founder Ross Scott, the sunsetting is “precisely the type we’re making an attempt to stop.” The objective is to “break the cycle so this does not maintain taking place for future video games.”

For Scott and the opposite adherents of Cease Killing Video games, destroying a online game—very like destroying each copy of a guide, album, or movie—is tantamount to “a cultural loss for society,” based on the group’s web site. “Whereas a much less acknowledged medium, video video games nonetheless need to have fundamental protections towards the entire and willful destruction of a lot of its works.” What they need is for firms to have backup plans that enable video games to reside on in a playable format even when they need to be taken offline.

Apple is giving your Apple TV an enormous refresh with tvOS 26. The replace, introduced at Apple’s WWDC 2025 occasion, brings a slick new design and enjoyable new options that change how you utilize your Apple TV, particularly in the event you love karaoke.

This replace isn’t nearly appears. It additionally makes it simpler to maneuver between profiles, discover reveals to observe, and, perhaps most enjoyable of all, flip your front room right into a karaoke get together with Apple Music Sing and your iPhone as a wi-fi mic.

tvOS 26 amps up Apple Music Sing and can flip your iPhone right into a karaoke mic
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A Smooth New Look Referred to as “Liquid Glass”

One of many first stuff you’ll discover when tvOS 26 launches later this 12 months is how totally different Apple TV appears. The brand new design is named “Liquid Glass.” It provides the entire interface a shiny, dynamic fashion that responds to what’s on the display.

What Is Liquid Glass?

• It’s a design replace that provides depth and movement.
• Backgrounds now have a glass-like shine that shifts with motion and coloration.
• Menus look cleaner and extra fashionable.
• Poster artwork for films and reveals pops with new element.

This isn’t nearly making issues look cool. The brand new structure additionally makes it simpler to navigate. Apple has added a extra intuitive strategy to change between customers, so if totally different individuals in your house watch totally different reveals, it’s simpler for every individual to get their personalised suggestions and playlists with out digging by means of menus.

Smarter Navigation and Profile Switching

In the event you’ve ever shared an Apple TV with household or roommates, you know the way messy issues can get. Suggestions get combined up, watch historical past overlaps, and settings could be a ache to handle. Apple is addressing that in tvOS 26.

Now, switching between profiles is faster. Every consumer will get a extra personalised view, with content material and options tailor-made only for them. You’ll be able to hop into your personal profile and be watching one thing you want in seconds, no extra wading by means of different individuals’s reveals.

One other improve: poster artwork. Apple has created posters for films to provide a extra cinematic really feel. They’re simpler to browse and provide you with a greater thought of what a title is about at a look.

Flip Your Dwelling Room Right into a Karaoke Get together

The standout characteristic in tvOS 26 isn’t the design, it’s what’s occurring with Apple Music Sing.

Apple Music Sing has been round, however the 2025 replace supercharges it. With this replace, your iPhone turns into a karaoke microphone. Which means:

• You’ll be able to sing alongside to songs utilizing lyrics that seem on the TV.
• Actual-time results and animations make the expertise extra enjoyable.
• Buddies can take part utilizing their iPhones, too.

This turns karaoke from a solo act into a bunch occasion. You and your folks can every seize an iPhone, queue up songs, ship emoji reactions whereas somebody sings, and preserve the vibe going while not having any further gear.

In the event you’ve ever used a devoted karaoke machine, this setup is approach simpler and cheaper. You don’t want mics, cables, or an advanced sound system. Simply your Apple TV and iPhones. Apple is making karaoke extra accessible, spontaneous, and social.

Karaoke Options at a Look

Function	Description
iPhone Mic Integration	Use your iPhone as a wi-fi mic
Reside Lyrics on TV	Lyrics seem in actual time because the music performs
Group Participation	Buddies can join with their iPhones and sing or queue songs
Emoji Reactions	Ship real-time emoji suggestions to the display
Visible Results	Particular results play alongside along with your efficiency

When Can You Get It?

Apple didn’t give a precise launch date at WWDC, however tvOS 26 is predicted to roll out later in 2025, most definitely within the fall alongside new iPhones and different software program updates.

It’ll be a free replace for Apple TV HD and Apple TV 4K homeowners. As typical, Apple will seemingly launch a public beta first, giving builders and early testers an opportunity to check out the options earlier than the total model goes stay.

If you have already got an Apple TV, you gained’t want to purchase something new. The replace is software-only, so as soon as it’s out, you may obtain it proper out of your system.

Conclusion: What You Must Know About tvOS 26

• Apple TV is getting a brand new look with the “Liquid Glass” design.
• Profile switching is now quicker and extra personalised.
• Poster artwork for films and reveals is extra detailed and simpler to browse.
• Apple Music Sing turns your iPhone right into a karaoke mic.
• A number of customers can take part, queue songs, and work together with emojis.
• No further karaoke gear wanted, simply your Apple TV and iPhones.
• The replace is coming later in 2025 and shall be free.

In the event you’re somebody who enjoys streaming and sharing leisure at residence, tvOS 26 makes Apple TV much more enjoyable and slightly extra party-ready. Whether or not you’re watching a brand new collection or singing your coronary heart out with buddies, this replace is designed to maintain issues contemporary, easy, and fascinating.

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It has been identified to me that maybe I may very well be fairer to different Marvel video games. I’m at all times masking Marvel Snap (Free) each time it will get any type of replace, however the others are likely to get relegated to the Finest Updates articles on Mondays. That… is a sound level! And thus, allow us to take pleasure in a Marvel Minute and see how different Marvel video games are faring in the mean time. It seems that each Marvel Future Struggle (Free) and Marvel Contest of Champions (Free) have some cool occasions happening in the mean time. Let’s have a look-see!

First up, over in Marvel Future Struggle, it’s Iron Man time! You already know Tony. He’s at all times concocting new fits, discovering larger and higher weapons to cope with regardless of the state of affairs presents. This specific occasion is impressed by Invincible Iron Man, and has some new threads for Tony and Pepper. Right here’s what you’ll be able to look ahead to on this occasion, straight from the replace notes:

“Invincible Iron Man has joined Marvel Future Struggle.

Beat the enemies with upgraded fits!

 

1. New Uniforms Added!

– Iron Man, Rescue

 

2. New Tier-4 Development!

– Battle Machine, Hulkbuster

 

3. The New World Boss: Legend+ Added!

– Returned the Black Order, ‘Corvus & Proxima’

 

4. The New Customized Gear, ‘C.T.P. of Liberation’ Added!

 

5. Getting 200 Crystals Occasion

– Receive 200 crystals by linking your e-mail account!”

Okay, now over to the ever-popular combating sport, Marvel Contest of Champions. New occasions for this sport usually carry some new playable fighters with them, and at this level within the sport’s life a few of these cuts are getting very deep certainly. I don’t suppose we’ll ever see a Marvel combating sport once more with a roster this diversified. Like, Rely Nefaria? Significantly? As an old-butt Marvel fan from a really very long time in the past, I like seeing these much less widespread characters present up in any respect, not to mention as playable characters. Over to the replace notes to provide the full skinny on all of this:

“NEW CHAMPIONS

 

Rely Nefaria

Rely Luchino Nefaria was the descendant of an extended line of Italian noblemen, and used his wealth and connections to turn out to be a strong chief inside the Maggia crime syndicate. He furthered his rise to energy by subjecting himself to scientific experiments that granted him superhuman talents, however value him his life. He was later resurrected as a being made completely of Ionic vitality, rendering him successfully immortal so long as he drains different Ionic beings to keep up his energy.

 

Shathra

Daughter of the Elder Goddesses Oshtur and Gaea, Shathra comes from the world that may come to be referred to as Loomworld. Shathra was tasked with creating the Celestial Map of Humanity, nonetheless, after being outdone by her youthful sister Neith, she turned enraged with jealousy and spite in direction of her sister and the Nice Net she had designed. Consumed by her vengeance and envy, Shathra gave into her feral nature to tear down every little thing her sister created, one Spider at a time.

 

NEW QUESTS AND EVENTS

 

Occasion Quest – Lupus In Fabula

There was an endeavor to overthrow The Collector’s ship! The Summoner is being referred to as in to evict these evil-doers! However as they make it deeper into the ship additionally they discover themselves deeper in bother as every villain appears to be making their very own plans for the way finest to take advantage of The Collector’s treasures. Will The Summoner be capable of handle these miscreants? Or will they go down with the ship? Discover out in LUPUS IN FABULA!

 

Aspect Quest – Ludum Maximus

The Maestro has declared 4 months of celebratory video games to honor his return. The festivities start with the Circus Maximus, an onslaught of video games and challenges hosted by Rely Nefaria. The Rely won’t settle for something lower than the perfect, the mightiest, the best of video games. So dare to enter LUDUM MAXIMUS!

 

Nefaria is aware of {that a} true battle is a mixture of ability and luck, so 5x weekly Maps will open which current randomized Paths full of fearsome foes!

 

Act 9; Chapter 1

Glykhan has self-destructed however the sinister plotting of Ouroboros is way from over. Nonetheless clues for the place to move subsequent appear few and much between. Fortunately (relying in your definition of luck) Superior Kang has some secrets and techniques to share within the type of holo-tapes scattered round Battleworld. Mister Improbable and Physician Doom ship The Summoner on an intel retrieval mission, however they aren’t the one ones in search of solutions. Will the previous come again to hang-out The Battlerealm? Discover out in Act 9 – Chapter 1: THE RECKONING

 

Superb Video games

Introducing our third Saga: Superb Video games! To have a good time the historical past of the Contest and his triumphant return, The Maestro has declared 4 months of celebratory video games. Every month of the Saga will revolve round a distinct ingredient of video games, beginning with September’s Circus Maximus and culminating within the celebration of December’s Grand Banquet! That includes a classical antiquity aesthetic, an thrilling Champion chase, shock Champion reworks and model new sorts of Occasions and Quests, Superb Video games is certain to usher in our 10-year anniversary celebration in fashion!

 

Realm Occasions

Get able to work alongside each Summoner within the Battlerealm! Realm Occasions are a model new kind of Occasion during which factors will probably be contributed on a world degree. Milestone rewards will be claimed as soon as world and particular person level contribution thresholds have been reached. For these extra competitively-inclined Summoners, ranked rewards can even be up for grabs, together with an unique and distinctive participant title.”

And that’s that. Let it by no means be stated that Shaun was not considering a degree enjoying area. Sort of. Anyway, each of those occasions look very cool in their very own methods, and in the event you haven’t performed these video games earlier than or fell off some time again, this may be one other good alternative to present them each a attempt. I imply, I do know I’m going to check out Rely Nefaria. Take a look at him! He’s so nefarious! He cavorts with nefarious fellows! Hadouken? Extra like Ha-Don’t-ken! Okay, sorry. I’ll depart now. Get pleasure from!

Google has begun rolling out Chrome 136 to the secure channel for Home windows, Mac, and Linux, bringing important safety and privateness upgrades to thousands and thousands of customers worldwide.

The replace, set to be distributed over the approaching days and weeks, addresses a variety of vulnerabilities. Nevertheless, its most notable change closes a privateness loophole that has continued for over 20 years.

Because the early days of internet searching, browsers have visually distinguished visited hyperlinks, often with a special shade, to assist customers navigate on-line.

Nevertheless, this function has harbored a critical privateness flaw: web sites have been in a position to detect whether or not a consumer has visited sure hyperlinks elsewhere by exploiting how browsers, together with Chrome, dealt with the CSS :visited selector.

This loophole uncovered customers to potential monitoring and profiling, as malicious websites might stealthily probe a consumer’s searching historical past primarily based on the looks of hyperlinks.

In line with a Cyber Safety Information report, with Chrome 136, Google has radically modified how visited hyperlinks are tracked. The browser now employs a “triple-key partitioning” system, storing the visited standing of hyperlinks utilizing three components: the precise hyperlink URL, the top-level website, and the body origin.

This implies solely the location the place the hyperlink originates can entry details about its visited standing, closing the door on cross-site historical past sniffing as soon as and for all.

Navigational cues stay intact for customers inside the similar website however not compromise privateness throughout the net.

Safety Fixes and Bug Bounties

Alongside this privateness breakthrough, Chrome 136 patches eight different safety vulnerabilities, a number of discovered by impartial researchers:

• A crucial heap buffer overflow in HTML (CVE-2025-4096): Rewarded with $5,000.
• Two medium-severity points in DevTools: Out-of-bounds reminiscence entry (CVE-2025-4050) and inadequate knowledge validation (CVE-2025-4051), every incomes $2,000.
• A low-severity bug in DevTools (CVE-2025-4052): Awarded $1,000.

Many extra fixes stem from inside audits and superior safety applied sciences, together with AddressSanitizer and MemorySanitizer, additional securing the platform for all customers.

The prolonged secure launch (v136.0.7103.48/49) has additionally been up to date for enterprise customers, making these crucial protections extra broadly accessible.

Google encourages all Chrome customers to replace their browsers as Chrome 136 rolls out. Customers can anticipate upcoming weblog posts highlighting new options and important progress made on this launch.

By lastly closing a decades-old privateness hole, Chrome 136 units a brand new normal for browser safety and consumer belief, demonstrating Google’s ongoing dedication to privacy-first innovation.

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• Helldivers 2’s Main Order feels completely different – chilly, sharp, and unsettling.
• The Illuminate could also be making a big comeback in Helldivers 2.
• Gamers suspect the brand new mission is a prelude to the Illuminate, noting eerie areas and suspicious particulars.

Arrowhead Sport Studios simply dropped a brand new Main Order in Helldivers 2, and it doesn’t really feel like enterprise as standard.

The tone is colder and sharper. We’re not simply killing bugs anymore – we’re preventing one thing new, and Arrowhead is aware of it.

Between “mutated Terminids,” a “savage and unprovoked assault,” and a suspect “scientific expedition,” the writing is on the wall.

The Illuminate could also be coming again, and this time, enjoying the lengthy recreation.

Helldivers 2’s Newest Main Order Speaks in Code

The brand new Main Order, titled “Defend in opposition to the Terminids,” is now stay and duties you with clearing out mutated Terminids which have emerged from the Gloom – a shadowy area on the fringe of Tremendous Earth-controlled house.

“Defend in opposition to the sudden and unprovoked onslaught of mutated Terminids from the Gloom. Stories of the Predator Pressure and the failed scientific expedition have been conclusively dominated out as causes.”

Veteran Helldivers will inform you that that phrasing doesn’t sit proper. There’s an excessive amount of emphasis on what isn’t taking place. The Terminids are “mutated,” however we’re informed the Predator Pressure isn’t the rationale regardless of it being the plain suspect.

After which there’s the kicker. The expedition was “conclusively dominated out.” Since when did Tremendous Earth care about conclusive investigations? When the writing will get obscure and the adjectives flip dramatic, it’s often a smokescreen.

And in Helldivers 2, smoke means one thing’s burning beneath it. One Redditor summed it up bluntly:

“This appears like a prelude to the Illuminate. Arrowhead’s finished this dance earlier than.”

Why Gamers Assume This Is the Illuminate’s First Transfer

That eerie-sounding location on the fringe of the recognized galaxy referred to as The Gloom is already a pink flag. It’s been related to previous disappearances, unusual tech, and enemy exercise that doesn’t match both Terminid or Automaton conduct.

Even the Predator Pressure itself is suspicious. It was final seen close to the Middle of Science, presumably linked to a previous recon mission that did not make it again. May these mutations be seeded? If that’s not the Illuminate softening the bottom, what’s?

And this is the large inform.

Most Main Orders are simple about their enemies, however this one’s completely different. It names mutated Terminids, however the tone—together with the suspicious concentrate on a “dominated out” expedition—hints at one thing a lot larger lurking within the background.

Arrowhead loves constructing suspense, and proper now, the strain’s at a breaking level:

“If this isn’t Illuminate foreshadowing, then Arrowhead’s by chance made essentially the most suspicious mission in franchise historical past.”

Helldivers 2 group engagement has been simply cryptic sufficient to maintain the hype alive. CEO Shams Jorjani not too long ago addressed issues , noting that “quite a few issues are in movement” and that fixes are actively being labored on.

This isn’t random. This isn’t filler. That is Arrowhead turning the wheel slowly towards a struggle we’re about to combat.

The one query left is when.

A brand new model of GitHub Copilot has simply begun rolling out to customers, including quite a few new capabilities, such because the addition of agent mode to VS Code. 

With agent mode, Copilot can iterate throughout a whole mission, suggesting terminal instructions, analyzing run-time errors, and extra. “With easy prompts, agent mode takes Copilot past answering a query, as a substitute finishing all needed subtasks throughout mechanically recognized or generated information to make sure your major purpose is achieved,” the corporate’s CEO Thomas Dohmke wrote in a weblog put up. 

For instance, GitHub printed a demo video wherein a developer must replace an internet site for runners that enables them to type races by identify, distance, and time. Upon receiving the request, Copilot analyzes the location to find out what must be modified, then begins by updating the backend and the UI, then producing unit assessments for each, earlier than handing it again over to the person to run these assessments. 

Agent mode can make the most of Claude 3.5 and three.7 Sonnet, Google Gemini 2.0 Flash, or OpenAI GPT-4o. It was first launched to VS Code Insiders in February, and is now starting to roll out to all VS Code customers, and the rollout ought to be full in just a few weeks.

The corporate additionally introduced a public preview for Mannequin Content material Protocol (MCP) help in agent mode. MCP is an open commonplace for connecting information sources to AI instruments, and including it to agent mode will allow Copilot to make use of totally different instruments to deal with totally different duties, akin to understanding database schema or querying the online. 

For instance, asking Copilot to “replace my GitHub profile to incorporate the title of the PR that was assigned to me yesterday” would immediate the agent to take that request and the checklist of all out there MCP instruments and ask an LLM what it ought to do subsequent based mostly on that data. 

“The GitHub native MCP server equips agent mode with compelling capabilities akin to looking throughout repositories and code, managing points and creating PRs – turning agent mode into a strong person of the GitHub platform,” Dohmke wrote. 

And at last, after including help for different AI fashions like Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Google’s Gemini 1.5 Professional, GitHub is now asserting that requests to fashions apart from Copilot’s base mannequin (GPT-4o) will likely be thought of premium requests and topic to limits, after having been limitless up to now. 

All of GitHub’s paid plans will nonetheless provide limitless requests for agent mode, context-driven chat, and code completions for the bottom mannequin. Beginning in Might, Copilot Professional and Copilot Enterprise clients will obtain 300 month-to-month premium requests and Copilot Enterprise clients will obtain 1000 month-to-month premium requests. The corporate can also be including a brand new Professional+ plan that offers 1500 month-to-month premium requests. 

If a buyer needs to transcend their month-to-month allotment, there’s a pay-as-you-go construction, beginning at $0.04 per extra premium request. 

Excellent news, in case you’ve ever wished to fireside up No Man’s Sky and roleplay as a man who likes dinosaurs a lot he is made it a profession and likewise in some way managed to shag Jennifer Aniston, as we speak’s your fortunate day. Developer Hiya Video games has simply deployed the Relics replace, and its large factor is letting you gather large alien fossils.

This follows the second little bit of large Worlds replace arriving within the sport again in Jaunary, brining with it “billions of latest stars and planets” together with enormous gasoline giants and trippy flying squid mums that’d slap you up for fishing simply too rattling exhausting.

As outlined within the weblog publish concerning the Relics replace and the video beneath, its large factor is introducing house palaeontology. , that factor Ross Geller from Pals does for a dwelling, when he isn’t being a depressed lump, freaking out a couple of sandwich, or dressing as a vacation armadillo.

Now you can also David Schwim your manner by way of the galaxy on a journey to “unearth a whole lot of distinctive bones” and assemble them in your museum to try to work out how these outdated, lifeless issues used to look. Are you able to intentionally stick bum bones the place skulls needs to be and persuade NMS’ array of enjoyable dwelling aliens that they are all descended from a race of ugly technologically-advanced people with very unhealthy breath known as the Fartongueians? I do not know, however it appears value a go.

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Ooh, truly on second thought, perhaps not. The replace additionally provides Reanimated Guardians, that are “hulking stone lifeforms [which] slumber by planetary fossil beds, defending these historic burial grounds from Travellers who would search to disturb them…”. Additionally they look extra like your cool stone robotic issues than creatures with bums for faces, so there goes my concept. There are additionally Residing Stone Sentries and Colossal Stone Effigies, with the latter being seemingly dormant “monumental stone figures, vestiges of long-dead alien civilisations” that watch over relic worlds.

You may also run into some nonetheless dwelling fossils, with Titanic Boneworms and “skeletal fauna” roaming round planets the place bones could be discovered and in some purple star techniques. In the meantime, you’ll be able to “go to Fossil Collectors aboard House Stations to promote your created fossil reveals – or commerce a few of your bones for any of their broad number of fossils” and cook dinner stuff with bones.

You may additionally need to join the Galactic Palaeology Society and head off on the brand new expedition Relics provides, which rewards you with a jetpack product of sentient rock, the flexibility to override your character’s look to appear like a sentient rock, and a skeletal animal as a companion.

Have you ever longed to be house Ross for ages? Tell us beneath!