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Microsoft is finally updating itsSurface Duo— ahem — duo to Android 12 this week. The company broke the news on its officialMicrosoft Devices Blogafter previously committing to rolling out an update sometime this year. Android 12 was made generally available by Google in October 2021, whileAndroid 12Lhit Pixels in March. The star of the show here is Android 12’s big visual refresh. Yup, Material You, dynamic color theming, and more are coming to the Surface Duo phones....

Read our fullMiddle-earth: Shadow of Mordor review. The next generation of gaming is barely underway, but thanks to ambitious online projects, such as Destiny and Tom Clancy’s The Division, it’s already been defined by MMO-flavored social experiences and expansive open-worlds.Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, however, is taking a decidedly different approach to testing the limits of Microsoft’s and Sony’s new horsepower-pushing hardware. While on the surface this latest interactive take on Tolkien’s high-fantasy universe looks like familiar third-person action-RPG fare, developer Monolith Productions is promising more than just another opportunity to loot, level, and lay waste to orcs....

Competitive gaming teams are about to get a great new training opportunity in both Asia and Europe. Following the success of its GeForce esports boot camp in Silicon Valley, hardware giant Nvidia will beopening similar campsin both Munich and Shanghai later this year. The Nvidia GeForce esports boot camps are designed to allow top-tier gaming teams to refine their skills and stay sharp while they’re traveling around the world for events....

In the last few years it’s become generally accepted knowledge that our universe is full of mysterious dark matter which has mass but is not obviously visible to us. A fringe of physicists have even made controversial claims that they have observed this dark matter in experiments, but now a new experiment makes this claim seem more unlikely. Dark matteris a type of subatomic particle which is theorized to exist to explain the mass of galaxies, which calculations have shown to be heavier than we would expect....

New horror film is turning heads by flipping script and sharing killer’s POV A brand new horror film set to release in 2024 is gaining major attention online due to how it is set from the killer’s POV. When it comes to the film industry, thehorrorgenre is one of the oldest and most beloved film types of all time. Each and every year, multiple new scary pictures are released, some new installments from long-standing franchises while others are completely fresh, bringing terrifying new ideas to the table....

Summary IFC Films' independent experimental slasher movieIn a Violent Natureturns the well-worn horror subgenre on its head, but it won’t be the only horror movie of its kind in 2024. Like many traditional slasher movies,In a Violent Naturefeatures a massive masked killer stalking a group of unsuspecting teenagers and killing them in inventive and gruesome fashion. However,In a Violent Naturemanages to subvert expectationsby showing the events from the perspective of Johnny, the undead killer with a child-like mentality....

After more than a year of waiting, Nintendo finally dropped its first bigNintendo Directsince December 2019. Anticipation was high, as it always is, and it seemed like it would be impossible for Nintendo to be able to deliver on fans’ lofty expectations. Sure enough, the 50-minute presentation left some feeling disappointed. While the Direct included some big first-party reveals likeSplatoon 3andMario Golf: Super Rush, the presentation was a bit scattershot, with few majorSwitch titlesplanned for the first half of this year....

Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, spoke about the recent controversy regarding Nvidia and EVGA. As a reminder,EVGA has made a grand exit from the GPU market, citing Nvidia’s treatment of it as the reason. According to Huang, the situation was much less dire than it initially seemed, and Nvidia tried to shield its partners from the uncertainties of the current market. Nvidia has had a turbulent week or so. First, EVGA announced that it would stop making GPUs, and reports say that Nvidia was the cause....

Overwatch 2 Street Fighter 6 crossover: Skins, heroes, release date & more Overwatch 2’s Street Fighter 6 crossover event has officially been announced, and it features even more skins than usual for an OW collab. Blizzard has been going all-in on crossover events as of late, with Overwatch having skins for everything from anime to K-pop groups. It’s at the point where the Diablo series is also getting in on it with aBerserk content drop....

Panasonic announced its new flagship OLED TV, the LZ2000, at CES 2022 today. It’s available in 55 inches, 65 inches, and, for the first time, 77 inches — the latter of which we’re told to refer to as the Master OLED Pro — Cinema Size. The LZ2000 features built-in sensors that will detect ambient light — and, more specifically, the color temperature of that light, which can change during the day....

Many of the weather events we experience here on Earth can be found on other planets too, and that includes whirlwinds. Several missions have observed small whirlwinds calleddust devils on Mars, and the Perseverance rover recently captured footage of one such dust devil in action as it rolled across the martian surface. The footage was captured by one of Perseverance’s black-and-white navigation cameras, called Navcams, and shows a dust devil moving at a speed of around 12 mph across a regions known as the Thorofare Ridge....

Pokemon TCG Pocket players fed up with “useless” rewards Pokemon TCG Pocket players are unhappy with one particular currency that they claim to be “useless” in the game. Unless you’re willing tospend over $100 a day in Pokemon TCG Pocket, there are plenty of things you’ll need to keep an eye out for if you want to snatch some of thebest cardsas well as rewards. Often, devs would add many different events to allow players to get the latter....

La Liga leaders Real Madrid take on fourth-place Athletic Club at the Santiago Bernabeu today. Los Merengues haven’t lost a league match since September, but they should get a big challenge here from Bilbao, who are looking to hold onto that last Champions League spot. Kickoff is about to happen, at 3:00 p.m. ET, and it will be broadcast onESPN+in the United States. There are, however, some other ways you can watch a free live stream of the match in the US....