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Fighting games dominated the arcades during their heyday and Capcom was considered the reigning champion.Street Fighter IIprovided a tremendous popularity boost for the genre, which led to countless great fighters being released in the ’90s. Having access to the Marvel license, Capcom decided to make anX-Mengame in the style ofStreet Fighter, which ended up spawning several more games using the same premise. As things progressed,X-Menended up facing off againstStreet Fightercharacters, and eventually the whole Marvel universe was trading punches with just about every Capcom IP....

There’s one key recurring moment in Spiritfarer, the new adventure game from developers Thunder Lotus, that kept reminding me of the finale to The Good Place. Sadly, I can’t say what that moment is without spoiling a hefty chunk of The Good Place, but it did eventually get me to thinking about various depictions of the afterlife or journeys towards it. And be it an all-time classic likeGrim Fandangoor even something extremely recent likeNecrobarista,there have been a few video games that have used unique visions of the afterlife to tell imaginative stories that have kept me and several others hooked for hours....

Roblox Battles, also known as RB Battles for short, approaches its third anniversary with promises of large changes and ambitious plans. Unfortunately, however, the current anniversary date has been pushed back. What was originally rumored to occur in November of 2021 has now been moved to sometime early 2022 to help accommodate the RB Battles developers and give them the necessary time needed to complete the experience. As of now, the pre-existing RB Battles experience is fully private....

In less than 48 hours, journalists blessed withApple’s “It’s been way too long” invitationwill gather on the Town Hall Campus grounds in Cupertino, California for another dose of technology news. With new iPads and OS X Yosemite on everyone’s mind, it’s time to step back and asses exactly what other goodies Apple may or may not deliver at its media conference. And what better way to make such a roundup entertaining than a listicle augmented by a poll?...

Samsung Display’s Folding And Sliding OLED Could Preview Galaxy Fold’s Future The dream of the folding smartphone or laptop is an easy one to understand. We can probably all get behind more usable screen area in a smaller chassis. Flexible OLED displays made the folding smartphone dream a reality a few years ago. Since then we’ve seen a number of impressive, albeit imperfect, iterations and form factors come out of the folding phone space....

Apple usually drops prices for older iPhones right after new models arrive. However, a sketchy supply chain report would have you believe that iPhone X, the best and most expensive iPhone model ever made, might receive an unexpected price cut come as soon as early 2018. This came as a tidbit tucked at the bottom of today’s DigiTimes report focusing on the allegedly lower than expected iPhone X sales in markets like Singapore, Taiwan and the US....

SlashGear Exclusive: Video Demo Of Coherent Laser TV Tech In an exclusive video interview with Coherent, the goggle-eyed boffins behind the laser TV gave SlashGear a brief run-down of just why the future of big-screen entertainment might leave lamps behind. With a spread of visible colour roughly double that of traditional lamp-based backlighting, using their a high-powered solid-state laser array of green, blue and red means they can fit far greater performance into a form-factor equal to or smaller than a standard mercury arc lamp....

Spark, the free email app from Ukrainian developer Readdle, today issued an update to enable support for the dramatic new Dark Mode in macOS Mojave, which itselfreleasedto the general public earlier today. Spark for iPhone also received an awesome iOS 12-focused update. Dark Mode in Spark for Mac Spark’s Dark Mode Spark support ensures that the color scheme, the menus, the buttons and other user interface elements match the new macOS Mojave dark theme, when you turn it on....

After Google announced theshutdown of its Stadia Games and Entertainment division yesterday, my social media feeds were ablaze with “told you sos” and “the end is nighs”. Stadia sceptics see the decision as evidence that the Stadia cloud gaming platform is imminently doomed - all because the company has closed its own, first-party games studios. I disagree. Strongly. Closing a games development wing that hadn’t yet produced a game is extremely sad, because it puts good, talented staff out of work during an already tough period....

The latest open-world adventure from Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft,Star Wars Outlawsis finally available on PC and consoles. Like previous Ubisoft titles, Star Wars Outlaws supports multiple controllers and input types, allowing players to switch between these schemes seamlessly. If you need a reference to the complete controls for Star Wars Outlaws, whether you’re playing on a PC or a controller, here is everything you need to know. Star Wars Outlaws Complete Controls for Controllers Here are the default controls for Star Wars Outlaws, whether you’re playing on an Xbox or PlayStation controller....

Super Mario Bros Plumbing trailer features hidden message from Charlie Day’s Luigi The Super Mario Bros. move is on the horizon and the new Plumbing trailer has a secret message from Luigi, played by Charlie Day, hidden inside of it. Illumination’sSuper Mario Bros. filmis a star-studded adaptation of the beloved video game franchise and the marketing for the movie is now utilizing Charlie Day’s signature silliness. On February 12, the studioreleased a trailerthat shows the franchise’s iconic leading duo hard at work as plumbers, and just like Stranger Things did before them, the phone number in the trailer is attached to an IRL Easter egg for those curious enough to call....

These 10 Alternatives To Zoom Also Offer No Time Limit Video conferencing has now become a part of our daily lives. Whether you’re running a remote team, attending online classes, or simply catching up with a friend, a video call is the best way to communicate effectively. During the pandemic, many users resorted to Zoom for this purpose since it was a popular app, and it was free.Zoom’s free tier — while feature-rich— caps meetings at 40 minutes, which isn’t ideal when having important discussions....

Whenever you initiate a screen recording on a notched iPhone, a red pill-shaped indicator appears over theStatus Bar’s time display. This is useful for reminding you that your display is recording so you remember to stop it at some point, but iOS developerh4ckua11had another idea for improving the screen recording indicator that would go on to become a new and freejailbreak tweakdubbedScreenRecording Time. As shown in the screenshot example above, ScreenRecording Time merely replaces the current time display in the red pill-shapedscreen recordingindicator with a timer denoting the length of time that the screen recording has been in effect....