Discovering The Startup City

Hooded Horse and Slavic Magic are getting 2025 off to a flyer with a huge new patch – Update 4 – for the excellent Manor Lords. Having undergone some serious beta testing the patch is now ready for general consumption and will be rolling out to an install near you shortly. Bringing with it two new maps, one of which includes a river which therefore introduces a brand new feature to the game – bridge building. Plenty of other balance changes and tweaks exist in the huge patch notes, which are way too long to replicate here so we are just concentrating on new features and major changes below. Have a quick dig though and then jump back to the Manor to see them all in action. Manor Lords Update 4 patch notes – major changes and new features Major Changes: [Experimental] Cliff system rework Cliffs should be less ambiguous now.

Samsung showed off its latest and greatest TVs at CES 2025, with the South Korean company refreshing its display lineup. One TV that stuck out is its new 8K RGB Micro LED panel, which doesn’t even have a name yet. The 8K screen is set to be Samsung’s flagship TV when it ships later this year and will come in at 98-inches.

Marvel Rivals has a load of missions to make your way through, requiring you to even play characters you’re not familiar with. The end result of completing these will not only enhance your skillset but also net you some additional rewards. While these are in-game accomplishments, there is one that you’ll need to use an external application for — the Season 1 Discord quest. Here, we’ll take a look at this, revealing what you need to do, along with the reward for completing it. Marvel Rivals Season 1 Discord quest: How to complete and rewards To take part in the Marvel Rivals Season 1 Discord quest, you’ll first need to join the official server for the game.

Mid-December caused a flurry of excitement when the new co-op spin-off to Elden Ring – Nightreign – was announced at The Game Awards. At the time it became clear that there would be a series of Network Tests that would allow FromSoftware to carry out some essential research into how the game plays, while also giving players a chance to grab a sneaky first look at what’s in store for them when they return to The Lands Between. We covered all this back then, but time flies and we are now just a few hours away, at the time of writing, for the registration window to take part in the Network Test open for real.

X, formerly Twitter, will introduce a new labeling system for parody accounts. The move was announced yesterday, January 9, and aims to add an additional layer of transparency to the platform. In a post to the platform, X’s Safety team said, “We designed these labels to increase transparency and to ensure that users are not deceived into thinking such accounts belong to the entity being parodied.” We’re rolling out profile labels for parody accounts to clearly distinguish these types of accounts and their content on our platform.

So the Nintendo Switch 2 stole the show at CES 2025, which is unusual of course as it wasn’t actually present. You could argue that the Switch 2 was there in spirit however as CES became the show where everybody was waving around dummy units, Images, and peripherals for the as yet unannounced console. This is not how Nintendo would have seen CES 2025 going.