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A Reddit user might have stumbled into EA’s next batch of Sims games. The two games, MySims Action Bundle and MySims Beacon Bay were briefly listed on the user’s EA Play app, with video evidence to boot. EA App Leak: MySims Action Bundle and MySims Beacon Bay byu/OyeDiego inMySims Reddit poster OyeDiego posted to the MySims Reddit forum (subreddit), showing the EA Play app presenting two bundles.

It seems that amid the ban on ByteDance-associated apps like TikTok, Bluesky is trying to capture its share of the vertical video market. The X alternative just announced on their platform that they’re rolling out custom feeds for vertical videos in the app. The company wrote: “We had to get in on the video action too — Bluesky now has custom feeds for video! “Like any other feed, you can choose to pin these or not.

As TikTok and Bytedance’s suite of apps went down, including its video editor CapCut, Meta has swung in to announce “Edits”. There’s not much information about the app, outside of what Instagram’s head, Adam Mosseri has posted to Threads, Meta’s X/Twitter competitor. While TikTok is back online for its US audience, CapCut remains offline for the time being.

Donald Trump’s meme coin took a nosedive after his wife, Melania, decided to hop on the crypto bandwagon with her own token. On Sunday (Jan. 19), the price of the $Trump coin more than halved before slowly bouncing back. Melania announced her new crypto coin on X, writing: “The Official Melania Meme is live!

Marvel Snap, the online card game featuring the legendary roster of superheroes, was a victim of the TikTok ban. While TikTok has come back online, the digital card game remains offline in the US. While the game is developed by a US-based studio, Second Dinner, it is published by Nuverse, which is owned by Bytedance – TikTok’s parent company. With this link, the US government shuttered the game.

After more than 13 hours of the app going dark, TikTok says its in the process of restoring its services. The platform said in an X post on Sunday (Jan. 19) that it had been told service providers would “face no penalties.” STATEMENT FROM TIKTOK: In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service.