With the surge of players flooding the online servers for Star Wars Battlefront 2 recently, there's been a lot of chatter about where the series could go next. Many Star Wars fans love what the Battlefront games have done for the franchise and hoped that Electronic Arts would revisit the series for a brand-new entry. But while that might not happen anytime soon, it hasn't stopped fans from thinking about what could be done in a brand-new Star Wars Battlefront title made today. Looking at different parts of the Star Wars galaxy could inspire key aspects to a new game, but developers will want to look towards other popular shooters for inspiration when making the next entry in the Star Wars Battlefront series.

Back in 2020, a delightful game called Untitled Goose Game was released. It really took the internet by storm, with people making tons of memes about it. Plus, the game itself is really fun; I had a blast with it when I played it on release.

The very purpose of your NAS is to share files between people and devices. A NAS can surely work as a central storage unit, but to make it live its full purpose, you will have to give it a way to talk to devices for file sharing and syncing. There is a simple and reliable way built into the systems we use daily for exactly that, and it’s called SMB. While the name may not sound glamorous, it’s been the backbone of file sharing for decades.

The T1 Phone (left) looks uncannily like the S25 Ultra in a Spigen Thin Fit case (right). When Trump Mobile first unveiled the T1 Phone, we were confused by the mixed marketing, which included dubious renders of what at least appeared to be an original phone along with multiple appearances from what was quite clearly a gold-plated iPhone. Now we can add Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Ultra into the mix.The Trump Mobile team shared an ad to X on Wednesday pushing preorders of the T1, but with an image we’d never seen before. You don’t have to look hard to realize that this is an S25 Ultra that’s been Photoshopped gold with a T1 logo and US flag; looking a little closer confirms that it’s a render of that phone in a Spigen case, right down to the Spigen logo they didn’t bother to remove. It’s a remarkable choice because the S25 Ultra looks even less like the T1 Phone’s official renders than the iPhone the company has previously used in promotions. Even Spigen noticed the dupe, saying what we’re all thinking in its reply on X: “??? bro what” The new X post promises that “The wait is almost over!” for the T1 Phone, which originally advertised launch dates of August and September (one in the press release, the other on the site), but now lists no date at all. The company also no longer claims the phone will be made in the USA, instead saying there are “American hands behind every device.” The phone has shrunk dramatically since launch too, now promising a 6.25-inch screen, way down from the 6.78-inch display described when it was first announced.

The Splinter Cell: Deathwatch animated series finally has a release date and a proper trailer, but Netflix already wants you to start thinking about what else it has coming down the pipeline.During this year’s Anime NYC convention, Netflix announced that Deathwatch is slated to debut on October 14th, and the series has added The Sandman‘s Kirby Howell-Baptiste to its cast. Howell-Baptiste will voice Zinnia McKenna, an agent working alongside Sam Fisher (Liev Schrieber) as they’re hunted by squads of trained killers. Though it’s brief, Deathwatch‘s new trailer gives you a pretty solid sense of the series’ slick and brutal action. You can also see that, tonally, the series is going to be a rather serious video game adaptation. But things are going to be a bit different for the next season of Netflix’s take on Devil May Cry.Due out some time in 2026, Devil May Cry‘s second season will see Dante (Johnny Yong Bosch) and Vergil (Robbie Daymond) reuniting for a battle to the death. In a teaser for the new season, the two brothers actually seem to be having a ball shooting and slashing at each other while humans and demons get caught in the crossfire. It will be interesting to see if the new season really ups its action set pieces when it returns.That seems to be the plan for Blue Eye Samurai‘s next season. Along with a scene from Blue Eye Samurai season 2 focused on Mizu (Maya Erskine) storming a stronghold, Netflix shared a behind-the-scenes featurette where series co-creators Amber Noizumi and Michael Green, and executive producer Jane Wu, tease some of what we can expect to see. It looks like Mizu’s quest for revenge will take her all the way to London and involve at least a couple of seemingly-dead characters making unexpected returns. Season 2 is still in production and doesn’t have a firm release date just yet. But you can see from the featurette that the creative team is cooking, especially when it comes to choreographing the show’s action sequences.Netflix also shared new trailers for the second half of Sakamoto Days‘ first season, which is currently streaming, and for the third season of Record of Ragnarok, which premiers this December. The big takeaway is that Netflix isn’t easing up on its animated projects. It might be a while before we actually get to see a lot of this new stuff, but hopefully it will be worth the wait.

My productivity workflow used to be a mess. I’d have a Google Doc open for writing, a Google Slides deck for presentations, and a dozen random browser tabs for research. Switching between them to get relevant details was inefficient and frustrating. But then I discovered the power of using NotebookLM, Google Docs, and Slides together. By unifying my research, writing, and presentation tools, I have created a seamless system that has changed how I work.

After years of working with various tools designed to make my writing process faster and more efficient — including both paid and free ones — I've found out that, for obvious reasons, paid versions are often the best overall. But before you toss free software into your recycle bin, hear me out.

We all love a Star Wars game, and why shouldn't we? This brilliant universe created Mr. Lucas has given us some of the most unforgettable stories we've seen and experienced in our lives, after all. The best part? As a gamer, the interactive medium opens up whole new avenues for this universe, and you get to live and play as a Sith, a Jedi, or as something else entirely, in a timeline eons before or after the mainstream movies.

It's seemingly human nature to always want something new and better. Take the smartphone, which is usually replaced every year or two on rolling contracts. This enables us to receive the next best thing, replacing now-outdated technology. The same goes for vehicles, with leases becoming the norm and replacements being sought after just two to three years. PC hardware is no different, with many opting to buy components deemed overkill for the tasks at hand. How many of you are running Intel Core i9 or AMD Ryzen 9 processors? Do you really need them?

We can only hope that Trump keeps his own aesthetic preferences out of it. | Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images President Donald Trump signed a new executive order on Thursday to improve the “usability and aesthetics” of US government services by creating “first-class online and offline experiences for Americans.”“It is time to update the Government’s design language to be both usable and beautiful,” Trump said in the order, which establishes an America by Design initiative meant to “improve comprehensively the visual presentation and usability of Federal services provided to the public in both digital and physical spaces.” A new National Design Studio is being set up to facilitate this, led by a chief design officer — with Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia reportedly lined up for the position, according to Reuters.Gebbia has already been tasked with overhauling the sluggishly paper-based federal retirement process after joining Trump’s DOGE service in February. It’s unclear what direction Gebbia’s design choices will take, but here’s hoping he isn’t too influenced by Trump’s love for all things golden, gaudy, and gilded. Refraining from randomly capitalizing text would also be a bonus.

I always have such mixed emotions while watching a fan-made concept video. If you've never seen them, someone will occasionally make a mock-up of what they imagine an operating system will look like. This could be based on an operating system that's on the way, one that never managed to make it to market, or just people speculating what would have happened if Microsoft never canned the Windows Phone. Rest in Peace.

Windows 11 updates causing issues aren't a rare occurrence by any means; in fact, I'd be more surprised if they didn't happen. However, only a few can claim to be as weird as a strange HDD and SSD bug, which people say is affecting their drives but is proving tricky to reproduce, if it even exists. Well, if you've experienced something funny going on with your drives, Microsoft would very much like to hear about it so it can fix it.