Retiring on a white sand beach, palm trees swaying to and fro, sun shining as I sip a cocktail served in some sort of fruit, that's the life for me. And it's the life that can be lived in underrated city builder Tropico 6. Well, for some. It's a satirical take on global politics set in the Caribbean island nation of Tropico. You are El Presidente, the ruler of the island, and it's up to you to ensure your citizens prosper. Well, now you can give them the life of luxury on the water with the new DLC that launched today. Continue reading Underrated satirical city builder gets wet in new watery DLC MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Tropico 6 review, The making of Tropico 6

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The Portal is getting a very slow trickle of software updates. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge The PlayStation Portal is getting a couple of modest features it should have had in the first place. Sony announced on its PlayStation Blog that a software update for its handheld remote player will allow users to connect their devices to public Wi-Fi networks that require sign-in, like free ones found at hotels and cafes. Also in this update are new visual cues when you tap or swipe the emulated touchpad areas on the Portal’s screen and the option to see a battery percentage indicator in the top-right status bar. Up until now, the battery level was only indicated by some fairly vague bars, and the actual battery percentage number only shows when the Portal is fully turned off and charging. Image: PlayStation A... Continue reading…

Butterflies AI. So far, generative AI has been mostly confined to chatbots like ChatGPT. Startups like Character.AI and Replika are seeing early traction by making chatbots more like companions. But what happens when you dump a bunch of AI characters into something that looks like Instagram and let them talk to each other? That’s the idea behind Butterflies, one of the most provocative — and, at times, unsettling — takes on social media that I’ve seen in quite a while. After a private beta period with tens of thousands of users, the app is now available for free in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. There’s no short-term pressure on Butterflies to make money; the six-month-old startup just raised $4.8 million from tech investors Coatue, SV... Continue reading…

Image: TikTok TikTok recently launched a new Instagram-like photo-sharing app called Whee, as spotted by Android Police and APKMirror founder Artem Russakovskii. TikTok is explicitly positioning Whee as an app for sharing photos with only your closest friends. “Capture and share real-life photos that only your friends can see, allowing you to be your most authentic self,” according to Whee’s Google Play description. “Whee is the best place for close friends to share life moments.” Screenshots of the app listing feature things like a photo viewfinder, a list of friends to message, and a feed — and many of the photo captions highlight how the features are for connecting with friends. It seems that TikTok is still testing the waters with this new app.... Continue reading…