We're always up for another tactical RPG. Some of the best games feature this style of combat and character progression, from the alien invasion of XCOM 2 and superhero showdowns of Marvel's Midnight Suns to the fantasy battles of the Fire Emblem series, Triangle Strategy, and Baldur's Gate 3. A fresh spin on the genre is always welcome, too, which, going by its premise, seems to be the case for DeathTower, a new tactics game with a distinctive pixel art visual style that's just launched a demo on Steam ahead of a Kickstarter campaign. Continue reading DeathTower is a striking new RPG roguelike, and you can play it now

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Image: Microsoft Microsoft wants to hear from game developers who might be skipping Xbox or those already building games using the company’s developer tools. The software maker is expanding its Xbox Research team to include the community of game developers, seeking feedback directly from developers about tools, support, and the overall pain points of the Xbox platform. A new program, much like Microsoft’s Xbox Insider one, is now open to all members of game studios, not just technical employees. “Typically, it takes a lot of people to make and ship a game, including marketing, user research, artists, audio, PMs, community managers, and more,” says Deborah Hendersen, PhD, principal user researcher for Xbox. “We want to hear from everyone who works on... Continue reading…

In an effort to make it a little easier to find all the stuff buried in your inbox, Gmail is releasing a big update to the “summary cards” feature that tries to surface the most important information in your messages before you even need to ask. If you’ve encountered summary cards before in Gmail, it’s probably in the context of buying something. If you open an order confirmation email, Gmail might put a box at the top that shows the items you bought and the total purchase, plus maybe a link to track the package. Going forward, that box should be more useful and more timely, says Maria Fernandez Guajardo, the senior director of product for Gmail. When you’re waiting for your package, it might show when it’s arriving; once it’s arrived,... Continue reading…

Rumors about Apple releasing the Apple Watch Ultra 2 in black started to ramp up a little before the company unveiled last year's Apple Watch Ultra 2. Similar things happened with other products, such as the famous iPhone X in Gold, which later became the new color for the XS. Then, during its iPhone 16 event, instead of announcing the Apple Watch Ultra 3, Apple added a new color option to the Ultra 2: Black Titanium. My first reaction to this product was, "I wish I had waited for this version." Then, I tried to convince myself that the Natural Titanium option I already had was fine and was holding up very well. However, after trying the Apple Watch Ultra 2 in Black Titanium, I have to say that it's fantastic. While I wouldn't encourage anyone with an Ultra 1 or, god forbid, an Ultra 2 to upgrade only for the color, I have a few thoughts on this update. Image source: José Adorno for BGR Personally, I think the Black Titanium option feels more premium and also more discreet. Even though the watch still has a massive 49mm display, it doesn't feel as provocative as the other version since, most of the time, the black frame matches the bezels and the Always-On display. I also enjoyed the new Trail Loop in Black, a versatile band for practicing sports and hanging out. Over the past year, even though I have religiously continued wearing my Apple Watch Ultra, I switched it more often for classic watches, as they would go well on social occasions. Image source: José Adorno for BGR Despite that, the Apple Watch Ultra 2 remains a solid upgrade, as it still has a brighter display, better speakers, and microphones, and it will soon get a feature introduced with Apple Watch Series 10, sleep apnea detection. The most rugged Apple Watch available to date also adds several new features with watchOS 11, including new apps, smart experiences, and exclusive watch faces, as previously highlighted by BGR. Don't Miss: Everyone’s getting the Apple Watch Ultra 2 right now – here’s why The post Apple Watch Ultra 2 in Black Titanium is an extravagance that’s totally worth it appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: Early Prime Day sales, $189 Apple Watch SE, Philips OneBlade 360, Crest 3D Whitestrips, more Today’s deals: $189 AirPods Pro, $50 DASH air fryer, $4.50 iPhone chargers, $99 DEWALT drill bundle, more Today’s deals: $50 off Eureka E20 Plus robot vac, $1,100 off LG C4 OLED TV, Blink cameras from $20, more Today’s deals: Pitaka iPhone 16 cases, $10 off Starbucks coffee, $199 iPad 9, $36 Dreo space heater, more

Centuries before carmaker Ettore Bugatti put his brother Rembrandt’s rampant elephant sculpture as the hood ornament on his luxury flagship, the Bugatti Royale, baroque master sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini decorated his carriage with four of his own works: a set of gilded bronze grotesque screaming heads. The four heads were all cast from the same model and have wide-open mouths, arched eyebrows over bulging eyes rolled upwards, windswept hair in pointy sections and beards to match. They each have a hole at the nape of the neck in which tall plumes were inserted to add even more drama to the carriage in movement. From his earliest days as a professional sculptor, Bernini was a fan of exaggerated open-mouthed grotesques. His first one, The Damned Soul (1619), he made when he was only 20, and was still collaborating with his father before striking out on his own a year later under the patronage of the wealthy and powerful Cardinal Scipione Borghese. When he was commissioned to restore the Ludovisi Ares, a 2nd century A.D. Roman copy of a 4th century B.C. Greek sculpture of a youthful god of war that had been unearthed in Rome in 1622, he added an entirely incongruous sword hilt with a screaming grotesque as the pommel. Bernini cast the four screaming heads between 1650 and 1655 and placed them on his personal carriage. A design he made for the carriage of the King of Spain has similar grotesques on the corners of the canopy, but those are reliefs rather than stand-alone sculptures. At some point, Bernini removed his screaming heads from his carriage and had them mounted to black and white Marquina marble bases. They decorated the piano nobile salone (formal reception room) in his palace at Via della Mercede 11 in Rome. After Gian Lorenzo’s death in 1680, his grandson Prospero Bernini inherited the palace and the bulk of the collection. The four bronze heads are noted in the inventory of 1681. Incredibly enough, the set has been in the Bernini family this entire time. The last direct male heir, another Prospero Bernini, died in 1858, but the bronzes passed to his daughter and continued down through her line culminating in the current owners who have now decided to sell them. The screaming heads have been consigned for sale to art dealer Flavio Gianassi, but they have been declared objects of exceptional historical and artistic interest so they are not allowed to leave Italy. The set is priced at €1.6 million ($1,771,000), a high price for pieces that cannot be exported to the deep-pocketed buyers of the international market.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian arrived in Qatar on Wednesday for bilateral talks and a summit at which he said he hopes to enlist Asian countries' help in preventing what he called "Israeli crimes" in the Middle East.Starting his first trip to Qatar as president,...

President Joe Biden will join a call with Group of Seven (G7) leaders on Wednesday to discuss the crisis in the Middle East, a U.S. official said.

Newsmax announced Wednesday that veteran news anchor and broadcaster Rob Finnerty will host "Finnerty," leading the cable news network’s nightly primetime lineup at 8 p.m. Eastern.