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San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) was the first agency in the US to adopt the floppy-based automatic train control system in 1998. It was supposed to be in place for 20 to 25 years. It entered its 26th year of service in 2024. Read Entire Article View the full article

A 3-Course Halloween Meal is one of the five duties you can complete as part of Disney Dreamlight Valley's Trick-or-Treat event. Unfortunately, it's pretty vague in telling you what to do unlike the majority of Dreamlight Duties that spell out the task for you. But once you know what needs to be done you can tick it off straight away... Read more.View the full article

Sugar Rush is one of the five Dreamlight Duties marked with a pumpkin icon under your village tab in Disney Dreamlight Valley. But, even though it seems like it, you don't need to wait until the Trick or Treat event held every October to complete this task. In fact, you can finish this task at any time of year since you just need to have a number of sweet dishes on hand... Read more.View the full article

Players have started streaming into Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6, and already they're spotting slick features that help make the game that little bit special. This includes a working diving board, a nice holdover from Call of Duty: Cold War and a lovely bit of Treyarch magic. Read more View the full article

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown can stake a claim to be called one of the best Metroidvanias of the last few years. Slick movement, punchy combat, and genuinely innovative mechanics made the game a delight. So, of course, Ubisoft broke the team up and refused the opportunity to make a sequel. View the full article

****** Ops 6 comes out today, October 25, and it does something no other Call of duty game has done before: launch straight into Game Pass. Following Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard, the pressure is now on its gaming business to deliver. With that in mind, Xbox boss Phil Spencer has decided to take the plunge and release ****** Ops 6 as a day one Game Pass game, albeit restricted to the Ultimate and PC Game Pass tiers. This is a momentous moment not just for Call of Duty but for Game Pass, which has struggled for growth in recent years. Latest official figures put Game Pass subscriber numbers at 34 million. That’s 34 million paying subscribers across console, PC, and cloud. Indeed Microsoft removed its $1 introductory Game Pass trial just weeks before ****** Ops 6’s launch, as it did with last year’s Starfield — further evidence, after recent price hikes and tier changes, that the pressure is now on for Game Pass to make the absolute most of the power of Call of Duty. Will it pay off for Microsoft? In interviews with [Hidden Content], analysts predicted ****** Ops 6 could boost Game Pass subscriber numbers by between 2.5 million and 4 million. However, analysts also predicted a significant impact on sales of ****** Ops 6. Call of Duty is usually the best-selling game of the year, but there is now a big question mark over whether it will achieve that record once again with ****** Ops 6 given it’s available as part of Game Pass. Wedbush boss Michael Pachter told GI that putting ****** Ops 6 into Game Pass could result in up to six million lost sales, based on the idea that 25% of Game Pass subscribers might have bought the game anyway. Countering this, Pachter said Game Pass could swell by between three to four million subscribers. This is a perhaps expected shift, but is it overall better for Microsoft and Activision? The theory is that getting more players through the door than ever before, even at the cost of sales of the game, will eventually pay out because of Call of Duty’s lucrative live service, which is fueled by premium battle passes and costly cosmetic packs. Microsoft may be playing the long game here, even though it risks negative headlines about Call of Duty sales being down compared to previous years. Of course, now Microsoft has taken the plunge with Call of Duty little is off the table when it comes to Game Pass. The expectation now is that each year’s premium Call of Duty game will launch day one on Game Pass, and fans are still waiting for the back catalog to be added. We’ve got plenty more on ****** Ops 6 ahead of launch, including its strange arachnophobia mode, built-in support for better audio tech that costs $20, Activision’s new ambitious plans to beat cheaters, and confirmation it doesn't include the dreaded Riot Shield. Wesley is the *** News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld. View the full article

Webfishing doesn’t tell you a lot of things. You are expected to learn as you play and figure out stuff as you catch fish, with rod upgrades being one of the most confusing aspects to understand. You are tasked with improving your rod through various upgrades bought from the store, each providing a bonus to your capabilities. The problem is that the game poorly tells you what each upgrade does until you purchase one for the first time. View the full article

How do you intimdate your opponent as a boxing pre-****** press conference that'll inevitably involve two very large people staring into each others' eyes like long-lost lovers at some point? Well, if you're Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, the answer apparently is to dress up as Agent 47 from the Hitman series, complete with bald head and handy briefcase. Read more View the full article

While crossplay can drastically reduce ****** times in Call of Duty ****** Ops 6, some of you may not like the idea of facing players on platforms other than your own. Thankfully, you can turn off the feature—here’s how. Officially launched on Oct. 25, ****** Ops 6 brings 16 new multiplayer maps for you to jump right in, including 12 core six vs. six maps and four Strike maps featuring a duo mode in addition to the six vs. six. As impatient as we all are, it can take a while to find a multiplayer match, depending on your region, which can be a painful experience for a solo player. Crossplay helps fix slow matchmaking in some cases. That said, it may pose a competitive disadvantage for some players because of aim assist. Not to forget the infamous mouse-and-keyboard advantage for PC players against controllers. View the full article

Using upscaling techniques to boost the performance of games on PC has essentially become part of the setup process. Even if you don’t consider the many games that simply won’t run at acceptable framerates without it, a lot of games certainly get a nice bump in framerate because of DLSS, FSR or Intel XESS. Read more View the full article

Japan is an amazing country. Raw fish on rice, a flourishing animation industry, video games bursting at the seams, and apparently a lot of electronics brands. There are so many brands it’s hard to keep up—and answer today’s clue in the NYT Mini Crossword. “********* electronics brand” Oct. 25 NYT Mini Crossword hints Five across. Screenshot by Dot Esports Hint 1: It ends with the letter “O.” Hint 2: Definitely not Seiko. Hint 3: It starts with the letter “C.” Hint 4: Known for mobile phones, digital cameras, digital watches, and more. Stop right there—I’m about to reveal the answer. View the full article

One year later, the path in the woods has been well-traveled, the Princess has been slain or saved many times over, and at the end of that path is the Pristine Cut major free update, the expansion on the base game that aims to fill in what's missing and bring the game to a completed state. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 has received a flurry of minor updates coinciding with the games release, addressing several in-game glitches, technical issues, and stability faults. Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6s open beta began at the beginning of September, and it gained a mixed bag of reviews. Some praised the shooters well-polished mechanics and omnidirectional movement, while others criticized the games sound design and loadout system. View the full article

Wow, today’s LoLdle quote is long—but it’s not as long as my streak. Read on for the Oct. 25 LoLdle answer. Who says, ‘Your legacy shall drift away; blown into eternity, like the sands of the desert’ in LoL? The LoLdle quote on Oct. 25 is, “Your legacy shall drift away; blown into eternity, like the sands of the desert,” and the League champion who says this line is Nasus. You know, that dog man who walks on his hind legs. View the full article

In 1991, I went to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze. The Turtles were barely using their weapons now, Casey Jones was gone, and April O’Neil wasn’t Judith Hoag anymore – which was like coming back after holidays to find the classmate you had a crush on had changed schools. Put simply, it wasn’t what I’d expected, and I find myself in a similar position with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed. What I expected was a basic 3D beat ’em up that would be over in a few hours. What we got is actually a 14-hour light RPG, with a basic 3D beat ’em up tying together long sections of exposition and relationship building. Unfortunately, like with The Secret of the Ooze, moving in an unexpected direction doesn’t automatically make the end result good. Despite a clear effort on the part of developer aheartfulofgames to make Mutants Unleashed a juicy and authentic follow-up story to 2023’s Mutant Mayhem film, it quickly becomes tedious thanks to a significant lack of ****** variety and small selection of constantly reused levels. It’s not ninja *****, but the T.U.R.T.L.E. power is limited. As far as I’m concerned, the original 1990 TMNT movie is untouchable, but I do feel Mutant Mayhem is the best TMNT movie since the first. Its deliberately imperfect, hand-drawn appearance is remarkable, its soundtrack is impeccable, and – as the father of a 16-year-old – it contains easily the most believably teenage Turtles ever. [The graphics] ably ape the hastily sketched, asymmetrical look of Mutant Mayhem – from its crude, 2D scribbles for smoke and light sources, to Bebop’s distractingly droopy pierced nipples. Mutants Unleashed comes impressively close to recreating two of those pillars itself. While the graphics don’t reach par with the exquisite, painterly appearance of the movie, they ably ape the hastily sketched, asymmetrical look of Mutant Mayhem – from its crude, 2D scribbles for smoke and light sources, to Bebop’s distractingly droopy pierced nipples. The four main Turtles themselves are also in sync with their movie counterparts, largely thanks to the fact the voice stars of the movie have returned here. If the budget could’ve stretched to include some of the film’s licensed music, they could’ve had the trifecta. It sadly didn’t but, unfortunately, Mutants Unleashed has several more pressing problems than a lack of iconic ’90s hip hop up in here (up in here). Can I Kick It? While a 14-hour TMNT RPG may sound like slam dunk value on paper, Mutants Unleashed is actually stretched to a breaking point over that surprisingly lengthy duration. The main story missions quickly become dreary once you notice it’s constantly rehashing the same stages. Mutants Unleashed tries hard to obfuscate how many levels it actually has by having us run backwards through ones we’ve previously completed, or switching up the fixed camera to a different angle, but it’s very transparent. There’s also far too much loading required as we complete sections, which just feels like a cheat to shuffle the order of environments used for each mission without blending them together. Either way, clambering across the same construction site, running through the same pipe, riding up and down the same elevator, and scurrying over the same cargo ships gets old, quick. Worse, very little exploration is possible. Yes, there are hidden objects – and pieces of street art to find for Mondo Gecko – but Mutants Unleashed generally only punishes us for trying to veer off the path. I lost track of the number of times I tried to jump to a spot that appeared fine to land on, only to plummet to the street off camera – or be met with an invisible wall. On one stage I completely trapped myself somewhere I clearly wasn’t meant to be. I’ve only ever found hidden art by accidentally going the way I thought I was supposed to go anyway. Combat itself is totally serviceable, although enemies aren’t very smart, and they’re not always great at tracking you through the environments. The Turtles all have distinct fighting styles that can be upgraded with new moves as you progress specific relationships for each. There’s little need to get into the weeds with it, though, and it’s totally a button masher. This makes it accessible, but fairly mindless. I’d try out new moves, but mostly to get the tutorial boxes to leave the screen, where they sometimes cover up your Turtles thanks to the fixed camera. That camera didn’t really bother me for the most part; I get that it’s ultimately a bit of a halfway house between an entirely third-person brawler and the 2D beat ’em ups of yesteryear, and Mutants Unleashed creatively replaces your character with a scratched silhouette when they’re hidden by pieces of the environment. However, I did have instances where the angle was a real burden. There’s not a ton of technical platforming in Mutants Unleashed, but lining up jumps and rail grinds from a 45-degree angle is like leaving your TV and trying to keep playing Tony Hawk from the ******* with the bathroom door ajar. Most disappointingly, Mutants Unleashed seems built primarily as a single-player game. The Turtles you haven’t selected will simply dip out at the beginning of every level, so you never feel like you’re part of a fighting ********* – which is what TMNT is all about. Sure, it has two-player co-op, but it’s not four-player, so that still doesn’t feel right. You don’t even get AI Turtles raising shell in the background. The special assist moves make it seem like a second Turtle is going to get involved, but activating them doesn’t actually bring one of your brothers physically into the space. It’s just… implied that they dropped in and bugged out, perhaps while you were blinking. It also doesn’t help that enemies are just the same handful of mutants for the entire game. Trash ******. Zebra squids. Hippo luchadores. A couple more. But it’s over a dozen hours of these same few baddies. Yes, I understand a licensed tie-in game isn’t going to be able to introduce important opponents from the TMNT universe – like the Foot Clan or such – before the film’s inevitable sequel. *****, I wouldn’t let it either. That’s how you get Emperor Palpatine returning to Star Wars in… Fortnite. At 6am *********** Eastern Daylight Time on a random Sunday morning. But Mutants Unleashed really needed more ****** variety. There are a host of side missions, but unfortunately these only contribute to the repetition. Civilian missions involve beating up a bunch of the same mutants across a couple of levels you’ve almost certainly been to before. Contagion missions involve running through a level you’ve almost certainly been to before, beating up the same mutants again, although this time some of them will be highlighted as key targets. Pizza deliveries are just speed runs through the same levels once more, although the enemies have been removed, and the map is now full of giant inflatable bounce pads and ***** gates for no discernible reason. And no one’s carrying a pizza. Mutants Unleashed features a time progression system, where each mission or conversation encounter takes either a day or a night, and then the day moves on. This puts a limit on the amount of side activities you can tackle before needing to do a main mission, but there’s more than enough time to complete everything in a single playthrough. There’s about two months of tasks, but I had weeks up my sleeve before needing to do the final couple of story missions and I was already out of side missions, so the time component doesn’t really add a great deal. No Diggity The RPG-style conversational component of Mutants Unleashed does add a lot of unexpected exposition, although I think the story of a new wave of mutants descending on New York and finding themselves at odds with the existing human population is an effective and totally logical follow-up to the movie. It continues the themes that hatred and prejudice are repugnant from any side they’re projected and, while “do unto others” is admittedly a message that’s been embedded in kids’ cartoons for decades, that doesn’t make it any less authentic in this new TMNT world where mutants and humans have suddenly been thrown together. Yes, not every conversation is particularly riveting, and not all of them are actually voiced, either. These sections are also entirely passive, so there are definitely times when they’re simply filler. Even moments that seem custom made for a minigame – like Donatello visiting an arcade to play a dancing game – ultimately aren’t interactive. An indirect dig at how rubbish Raph is in the original TMNT game is cute, but otherwise there’s a bit of a weird clash of approaches at times. I raised my eyebrow as the script worked quite hard to concoct an entire fantasy catalogue of parody John Hughes films to not mention him by name – but then, on other occasions, overtly references the likes of Clint Eastwood and Chuck Norris. Cutscenes are totally hamstrung by the glacial cadence of conversations. The biggest problem, however, is the pacing of the dialogue. Cutscenes are totally hamstrung by the glacial cadence of conversations, which waits line-by-line for huge dialogue boxes and canned reaction animations to pop up. This creates highly-unnatural pauses between sentences and very much ****** the momentum of conversations. These scenes can mostly be skipped, or slightly sped up by hammering a button, but they’re nonetheless necessary if you want to progress the Turtles’ relationships with their friends around the city and unlock new upgrades. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

October 29 is looking to be a huge day for Battlefield 2042 players. DICE's shooter was not the most well received title in the franchise, as the game was criticized for some of its mechanics when it launched. Despite this, Battlefield 2042 saw life through its seasons that constantly provided new content for players. View the full article

Call of Duty and error codes go together like spaghetti and meatballs. It’s just a dysfunctional marriage that seems as old as the series itself. In ****** Ops 6, error codes are back, including dev errors and more. But one particular error is a confusing one to read and likely has you scratching your head if you found your way to this article. Don’t worry, your game is most likely okay, and there’s a swift solution to get you back online and fragging with friends. View the full article

As this year's Disney Dreamlight Valley Halloween event goes live, many longtime players are disappointed about the lack of new offerings, as almost every paid and free item that players can get is reportedly the same as those available last year. Ever since Disney Dreamlight Valley was released back in 2022, it has kept players entertained with all the updates and new offerings that developer Gameloft has rolled out. However, there have also been some issues along the way. View the full article

Thunder Cage is one of the first Ultimate Weapons you'll get in The First Descendant, and it's strong for many reasons. Its burst damage is excellent, making it useful for mowing down mobs and taking on bosses. With the right build, Thunder Cage can devastate a battlefield, but you'll need to unlock the ultimate version of the **** and level up fast to see it at its full potential truly. View the full article

A Zenless Zone Zero ***** revealed that players could get a free Bangboo in Version 1.3. Bangboos are intelligent devices that resemble bunnies, which are designed to assist in everyday tasks and Hollow operations. They are also considered as Zenless Zone Zero's functional **** companions because of their passive abilities in battle. View the full article

The Neptunia strategy RPG starring the PlayStation rep will appear on the platform originally represented by Blanc. View the full article

With the drop of Once Human's Way of Winter scenario, players will have a set of seven new deviants to get their hands on. Among the new arrivals are three Combat Deviants and three Territory Deviants, with just one new Crafting Deviant to catch as you take on quests and explore the wilderness. Each is worth capturing, offering unique abilities and effects to use to your advantage at the height of the PvE scenario. View the full article

Diablo 4 players are loving the changes made to the Paragon system in Season 6. Named Hatred Rising, Diablo 4 Season 6 marked an important moment, as it was released at the same time as the game's first expansion. It has also been notable for introducing exciting content such as new dungeons and enemies, as well as major changes to the progression of the action RPG. View the full article

After the success of Halloween (1978), Friday the 13th kicked off the 80's by taking the slasher genre to gorey new heights. Jason Voorhees first appeared (sort of) to terrify teens at a Crystal Lake summer camp, and its safe to say the original Friday the 13th is essential viewing for any horror fan. 12 movies and 11 directors later, the hockey-mask wearing horror villain has become a zombie, gone to space, and battled a fellow slasher icon. For those looking to watch or rewatch the films ahead of Halloween or the next Friday the 13th in December, here's where you can stream all of the Friday the 13th movies right now. Where to Watch the Friday the 13th Movies Online Over the years, the Friday the 13th movies have been pretty hard to find online. This October, the first eight Friday the 13th movies ("the original series," if you will) have finally found a home at Paramount+. The more recent films, including the 2009 reboot, are available to stream on Max. All of the Friday the 13th movies are available to rent or purchase from digital storefronts, which is unfortunately the only way to get your hands on Jason Goes to ***** (maybe that one's for the best) and Jason X. Friday the 13th (1980) Stream: Paramount+Rent/Buy: Prime VideoFriday the 13th Part 2 (1981) Stream: Paramount+ Rent/Buy: Prime Video Friday the 13th Part III (1982) Stream: Paramount+ Rent/Buy: Prime Video Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter (1984) Stream: Paramount+ Rent/Buy: Prime Video Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985) Stream: Paramount+ Rent/Buy: Prime Video Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) Stream: Paramount+ Rent/Buy: Prime Video Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) Stream: Paramount+ Rent/Buy: Prime Video Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) Stream: Paramount+Rent/Buy: Prime VideoJason Goes to *****: The Final Friday (1993) Rent/Buy: Prime Video Jason X (2002)Rent/Buy: Prime Video IGN's ReviewFreddy vs. Jason (2003) Stream: MaxRent/Buy: Prime VideoIGN's Review Friday the 13th (2009) Stream: Max or HuluRent/Buy: Prime VideoIGN's Review[/url]Friday the 13th Movies on Blu-ray While the Friday the 13th movies may be all over the place online, Shout!Factory released a collected set of all 12 movies on Blu-ray back in 2020. The set also includes what can only be described as a ludicrous amount of bonus features. If you don't need the Blu-ray or all those extras, you can also grab a DVD set of the first 8 movies for around $20. What Order Should You Watch the Friday the 13th Movies The Friday the 13th franchise, like most of the 80's slashers, has a lot going on. We're talking spin-offs, reboots, crossovers, and some good ol' time travel. For those interested in the Jason timeline, we've also covered how to watch the Friday the 13th movies in chronological order. Will There Be More Friday the 13th Movies? While the 2009 reboot may have intended to bring back the series, complicated legal drama over franchise rights has stalled the production of any new Friday the 13th movies since. Instead, the biggest release the franchise has seen in the past 15 years was Friday the 13th: The Game, which, due to more legal drama, was delisted at the end of 2023. Still, we may finally get that 13th Friday the 13th movie. Earlier this year, Horror, Inc announced they would be working with some of the original license holders to build up a multi-platform Jason Universe. Yes, of course that's what they're calling it. While the Jason-verse will seemingly kick off with a Crystal Lake TV show, hopefully we see Jason back on the big screen sooner rather than later. Looking more horror movie marathons? Check out our guides on where to stream every Conjuring movie or Saw movie. [/url] Blythe (she/her) is an SEO Coordinator at IGN who is always looking for the next great horror story and turn-based RPG. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Professional Call of Duty player Clayster has announced his retirement from the competitive scene after a 16-year-long career. Clayster revealed his decision only days before the release of Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6. View the full article