Year: 2024

Lego’s lineup of 2024 Advent Calendars are set to release September 1, with each calendar offering 24 miniature builds, one for each day of December leading up to Christmas. You can preorder Lego Advent Calendars themed around Star Wars, Spider-Man, Disney, and more at Amazon right now. You can even get a discount on a couple of them, including Spider-Man. If you’re interested in decorating your house with Lego sets this holiday, a new buildable wreath and poinsettia arrive on October 1.

Lego 2024 Advent Calendars

  • Lego Star Wars 2024 Advent Calendar — $45
  • Lego Spider-Man 2024 Advent Calendar — $38.24 ($45)
  • Lego Harry Potter 2024 Advent Calendar — $45
  • Lego Disney 2024 Advent Calendar — $45
  • Lego Friends 2024 Advent Calendar — $28.04 ($33)
  • Lego City 2024 Advent Calendar — $33

Lego Star Wars 2024 Advent Calendar

$45 | 246 pieces

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The jolliest season of the year is fast approaching, and if you’re looking to celebrate Christmas in Lego style, you can deck the halls with your very own Lego wreath. This new piece of home decor from Lego is a 1,194-piece, and it’ll be available starting October 1 for $100.

See at The Lego Store Like the real Christmas decoration, the Lego wreath comes with four hanging loops and can be displayed in a garland configuration. You can choose between red, blue, and white berries, or create your own combination, and other decorative elements include orange slices, cinnamon cones, and pine cones.Lego has previously released a Christmas wreath, and while it’s not as detailed, the two-in-one version still looks great and is more affordable with its $49 price tag. There’s also the festive Christmas tree and wreath bundle set. The finished builds are quite nice, as the Christmas tree has various decorations, and the wre…

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After seven years on the market, there are a handful of big-name franchises that have surprisingly never arrived on Switch: Madden, Call of Duty, and The Sims. Well, that last one is changing, as Nintendo confirmed during its August 27 Nintendo Direct event that MySims Cozy Bundle is coming to Switch on November 19. PreordersThe $40 Cozy Bundle includes MySims and MySims Kingdom. Preorders are live now at Target. Preorder at Target The announcement of the MySims Cozy Bundle followed a Kotaku report that said a MySims game is coming to Switch later this year, calling it a remaster “of sorts.” A ResetEra thread noted that multiple European retailers have listings for the unannounced game with a November 19 launch.For those unfamiliar, MySims came out on Wii and Nintendo DS in 2007. It’s a spin-off subseries to The Sims and includes other entries like MySims Racing and MySims Party. They all released on Nintendo platforms, though the games did expand to other platforms, too. GameSpot’s MySims review on Wii gave the game a 6.5/10, saying it was “ultimately more successful as a virtual dollhouse than anything else.” However, there does seem to be a bit of a cult fol…

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After two years, Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power returns this August 29, but are the critics thinking? Reviews for the series from media outlets are now online, giving fans an idea if the sophomore season sinks or swims. The story continues with multiple story threads spread throughout Middle-earth with Nori and the Stranger solving the mystery of his origins, and exploring Sauron’s beginning. Looking back at the first season, we gave it pretty high , but not perfect marks and Season 2 casts a wide net of reviews. Prime Video will release the first three episodes on Thursday, with the remaining five episodes airing weekly.As always, whether or not you enjoy the series may not have anything to do with what the critics might say. Read on to see a breakdown of some of the Rings of Powers reviews from across the internet. The consensus seems to ultimately be that while the show remains stunning to look at, there’s still a long way to go in properly telling a proper Lord of the Rings story.The Lord of the The Rings: The Rings of Power is set thousands of years before the novel in the Second Age of Middle-earth, the season depicts the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron …

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Sony will announce and release a PlayStation 5 Pro device this year, and a new State of Play broadcast where it could be announced is on tap for September, according to reporter Jeff Grubb of GameSpot sister site Giant Bomb.Speaking on the Game Mess Mornings show, Grubb reacted to the report that the PS5 Pro was apparently an open secret at Gamescom recently, as developers prepared games for it. Grubb said, “The last I heard, this thing [the PS5 Pro] is still coming out this year. More recently, what I’ve heard is there is probably going to be a State of Play, not a Showcase, by the end of September.”Grubb said he wasn’t sure if the rumored PS5 Pro will be announced at this potential event but said it’s a possibility. The system could then go on sale in October or November, Grubb said, going on to estimate that it might cost $600 or even potentially $700.A mid-generation Xbox Series X refresh is also rumored, but there isn’t much to go on. Microsoft is launching new hardware this October in the form of a $600 Xbox Series X with a 2TB hard drive and a galaxy-themed design. The PS5 Pro, should it be real, would signal Sony following a formula. Sony also released a PlayStati…

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The firmware app for DualSense on PC has gotten a full upgrade and UI overhaul. It’s now called PlayStation Accessories and it lets you customize your DualSense Edge controller’s button layouts, stick sensitivity, and more directly on your PC.The biggest single new feature is the ability to create, edit, and switch between custom controller profiles on PC. This is exclusive to the DualSense Edge. If you are using a regular DualSense on your computer, you can only use the app to download firmware updates.

In these profiles you can change button assignments, adjust stick sensitivity and deadzones, alter the intensity of vibration and trigger effect, and fine-tune trigger deadzones. Profiles are saved to the co…

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More exciting theme park news was announced today, as Universal Studios Hollywood has revealed Fan Fest Nights, an after-hours event debuting in Spring 2025 that is similar to the park’s Halloween Horror Nights, but with a less-spooky vibe.This ticketed event is focused on sci-fi, fantasy, gaming, and anime, featuring franchises like Star Trek, Back to the Future, and Dungeons & Dragons. Details are scant for now, but Universal said the Star Trek part is themed around Star Trek’s optimistic view of the future and what it means to be human. The Back to the Future portion, meanwhile, is based on the 1985 original movie. Finally, the D&D section of the event is of course inspired by the iconic tabletop RPG that has since leapt off the table and onto the screen recently with the Honor Among Thieves movie and the Baldur’s Gate 3 video game.

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Alien: Romulus director Fede Alvarez has revealed that the sci-fi movie has a surprising connection to The Last of Us. This story contains spoilers for Alien: Romulus and The Last of Us.Posting on social media, Alvarez said he was playing The Last of Us: Part II while he was writing Romulus, and the storyline of Dina being pregnant gave him the idea that Kay should be pregnant in the movie.


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    Set 183 years before the events of the original film trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is the first Lord of the Rings anime and we finally have a full trailer. The film tells the fate of the legendary King of Rohan, Helm Hammerhand, and how his daughter, Héra led a great resistance against a deadly enemy.The trailer, which was teased earlier Thursday by Warner Bros., gives Lord of the Rings fans their first look at Héra in action and the mystery of the whereabouts of the rings. Check it out below. Directed by iconic anime director Kenji Kamiyama, the voice cast includes Brian Cox as Helm Hammerhand and Gaia Wise (A Walk in the Woods) as Héra. They’re joined by Luke Pasqualino (Snowpiercer) as Wulf with Miranda Otto reprising her role as Éowyn, Shieldmaiden of Rohan, serving as the tale’s narrator.Flanking Kamiyama, the film is produced by Oscar winner Philippa Boyens, from the screenwriting team behind both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit features. She is joined by Jason DeMarco and Joseph Chou, who collaborated with Kamiyama on the Blade Runner: Black Lotus series. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh jumped on as executive producers of the project …

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    Cheating is an ongoing problem in Apex Legends and one that–from the outside looking in–feels like an issue that’s gone unaddressed for dozens of seasons now. It’s a tricky situation for the Apex Legends team. On one hand, if the team tells players how it’s actively getting rid of cheating players or bots, then the team shows its hand and subsequently makes all of Apex Legends’ safeguards that much easier to get around. But on the other, saying nothing makes it seem like the team is actively ignoring player concerns. For a while now, the Apex Legends team has opted for the second approach, seemingly believing it the better of two imperfect strategies. Going forward, however, the team is going to try to thread the needle between both strategies.Ahead of the release of a blog post that goes into how the Apex Legends team has contended with cheaters in the past and breaks down the anti-cheat takeaways for this past June and July, Electronic Arts head of product and studio integrated communications Tracey Thompson spoke to me about the philosophy behind this change in strategy.