Author: Daniel Preston

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 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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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.