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Our quick take Lenovo Smart Clock - 4.0 / 5 Design & Display Integrated speaker (1.5in 3W with peak power of 6W) and 2x passive radiators Dimensions and weight: 114 x 79 x 80mm; 328g Volume up/down physical controls 4-inch screen with touch control USB port to rear Bluetooth 5.0 Faces and Brightness 10 clock faces to choose from Brighter, Dim, Darker low-level brightness Manually adjustable brightness and automatic ambient light sensor...

Lenovo’s Yoga family has thrown up some of the most diverse devices over the past few years and the Yoga Book 9i fits perfectly into this flexible family. The Yoga Book is a Windows laptop, foregoing the physical keyboard for a pair of screens and coming with an external keyboard and unique origami stand and pen. We caught up with the Yoga Book 9i at CES 2023 to put it through its paces....

Warning: contains spoilers for Line of Duty series 6 episode 5 The pause button really came into its own in this week’s Line of Duty instalment, which was even more packed than usual with references to the past. It saw the return of Patrick Fairbank, and the new arrival of a potential ‘H’ candidate played by Jimmy Nesbitt, plus a cliffhanger that threatened the end of DI Kate Fleming (see below for more on that)....

It’s been 55 years since the release of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! Here are some surprising facts you might not know about the animated special. “Lee Mendelson hadn’t planned on a career in animation. But when television sponsors saw the filmmaker’s documentary about cartoonist Charles Schulz, they asked if the two could team up to produce a Christmas special based on Schulz’s Peanuts strip. The result, A Charlie Brown Christmas, was seen by roughly half of all households watching television during its premiere on CBS on December 9, 1965....

House of Gucci director Ridley Scott confirms there’s a Blade Runner TV series in development, planned for a 10-hour long story. “Sir Ridley Scott turns 84 in 2 weeks, but the iconic director shows no signs of slowing down. With his latest film The House of Gucci hitting theaters this week, Scott is hard at work on adapting two of his most famous franchises, Blade Runner and Alien, into live-action TV series....

Perfect World released a new trailer for Magic: Legends, showing off the latest class to join in on the ARPG action. The Dimir Assassin uses lightning-fast combos to deal impressive damage, while also relying on crowd control and debuffs to weaken their foes. “The Dimir Assassin epitomizes Ravnica’s House Dimir, capable of setting up their enemies for devastating combo attacks and always fighting on their terms with a strong sense of control before exploiting a weakness to catastrophic effect,” Perfect World announced....

Magic: The Gathering’s latest expansion, Core Set 2020, has arrived, both on paper and in Magic: The Gathering Arena. This brand new collection of cards includes some returning favorites and some powerful new forces that are sure to become legendary in their time. Speaking of legendary, one of the most fascinating card types in Magic is the Legendary type, which denotes that there can only ever exist one copy of it at a time on your side of the battlefield....

Launching today for all major platforms through publisher Humble Games, Carto is the story of a young girl who accidentally triggers a wind storm while playing with her grandmother’s magic map, whisking her away to the realm the map controlled. This adventure game by Taiwanese developer Sunhead Games features calm music and hand-drawn art vaguely reminiscent of The Guise, just a bit brighter. The game’s puzzle-like map mechanic allows players to move and rotate map pieces, effectively rearranging the play area, and opening access to new areas....

Alice X. Zhang, an llustrator for Marvel, BBC Worldwide, Disney, DC Films, Lucasfilm, Naughty Dog and Team Liquid, has created an amazing mock-up of HBO’s upcoming The Last of Us series. The Chinese-American artist, who has created prints celebrating television shows and films like Black Mirror, Blade Runner, Doctor Who, Killing Eve, Peaky Blinders, Sherlock, The Witcher and Wonder Woman, among numerous others, tweeted her tribute to The Last of Us with the caption, “Me pretending to work for The Last of Us on HBO....

Mass Effect: Andromeda could be longer than Mass Effect 3, according to lead designer Ian Frazier who also reveals that the upcoming RPG is “very beginner friendly.” As a result of the divisive release of Mass Effect 3, developer BioWare has made some big changes to the franchise’s next release, Mass Effect: Andromeda. For example, ME3’s ending influenced the upcoming game’s story and the new title will also ignore the last entry’s endings by explaining that the news of what happened at the end of the controversial game simply hasn’t reached the Andromeda galaxy yet....

BioWare and Electronic Arts offer The Game Awards viewers their first look at Mass Effect: Andromeda gameplay in action, showing off one of next year’s most anticipated games. Although last month was packed full of new details about Mass Effect: Andromeda and all BioWare’s latest sequel will offer, the seemingly endless news stream was missing one key component. Gamers had heard a lot about what BioWare was going for with Mass Effect: Andromeda, but they hadn’t seen anything substantial from the game....

Mass Effect: Andromeda creative director Mac Walters confirms that the Paragon and Renegade system from the original Mass Effect trilogy won’t be in the new game. One of the ways the upcoming Mass Effect: Andromeda is diverting from franchise norms is by removing the Paragon and Renegade system that governed player choice in the original trilogy. BioWare previously revealed that the studio was looking to “move away” from the Paragon and Renegade morality system in Mass Effect: Andromeda, but now we know that it’s being removed entirely, and we also know why BioWare made such a decision....

In advance of N7 Day, BioWare releases a short teaser trailer for Mass Effect Andromeda that hints more details and information is coming on November 7. After finishing the final game in the Mass Effect trilogy in 2012, fans have been eagerly awaiting any sort of information regarding the future of the franchise. BioWare has continued to keep the community in suspense after teasing the next entry in the franchise with Mass Effect Andromeda at E3 2015....

A massive data breach has reportedly occurred of the popular online social RP game Town of Salem. The game, which provides a service enabling users to play a version of the popular secret role game Mafia or Werewolf, touts a userbase of almost 8 million players. It seems that the hack accessed a variety of user data, including usernames, emails, passwords, and even a limited amount of billing and payment information....

Not too long ago, the idea of Spider-Man appearing in the MCU seemed like a dream for Marvel fans. The cinematic universe continued to grow, bringing in classic characters as well as some fun new ones, but one of Marvel’s biggest names was still absent. Incredibly, Disney and Sony struck a deal to bring Peter Parker aka Spider-Man into the MCU where he quickly became one of its most beloved heroes....

Among the seemingly endless amount of fan theories that were inspired by WandaVision, one predicted the show would set up the X-Men and the introduction of the mutant race into the MCU. As many fans know, Wanda Maximoff’s comic book origins are as a mutant and, in fact, the daughter of Magneto. This was changed in Avengers: Age of Ultron due to rights issues, but with Marvel now holding the rights to the X-Men once again, there was the possibility of some retconning to bring mutants into the fold....

If you’ve ever wanted to try Metro:Last Light Redux, now is your chance since it’s currently free on the GOG store. Not familiar with the Metro series or feel like you need some of the other titles too? In addition to this freebie, several other games in the Metro series have been drastically reduced, so you can play to your heart’s content. Just like the Epic Games Store and the Steam Store, GOG....

Over the last 12 months there have been discussions far and wide over whether resolution is important to current-gen games. Now that the idea of a 1080p game has transformed from a rarity to an expectation, gamers have begun to single out those titles that fail to reach that benchmark. Things progress a step further, however, when gamers learn that a game is capable of running at 1080p, but only on one console....

In the few months that have passed since the Xbox Series X’s reveal, Microsoft has answered quite a few questions regarding the upcoming console, opening up on the XSX’s technical specs and how those specs will improve gamers’ gaming experience. However, it was only until this week that the company finally gave an explanation to perhaps the most pressing question everyone’s had: why is it shaped like that? From day one, one of the biggest points of contention regarding the next Xbox has been the design of the console itself....

There’s no denying that Microsoft has come under fire from consumers in recent months, with the Xbox One’s controversial features being entirely to blame. Still, the house of Bill Gates has made significant modifications to its policies as of late — including abandoning its controversial used-game policies and making it unnecessary to be connected to the Internet once every 24 hours — and now the company has begun correcting one of the biggest issues developers had with its Xbox 360....