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Master Lego Batman’s Gotham with 16 Essential Tips
games2 days ago

Master Lego Batman’s Gotham with 16 Essential Tips

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is an open-world, largely chill title. Start with story missions to unlock characters, tools, and gold bricks to upgrade your skills, then explore freely. Use Detective Mode often to highlight puzzles and interactables, unlock Batman’s grapple slam to deal with shielded foes, and improve Jim Gordon’s bouncing projectile for AR combat. Check the map for activities you can complete before you’ve unlocked all characters, use Batgirl to reveal map icons, and drive the Batmobile to rack up studs. Revisit the Batcave/Batcomputer to replay missions and claim rewards, and don’t miss purple studs (which multiply) for big boosts. You can also upgrade gadgets at Batmite shops and turn off stud loss on death in accessibility settings for a smoother ride.

Saros Survival: 12 Key Strategies for Housemarque’s Roguelike
tips-and-guides28 days ago

Saros Survival: 12 Key Strategies for Housemarque’s Roguelike

Here are 12 practical Saros tips: loop back to the Passage for new dialogue and upgrades, take alternate paths for loot, clear corruption before healing, use Arjun’s melee to break shields and take down foes, decide when to activate or skip the Eclipse, rely on the Overlord health-perk to recover between bosses, explore Nightmare Strands and non-combat story zones, hold keys for late-game upgrades, prioritize Halcyon for long-term progression, and tune DualSense Edge trigger settings to optimize weapon switching.

Combo Mastery in Vampire Crawlers: Essential Early Tips
tips-and-guides1 month ago

Combo Mastery in Vampire Crawlers: Essential Early Tips

Kotaku’s Vampire Crawlers tips guide teaches you to chain cards by mana cost (ABC: Always Be Combo-ing), use wild cards to fill gaps, smash map dots for gold and new cards, time healing from chicken, evolve powerful cards, upgrade greed and might early to fund more upgrades, slot a zero-cost gem into mana-boosting cards, cash out chests when they aren’t worth it, replay runs to farm gold, and leverage Arcana’s Sharp Mind plus Arca Ladonna early to maximize mana and damage.

Let It Unfold: A Relaxed Guide to Tomodachi Life – Living the Dream
tips-and-guides1 month ago

Let It Unfold: A Relaxed Guide to Tomodachi Life – Living the Dream

Kotaku frames Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream as a reality-TV style life sim where you curate a cast of Miis and watch their antics rather than micromanage every choice; have fun by keeping play sessions short, checking in daily for new items, chasing the expansive collectible catalog (over 9,814 items), gifting treasures, using TomodachiShare to recreate characters, and just going with the flow as Miis’ romances and on-island chaos unfold.

From On/Off to Precision Light: iPhone and Samsung Flashlight Hacks
technology1 month ago

From On/Off to Precision Light: iPhone and Samsung Flashlight Hacks

iPhone and Samsung offer advanced flashlight controls beyond a simple on/off. iPhone Pro models let you adjust brightness and beam width via Control Center, can be accessed from the Lock Screen, and Siri can control the light; you can also enable Flash for Alerts. Samsung devices let you tweak brightness in Quick Settings, use Google Assistant to turn the flashlight on/off, keep the icon in the main Quick Settings panel, and enable flashlight notifications. These features enhance nighttime visibility, one-handed use, and notifications across both brands.

Five essential Android Auto tweaks for a safer drive
apps-and-software1 month ago

Five essential Android Auto tweaks for a safer drive

Android Auto can be improved with five quick tweaks: stop music from auto-playing when connected; minimize notification distractions by turning off the message chime or removing apps from the Android Auto drawer; prevent Android Auto from starting automatically (no direct setting—use the workaround to disable Start Android Auto while the phone is locked); create shortcuts in Customize Launcher for frequent actions; and enable Taskbar widgets to control playback from the taskbar, so you can stay focused on the road.

DoorDash Grandma Sparks Political Stir with White House McDonald’s Drop-Off
politics1 month ago

DoorDash Grandma Sparks Political Stir with White House McDonald’s Drop-Off

Sharon Simmons, a Fayetteville grandmother of 10 and DoorDash driver, delivered McDonald’s to President Trump at the White House in a publicity stunt tied to the No Tax on Tips policy; DoorDash says it wasn’t staged, and Simmons has publicly supported the policy, which she credits with saving money for her husband’s cancer treatment, while the optics drew scrutiny from critics about manipulation.

Tiny Habits, Big Savings: 30 Small Money Hacks That Add Up
lifestyle1 month ago

Tiny Habits, Big Savings: 30 Small Money Hacks That Add Up

BuzzFeed aggregates 30 reader-submitted, seemingly small money-saving habits that add up over time, from delaying impulse online purchases and deleting sale emails to buying off-season, using reusable bags, stocking up on sales with coupons, tracking MPG and groceries with apps, clipping coupons, leveraging library loans, and other frugal tweaks—illustrating how tiny, consistent changes can accumulate into substantial annual savings.

Crimson Desert Essentials: Early tips for faster travel, bigger inventory, and tougher fights
gaming2 months ago

Crimson Desert Essentials: Early tips for faster travel, bigger inventory, and tougher fights

Kotaku’s spoiler-free guide for Crimson Desert compiles practical early-game tips: don’t spam attacks or sprint—hold attack for continuous hits and use a steady pace to conserve stamina; upgrade gear with a blacksmith early and visit all shopkeepers to expand your inventory with inexpensive bags; complete Sealed Artifact challenges to earn Abyss Cores and boost stamina for better exploring and sprinting; hold the looting button to grab nearby items quickly; use the magic sword (L1+R1) to reveal fast-travel points and light fires for cooking and healing; stock up on cooked meat and craft meals for tougher fights; ring bells in major towns to clear fog and reveal the map; watch the yellow Abyss Core bar on the mini‑map to unlock new skill nodes as you explore.

Three game-changing iPhone camera tricks you should try today
technology2 months ago

Three game-changing iPhone camera tricks you should try today

A Tom’s Guide feature highlights three practical iPhone camera tricks: record video directly from Photo mode by long-pressing the shutter (with a lock option for hands-free capture and the ability to snap photos without stopping video); use Live Text to extract and act on text found in the camera frame (calling numbers, opening URLs, copying text); and extract the best still frame from a Live Photo by editing and choosing a Key Photo, turning a potentially imperfect shot into a sharp keep.

iOS 26 Hidden Tweaks Make Your iPhone Smarter in Daily Use
technology2 months ago

iOS 26 Hidden Tweaks Make Your iPhone Smarter in Daily Use

iOS 26 adds a suite of practical, everyday upgrades across Battery, Camera, Messages, Maps and more—from Adaptive Power Mode and customizable snooze durations to new ringtones from Files, partial text copying, visited places in Maps, battery time estimates, on-device screenshot search, lyric translations in Apple Music, screen-call, AirPods as a remote shutter, conversation backgrounds, PDF editing in Preview, a mid-screen back-swipe gesture, satellite weather, lens-clean alerts, HDR screenshots, digital passports in Wallet, and in-Chat polls—making the iPhone feel smarter and more personal.

Kick Off Monster Hunter Stories 3 with 10 Essential Tips
tips-and-guides2 months ago

Kick Off Monster Hunter Stories 3 with 10 Essential Tips

Kotaku lays out 10 essential tips for starting Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection, focusing on weapon diversity, Head-to-Head counters, Kinship riding and attacks, completing ally Side Stories and side quests, gathering materials and eggs from monster dens, and optimizing Genes via the Rite of Channeling plus Habitat Restoration to prep for tougher end-game battles.

Master Marathon Early: 15 Essential Tips for Surviving the Extraction Shooter
technology2 months ago

Master Marathon Early: 15 Essential Tips for Surviving the Extraction Shooter

Kotaku’s Marathon beginner guide lays out 15 tips to survive and loot efficiently: chase Unstable materials to upgrade vaults; unlock and level factions via contracts to power up Rook; complete contracts and follow faction XP goals from agent screens (with reroll options for tough contracts); manage heat by crouching and using water; deploy claymores, smoke grenades, and signal jammers to slip past bots; note that depleted shield/health kits don’t carry out of the exfil; use red flares to locate lockboxes; use the map to track contracts; upgrade factions to unlock Capstones; use TADs for enemy intel; keep Mechanic Kits to remove poison plant debuffs. Expect learning through trial and error as you master Marathon’s systems.

Run Less, Win More: 7 Rules for Marathon's Extraction Shootout
tips-and-guides2 months ago

Run Less, Win More: 7 Rules for Marathon's Extraction Shootout

Marathon, Bungie’s new live-service extraction shooter, rewards planning over reflexes. The guide lists seven no-goes: stop sprinting around, don’t fight everything that moves, quit reloading Volt ammo after every burst, enter each match with a clear goal, don’t grab every item, don’t extract immediately after a quick loot run, and don’t overuse Rook runs or sponsor kits. Instead, pace yourself, manage ammo and shields, prioritize meaningful loot, and plan your next contract to improve your odds of surviving Tau Ceti IV.