In this deduction adventure, you play as Lil - an unlikely 12-year-old hero - covering your dad's shift at the guard shed and are tasked with deciding the fate of over 100 unique characters. You will question humans, elves, goblins, cyclopses, and other fantasy creatures using your powers of deduction to determine who to admit or deny based on how they respond to your questions and your trusty tools. Sending visitors to jail, inadvertently zapping them to smithereens, or letting them go on their merry way are all part of the job. But be careful: who you let through the castle gates will determine the kingdom's fate.

As February draws closer, Disney+ has released the list of movies, TV shows, and documentaries that will be coming to the service next month. Here's everything that will be added to Disney's streaming service starting February 1.

Making its premiere on Disney+ is The Marvels, the last major film to be released as part of the MCU's phase five. The film sees an epic team up between Carol Danvers, Kamala Khan, and Monica Rambeau as they investigate why their powers have become entangled with each other. Premiering alongside the blockbuster film on February 7 is a documentary about its production called Assembled: The Making of The Marvels.

We're also getting more Star Wars in February, with the premiere of the third and final season of animated series The Bad Batch. Following a group of defective but talented clones who turned against the newly formed Empire, the series follows on from The Clone Wars animated series, and sees the return of a number of familiar faces for Star Wars fans. The first three episodes will premiere on February 21, with new episodes continuing to drop each Wednesday.

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Pocketpair's survival game Palworld recently went into Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview, and the studio has already found itself in some hot water.

At face value, Palworld looks like a Pokemon game with guns because of how similar the monsters look to the Nintendo property. Thanks to VGC, we know that some people have begun to accuse the studio of plagiarism.

A significant reason why these accusations became popular was because of X/Twitter user @ byofrog. On January 20, the user began to upload a series of photos/videos and claimed that the models used in Palworld are copied from Pokemon.

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Riot Games, the team behind League of Legends and Valorant, has announced that it has laid off 530 employees. This equates to roughly 11% of the workforce at the studio.

The news comes from a Riot Games blog post where A. Dylan Jadeja, the CEO of Riot Games, wrote, "I'm accountable for the changes we're making and where we're headed in the future. So, I think it's important for me to share how we got here and how the next few days will work."

A big reason why Jadeja claims the layoffs are happening is because, in 2019, the company decided to create "new experiences" and broaden its portfolio. The company was forced to bring more people on board within just a few years.

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Season 1 Reloaded is live in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone, and with added DLC guns and weapon balancing updates, there are now new loadouts you'll want to try for battle royale. Here we recommend various weapon loadouts you can try for your next match.

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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is the second chapter of the planned Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy and tells the story of what happens after the main characters leave the dark, oppressive city of Midgar and set off into a gorgeous world. While there's still plenty more to come in the final entry, there's a monstrous amount of the 1997 original's tale to cover in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and players should expect to spend quite a lot of time uncovering it all. Read on to find out exactly how long it'll take you to beat Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

How long to beat Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

According to the developers of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the main story of this outing of Cloud and friends should take an average of 40 hours for most players to complete. That's a substantial amount of content for those just looking for a streamlined, story-focused experience and doesn't account for the bevy of side quests, collectibles, and mini-games the game has to offer. Instead, completionists can expect to spend over double that amount of time doing everything.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth contains nearly 100 hours worth of content.

You read that right: Those looking to complete the entirety of what comes packed in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth may be shocked to hear that the developers have also promised nearly 100 hours worth of total content. Certainly, there's no shortage of optional experiences for players to discover as they explore every nook and cranny of this pseudo-open-world chapter in the trilogy.

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Now that January is almost over, Hulu has released its schedule of all the new shows/movies coming to the streaming platform during February 2024. Starting on February 1, you can look forward to a lineup of content, both new and old.

To kick off February, you can watch FX's Feud: Capote vs. The Swans: Limited Series Premiere. The show is based on a book titled Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era. The series will follow a young writer named Truman Capote, played by Tom Hollander, who's surrounded by "society's most elite women" and ends up betraying their trust when he writes a book based on their lives.

But if you're looking for something more lighthearted, don't worry. Starting on February 8, you'll be able to watch the premiere of Season 3 of Abbott Elementary. Or you can watch people sing their hearts away in American Idol's 22nd season premiere on February 19.

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John Boyega is set to star and executive produce a television series prequel to the 2010 post-apocalyptic action film The Book of Eli, which originally featured Denzel Washington in the title role. The details were first reported by Deadline.

The upcoming series, currently in development, will explore the backstory of Washington's character in the original film. Boyega (Attack the Block, the Star Wars sequel trilogy) is slated to portray a younger Eli, collaborating with Gary Whitta (the original film's writer) and the directing duo Albert and Allen Hughes. Set 30 years before the original movie, the series will take place during or roughly around the immediate aftermath of a nuclear catastrophe. If you need your memory jogged, check out the original film's trailer below.

The original film followed Eli, a nomad navigating a post-apocalyptic America, safeguarding a sacred book crucial to humanity's salvation. The film, which also starred Gary Oldman and Mila Kunis, received mixed reviews but was a box-office success, earning $157.1 million worldwide on an $80 million budget.

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Disney Dreamlight Valley's A Rift in Time expansion features plenty of fresh ways to interact with your valley and its inhabitants, including an entirely new tool, the Royal Hourglass, which lets you find special materials for crafting various items at timebending tables. Among these materials are rare resources known as fragments that you'll have to round up if you want to make some of the expansion's most sought-after pieces of furniture. Here's everything you need to know about finding and using fragments.

How to get timebending fragments in Disney Dreamlight Valley and how they work

Timebending fragments can be found anywhere in the game while using your Royal Hourglass, but only one type of fragment can spawn per day. Unfortunately, there's no set schedule for these spawns, meaning getting the ones you want is entirely luck-based.

Your best course of action is to log in daily and check to see which timebending fragment is available that day. You can do this by going to Menu > Collection > Eternity Isle > Timebending and then scrolling down to Fragments. The one that is spawning that day will say "Available today" at the bottom of the screen when selected.

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There are a lot of additional materials and resources to find in Disney Dreamlight Valley's A Rift in Time expansion, including various timebending items that are used in crafting furniture and such at timebending tables. One of the rarest resource of all, however, is known as Glimmer. This special material can only be found in specific places in limited quantities, so let's dive in and help you understand how to get as much of it as possible each day.

Where to get Glimmer in Disney Dreamlight Valley

Glimmer can only be found within Realms after getting your Royal Hourglass to Level 2. This means you'll need to fast travel to the realms you have unlocked each day to find some. But there's some bad news about farming for Glimmer.

You'll need to fast travel to Realms to find Glimmer.

While it's clear that you'll need plenty of this resource, there's a daily limit on how much you can find. Smaller Realms like WALL-E's will generally only provide you with a single piece of Glimmer per day, while you can score between twoto three in larger Realms like Frozen's. Once you've exhausted each Realm's daily allotment, you'll need to check back in the following day to keep the grind going.

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Palworld presents numerous challenges that you need to tackle as you progress further into its sandbox campaign. One, in particular, serves as the conclusion of the game's tutorial stage. Here's our guide on how to find and beat the Rayne Syndicate's Tower boss in Palworld. This particular battle pits you against Zoey and Grizzbolt.

How to find and beat the Rayne Syndicate's Tower boss in Palworld

The Palworld Rayne Syndicate's Tower boss is located due northwest of your starting location. The coordinates are X: 107, Y: -437.

If you're just starting out, look northeast and you'll see a lone structure with a high-tech design in the distance. Its eerie bluish light is also visible even when it's late at night.

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Wrestling fans don't have to wait much longer for the latest edition of the 2K's annual series. WWE 2K24 releases on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC via Steam on March 8. There are multiple versions of WWE 2K24 available on all consoles, each with its own unique box art featuring different WWE Superstars. This includes special deluxe and Wrestlemania editions that come with tons of bonus content and let you play the full game a few days early. Some versions even include a free digital copy of last year's game, WWE 2K23, as a bonus.

All versions of WWE 2K24 are available for preorder at various online retailers. Let's go over each version, their unique preorder bonuses and add-on content, and links to preorder.

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Palworld sees your character exploring distant lands and vast expanses. Thankfully, you won't always need to do the whole endeavor on foot. Here's our guide on how to ride Pals in Palworld.

How to ride Pals in Palworld

You can ride Pals by crafting their respective harnesses. Here's a quick summary:

• Certain Pals that you catch might have a unique feature in that you can craft harnesses or collars for them. You can see what's available by browsing the Technology menu. You may then unlock this particular blueprint by spending Technology Points.
• Some Pal-related items provide additional functions, like holding Foxspark to turn the creature into a makeshift flamethrower. Others, meanwhile, allow you to ride them.
• A few examples of Pals that can be ridden include Eikthyrdeer, Nitewing, and Dinossom. Remember that you must first catch at least one of these Pals to see if they have this particular function.

The Pal Gear Workbench lets you craft a bunch of stuff for creatures that you've captured.How to craft Pal saddles

The saddles that you craft to ride Pals in Palworld come from the Pal Gear Workbench, a level 6 tech blueprint. Once unlocked, select it from the Build menu (i.e. "B" key). You need 10x Paldium Fragment, 30x Wood, and 2x Cloth to construct this workbench.

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Avowed, the upcoming RPG by developer Obsidian, is set to feature open-zone areas comparable in size to the ones in the studio's previous game, The Outer Worlds. In an interview for the Official Xbox Podcast, republished by Xbox Wire, game director Carrie Patel and gameplay director Gabe Paramo shared details about scope, combat features, and how quests will work.

"It’s open-zone, size comparable to The Outer Worlds areas on the larger side, and [with] multiple paths essentially to tackle combat situations, or avoid them," Paramo said. In case you're unfamiliar with the term, open-zone refers to independent maps that are interconnected with each other, but don't make up for a single open-world to traverse through seamlessly.

Breaking down the gameplay shown during the Xbox Developer Direct on January 18, Paramo takes the segment about the quest in Shatterscarp, which shares a glimpse of dialogue-based choices, as an example of the nature of missions in Avowed. The quest in question is "entirely discoverable, which means it's also entirely missable," he added.

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Universal Pictures is working on a new film in the Jurassic World franchise, with veteran screenwriter David Koepp on board. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Koepp, known for his contributions to the original Jurassic Park and its 1997 sequel, will be writing the script for this project.

Unnamed sources indicate that the project and screenplay are both already "far enough along… in a well-liked shape" that there is the potential of a possible 2025 release.

No director has been appointed yet. However, reports suggest that Frank Marshall, the experienced producer of the Jurassic World trilogy, will be returning as a producer, alongside Patrick Crowley. Steven Spielberg, the mastermind behind the original Jurassic Park, will serve as executive producer through his Amblin Entertainment banner.

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It was only a matter of time before Palworld, the wildly popular monster-collecting survival game the internet has come to refer to as "Pokemon with guns," received a mod to turn it into actual Pokemon with guns. That time is now here, just days after release, and it's for that reason the game's modding community is attempting to get ahead of any potential legal action from Pokemon parent company Nintendo by distancing itself from the mod ahead of time.

In a post on the Palworld Modding Community Discord server (accessible via a link on the PalworldMods subreddit), server admin Archery 100 announced that links and files related to Pokemon mods would be banned on the Discord, and anyone caught posting such material would be immediately banned. However, players can still engage in "casual discussion" of the mod.

"Hey y'all, I'm sure many of you have been seeing all the content regarding the Pokemon mod for Palworld," Archery 100 writes. "While the memes and such are hilarious, the mod alone hosts a giant risk to the community and we'll need to take precautions so that Nintendo's lawyers don't nuke all of us with litigious actions. The mod is highly likely using ripped assets and is very illegal in Nintendo's eyes."

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