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Dungeons of Hinterberg review: a breezy action RPG that’s as pretty as a postcard | Rock Paper Shotgun Usually when a game makes me want to stop playing and go outside it’s a bad sign, but with Dungeons of Hinterberg it’s different. It’s an action RPG that made me pine for the outdoors and want to be whisked away from all my responsibilities and just exist for a bit. Each time I would finish playing I’d be thinking about my next getaway, and although dungeon delving wouldn’t be on my holiday itinerary Dungeons of Hinterberg is making me think twice. Protagonist Luisa is stuck in a place we’ve all visited before: Burnout City. She’s a busy lawyer who yearns for some downtime so has decided to escape to the picturesque Hinterberg, a whimsical alpine Austrian village. Hinterberg is essentially a recreational holiday destination where you can hike through the wilderness, knock back a few beers with the locals, and slay some monsters when the feeling strikes you. Outside of the game’s home hub of Hinterberg are four regions with their own handful of dungeons. You decide which region you’d like to visit in the morning, hack and slash your way through a dungeon during the day, hang out with the locals during the evening, then finish the day by returning to your hotel room. It’s a routine you settle into quickly thanks to each area’s distinct charm. From the snowy peaks of Kolmstein with its white wonderland of majestic mountains and ice caves, to the lush meadows of Doberkogel complete with cows, cable cars, and flowers - I was forever taking screenshots, slowly compiling a bumper book of holiday snaps. Each of these regions will grant you two special magical abilities that can only be used in that area and its dungeons. For example, in Doberkogel you can summon a giant, spherical bomb that blasts through blockades and a ball and chain which you can fire at items and pull them towards you. Dungeons will test these abilities through a mix of combat encounters and puzzle-solving, all presented in wildly different ways. You might need to navigate an underwater castle, snowboard across a winter obstacle course, or survive a rickety minecart ride through a monster-invested cavern. When you reach the end of a dungeon you’ll get a satisfying travel stamp in your notebook. Puzzles hit that sweet spot of being minimal effort where nothing is going to majorly stump you, but their breeziness and intuitiveness still makes them satisfying to solve. All the environmental puzzle-platforming regulars are here - switching buttons, pulling levers, moving platforms and the like - but because of each area's regional magic, the puzzle design is constantly switched up. They push you to use your powers in interesting ways, and dungeons feel like they’ve been designed with the puzzles first and foremost, with the level being built around the core idea. Magic isn't only for puzzling but also a part of your fighting arsenal, alongside plenty of other abilities. Luisa doesn’t carry round a big sword for the drip either, as you’ll be hacking and slashing your way through hordes of monsters too. The way she moves feels incredibly fluid, and together with some equippable abilities, fights are often a frenzy of activity and action. I might leap in with 1, 2, 3 quick sword swipes, dodge away, hit ‘em with an ice beam (thanks to the magical power in Kolmstein), and then activate my Blade Tornado, a devastating spinning ability that’s as deadly as it sounds.
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President Donald Trump has started his second stint in the White House by earning positive reviews from Americans, with especially high marks given for the president keeping campaign promises. A large majority of Americans, 70%, believe Trump is doing "what he promised" during the campaign, while just 30% believe the president’s agenda has been "different from promised," according to the results of a CBS/YouGov poll released on Sunday. The poll found that Trump’s overall approval on the job so far is 53%, with 47% of respondents indicating they disapprove. Voters also used positive words to describe the president, with 69% describing him as tough, 63% energetic, 60% focused, and 58% effective. Many Americans also approve of the job Trump has done so far on key issues, with 59% saying they approve of his program to deport illegal immigrants, while 41% said they do not approve. A larger majority, 64%, indicated they approve of the president’s plan to send U.S. troops to the U.S-Mexico border, while 36% disapprove. A majority also responded that they approve of Trump’s handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict, with 54% of Americans saying they approve, compared with 46% who disapprove. However, Americans are less sure about the president’s proposal for the U.S. to take over Gaza following the war, with just 13% responding that it is a "good idea," while 47% say it is a "bad idea" and 40% marked that they were not sure. READ ON THE FOX NEWS APP A slimmer majority approved of Elon Musk and DOGE, with 23% of Americans indicating that they believe the new agency should have "a lot" of influence over government spending and 28% answering that it should have "some," for a total of 51%. Meanwhile, 18% replied that DOGE should have "not much" influence over government spending and 31% said it should have "none," for a total of 49%. But Trump did score some lower marks when it came to his economic agenda, most notably on his efforts to tackle inflation, with 66% indicating the president has not committed enough attention to lowering prices, while 31% believe Trump has focused on the issue the "right amount" and 3% indicated the president has focused "too much" on the issue. New poll shows what Americans think of Trump's performance in second term
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Fueled by a harassing defense, Philadelphia denied a Kansas City coronation in Super Bowl 59, dethroning the Chiefs in a rout that delivered the Eagles their second championship in seven seasons by a score of 40-22. Quarterback Jalen Hurts earned MVP honors after throwing for two touchdowns and running for one more. Kansas City had won three Super Bowl titles in the last five years, including the last two, and it was trying to become the first team in the NFL's Super Bowl era to win back-to-back-to-back titles. Led by quarterback Patrick Mahomes, whose résumé sparked debates about whether he or Tom Brady was the best quarterback in NFL history, the Chiefs had won 17 consecutive one-score games and appeared infallible in the clutch. Philadelphia, however, never allowed this Super Bowl — a rematch from two years earlier — to ever get close, muting Mahomes' effectiveness from the opening drive. Follow along for live coverage In front of a sold-out Superdome crowd in New Orleans, the Eagles’ top-rated defense used its unrelenting pass rush to intercept Mahomes twice before halftime — including an interception birthday boy Cooper DeJean returned for a touchdown — and hold Kansas City scoreless until the final minute of the third quarter. By then, Philadelphia already led 34-0, the biggest deficit Mahomes had ever faced in his decorated career. Kansas City had overcome 10-point deficits to win each of its previous three championships under Mahomes and coach Andy Reid, but no team had ever overcome this big a hole to win a Super Bowl before. Mahomes was sacked a season-high six times and was never allowed enough time to engineer the kind of play-extending magic that had become his signature as he pushed Kansas City to an unprecedented fifth Super Bowl in six seasons. Mahomes had just 33 yards at halftime but finished with 257 yards and three touchdowns. Most striking was how Philadelphia cruised to victory while rarely needing its star running back, Saquon Barkley, to deliver the kind of big plays that had helped the Eagles advance to the Super Bowl in the first place. Barkley surpassed Denver’s Terrell Davis in the second quarter for the most rushing yards in a single season, playoffs included, with 2,478, but he finished with 57 yards on 25 carries, his second-lowest rushing total of the season. Philadelphia’s oft-criticized passing game turned a one-sided game into a blowout. Since the Eagles' Super Bowl loss two years earlier against Kansas City, Hurts adorned his phone's lock screen with a photo of himself walking off the field following the defeat, a constant reminder of coming up short on the NFL's biggest stage. But Hurts was the one celebrating Sunday. He rushed for 72 yards and the game’s opening touchdown, found receiver A.J. Brown for a 12-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter for a 24-0 Eagles lead, and then his 46-yard pass to DeVonta Smith late in the third quarter sealed the victory by extending the lead to 34 points. Hurts completed 17 of his 22 passes for 221 yards, including two touchdowns and one interception. The Chiefs narrowed the final margin when Mahomes threw for two touchdowns in the game's final three minutes, but by then the game was so out of reach that Eagles coach Nick Sirianni had already been doused with a celebratory Gatorade bath by his players. The celebration could officially get underway when Philadelphia recovered an onside kick with 1:48 to play. The Eagles' victory represented a resurgence for a franchise that, since it won its first Super Bowl title in 2018, had fired its coach and endured a humiliating end to the 2023 season. When the Eagles started 2-2, Sirianni was questioned about his hold on the locker room, and when he yelled at Eagles fans in mid-October, he was questioned about his composure; he later apologized. But after Philadelphia’s Week 5 bye, it finished the season 16-1, including Sunday’s runaway victory. Philadelphia Eagles demolish the Kansas City Chiefs to win their second Super Bowl
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Legal and constitutional experts on Sunday warned that the U.S. could be headed toward a "constitutional crisis" or a "breakdown of the system" after Vice President JD Vance suggested that judges don't have jurisdiction over Trump's "legitimate power." "If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal," Vance wrote in a post on X, adding, "Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power." It wasn't clear what judge or court order Vance was referring to, or whether he was making a broad statement. Vance's comments come as several of Trump's sweeping agenda items have met legal roadblocks in the weeks since he took office. A spokesperson for Vance did not respond to clarifying questions from NBC News. Some of Trump’s executive orders have already been challenged in court in over two dozen lawsuits and a number have been temporarily halted by judges. In the latest legal challenge on Saturday, a federal judge temporarily blocked Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive Treasury Department payment systems and Americans’ personal data after 19 state attorneys general sued the administration. Jamal Greene, a professor at Columbia Law School, pointed out that Vance wasn't explicitly saying that the Trump administration was ready to ignore court orders. "I think the tweet, taken on its own terms, is empty because it refers to the 'legitimate powers' of the executive. And the whole question in these cases is whether the executive is acting legitimately or not," Greene told NBC News. "[Vance] has some cover in that sense," Greene added. "He hasn't promised unlawful behavior." Rick Pildes, a professor at New York University’s Law School, also pointed to Vance’s use of the words “legitimate powers” in his post but pointed out that the judiciary is the branch with the power to decide what a president can “legitimately” do or not do. "Under the rule of law and the Constitution, it is the courts that determine whether some use of the executive power is lawful or not. That is the critical point," Pildes told NBC News via email. "The concern is that the vice president’s statement could be taken to suggest that the Executive Branch is prepared to refuse to comply with a court order based on the president’s own view that he has a power that the courts have concluded he does not," he added. "A president who orders his officials not to comply with court orders would be creating a constitutional crisis." Greene pointed out that others in the president's orbit, including Musk, have floated ignoring court orders. On Saturday, Musk reposted a post on X from a user who wrote, "I don’t like the precedent it sets when you defy a judicial ruling, but I’m just wondering what other options are these judges leaving us." "Given the context of which [Vance's post] has happened, it seems to be a winking suggestion that maybe ignoring a court order is on the table," Greene said. In a separate post on X, Musk called for federal judge Paul Engelmayer to be impeached after his early Saturday morning ruling that temporarily halts DOGE employees from accessing Treasury Department data. "A corrupt judge protecting corruption," Musk wrote. "He needs to be impeached NOW!" If DOGE employees, for example, were to continue accessing sensitive Treasury Department data, Engelmayer would have little recourse. "The bottom line is that our system is predicated on good faith, but also the rule of law in America means that the government abides by court rulings," Dan Urman, a law professor at Northeastern University, told NBC News. "It would really provoke a crisis of sorts," Urman said, "The courts don't have, famously — from Federalist 78 — they lack the power of the purse and the sword, right? They don't have an army, and they don't have a huge budget. They have to rely on, sort of, their legitimacy." While the courts would have few ways to punish a president for violating their rulings, the third branch of government — Congress — does have a way to intervene. "The key point is that the executive would be behaving lawlessly if it did that," Greene said. "The solution to that within the constitutional design is impeachment." Right now, Republicans control every branch of the federal government, so the chances of the GOP leading the impeachment and removal of the president of their own party are slim. "If Congress isn't doing that, there's not a lot that one can do," Greene said. "That's the moment at which you're no longer operating within a system of constitutional self-government." The executive branch ignoring the judicial branch "would just be the raw exercise of power," Greene added, "and a Congress that simply refuses to respond to it in any way or assert its own institutional prerogative ... that's a breakdown of the system." Urman added that the American political system is designed to have three equal branches of government acting as checks on each other. "Courts cannot do all of the work," he said. "They have, they have to have more support from other branches and from society itself, right? It doesn't work when they're acting alone." Legal experts warn of 'constitutional crisis' as Vance and Elon Musk question judges' authority over Trump
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Modern PC gaming is, at its heart, about pushing the limits of technology and having reliable upgrade paths. The modern PlayStation and Xbox consoles are good enough for most people, especially since most major titles are cross-platform these days, but hardcore PC gamers are not most people. They want to extract the highest possible display resolution and frame rates out of every game they play while also getting the most responsive possible gameplay experience. This can get very expensive, and it can be pretty daunting if you're new to it. MSI has emerged as one of the leading brands of PC components and PC hardware in general, particularly among gamers. Its product slate includes prebuilt PCs, handheld gaming PCs, graphics cards, motherboards, and more, as well as the MSI Afterburner GPU overclocking tool, the company's custom user interface for the po[CENSORED]r RivaTuner app, a free download that works with all graphics cards. Expand article logo Continue reading MSI is a respected full-service source for quality PC hardware products across various price points. Its motherboards, in particular, tend to get a lot of attention, especially for PC gamers, so let's take a look at some of the best SKUs that MSI has on the market that you can build your next system around. 5 Best MSI Motherboards For Gamers
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December might not seem like the most obvious time of year to buy a new phone. Black Friday has come and gone, while launches such as the Galaxy S25 series and OnePlus 13 are expected in January. However, there are still plenty of excellent deals right now that we can recommend. Whether you’re looking for the absolute best phones, best mid-range phones or best budget phones, you’ll find offers to suit you. Here are the best deals in the UK and US at the time of writing, though these are, of course, subject to change. For a guaranteed big discount, consider a refurbished phone deal. Best phone deals for December 2024 If you’re looking for a great deal on your next phone this festive season, here are the offers to target: UK ・Google Pixel 8 Pro – £499 at Amazon (50% off)* ・Motorola Razr 50 Ultra – £749 at John Lewis (25% off) ・CMF Phone 1 – £169.90 at Amazon (19% off)* ・OnePlus 12 – £698 at Amazon (30% off)* ・Google Pixel 9 – £649 at Amazon (19% off)* ・OnePlus Nord 4 – £399 at Amazon (25% off)* ・Xiaomi 14 Ultra – £841.68 at Xiaomi using these instructions (35% off)* The best deals on phones right now
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While most of the dialogue around PCs and PC hardware revolves around gaming, it's not the only major motivation behind building a PC. Workstation PCs are machines crafted with the intention of performing in productivity applications, professional workloads, and scientific computing. Gaming might be a secondary and infrequent use case on these machines, so it doesn't dictate the hardware choices as much as it would on a gaming PC. Before picking components for your workstation PC, you should carefully assess your requirements — not limited to the core components, but also the aesthetics and supporting internal hardware. The tips below will help you structure your thought process before you drop cash on expensive hardware for your workstation PC. Unlike gamers who generally look for an aggressive "gamer" aesthetic, or at least striking designs and flashy RGB, you might want a case that looks stylish yet understated. A minimalist case with an all-white design, infused with natural materials, or having a compact form factor — these are all good starting points when finalizing the look of your PC. 7 things to remember before building a workstation PC
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Netmarble has announced the Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, the po[CENSORED]r HBO and Warner Bros series entering the gaming scene in 2025. Developed by Netmarble, the hit HBO and Warner Bros series and book series from George R. R. Martin will be arriving on the gaming scene, as the players will soon experience the medieval fantasy world in Game of Thrones: Kingsroad. With winter arriving, players will be immersed in the series like never before on mobile as it releases in 2025. From what is shown so far in the trailer, the players will take on the role of a knight, sellsword, or assassin in Game of Thrones: Kingsroad and will team up with Jon Snow to put a stop to the White Walkers. With the Lannisters trying to cling to the Iron Throne, the war between those who want to claim it heads toward the final acts. The king’s brother, Stannis Baratheon will need to gather allies to make ready for the final assault in the frozen lands of North Smolder after the betrayals at the Red Wedding and as the blacksmiths, farmers, and beggars suffer, the Great Houses of Westeros continue their plots and schemes. The fans of the Game of Thrones series will be able to immerse themselves into the medieval fantasy world like never before in Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, as they can visit the many iconic locations in the open-world game, see the iconic Iron Throne chair, and listen to the music itself from the HBO series. The HBO and Warner Bros series from George R.R Martin, Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, will be arriving on Mobile in 2025. To learn more about the game, fans can visit the Game of Thrones website from Netmarble. Netmarble Unveils The Hit HBO and Warner Bros Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, Arriving In 2025
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If you've ever been working in your 😄 drive, you may have come across a hidden file named .GamingRoot and wondered what it was or if it was supposed to be there. Well, worry not, as this isn't any type of virus, nor is it an important file for your operating system. But there is a reason that it's there and here's why you probably shouldn't just delete it. The .GamingRoot file is a file that is created when you install the Xbox app on a Windows 10 or 11 PC. When you install the Xbox app on your PC, the Xbox Games folder and .GamingRoot file will be generated on your main storage drive, as well as any other drive that you have installed games on. In order to see the .GamingRoot file on your drive, you will need to enable the show hidden items setting in the file explorer, under the View tab. It isn't necessary to delete this file as it is not harmful to your PC in any way. The Xbox app is also owned by Microsoft, so this is a legitimate file on Windows. If you use the Xbox app and do have games installed on the drive, then deleting it won't really do anything, because the next time you launch the Xbox app it will just create a new file. If you don't use the Xbox app and don't have any games installed on the drive, then you are welcome to delete it. But, while you're at it, you might as well uninstall the Xbox app, otherwise it will just keep coming back. If you don't have the Xbox app installed and this file is still present in your 😄 drive, then it is most likely because of the Xbox Game bar which is preinstalled on Windows. You can uninstall this too, using PowerShell commands or third party apps. However, it causes some instability if you use your PC for gaming, so we don't recommend doing this. What does the .GamingRoot file do on Windows 11?