iPhone’s Focus mode, which is a supercharged version of Do Not Disturb, gains new contextual abilities with the iOS 16 update. Over the last year, the Focus mode has become an integral part of life for users who want to separate work from life, or for specific activities. And now, you can use a new feature called Focus Filters to automatically hide particular messages or emails when a Focus mode is engaged — and you can automate that, as well.
It works like this — you enable a Focus mode, like Sleep or Workout, and the iPhone can automatically hide messages, emails, Safari tabs, and calendar appointments from your work accounts. Not only will it mute notifications for incoming messages, when you open the apps, it will be like the conversations or messages never existed.
(note: This is a new feature in the iOS 16 update, which is currently available as a public beta. The wider rollout is expected in the fall.)
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Go to Settings > focus and choose the focus mode you want to customize. From the Focus Filters section, tap “AddFilter.” You will see four app filters here:
Calendar: Choose a particular calendar to hide all the appointments during the Focus mode.
Email: If you use multiple accounts in the Mail app, you can choose to hide individual mail accounts for the duration of a Focus mode.
messages: The Messages app can help you filter out messages from everyone except selected contacts. For example, you can use a “Home” Focus to only get messages from friends and family, filtering out work messages.
Safari: If you use the Tab Groups feature in Safari, you can choose to hide particular Tab Groups when a Focus mode is engaged (this works for shared Tab Groups, as well).
Take some time to customize an App Filter. When you’re done, tap “donate,” and choose the “Add” option to add the filter to the Focus mode. You can do this for multiple App Filters across different Focus modes.
Every new season of Apex Legends comes with a host of changes meant to shake up the meta, from Legend tweaks to weapons getting shuffled around the availability pool. Season 14: Hunted is no different, but the new Legend, Vantage, isn’t the only change coming around — the Skullpiercer, Volt and G7 Scout are back, baby.
If you’re not familiar with the Skullpiercer, it is a rifling hop-up that was removed back in Season 9. The Skullpiercer increased either the Wingman or the Longbow’s headshot multiplier — Wingman from 2.0x to 2.25x and Longbow from 2.0x to 2.5x. In Season 14, however, the Skullpiercer will also work with the 30-30 Repeater as well, so if you’re looking for some extra pain, look no further.
But maybe you don’t like any of those weapons, and still want to pick people off at a distance. That’s fine, because the G7 Scout returns, giving you a light ammo rifle with a double-tap option. This is floor loot, so don’t expect anything game-breaking, but it’s a solid choice.
The energy SMG Volt is also making a return to floor loot, and when paired with the new laser sight attachment, you can definitely get a little more mileage out of this often overlooked weapon.
If you’re curious about what’s actually going inside crates this season, you’ll be glad to know that the Bocek Compound Bow and Rampage are making their way back in there. We don’t have specifics yet, but these will be powered up in some way to make hunting one down worth your while.
Need more info about the update? Hit up our Apex Legends Season 14 hub for everything you could want to know about Hunted.
With support from our central IP Strategy team, I wrote a champion brief that sums up what makes Illaoi special, and what it is that players across the world love about her.
Illaoi is the Truth Bearer of Nagakabouros, the deity of life, ocean storms, and motion, who is often depicted as a colossal kraken. Illaoi and her people de ella come from the Serpent Isles, an island archipelago that includes Bilgewater and her de ella home island of Buhru.
In League of Legends, Illaoi’s gameplay focuses on testing the worthiness of individuals using the golden artifact known as the Eye of God. Wielding the massive idol, she rips souls from their host bodies, and summons spectral tentacles to repeatedly slam into them.
In our story world, those who survive Nagakabouros’ test are deemed to be on the correct path and can move forward to pursue their true purpose in life. While those who fall are left in no uncertain terms that they are failing in their duty to move their own lives forward, and are hindering the flow of the universe. An experience that not all survive.
Using all of this information, we defined Illaoi’s core truth as: “A powerful and charismatic spiritual leader who inspires others to be their own unstoppable force.” She turns heads and dominates a room with her physical presence and confident, purposeful swagger.
Then, using the brief, I worked with the other discipline leads—like design and art—to create a north star for her development. This way we ensure that Illaoi is instantly identifiable, even in a genre we’ve never seen her in. And, even more important, we used it to look for opportunities to grow her legend from her. Because a fighting game is the perfect place for Illaoi to shine.
With a clear picture of her in our minds, we can make sure that anyone who already knows Illaoi beyond the surface level also finds the character they love, while still empowering the development team to delight even her most devoted followers with a version that will blow the doors off. Or, in her case, rip the doors off their hinges with magical tentacles and beat you senseless with them.
On a personal note, I’ve loved who Illaoi is and who she could be since we developed her for League back in 2015. And although she’s not one of the most popular champions in League, I think it’s easy to see how Illaoi’s combination of bruised knuckles, devout heart, and joyous swagger (combined with all the new experiences we can put in players’ hands) can make her a superstar in Project L.
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Once Narrative has given us a good understanding of who a champion is, we move into their visual direction. You can infuse so much more into a champion when you know who they are, especially when we compare all of their visual representations—which Illaoi certainly wasn’t lacking.
Some of our champions lend themselves well to being altered quite a bit, whereas for others it wouldn’t make sense for them to drastically change their appearance. When we started on Illaoi, it became clear she would be the latter.
She has a really iconic look: Tall, muscular, and imposing. But more than that, she’s joyous, spirited, and believes in challenging others to live their lives to the fullest. And all of these things needed to be reflected in her appearance of her.
Illaoi’s physical build is pretty unique in the roster of League of Legends champions, and we referenced a lot of athletes with a focus on weightlifters and shot putters. Mainly women who spend a lot of time lifting things as easily as Illaoi lifts her massive weapon from her.
Tired of getting picked off by the easily accessible Wingman? Hate having to fight your teammates for heavy ammo because everyone picked up a heavy gun? Season 14 has some surprises for you then — the Wingman and Spitfire are getting some serious changes.
The Wingman was well known for being an extremely easy-to-obtain murder machine — heavy ammo is plentiful, and the Wingman deals plenty of damage. In Season 14: Hunted, the Wingman is being swapped over to Sniper ammo, bringing with it smaller stacks in a players inventory. Sniper ammo is, by design, very rare — Sniper weapons are quite powerful, so limiting ammo is a good way to balance out their destructive power.
This means that Wingman users will have to be a little bit more careful with their shot placement if they want to succeed — and it also has the effect of freeing up the heavy ammo “economy” as it were.
The Spitfire is also moving ammo types for similar reasons: too many cooks in the heavy ammo kitchen. In Season 14, the Spitfire will use light ammo and attachments. Respawn noted that heavy ammo was getting spread too thin between the many different guns that required it, so shifting these two weapons around will lighten the load, allowing for more flexibility in groups.
This also helps to differentiate the Spitfire from the Rampage — as the Ramapge is also an LMG that used heavy ammo. To sum up, your three LMGs will be Spitfire on light ammo, Rampage on heavy ammo, and Devotion on energy ammo.
If you’re looking for more info about the upcoming changes, hit up our Apex Legends Season 14 hub page.
Forests have a complex relationship with climate change. On the one hand, they absorb atmospheric carbon, even proliferating amid changing climates. On the other hand, they can suffer under higher heat stress, degrading their carbon sink capacity and drought resilience. With some $10.5 million in funding from the German Research Foundation, scientists in Europe are now going to instrument forests with novel sensors to better understand how woodlands are affected by changing climate.
Mixing forest science with Internet of Things (IoT) technology, drones, and other devices, EcoSense will try to shed light on the effects of climate change on the interactions between plants, soil, and the atmosphere. These interactions vary according to species, location, and forest stand, which refers to collections of trees in a forest that are fairly uniform in their age, size, distribution, and other factors. The EcoSense initiative will bring new technologies to forest monitoring following efforts such as Harvard University’s wired forest.
“We do not understand when and why climate extremes like heat waves or droughts drive single trees or forest patches beyond their tipping points.”
Specifically, the project will study abiotic and biotic processes of forest carbon and water exchange, how the ecosystem responds to environmental stressors, enabling the prediction of process-based changes in ecosystem function and sustainability, according to a project outline. Real-time sensor network data will be transferred to a database for analysis and deep learning simulation models to generate short- and medium-term predictions.
“Climate change has a huge impact on forest ecosystems already. We see an increase in tree mortality worldwide,” said Christiane Werner, a professor of ecosystem physiology at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Freiburg, pointing to the effects of the 2018 European drought on trees. “Currently, we have well-established models to predict overall ecosystem functioning under nonstressed conditions, but we do not understand when and why climate extremes like heat waves or droughts drive single trees or forest patches beyond their tipping points.”
Internet of Woody Things
The research team will instrument several hilly hectares of the Black Forest in southwest Germany, covering stands of pure beech, pure spruce, and mixed trees. Climate-driven changes to the forest may have wider repercussions; the woodland is of economic and touristic importance to Germany, famed for its traditional farmhouses, cuckoo clocks, and eponymous ham and cake.
The EcoSense tool kit could include carbon dioxide (COtwo) sensors, camera-equipped drones, and other devices. The team will initially deploy commercially available devices and then, from 2024, replace them with newly developed microsensors, some of which will be energy autonomous, according to Ulrike Wallrabe, a professor in the University of Freiburg’s Department of Microsystems Engineering.
“We want to measure fluxes of water, isotope-discriminated COtwo and volatile organic compounds and stress markers, mainly photosynthetic efficiency by chlorophyll fluorescence from soils up to atmosphere,” said Wallrabe. “The sensor network will comprise new, compact and, wherever possible, autonomous energy sensors that are to be developed in the project.”
Daniel Kneeshaw, a forest and climate change researcher at the University of Quebec in Montreal who is not affiliated with EcoSense, said the project is examining interesting parameters that should be useful to a wide variety of researchers.
“As the researchers suggest, what happens at a cellular scale when scaled up can have profound impacts across regions,” said Kneeshaw, adding he wants to know how EcoSense data will be scaled up and down. “Better understanding of the mechanisms will help us be better prepared for future changes. Having such networks around the world and getting scientists from the different networks to talk [about them] will lead to even more robust results and interpretations.”
The EcoSense project aims to begin publishing studies in 2023, but some groups affiliated with it have already started to release findings. For instance, one group including Werner published a paper on a wireless, autonomous chlorophyll fluorometer that measures photosynthesis efficiency in plants. With a 10-kilometer range, the novel device can be attached anywhere on a tree and is low power and relatively inexpensive.
In addition to its initial 4-year funding, EcoSense has an option of two 4-year extensions to gain a long-term perspective. The researchers have high expectations of significant results.
“Our special feature is the unique alignment of ecosystem research with microsystems technology. Distributed autonomous sensing principals will open a new door for ecosystem research,” said Werner. “We will gain an unprecedented cross-scale coverage, both at the spatial level, from leaf to forest, as well as in a temporal dimension, from minutes to years, of processes and interactions driving carbon and water fluxes, including stress markers as volatile organic compounds and chlorophyll fluorescence.”
Citation: Hornyak, T. (2022), Scientists bring forests into the Internet of Things, eos, 103, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EO220368. Published on August 1, 2022.
Godzilla vs. king 2 you have begun filming. Jameela Jamil talks she hulk‘s Titania. Plus, good news for moonhavenand what’s coming on Westworld, ghostsand Primal. Spoilers away!
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
dead line reports Holt McCallany (mind hunter) have joined the cast of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning as Bernstein, the United States Secretary of Defense.
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Bloody-Disgusting reports Jake Manley, Adeline Rudolph, Francesca Reale, Laurence O’Faurain, Nicholas Hamilton, Javier Botet, Skylan Brooks, and Kai Caster will star in the film adaptation of David Morrell’s creepers. Manley will play Rick, “the official leader of the Creepers” while Rudolph plays Diane, “the unofficial leader of the group, and Rick’s rebellious, defying, impulsive girlfriend.” Reale has been cast as Cora, “a parkour expert and the key in the group who opens doors wherever they’re closed while keeping everyone honest” while O’Faurain joins as Balenger, “a mysterious, brooding, powerful stranger with a secret and who isn’t who he says he is.” Hamilton is said to play Tod, “leader of the Scavengers, a rival urbex group and who is particularly cruel and vicious” opposite Botet as the supernatural Pale Creature” whose domain is the abandoned Paragon Hotel.” Brooks has been cast as Vernon, “the 4th Creeper, a wise-cracking tech-nerd who is not doing a good job of hiding his true feelings for Cora” while Caster rounds out the cast as JD, a former Creeper “exiled after breaking their code and further betraying them by joining the rival Scavs.”
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3
During a recent interview with Extra, James Gunn confirmed Harry Styles’ Eros/Starfox does not appear in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3.
Nope. I’m setting the record straight. Starfox doesn’t pop up.
James Gunn Says Harry Styles’ Starfox Is NOT in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Exclusive)
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Meanwhile, David F. Sandberg confirmed Rizwan Manji appears as an unnamed character in Shazam! Fury of the Gods.
Godzilla Vyes king 2
Godzilla vs. Kong 2 is currently filming under the working title Origins.
Kung Fu
dead line reports Kim Rhodes and Ben Levin have joined the third season of Kung Fu in recurring roles. Rhodes will play Carrie, “the representative of a restaurant investment group that takes an interest in Harmony dumplings” while Levin has been cast as Bo, “a barista/vigilante whose extracurricular crime fighting leads to a collision with Nicky and her siblings.”
moonhaven
moonhaven has been officially renewed for a second season at AMC+. [Deadline]
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
Jameela Jamil described her character Titania as both “annoying” and “unselfconscious” in a recent interview with ScreenRant.
Titania stands out because I think she’s the most annoying of them, actually. I think she almost does n’t need to use her strength from her; she could just annoy you to death. And I think that is a superpower that we haven’t really utilized enough.
She’s also very glamorous. I like the fact that she’s a bit curvy, and I like the fact that she’s completely unselfconscious. Ella she’s completely unselfconscious and so, so weird. We’ll see.
ghosts
ghosts has released a “this year on…” trailer for its second season premiering on September 29.
Ghosts Season 2 Teaser Promo
Westworld
The hosts endure spiritual conversion in the trailer for “Metanoia,” next week’s episode of Westworld.
Westworld 4×07 “Metanoia” Promo
Primal
Finally, Spear and Fang battle vikings in a new clip from this week’s episode of Primal.
Primal | S2E4 Sneak Peek: Spear and Fang Battle the Warrior Clan | adult swim
Banner art by Jim Cook
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WhatsApp is currently one of the most popular instant messaging platforms in the entire world, and needless to say, whenever a new government bill related to user privacy is under debate, the Meta-owned company obviously has an important word to say.
This time, the Online Safety Bill in the United Kingdom is the one that’s giving WhatsApp headaches, as the local government would essentially be able to scan user conversations and look for any content that would be related to child abuse.
In other words, the government is looking into a way to break the end-to-end encryption, something that WhatsApp isn’t willing to accept.
WhatsApp: Breaking E2E is a big no-no
CEO Will Cathcart told BBC in an interview that WhatsApp wouldn’t agree to compromise the privacy of all users just because the government wants to scan the conversations of a small number of accounts.
“Client-side scanning cannot work in practice. If we had to lower security for the world, to accommodate the requirement in one country, that…would be very foolish for us to accept, making our product less desirable to 98% of our users because of the requirements from 2%. What’s being proposed is that we – either directly or indirectly through software – read everyone’s messages. I don’t think people want that,” Cathcart said.
On the other hand, the government says that end-to-end encryption could eventually become a roadblock in every attempt to catch criminals hiding under this technology when going online.
“They shouldn’t ignore the clear risk that end-to-end encryption could blind them to this content and hamper efforts to catch the perpetrators,” a government spokesperson was quoted as saying by the same source. “We continue to work with the tech sector to support the development of innovative technologies that protect public safety without compromising on privacy.”
Surge, Jul 29, 2022La la la la la la laNow singing. You are on fire. Why start something you can’t do?
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Surge, Jul 29, 2022Instagram is a gram that has something to do with anythingNow who’s the one trying to troll? If you can’t take a fight, then don’t comment. I didn’t start it. You did.
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Olympus Who, 29 Jul 2022What does Instagram have to do with anything? Instagram is a gram that has something to do with anything
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Surge, Jul 29, 2022Nah I have ig you have a Pentium processor Just stop picking up fights with everyone What does Instagram have to do with anything?
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Olympus Who, 29 Jul 2022The point. But it sounds like you don’t even own a computer. Nah I have ig you have a Pentium processor Just stop picking up fights with everyone
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Surge, Jul 28, 2022Get what the joke or smthingThe point. But it sounds like you don’t even own a computer.
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SuperBaka, Jul 28, 2022Honestly in Canada, it’s still sold out everywhere and I’m not paying 1K for the con… moreyou follow twitter accounts that notify you when there’s stock available. i did that back in february last year. took a few weeks but got one eventually
i checked it out recently and there’s stock drops all the time that are easy to get. dont get sold out in mere minutes like before. and go for bundles to get best chance, but obviously only if the bundle is decent for you, or you can sell the extra games/controllers you dont want
Anonymous, Jul 28, 2022If it’s still a struggle, then you’re not really trying. I can literally get another… moreHonestly in Canada, it’s still sold out everywhere and I’m not paying 1K for the console. US has PS Direct or whatever but Canada doesn’t from what I know.
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Olympus Who, 28 Jul 2022And you don’t get it. Get what the joke or smthing
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Anonymous, Jul 28, 2022It always supports 2160p. It just never had an option to lower it to 1440p. Also it can techn… moreOh thanks for clarifying
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xocomaox, Jul 28, 2022No clue how this was not possible before. It must have been a developer oversight?It could run games at 1440p if that was the max resolution of that game and you had a 2160p display. You just couldn’t manually select 1440p before. So 1440p displays could only do 1080p.
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Gray Wolf, Jul 28, 2022True, it is still hard to get. But not impossible. If you really wanted one you would have got it… moreIn India, the stock is filled once every month or so and it gets sold out in minutes. And its not available on Amazon so availability is still an issue here.
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Jason, Jul 28, 2022stop talking nonsense, the console is still hard to get for MILLIONS of people around the worl… moreTrue, it is still hard to get. But not impossible. If you really wanted one you would have got it by now. The waiting time is also decreased. In my country (Central European country) is around 60 days now. And you don’t need to pay upfront. You just make reservation and wait. Last year the waiting time was 120-180 days. And most of the times you needed to pay before.
Not to mention, because more and more PS5’s were bought, now even in second hand market they started appearing. True, they are 6-12 months old consoles, but in some cases the prices are quite nice.
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Good news. Now I wish PS5 games would start offering a 1440p/120 FPS mode, no more nonsense 4K/60 and just 1080/120.
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Surge, Jul 28, 2022Bruh this is play stationAnd you don’t get it.
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The latest release of Linux 5.19 has more of an Apple angle than usual, with Linus Torvalds releasing it using an M2 MacBook Air running a version of Linux ported to Apple Silicon.
Linux, like other operating systems, receives updates periodically, with the open source software being no exception. Linus Torvalds, the driving force behind Linux, recently released version 5.19 of the operating system, enabling maintainers of the different Linux variants to incorporate the changes.
spotted by AsahiLinux, Torvalds has passed comment about the use of Apple products in an email to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Posted on Sunday, Torvalds writes “the most interesting part here is that I did the release (and am writing this) on an arm64 laptop,” referring to the use of Apple Silicon.
Torvalds doesn’t specifically name the model of Mac he is using. But, Asahi Linux claims it is an M2 MacBook Air running its port.
“It’s something I’ve been waiting for for a long time [sic] time, and it’s finally reality, thanks to the Asahi team,” Torvalds continues. In July, the Asahi Linux for Mac project released an update that added Mac Studio support as well as experimental M2 support and fixing Bluetooth.
Torvalds mentions that there has been arm64 hardware running Linux for a while, but that “none of it has really been usable as a development platform until now.”
This marks the third time Torvalds has used Apple hardware for Linux development. He previously did so “for powerpc development on a ppc970 machine,” then over a decade ago with the MacBook Air as it was “the only real thin-and-lite around.”
He admits its usage has been limited, as it hasn’t been used “for any real work” so far. It has been used for “doing test builds and boots and now the actual release tagging.”
Torvalds anticipates using it while traveling “and finally dog-fooding the arm64 side too.”
Pushing five years now since its release on Nintendo Switch, mario kart 8 is still going strong. Nintendo has just announced the second wave of their DLC tracks, with 8 new courses coming returning to the series from previous games.
Now, it would be difficult to call any track from mario kart 8 “bad”, as they are all pretty fun, but some definitely have risen above the rest of the pack in popularity. These are all of the new tracks, ranked by which are the best of the lot.
SNES Mario Circuit 3
original Mario Kart for the SNES is the one that started it all, and the Mario Circuit 3 was a variation on the basic, classic racetrack. This is great for nostalgia, and mario kart 8 looks to be doing a great job of updating the track for modern play while keeping the aesthetic.
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Unfortunately, it also means that, like other updates of SNES tracks, Mario Circuit 3 is somewhat bland. It still looks great, but there is little in the way of jumps, obstacles, or variation. It is simply a series of turns and item boxes. Mario Circuit 3 is a great nostalgia trip, but is outshined by more exciting courses.
GBA Snowland
Like Mario Circuit 3, Snow Land for the Game Boy Advance release Mario Kart: Super Circuit is held back slightly by the of its original console. The course is still a lot of fun, but is still somewhat basic compared to many of the other tracks in wave 2.
That said, Snow Land has definitely been overhauled since its Game Boy Advance days. More than just being given a fresh coat of paint, the track features several jumps, watery hazards, and penguins. Plus, the snow and ice may make for some varied surfaces for players to race on. With these upgrades, Snow Land could stand up with Mario Kart 8’s best retro courses.
N64 Kalimari Desert
The Kalimari Desert has seen several appearances in the Mario Kart series, but the N64 version remains the original and definitive. The updated version of the track looks to be a faithful and exciting new addition to the mario kart 8 roster.
Featuring a fun old-west style score and some gorgeous desert backgrounds reminiscent of the American Southwest, Kalimari Desert is also a fun and varied track, with plenty of jumps, shortcuts, and even a train to dodge. Kalimari Desert is a blast to race through as all of Mario Kart 8’s best characters.
Sydney Sprint Tour
Sydney Sprint first appeared in the mobile mario kart tour, and is an impressive and fun recreation of a real city. The course has multiple levels in some areas, giving players the choice of the high or low road, and has some quick turns that players can use for a long drift.
The tour through the famous Australian city takes players through iconic landmarks such as the Sydney Opera House and the Harbor Bridge, and a lovely glide over the harbor itself. The track itself is not quite as eccentric as some others, but its recreation of the city is a sight to behold.
New York Minute Tour
New York Minute made its Mario Kart debut in mario kart tour alongside Sydney Sprint, and is another recreation of an even more famous city. The track takes players through Central Park and past various iconic landmarks, such as the Empire State Building and Madison Square Garden.
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Not only will those familiar with the city notice plenty of familiar spots, New York Minute is also full of opportunities for jumps and quick boosts to stay ahead of the competition. Sydney Sprint may also be pretty great, but New York Minute just barely has it beat.
Sky High Sundae
The only new track in the Wave 2 DLC pack, Sky-High Sundae looks to be a thrilling and dangerous course. Set in a floating city made of ice cream and other sweets, Sky-High Sundae is a high-risk, challenging course sure to excite long-time fans.
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The course features sections with multiple pathways, narrow tracks, tight turns, and high-flying gliding sections. Racers will definitely need to be careful not to fall off the precarious confectionaries and can try to outwit their opponents with alternate paths. Sky-High Sundae could be a high-skill course with the potential to be one of the hardest tracks in mario kart 8.
Wii Mushroom Gorge
Mushroom Gorge was one of the best tracks for Mario Kart’s Wii release, so fans should be thrilled that it is returning to the series for mario kart 8‘s second wave. The track was visually stunning, allowed for some clever strategy, and was just a blast to play.
Mushroom Gorge featured a few sections with multiple paths, allowing players to choose their best route, and the titular mushrooms could give players a quick bounce over gaps or other players. Throw in a few obstacles at the end and some breakneck turns, and Mushroom Gorge has the potential to be one the best DLC tracks in mario kart 8.
DS Waluigi Pinball
As great as all of the other tracks are bound to be, the best of them all has to be the DS’s Waluigi Pinball course. Waluigi Pinball racers have to bolt through a literal pinball machine, dodging flappers and bouncers, launching over gaps, and battling the course just as much as the other racers.
Waluigi Pinball combines all the fun of Pinball with the fun of Mario Kart, and it is definitely a winning combination. Since Waluigi has become such a fan favorite character, traversing such a delightful, wacky course emblazoned with his face he will be a blast. Waluigi Pinball may be one of the series’ most eccentric tracks, and it is all the better for it.
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