>Today, in recognition of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re sharing an update to the Adaptive Thumbstick Toppers available today through XBOX Design Lab.

>We’re also expanding the lineup with a new, highly requested option: the Goal Post shape (image above), giving players even more ways to tailor their setup.

>Players can access both options starting today. To explore the updated topper program, head to XBOX Design Lab, choose the controller you’d like to design a topper for, and select from seven available shapes, including the new Goal Post shape. From there, you can customize the width and height that work best for you and download a 3D printable file, at no charge, that you can use to print the topper for your compatible controllers. No need to buy a controller to download the file, you just need access to a 3-D printer or printing service.

>A Lenovo-branded G02 retro handheld launched in China earlier this month, coming in at an affordable $63.56 on AliExpress compared to the thousands you have to pay for the Lenovo Legion Go 2. There were some questions if this was a legitimate Lenovo product or just another hardware manufacturer using the logo of a prominent brand, but a Lenovo employee in the company’s Product and Licensing department reportedly confirmed to Retro Dodo that it was an official, white-labeled device the company intended to sell only in China. More interestingly, they have unearthed that the handheld ships with thousands of copyrighted games, mostly from Nintendo.

>When Marvel Rivals landed in late 2024, the Overwatch team saw it as the first direct competitor it had in years. As Rivals' player counts skyrocketed and the comparisons to Overwatch took over social media, Blizzard knew something had to change.

>In a recent group interview with PC Gamer, Overwatch GM and SVP of Blizzard Walter Kong admitted Marvel Rivals' success "scared us a bit." The boundless enthusiasm for NetEase's crude hero designs prompted the team to "be less risk averse because we felt that if we stayed conservative then we're definitely going to feel some of the competitive pressure."

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>Project Bread – an anti-hunger nonprofit organization – says that over the past 12 months, nearly 140,000 people, including 48,000 children, have lost SNAP benefits in Massachusetts. The organization attributes this largely to the inability of recipients to reach the DTA as well as changing eligibility requirements.

>“I was up for a normal recertification, which is part of a standard process about every six months. The first problem I had was that my caseworker was not there for my phone interview, so a supervisor had to conduct it,” she said.

>After no success over the phone, Lively went directly into the regional DTA office, where she was forced to wait for hours while a single employee – the only one on staff that day, she says – managed her case and several others in a frenzy.

>As part of her FY2027 supplemental budget, Gov. Maura Healey included $41.7 million for 120 new DTA employees, including 80 caseworkers. The supplemental budget was engrossed into law on March 18.

>But a DTA whistleblower, who detailed “rampant” fraud within the state’s SNAP program along with lackluster efforts by the DTA to stop it, says the additional workers may be too little too late, adding that department leadership indicated in recent meetings that the total number of new caseworkers has been reduced.

>“I wasn’t expecting 25 students to eat up the entirety of their Saturday,” Aiden Kennedy, who performs under the stage name MUERTE, said in an interview with MassLive.

>On Feb. 21, the popular dubstep artist went to Berklee to record new, original music with a student orchestra. This was the first time Kennedy had ever recorded with a live orchestra.

>From that moment, Musa contemplated ways to get Kennedy on campus. He eventually decided to cold email him and his manager at the end of 2025 to see if they’d be willing to come to Berklee to record with a live orchestra. Once Kennedy obliged, Musa knew he could make the session happen.

>Kennedy’s plan is to swap out the sample libraries and digital recreations he used on the tracks with the live recordings. Afterward, the musician potentially sees himself releasing the songs as part of a three-track EP

>“I am pretty vocal about having a focus on songwriting in this heavy EDM genre because the focus a lot of times is put on the sound design, and that’s great. But if it’s just a really cool little bit of sound design and there’s no actual music writing or songwriting, then it’s not a good song. It’s just a cool sound showcase,” Kennedy said. “That’s something that I love focusing on. It’s something that I’m definitely passionate about and I would love to see more of this being done.”

>In an interview with PC Gamer, Ryan said he ended up loving the experience of acting for a game—even though when he auditioned for the role, it was actually masquerading as a show to keep the Assassin's Creed sequel a secret.

>"It was pitched to me via my agent as a pirate TV show," he remembered. "Amy Hubbard, a great casting director in the UK, got me into the room, and then they liked me. They asked me for a callback, and then they leveled with me. They were like, listen: this is a videogame. They said it was an Assassin's Creed, and I'd played the first one, so I was like 'great, that's a cool game.' But I didn't think it was mocap—so when it was mocap, I was over the moon. I get to be the character, in the body, you know?"

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>From time to time, Call of Duty's anti-cheat likes to troll unsavory players who aren't playing by the rules. A recent stream of Black Ops 7 revealed a cheater lost their weapons mid-match after being detected by Ricochet, as seen in the clip below.

>Activision has struggled to keep hackers completely out of Black Ops 7 and Warzone, but Ricochet anti-cheat is still working to ban them mid-match. Former pro player and Call of Duty personality, Christopher "Parasite" Duarte, recently livestreamed a playback of a match in Black Ops 7's theater mode, showing the moment a cheater's guns disappeared in multiplayer.

>Last month, an American jury rendered a verdict on Ticketmaster and LiveNation. It said to those companies: you are a monopoly. You have been exploiting consumers, leveraging your monopolistic power to raise prices and engage in unfair and abusive practices.” And what I’m proposing today are some remedies consumers and fans, artists, venues — they all suffer from Ticketmaster, LiveNation

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>METHUEN, Mass. —

>A city councilor in Methuen, Massachusetts, wants to ban dirt bikes from being able to buy gas at stations throughout the city in an effort to promote public safety.

>City Councilor Ryan DiZoglio and Methuen Police Chief Scott McNamara are pushing to add an ordinance to the city's municipal code that would bar owners and employees of retail stations from serving gas to anyone using an off-highway vehicle or recreational vehicle, including dirt bikes, ATVs, or mini-bikes

>Any gas station that violates the ordinance would be subject to a $100 fine per recreational vehicle served.

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>On Saturday, the Texas Tech Red Raiders mounted a stunning comeback in a 10-9, extra-inning win over the Ole Miss Rebels, improving to 2-0 in the Lubbock Regional after previously winning Friday's opener over Marist. The Red Raiders were down to their final out and trailing 8-0 before reeling off eight runs to send the game to extras, where it won in the eighth inning.

>Per ESPN, Texas Tech became the first softball team this century to win after trailing by eight or more runs in an NCAA tournament game. Since 2000, teams were previously 0-640 when facing a deficit of at least eight runs.

>According to Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, 34 coaches and executives are scheduled to participate. They include Chargers offensive coordinator (and former Dolphins head coach) Mike McDaniel and current (and former) Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy.

>When Krafton acquired Unknown Worlds Entertainment back in 2021, part of the agreement indicated that a major bonus would be offered if certain revenue targets were achieved. According to the stipulation, if developer Unknown Worlds Entertainmentearned more than $69.8 million in revenue, its new parent company would have to pay $3.12 for each additional dollar of sales, with a cap of $250 million. Given the game has already reached a million players and many more will likely pick it up over the weekend when there's more free time, things are looking good for the developers who were promised bonuses.

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>A Waltham, Massachusetts, company began to develop a trauma foam to stop internal bleeding; years later, it saved an Alabama man's life. 

>UAB is the site of an FDA-approved clinical trial for ResQFoam, developed by Waltham biotechnology company Arsenal Medical. It is administered by cutting a small incision below the patient's belly button and inserting what looks like a calking gun into the abdomen, then shooting foam, which expands inside the body cavity.

>"It wraps around injured tissues and injured organs and puts pressure on them, which temporarily slows or stops hemorrhage," said Dr. David King, a trauma surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital.

>But Xavier, who is deafblind and uses a white cane, says navigating crosswalks can be dangerous for her.

>In 2024, Xavier was in the middle of a crosswalk on Causeway Street near North Station when a truck making a right turn came around the corner and nearly hit her. Both she and the truck could legally cross, though Xavier had the right of way. Now, she avoids certain intersections she fears can put her at risk.

>Most Boston intersections are designed so that pedestrians are the only group that can legally be in the crosswalk. But the city also uses what’s known as “concurrent signaling” at a third of intersections, meaning that vehicle traffic runs parallel to pedestrians — and cars can legally turn into the crosswalk while people are crossing and have a walk signal.