The Marvel Rivals Ignite 2026 Mid-Season Finals are going on right now and Twitch and NetEase Games are giving away a bunch of free swag to celebrate.
To connect your Marvel Rivals gaming profile to Twitch, go to the official Marvel Rivals Twitch Drops page, log into your chosen platform — Steam, Epic Games, PlayStation, or Xbox — and authorize the link to your Twitch account. Then watch participating Twitch streamers that display the 'DropsEnabled' tag.
I don't know what Chrono tokens are and don't really care about emojis, nameplates, or sprays, but you can get Ignite Daredevil and Elsa Bloodstone (no idea who she is) costumes.
Don't forget to log in to Marvel Rivals after unlocking your new loot as it only stays in your game inbox for a limited time to be claimed.
For some reason I can't get into the game. I really dig the art style, but some of the costumes kind of take away from the characters. I don't know who some of these heroes are and not having their official hero attire makes it even harder to tell who is who. Also, the melee combat is not my favorite genre. I prefer the more stand-back-and-shoot style, and while some heroes can do that, there is usually a big mess of a brawl going on in the middle and I can never tell what is going on.
Ubisoft is giving away free PC copies of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier. Command an elite squad of highly trained special-ops soldiers with the latest military technology in deadly warzones to hunt down enemy targets. Log into Ubisoft Connect and grab your free copy before August 13 at 1:00 AM.
UPDATE: I managed to hunt down my original Quake CD-ROM in storage, and after jumping through a few hoops getting the PAK files extracted off the disc, I finally got the game up and running smoothly with Ironwail, but DOH! Turns out there is no standalone download for Dawn of the Machine. To actually get the modern expansion files, you have to download the official remaster directly through a digital storefront where you bought the game online. Since I'm running off my old 1996 physical retail disc, I'm out of luck on that one unless I decide to re-buy it on Steam. It is only $3.99 so not an expensive purchase but I am the real OG having my physical disks!! I managed to get both of the official mission packs — Scourge of Armagon and Dissolution of Eternity — working as well. Ironwail picked them right up in the built-in mods menu without any extra hassle. I think playing through the main campaign and the classic expansion packs will have to do for now while we wait and see if the develoeprs release a stand alone download.
Thankfully it is a new month. I managed to run out of tokens for Claude Desktop and Copilot with Claude at work on Wednesday night and was worried I would have to try to figure out what Claude had done to make my current page work and try to update it. I was able to fall back to Rovo in Confluence to ask some questions but it doesn't integrate with Visual Studio Code to make the changes and the new AI harness one of my teammates made still worked using his tokens so I was able to do some updates. I need to be more careful with my token useage this month. I think I let the context get a little too large. And sure, I could bump up my token usage to the next higer tier but I was already called out once for using too many tokens so I'll show them. I'll do better with less. It's all about the prompts you give the agents. Be clear, detailed, and keep it short.