Time is flying by.
...until the just-announced July 31st release date of Time Flies , a game where you cause mischief as a fly. I tried a demo last year and it's very silly.
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Time is flying by.
Posted Jul 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM UTC ...until the just-announced July 31st release date of Time Flies , a game where you cause mischief as a fly. I tried a demo last year and it's very silly.
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As Marvel Rivals gets ready to kick off season 3 next week, we're getting our first glimpse at some of the upcoming changes. And, with respect to my poor beleaguered Blade bros, the biggest news for me is that Jean Grey, original member of the X-Men and sometimes terror of the cosmos, is joining the roster as Phoenix. There's plenty more coming, including Blade in Season 3.5 next month, but Phoenix is the headliner for me, and here's our first look at what she can do. Phoenix's abilities in Marvel Rivals Phoenix joins as yet another duelist -- an already oversaturated role, but one that feels appropriate for her. She brings a mix of area-of-effect damage that can help chew through groups of enemies as well as mobility that lets her flit around the battlefield to find flank angles. 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Her second ability appears to be a limited-duration flight, allowing Phoenix to freely fly around the battlefield for a few seconds. The flight is on a resource meter that recharges while Phoenix isn't flying. Phoenix's ultimate is what made me scream. I've watched the trailer several times and my best description of how it appears to work is, "You crash to the ground, kill everyone in your way and explode." And I mean everyone -- in the trailer, we see Hela in her ultimate, wherein she flies up into the sky and her health jumps up to 1,000 HP, get erased when Phoenix ults through her. In addition to also killing Rocket and Psylocke in one shot, the ultimate also clears deployables like Rocket's rez beacon and Peni's nest while whittling Peni herself and Groot down to a sliver of health in the explosion. Lore accurate Phoenix? Marvel/Screenshot by Adam Benjamin A mobile hitscan hero who with a stacking mechanic and a meteoric ultimate? Yeah, sign me up. 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Updated -- Symbiote Shenanigans: Adds Hela, giving her Soul Drainer Hel Sphere slowing tendrils. Updated -- Stark Protocol: Adds Squirrel Girl, giving her an explosive, homing gauntlet. Updated -- Guardian Revival: Devs said they'd be nerfing some element of the Guardians' team-up. Other things coming in season 3 The battle pass is getting some adjustments to account for shorter seasons. Battle passes still offer 10 skins, but you'll earn tokens at a faster rate to make it easier to progress through the entire battle pass in the shorter time period. Daily missions are also going away, with weekly missions shifting to permanent quests instead of being time-limited. Seasonal missions that offer large batches of tokens are also being added. Rivals devs also announced a new competitive mode coming in season 3.5 but said we'd have to wait for any details about it. The game is also adding accessories (which appear to be animated stickers that float above the KO notifications), new chroma options and visual effects for ultimate abilities. Perhaps the nicest quality of life change is the ability to mix & match MVP animations with any skins, instead of having certain MVP animations locked to specific skins. Rivals needs a win Season 3 is a major turning point for the hero shooter, marking the start of its new two-month seasons where we'll be getting new heroes every month -- one at the start of the season and one at midseason. The new cadence is an aggressive pace for expanding the game's roster, and threatens to keep the metagame churning even faster, assuming those new heroes are relevant at launch. That's important because Rivals has been bleeding active players since launch. Based on SteamDB data, the start of each new half-season brings in fewer players than the previous. (For example, fewer players joined for season 2.5 than for 2.0.) 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