'NHL 22' introduces women's teams for the first time

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Ahead of the Winter Olympics, EA has finally introduced women's teams to its NHL games for the first time. You can pick one of 10 women's International Ice Hockey Federation national squads in NHL 22. You can pick teams from Canada, the Czech Republic (Czechia), Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Russia, Switzerland, and the USA.

NHL 22 also gets IIHF Men's World and Juniors teams. Aside from competing in IIHF World Championship tournaments, the Men's and Women's teams are playable in the Play Now, Online Versus, Threes Now, and Offline/Online Shootouts modes.

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iOS 15.4's 'Use Face ID with a Mask' feature only works on iPhone 12 and newer devices

The recently launched iOS 15.4 update comes with a rather useful feature. It lets you unlock the phone with its Face ID when wearing a mask. According to Apple, it scans the "unique features around the eye area." But it looks like the feature requires more resources, as the company seems to be limiting its availability to newer iPhone and iPad models.

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Ubisoft to shutter 'Hyper Scape' on Apr. 28

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Ubisoft is discontinuing the development of its battle royale game Hyper Scape. On Thursday, the company announced that it would shut down the title on April 28. Hyper Scape was launched in the summer of 2020 with the promise of bringing fresh ideas to the crowded battle royale space. However, it struggled to garner attention from gamers. The developer tried to introduce additional content to the game to get players on board, but it didn't work out.

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Spotify to label podcasts discussing COVID-19

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Spotify is finally responding to criticism of how it handles the controversial COVID-19 content in the Joe Rogan Experience. The company said it would add COVID-19 content advisories to podcasts, and that advisory will lead to Spotify's COVID-19 hub, hosting credible and up-to-date information about the pandemic.

Spotify has also made public its COVID-19 content policy to improve transparency around the issue's treatment. The Verge got a copy of the policy ahead of the platform's release and wrote about how an internal memo showed that Joe Rogan's podcast didn't "meet the threshold for removal."

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