KPop Demon Hunters fans, get to McDonald’s fast. Starting Tuesday, you can nab a meal that might seem like an April Fool’s Day joke, but isn’t. Participating McDonald’s restaurants are offering both the HUNTR/X meal, named for the girl group from Netflix’s Oscar-winning animated film, KPop Demon Hunters, and the Saja Boys Breakfast Meal, named for the movie’s boy band.

I beat a path to McDonald’s on the first day the new meals were out so I could try everything.

And the KPop Demon Hunters items are surprisingly pretty good! Be warned: Once word gets around, they might be hard to get. The McDonald’s holiday Grinch Meal sold out quickly at some locations (too bad if you wanted a pair of the adorable Grinch-themed socks that came with it), so don’t wait on this limited-edition menu.

Shake up the fries, skip the Demon sauce

The HUNTR/X Meal, named for the K-pop girl group in KPop Demon Hunters, is a 10-piece chicken McNuggets meal that includes a medium drink and three special menu items. 

Ramyeon McShaker fries come with a small bag of soy, garlic, sesame and spice seasoning, along with regular McDonald’s fries. You sprinkle the seasoning into the provided bag, dump in the fries, shake it all up and eat. 

My take: McDonald’s fries are legendary, and honestly, I didn’t want to season them and risk wrecking the taste. Here’s the shocker: I loved it. They give you a ton of seasoning, and the fries become thickly coated, which I thought would be a nightmare. But they were a salty, tasty delight. There’s no meat in the seasoning, but it reminded me of a fried-chicken coating — tasty and rich. 

The meal includes two new sauces for the fries and nuggets. Hunter sauce is a sweet chili sauce mixing notes of chili, garlic and pepper. If you’re familiar with McDonald’s longtime sweet-and-sour sauce, this reminded me of that, with just a touch of heat.

The other new sauce is Demon sauce, a mustard sauce with some heat and a bold purple color. There’s just not enough dark purple food out there. But while the color was cool, I ended up scraping the Hunter sauce cup almost empty, leaving most of the purple Demon sauce behind. I appreciated the almost-but-not-quite wasabi flavor of the mustard, but I wouldn’t order this sauce again.

You can try both sauces without an extra charge. I ordered via the app and just selected one of each of the two new sauces.

There’s also a new dessert, the Derpy McFlurry, which blends creamy vanilla soft serve with berry-flavored popping boba pearls and a swirl of wild berry sauce. McDonald’s named it for the supernatural feline, Derpy Tiger, from the KPop Demon Hunters movie.

You know all the jokes about how McDonald’s ice-cream machine is always broken? I tried to order the Derpy McFlurry at my local McDonald’s, but the app said it wasn’t available. I don’t know if that location’s ice cream machine was actually broken or if they didn’t get their shipment of popping pearls, but this is America: There was another McDonald’s less than a mile away that had the dessert.

And I’m glad they did! Although I’m not a berries-in-ice-cream fan, the thick soft-serve and wildberry sauce (blueberry? raspberry? both? I couldn’t tell) were a smooth, sweet mash-up. The boba pearls were fun to pop inside my mouth, too, though beware, they kind of leave behind a little… boba skin?

If breakfast is your bag, the new morning meal is the Saja Boys Breakfast Meal.

It includes a Spicy Saja McMuffin sandwich, which is a sausage McMuffin with egg and a spicy Saja sauce, hash browns and a small drink. I hadn’t had the chance to tell my husband what was in the sandwich when he swooped through the kitchen while talking on a work call and nabbed a bite. He widened his eyes and waved at his mouth in the universal signal for «HOT!» 

At first, I thought he was exaggerating, but then I had a second bite, and the orangish, peppery sauce is hot. It’s also too sweet for my taste, and I wouldn’t reorder this. Without the sauce, the breakfast is just an Egg McMuffin.

Both meals come with a photocard for one of the bands and a Derpy card. My breakfast meal included a photo card of Jinu, and my lunch meal featured one of Zoey. Each meal also had a Derpy card with a picture of Derpy Tiger and a QR code that, for some reason, I found incredibly difficult to scan. When I finally did, it took me to the McDonald’s app on my phone and asked for the code on the card. Then it didn’t really do anything.

A McDonald’s rep told me that’s by design: Entering the code means I will unlock content that won’t appear until April 26 and will reveal «the winner of McDonald’s ultimate battle for the fans.» So, I got that goin’ for me.

The full KPop Demon Hunters menu should be available at participating McDonald’s locations now, and while I nudged McDonald’s reps for an exact ending date, it’s just «while supplies last.»

My final take: KPop Demon Hunters fans will get a kick out of the meals, though if they are kids, they may wish for a smaller Happy Meal-style option. Ten McNuggets and fries are a lot, and a spicy Egg McMuffin probably isn’t for everybody. I tried to order a mini version of the Derpy McFlurry, but it was grayed out in my app, and the regular one was enormous.

If you do want to try the meals, I highly recommend the fries with the Ramyeon seasoning, the Hunter sauce and the Derpy McFlurry with its satisfying popping boba (share it with a friend if you have a small appetite or if, like me, you’re slogging through the full KPop Demon Hunter menu). I’d give a pass to the Demon sauce and the Spicy Saja McMuffin.

It’s also a bit of a bummer that the only extras in the meals (besides the colorful themed Happy Meal-style boxes) were glittery holographic photo cards and a code for online content that’s still a month away. No collectible figurines or even patterned socks a la the Grinch? That hit a bit of a sour note in this musical munch-fest.

In a 15-second clip posted on Tuesday by NBA star and Google performance advisor Steph Curry, there’s an Easter egg hinting at what could be a notable new wearable launch from Google. The paid partnership shows Curry dribbling and shooting a basketball, followed by the Google logo, but it’s the band on his wrist that caught my eye. 

A gray wristband with neon orange piping and a strap adjuster sits on Curry’s wrist. There’s no screen, reminding us of the Whoop wrist-based wearable, which announced on Tuesday that it raised $575 million in funding, bringing its valuation to $10.1 billion. 

If it is similar to Whoop, the new Google wearable may be able to monitor sleep, stress, recovery and overall health by tracking wrist-based metrics such as skin temperature, heart rate, blood oxygen levels and daily behaviors.

«I’m excited for what this is going to mean for the world, for health and wellness. It’s the first of its kind, in a way,» Curry says in a voiceover. «I won’t spoil it. You’re going to have to see it for yourself.» The video’s text adds, «A new relationship with your health. Coming soon.» 

When asked about the potential new launch, a Google representative responded, «Our performance advisor has been working with the team to cook up something special 👀. More to share soon.»

Aside from not having a screen, it will be interesting to see how Google differentiates this new device from its current line of wearables, which includes Pixel smartwatches and five Fitbit models. 

In a comment on the video, the account for Fitbit, Google’s current wearable fitness tracker, responded with the eyes emoji. 

Why Curry?

In August 2025, at the Made by Google event, the company announced a long-term partnership with Curry, who signed on as Google’s performance advisor across Google Health, Google Pixel and Google Cloud. As part of his role, Curry assists Google in training its algorithm and designing new products and features.

In the announcement post, Google mentioned that Curry uses AI from Google Cloud insights and the AI basketball coach to improve his game. Curry says this helps him analyze his shot quality and optimize his workout strategy. Based on this — and the fact that basically every new tech product now uses AI — we bet that Google’s upcoming wearable incorporates AI in some form. 

Overwatch’s five new heroes are about to be old news. The game dropped its first look at the upcoming hero 51, and a few details in the new artwork seem to be in line with expectations that she’s an ally of damage hero Ashe. 

Hero 51’s appearance is defined by a pretty long rifle and an even longer, pink-braided ponytail. Seriously, how does she not trip over that thing constantly? She’s also accompanied by some sort of drone that appears to have a camera or lens on the front.

Even before the art was revealed, fans had started to speculate that Overwatch’s season 2 hero would be Frankie, a member of Ashe’s Deadlock Gang. She appeared in the Deadlock Rebels novel by Lyndsay Ely, which follows Ashe and the hero now known as Cassidy early in their outlaw careers. In the book, Frankie makes contact with the two characters by sending them a tiny fly-like drone — perhaps a smaller version of the drone in hero 51’s character art.

Frankie is also described as having curly lavender hair. In the book, it’s short hair, but the story is also set a couple of decades before the present time of Overwatch, so maybe she’s just been growing it out since then. 

Alec Dawson, Overwatch’s associate game director, said in February that the next hero would be another damage hero with a «really satisfying skill shot,» which does seem to be in line with the rifle in the new artwork. While I do love a good skillshot, I also feel like the game has been struggling with damage hero releases over the past year — particularly heroes who have the ability to quickly eliminate someone out of nowhere. 

The newest damage heroes Anran and Emre didn’t have this problem, but Freja and Vendetta were consistently banned after release because of their quick time to kill, combined with their ability to consistently surprise enemies. I’m hoping hero 51’s skillshot is less bursty. 

The game’s Reign of Talon season 1 is wrapping up in the next couple of weeks. The current season kicked off the year-long storyline about Vendetta taking over Talon and also introduced five new heroes into the roster. Devs have promised another new hero each season during the storyline, and today’s artwork reveal is the first glimpse we’ve gotten of the rest. 

We’ll get more details in a hero trailer on April 8.