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.

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.

Meta makes some of the best smart glasses we’ve tested at CNET, and now it’s launching several new frame styles. They include support for prescription lenses and aim to make the glasses more viable as an all-day device that won’t look out of place with your day-to-day wear.

At the same time, Meta is also rolling out features that let its smart glasses analyze what you’re looking at to estimate calories, summarize messages from apps like WhatsApp, and provide contextual assistance through its built-in AI. 

Here’s what’s new.

New styles with ‘prescription optimized’ glasses

Meta is introducing two new frame styles with the Ray-Ban Meta Optics Styles. There’s a rectangular Blayzer Optics frame available in standard and large sizes, and a rounder Sriber Optics frame with a lighter, slimmer form. 

Color options include matte black, transparent matte ice gray and transparent stone beige. There’s also a dark brown charging carrying case for the new line. 

The new prescription glasses are available for preorder in the US starting at $499, with availability starting April 14. 

The Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 and Oakley Meta lines are also getting an extensive lens expansion, with new combinations of colors and lenses. These include Prizm Dark Golf lenses, which provide better vibrance, contrast and color boosting on the golf course and Prizm Transitions, which adapt to outdoor light. 

Meta AI wants to analyze your camera feed and count calories

The biggest software features update comes with Meta AI’s growing ability to analyze the camera feed from the glasses. You can now log meals by simply looking at food or snapping a quick photo, with the system estimating nutritional information and tracking intake over time. (You may want to double-check the AI feature is getting things right, though. AI tools have been known to hallucinate, or confidently make up information.)

As part of its Early Access Program, Meta is also expanding messaging features. Its glasses can now summarize incoming messages, including from WhatsApp, and allow you to respond via voice by asking «Hey Meta, catch me up on my messages,» which generates a concise group chat summary. You can also ask for specific details from the group chat, like «What did Jamie suggest for dinner?» in case you want to pick out specific information from the conversation. 

According to Meta, the voice interactions are processed on-device and are end-to-end encrypted. The feature will be available to early access users on Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta and Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses.

New Meta Ray-Ban Display features 

One of the biggest new capabilities includes the addition of features for the Ray-Ban Display. There’s now support for Instagram Reels on the glasses, as well as a personalized Spotify shortcut below the media player for faster access to recently played tracks and playlists.

Meta has added two new games — the puzzle game 2048 and the platformer GOAT — which are playable on the display and controlled with the Meta Neural Band.
There are also new glanceable widgets for Reminders, Weather, Stocks and Calendar on the home screen, as well as a new Calendar app that integrates with Google Calendar and Outlook to privately view and manage scheduling. 

Perhaps most interesting is Neural Handwriting, which should roll out in the coming weeks. The feature allows you to write on any surface to reply to messages silently. It’ll work on Meta’s messaging apps WhatsApp and Messenger, as well as on iMessage and native Android messaging. 

In the spring, Meta also expects to roll out dual video recording, which lets you record both display and point-of-view video simultaneously. The file combines both the video and audio into a single video that can be shared directly with friends and followers. 

For the globtrotters, Meta also has something for them in this update. The Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta glasses will be available in more international markets (Japan, Korea, Singapore, Chile, Colombia and Peru) and will feature live translation for 20 languages, including Mandarin, Korean, Japanese and Arabic. 

Meta representatives didn’t immediately respond to a request for additional comment on the capabilities.