Month: January 2020

Not many of us ever open up our new consoles, but if you do take apart Microsoft’s Xbox Series X later this year, you’ll discover that the processor powering the machine is engraved with “8K.” Earlier today, Microsoft’s head of Xbox Phil Spencer changed his twitter profile picture to an image of the new Xbox’s
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By Sherif Saed, Monday, 6 January 2020 11:20 GMT If you ever thought that 240Hz is just too low of a refresh rate, Nvidia has heard you. At CES 2020, Asus and Nvidia announced a new monitor with a staggering refresh rate of 360Hz. The 24.5″ monitor has a resolution of only 1080p, and is
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Refresh for latest…: Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker continued its global domination in the third weekend, now with a worldwide cume of $918.8M. It will soon become the Mouse’s 7th release of 2019 to cross the $1B mark. The current split is $450.8M domestic and $468M at the international box office. This weekend
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TATE mode – or ‘portrait’ mode if you prefer – is just one of the features that make the Nintendo Switch such an attractive system for players. While TATE games are, by and large, found in the shmup genre, there are a few notable exceptions on Switch which use the thinner-yet-taller aspect ratio to create
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The surviving members of Nirvana—Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear—reunited for a brief five-song set at The Art of Elysium’s annual “Heaven is Rock and Roll” gala. Beck and St. Vincent’s Annie Clark stood in for late vocalist Kurt Cobain on lead guitar and vocals. Check out the whole performance below. The band played
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MeWe, the subscription-based social network that emphasizes privacy and bills itself as the anti-Facebook, is launching a premium tier of its service and spinning up a business-focused product to take on enterprise networking and communication tools like Slack. Founded by Mark Weinstein, a gregarious serial entrepreneur who credits himself with being an early developer of
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Director Nicolas Pesce’s The Grudge 2020 “sidequel” was released January 3, 2020, and, given the fact that reviews have been largely negative, will a sequel happen? While a unique, ambitious concept, Pesce’s take on The Grudge has been heavily critiqued as unnecessary, too violent, and has been said to not fit the overall vision for the franchise. Despite having
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Nintendo has announced the games they will be bringing to this year’s World Hobby Fair at the Nagoya Dome on 19th January, Makuhari Messe on 25th-26th January, Fukuoka Yahuoku! Dome on 2nd February, and Kyocera Dome Osaka on the 9th February. Here’s the games which attendees can go hands on with this year: Pokémon Sword
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Not to gush, but let’s seriously behold the success of Media Rights Capital and Lionsgate’s Knives Out.  We’ve already overwritten how the whodunit is a win for original movies in last year’s Disney franchise-laden theatrical environment. But this Rian Johnson-directed, star-studded film just won’t give up in its current sixth weekend of release, poised to
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