Month: August 2021

The arcade racer Horizon Chase Turbo – drawing inspiration from classics like Top Gear – has teased a brand new expansion – with epic races – “coming fast” to all platforms including the Nintendo Switch. The brief clip, which is just under 30 seconds, shows what appears to be the rear of an F1 speeding
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Fresh from its SXSW premiere, the animated fantasy-horror movie The Spine of Night was acquired for U.S. release by RLJE Films and Shudder, and it’s headed home for Halloween! Via RLJE Films, The Spine of Night is coming to theaters, Digital, and On Demand on October 29, 2021, with a release through Shudder to follow likely sometime next year.
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Venture capitalists are chatting this week about a recent piece from The Information titled “The End of Venture Capital as We Know It.” As with nearly everything you read, the article in question is a bit more nuanced than its headline. Its author, Sam Lessin, makes some pretty good points. But I don’t fully agree
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Last year came the announcement from Dwayne Johnson that he was rebooting the movie franchise that gave him his start, The Scorpion King. A year later and a fresh update on what’s going on behind-the-scenes has been made public. Speaking in a new interview with Collider, Johnson’s collaborator and producer Hiram Garcia revealed the first
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Youth mentor Rupert Boneham was cast on the seventh season of the reality competition show “Survivor: Pearl Islands” … but it was his grizzly gumption, thoughtful charisma and trippy tie-dye tank top that thrust the gentle giant into the hearts and minds of millions of viewers. The fan-favorite was so well-loved he continued to be
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Mattel’s popular line of “Monster High” dolls has been catering to monster kids since 2010, the dolls depicting the daughters of iconic movie monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein. More recently, pop culture properties including The Shining and Stephen King’s IT found their way into the Monster High line, and up next Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice joins the
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CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. Visionary filmmaker James Gunn became a household name thanks to his acclaimed work on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy franchise. Because of this, the public was shocked when he was (temporarily) fired by
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We think we’ve found the perfect way to describe curiosity ‘No Thing’. It’s an endless-turner, to borrow a naming structure from endless-runners, as you are constantly moving, but instead of changing lanes or making well-timed jumps, you are turning whenever there’s a corner.  That’s doing No Thing a disservice of course, as it has ambitions
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Fleets weren’t long for this world, but Twitter’s product teams aren’t slowing down on bringing new stuff to Spaces, the company’s own take on audio rooms. Twitter introduced Spaces in a limited test last year, expanding the Clubhouse copycat feature more broadly to anyone with at least 600 followers in May. Now, Twitter is giving
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Summary We go hands-on with the thrilling co-op first-person shooter from the creators of the acclaimed Left 4 Dead franchise. The Back 4 Blood open beta starts today for those who have pre-ordered the game. Back 4 Blood launches October 12 for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S and will be available day one with
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Remember a time before Apex Legends and Warzone, where multiplayer shooters were less focused on faux-military realism and more on arcadey swashbuckling? Splitgate remembers, taking a page from the deathmatch book Halo and Unreal wrote and adding its own chapter with portals. There are moments of brilliance thanks to being able to pop out of
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Statsig is taking the A/B testing applications that drive Facebook’s growth and putting similar functionalities into the hands of any product team so that they, too, can make faster, data-informed decisions on building products customers want. The Seattle-based company on Thursday announced $10.4 million in Series A funding, led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from
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