Month: March 2022

The mega-merger era of mind boggling consolidation continued today with the announcement that Microsoft plans to buy game company Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion.  Activision Blizzard is behind some of the most famous games of all time, including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Candy Crush and Overwatch. It’s also been deeply troubled of
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As The Beat reported yesterday, Xbox is in the process of acquiring video game publisher Activision-Blizzard early for a staggering $68.7 billion, pending SEC approval. To put that in perspective, that’s 17 times the amount Disney paid for Marvel. Microsoft’s move has gigantic reverberations for all of video games. Let’s look at whom the acquisition
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Dying Light 2 has a new patch that tackles issues reported by the players. It also focuses on technical and gameplay improvements, such as ragdoll mechanics, story progression glitches, eliminates deathloops, and also features fixes for numerous co-op issues. This patch includes fixes for story progression, UI/UX, Nightrunner tools, combat improvements, night balance, the final
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Hammered by climate change and relentless deforestation, the Amazon rainforest is losing its capacity to recover and could irretrievably transition into savannah, with dire consequences for the region and the world, according to a study published Monday. Researchers warned that the results mean the Amazon could be approaching a so-called “tipping point” faster than previously
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Morgan Wallen‘s warm reception at the ACM Awards is proof country music is complicit in his use of the N-word … so says the NAACP Nashville chapter president. Sheryl Guinn — president of the Nashville chapter — tells TMZ … by welcoming him back into their community, the genre’s embrace of Wallen destroys artists’ accountability.
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Although a sequel to the Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito-led comedy Twins has been in development since 2012, the project, now officially titled Triplets, has been making significant progress forward since last December. Sadly, director Ivan Reitman, who helmed Twins and planned to return for Triplets, passed away on February 12 at the age of
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A new piece of information about Mirabel Madrigal has been confirmed, creating another perfect Encanto Easter egg. After Encanto’s release, the director ​​Jared Bush has been revealing trivia about the gifted characters, such as their ages and even glimpses of the different love stories in the family. Most recently, Bush has tweeted a “big news
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“My favorite book growing up was Harriet the Spy,” Erika Krouse says, speaking by phone from her home in Colorado. “It’s funny because that’s what I ended up doing. [Harriet] wanted to be a writer, and she wanted to be a spy, and I did too.” In 2002, years after Krouse’s Harriet the Spy phase,
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Composer Randy Edelman intimately captures his audience, forever giving his soul to touch their hearts and in return they ultimately hold him and his piano hostage on stage.  Dubbed “Best Live Set in 2021” by “Rock NYC”, Randy is swiftly becoming the “hottest ticket” in town and therefore returning by popular demand once again to
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