Generally speaking, when you think of a Lovecraftian horror game, you don’t necessarily think of fishing. Yet that’s exactly what you do in Black Salt Games’ DREDGE, which is headed to the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series and PC via Steam on March 30th. Pre-order dates will be announced soon
Month: February 2023
If you walk through the woods and pass a beehive, you may catch the sweet scent of honey in the wind and suddenly be flooded with memories: having tea with grandma or eating warm biscuits on a Sunday morning. If you were taking that walk 300,000 years ago with a Denisovan – a now-extinct hominid
The U.K. government is seemingly backtracking on plans that would have allowed text and data mining “for any purpose,” plans designed to position the U.K. as a “global AI superpower.” The news emerges following months of blowback from creative industries concerned about what impact the rules might have on protected works. Background Text and data
Not every Nintendo game is released. In fact, it’s not unusual for a Nintendo game to be cancelled behind-the-scenes, without the public even knowing that the game was even a thing. However, they tend to be revealed eventually, years after the cancellation had happened. More often than not, it’s Did You Know Gaming that takes
Jack Antonoff, February 2023 (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy) News Jack Antonoff Wins Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, at 2023 Grammys Boi-1da, Dahi, the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, and Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II were also in the running By Jazz Monroe February 5, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter Jack Antonoff has won Producer
One might say that Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence have a few things in common. They’re both two of the most popular comedians to ever take to a stage, they have massive blockbuster franchises under their belts and both are widely loved by the public at large. There’s also another interesting piece of connective tissue
How much death and destruction can one family take? 1923 Season 1 Episode 5 broke my heart into pieces, and after what we’ve come to know with the Yellowstone prequels, it would be silly to hold out hope. The light of the family may be gone before anyone even got a chance to see it.
Indie publisher Assemble Entertainment and developer Tainted Pact have announced a new mash-up of first person and text-based horror in Suffer the Night. An homage to classic slasher films, Suffer the Night will arrive later this year on Steam. In fact, you can check out the game’s demo today! In Suffer the Night, players take
You can now listen to the sounds of the space around one of the Milky Way’s most spectacular stars. RS Puppis, a Cepheid variable star around 6,500 light-years away, has gotten the data sonification treatment by the sci-art outreach project SYSTEM Sounds. They took a Hubble image of the star and transcribed the light into
Nature is healing, the tech show is returning to in-person events. I’m not sure I’m entirely over CES less than a month after returning from Vegas, but we’re already in full planning mode for TechCrunch’s return to Barcelona. We’ll be sending an extremely scaled-down team to this year’s event, but while we’re in Catalonia, we’d
We could probably count the games that have made us laugh consistently on one hand. Maybe on two fingers. It is so, so difficult, not only because humour is wildly subjective, but comedic timing is incredibly hard when the player has control over that timing. It’s a wonder that funny games even exist. Albacete Warrior
Lisa Marie Presley could not handle the stress leading up to the Golden Globes, because she had become used to feeling anonymous during COVID, and felt fully exposed during the roll up to the Golden Globes … sources tell TMZ. Family sources tell TMZ … Lisa actually felt comfortable during COVID, because she could leave
Paramount has just dated the Ridley Scott-directed follow-up for November 22, 2024. Aftersun Oscar nominated Best Actor Paul Mescal is in talks to be in the film, as Deadline first told you. Scott produces with Michael Pruss, Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher off David Scarpa’s screenplay. As Justin Kroll first reported, Mescal isn’t replacing Russell
Viking Wolf, billed as Norway’s first werewolf movie, delivers as promised. This recent Netflix acquisition doesn’t mislead its audience; there is definitely a wild lycan on the loose in a small Norwegian town. However, Stig Svendsen’s movie doesn’t have the typical origin found in these kinds of stories; the werewolf myth here has been adapted
Sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms have predicted that the world will be 1.5 °C hotter than it was before the Industrial Revolution by the early 2030s – another climate change alarm bell to add to the cacophony that’s already being sounded. And that’s baked in, the AI says: it doesn’t matter whether greenhouse gases rise
Happy weekend, folks, and welcome back to the TechCrunch Week in Review. Henry here, standing in for a vacationing Kyle Wiggers, who is standing in for a parental-leaving Greg Kumparak. Listen, we’ve got a deep bench, and both blokes will be back very soon. Until then, check out just a few of the top stories
Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, and Game Pass! Get more details on these upcoming games below and click their profiles for further info (release dates subject to change). Let’s jump in! Peachy Boy – February 8
Unwound performing at the Showbox in Seattle, Washington in February 2023, photo by Steve Boyle News Watch Unwound’s First Official Reunion Show The influential post-hardcore band kicked off their reunion tour last night in Seattle By Nina Corcoran February 4, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter After a 20-year-long hiatus, Unwound played the first official show
Before Alexandra Daddario became known for more mature roles like 2017’s Baywatch and her pivotal part in Season 1 of The White Lotus, the actress found her first major leading role in the movie adaptations of the Percy Jackson series. At the age of 22, she suddenly became known around the world as the face
Sixty-seven years after the savage murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi, his cousin still seeks some kind of justice. Haunted by the 1955 hate crime that ignited the civil rights movement, Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr. brings everything and everyone back to life in A Few Days Full of Trouble: Revelations on the Journey to Justice
Play video content Real Time with Bill Maher/HBO The Grammys show promises to be endless, what with 91 categories, and now Bill Maher has exacerbated the problem by adding 10 categories to the list, and they’re f***ing hysterical. The ‘Real Time’ host mused about some of the actual categories, like Best Score Soundtrack for Video
Viking Wolf, billed as Norway’s first werewolf movie, delivers as promised. This recent Netflix acquisition doesn’t mislead its audience; there is definitely a wild lycan on the loose in a small Norwegian town. However, Stig Svendsen’s movie doesn’t have the typical origin found in these kinds of stories; the werewolf myth here has been adapted
Billion-dollar startup Colossal Biosciences claims it has come a step closer to reviving the dodo, a flightless bird that has been extinct since the 17th century. The futuristic plan is only possible now that the Dallas-based company has decrypted the dodo’s entire genome, according to a press release. The bird is the latest in the
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Toward the end of 2022, a number of entrepreneurs, some citing Elon Musk, told me that they’re bringing back an in-person work culture in the
We’ve written at length about PlayStation Store‘s easy Platinum games (shovelware, rather) that often plague the storefront’s “New Releases” section and has become a hotly debated topic among players and trophy hunters. But just how well do these games sell? Here’s an idea, courtesy of an indie developer behind such games. Easy Platinum games are
Some of the biggest names in music were out in force Friday for a second night of pre-Grammy partying, hitting several major shindigs around L.A. Just like Thursday night, there were were a slew of celebrations in town ahead of the iconic awards show and the parties were flooded with bold-faced names, including Jay-Z and
Animated fairy tale The Amazing Maurice voiced by Emilia Clarke, Hugh Laurie, David Thewlish, Gemma Arterton and Himesh Patel, jumps from Sundance to 1,700 screens via Viva Pictures, the distributor’s widest release to date and a big one for any independently produced animated film. And Civil War drama Freedom’s Path starring Gerran Howell, RJ Cyler, and Ewen
Are you ready to say goodbye to A Million Little Things? Well, you don’t need to worry just yet, but the premiere will be the last you’ll ever get, so it’s never too early to prepare for the inevitable. And for YOU fans, the word on the street is this is a season like no
Viking Wolf, billed as Norway’s first werewolf movie, delivers as promised. This recent Netflix acquisition doesn’t mislead its audience; there is definitely a wild lycan on the loose in a small Norwegian town. However, Stig Svendsen’s movie doesn’t have the typical origin found in these kinds of stories; the werewolf myth here has been adapted
WASHINGTON — U.S. and Indian officials agreed this week to expand civil space cooperation, including training Indian astronauts and flying payloads on commercial lunar landers. In meetings this week in Washington, held with little public fanfare, the United States and India agreed to expanded cooperation in civil space and laid the groundwork for potential new