Despite being commonplace today, a reboot is not an easy project to get right. Ideally it will bring a cherished game or character bang up to date, but at the same time respecting the source material and acknowledging what came before. Then if you chuck one of gaming’s most famous characters into the mix, it’s
Month: March 2023
Few shows have been as relatable to our everyday experience as the American version of The Office when it debuted in 2005 on NBC. Over the years, characters were flanderized and toned down in keeping with network notes. But not Jim. The prank-loving protagonist with a hole in his heart for the cute receptionist represented the ideal
What’s your favorite scary movie? Nah, that’s too trite. What horror movie would you show to someone who has never seen one before? You may have the same answer to both questions, but the latter requires a bit more thought. John Carpenter’s Halloween is my favorite movie, but I recognize it most likely would not
Nearly 40 years ago, the world’s worst nuclear disaster turned the Ukrainian city of Pripyat and its nearby power plant, Chernobyl, into a radioactive hot zone – and surprisingly, decades later, a haven for wildlife. Wolves, wild horses, birds, bison, elk, frogs, and dogs roam among the decaying concrete buildings and surrounding forests of what
Honda bailed on the Clarity — its only hydrogen-powered car in the U.S. — but the automaker hasn’t quit on fuel cells. That’s the message Honda sent with a peculiar announcement today: It’s putting some old Clarity fuel cells back to work, combining them into a backup power system for its data center just south
Phoebe Bridgers/SZA/Cardi B (Getty Images) News Watch Phoebe Bridgers and Cardi B Join SZA at MSG SZA brought her collaborators from “Ghost in the Machine” and “I Do” on stage at her concert in New York By Matthew Ismael Ruiz March 4, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter SZA brought Phoebe Bridgers and Cardi B on
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! Great New Games Spotlight has
The 2023 PEN American Literary Award Winners have been announced! This year’s awards conferred $350,000 to writers and translators in eleven different categories that include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, essay, science writing, literature in translation, and more. The winners were announced live at the PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on March 2, at The Town
Evil Dead and Don’t Breathe director Fede Alvarez will both write and direct a brand new Alien movie for Ridley Scott and 20th Century Studios, with Cailee Spaeny (The Craft: Legacy, Pacific Rim Uprising) set to lead the cast. Isabela Merced (Rosaline) has also joined the cast, we learned earlier this week, and The Hollywood Reporter brings us more casting news. David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Spike Fearn
Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix seemed to be very much a couple just days before TMZ broke the story of their split … and we’ve now learned more details about what specifically led to the couple’s sudden end. Sources close to the former pair tell us it was a series of text messages Ariana discovered
Tom Sizemore, best known in gaming as the voice actor for villain Sonny Forelli in GTA Vice City, has passed away at the age of 61. Also known for his roles in the films Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down, the actor died on Friday, March 3, at his home after suffering from a
Isaiah Washington says he’s calling it quits on his acting career and is heading for early retirement. The former Grey’s Anatomy star took to Twitter to make the announcement, explaining that past criticism of his character played a part in his decision. Washington said, “Those who have been Following/Witnessing my journey here on T—ter since
Evil Dead and Don’t Breathe director Fede Alvarez will both write and direct a brand new Alien movie for Ridley Scott and 20th Century Studios, with Cailee Spaeny (The Craft: Legacy, Pacific Rim Uprising) set to lead the cast. Isabela Merced (Rosaline) has also joined the cast, we learned earlier this week, and The Hollywood Reporter brings us more casting news. David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Spike Fearn
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Defense Department on March 3 released updated guidelines for safe and responsible space operations. These guidelines were issued Feb. 9 by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a memo that lays out five “tenets of responsible behavior in space.” Austin first released the tenets in July 2021. The update reflects recommendations from
Take a look at Earth from far off in space, you’d notice it looks uniformly bright. Considering the Southern Hemisphere’s disproportionate expanse of dark ocean waters should reflect back less sunlight, this isn’t what we might expect down here on the surface. It’s a mystery that’s been of interest to scientists since the early 1970s,
Metaverse hype was hanging like a multicolored fog over the Mobile World Congress (MWC) connectivity trade show in Barcelona this week. Conference organizer, the GSMA’s, program pitched attendees into a smorgasbord of metaverse-themed discussions — most of which seemed designed to generate maximum FOMO, as a parade of tech evangelists took to the stage in
The National on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (Photo by Todd Owyoung/NBC) News Watch the National Perform “Tropic Morning News” on Fallon The first single from their next album First Two Pages of Frankenstein By Madison Bloom March 4, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter The National stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
February has come and gone, and with it came some spectacular new games, including new PS VR2 releases. Which new game will take the Players’ Choice crown? The polls are open now, place your vote below to help decide! How does it work? At the end of every month, PlayStation.Blog will open a poll where
Things aren’t always what they seem. Frank often reminds cops of that, but it was never more evident than in the conflict over Witten’s decision to file an IA report. Blue Bloods Season 13 Episode 14 began with a confrontation between two white cops and a Black kid that looked like racial profiling. Still, it
Evil Dead and Don’t Breathe director Fede Alvarez will both write and direct a brand new Alien movie for Ridley Scott and 20th Century Studios, with Cailee Spaeny (The Craft: Legacy, Pacific Rim Uprising) set to lead the cast. Isabela Merced (Rosaline) has also joined the cast, we learned earlier this week, and The Hollywood Reporter brings us more casting news. David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Spike Fearn
They’re back. RLJE Films presents the Stephen King reboot Children of the Corn by Kurt Wimmer on 500+ screens. It’s a redo of the classic 1984 slasher-horror film about kids possessed by a demonic spirit in a dying cornfield, with bloody, rampaging results. King’s iconic short story features a 12-year-old Nebraska girl who recruits the
Chemistry takes effort. Whether it’s by raising the temperature, increasing the odds that compatible atoms will collide in a heated smash-up, or increasing the pressure and squeezing them together, building molecules usually demands a certain cost in energy. Quantum theory does provide a workaround if you’re patient. And a team of researchers from the University
The slowdown was inevitable, of course. Nothing stays hot forever — especially in this industry. By tech standards, smartphones have had a good run, but the last few years have seen device makers searching for the magic bullet to help the sales slide reverse course. The arrival of 5G was a nice reprieve, but next-generation
Tom Sandoval is on the move after splitting with his longtime girlfriend, Ariana Madix … packing his bags and leaving the estranged couple’s home. The “Vanderpump Rules” star was spotted loading multiple suitcases into a vehicle Friday, as news of his breakup, first reported by TMZ, hit the web. Tom certainly wasn’t smiling as he
Journalism professor Michelle Dowd was raised in California’s Angeles National Forest as part of an ultrareligious cult known as the Field, which was begun by her grandfather. She grew up fearing the apocalypse might arrive at any moment, and public education was shunned and largely avoided. “Outsiders” were never to be trusted. As Dowd writes
HyperX’s Pudding Keycaps, a popular choice for upgrading mechanical keyboards to blast out the RGB and improve the typing experience at the same time, are heavily discounted at Amazon US today. This full 104-key set normally retails for $25, but today you can pick them up in black for $15 or white for $20.
Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more. Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week! Jamie Lee Curtis Signed Photo from My Hand In Yours Jamie Lee Curtis made her first and only horror convention
MGM’s Creed III is off to a powerful start at the international box office with the Michael B Jordan-directed movie grossing $6.9M through Thursday in 56 markets. The threequel, the first major title released overseas by Warner Bros under a multi-year pact that was entered last August, has another 19 markets to add today and
Hunter-gatherers took shelter from the ice age in Southwestern Europe, but were replaced on the Italian Peninsula according to two new studies, published in Nature and Nature Ecology & Evolution today. Modern humans first began to spread across Eurasia approximately 45,000 years ago, arriving from the near east. Previous research claimed these people disappeared when
Movies Anywhere, a previously Disney-backed app that lets users access their digitally owned movie collection from across services, is shutting down two features, “Screen Pass” and “Watch Together.” Screen Pass, which launched in 2020, allows you to loan out three movies per month within the app, which recipients can then watch for up to 72