The author of The Night Ends With Fire, a new fantasy romance inspired by the legend of Mulan, shares her bookstore habits and favorite library memories. View original source here.
Month: July 2024
July’s games on PS Plus are here. The PlayStation Plus free games for July 2024 are now available to download across PS5 and PS4 platforms. This past week, Sony announced that July’s lineup on PS Plus would include Borderlands 3, NHL 24, and Among Us. This rotation was relatively well-received by most PS Plus subscribers given
Home News Monogram International Shares Peanuts SDCC Exclusive Deluxe Gift Set The latest SDCC reveal from Monogram International spotlights a famous hero and his nemesis – Charlie Brown and his kit. This Peanuts Deluxe Gift Set features a Peanuts lanyard, a Charlie Brown figural bag clip and three enamel pins – all with the nefarious
Families will not stop heading to the cinemas this week as Illumination/Universal‘s Despicable Me 4 storms into summer with what’s looking like a $110M-$120M 5-day U.S./Canada opening at 4,000 theaters. This as Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 remains strong after a third No. 1 weekend, that pic heading to half billion stateside before the week is
It’s sobering to think that 2024 is already half over and Abigail is probably the most notable mainstream horror movie to be released thus far; it’s the Indies dominating positive critical response. The good news is that the second half of the year has plenty to offer and there are some big ones still on
Eminem is back with another new song. The Detroit rapper has released “Tobey,” a new single with fellow Michiganders Big Sean and BabyTron. To start the track, BabyTron raps, “Tobey Maguire got bit by a spider, but see, me, it was a goat.” The song’s credited producers are: Car!ton, Cole Bennett, Daniyel, Eminem, John Nocito,
Meta has updated the artificial intelligence (AI) content detection label from “Made with AI” to “AI Info” on Monday. The announcement came just days after several Instagram influencers and photographers criticised the social media giant for incorrectly labelling their original posts as AI-generated content. In a post, Meta acknowledged that its previous label was not
It feels like we are getting used to the Earth being on fire. Recently, more than 70 wildfires burned simultaneously in Greece. In early 2024, Chile suffered its worst wildfire season in history, with more than 130 people killed. Last year, Canada’s record-breaking wildfires burned from March to November and, in August, flames devastated the
Image: EA Surgent Studios, the developer behind the recent Metroidvania Tales of Kenzera: ZAU, is reportedly facing layoffs after staff members were spotted posting messages on LinkedIn that indicate their time at the studio has come to an abrupt end (thanks, VGC). The first comes from Jordan Smee, a technical artist at Surgent, who posted,
Next week the DC Comics return from deep inside the Keep. Blue Devil and Scarlett are just some of the books on my read list. Stay tune for some mystery books as well. Until next week, keep reading! Last updated on June 29, 2024 Post navigation View original source here.
After years of working as a stuntman/stunt coordinator, Chad Stahelski made his directorial debut in 2014 co-helming John Wick, one of the best action movies, with David Leitch. Stahelski went on to direct the following three John Wick movies on his own, and now he’s branching out with a variety of other filmmaking endeavors, including
In a shock to absolutely no one, Capcom confirmed during their Capcom Next event that they are indeed working on a new Resident Evil game. Director Koshi Nakanishi (who previously directed Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 7) uttered the short but sweet phrase, “We’re making a new Resident Evil.” During the announcement that Resident
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have announced a new album, ‘FLIGHT b741’. READ MORE: King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard: “If something is shit and no one likes it, you just put out another one the next month” The release, the band’s 26th studio album, is set to come out on August 9 via their
Apple might offer Google’s Gemini AI integration when Apple Intelligence rolls out as part of iOS 18 later this year, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. At the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2024 keynote event, Apple announced its partnership with OpenAI would bring the latter’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, to the iPhone’s operating system. While
TAMPA, Fla. — Europe must improve how it allocates capital for the space industry to avoid missing out on the fruits of rising early-stage investments, the head of Luxembourg-based private equity firm NewSpace Capital has warned. Recently published research from the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) shows Europe averaged 96 investment deals annually for space
When Nintendo normally releases an update for the Nintendo Switch‘s firmware, it results in a version number change and, at the very least, a handful of changes that had been made confirmed via patch notes. For these updates to finish, the console is required to reboot itself. However, this isn’t always the case for updates.
Coppola’s buzzed-about new movie gets an R rating. After a decade of being in the works, Megalopolis is finally headed to theaters. The ambitious Francis Ford Coppola film is currently scheduled for a fall release — and now the movie has an official rating from the MPAA. According to the new rating, Megalopolis is officially
Home News Neopets Celebrates 25 Years of Fandom at San Diego Comic-con 2024 Neopets, the original virtual pet site that galvanized a generation of online gamers, is celebrating 25 years of epic fandom at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con! Following two fan-fuelled years at the iconic convention, the brand will be back with even more
Media mogul Barry Diller is exploring a bid for Paramount, The New York Times reports. The Hollywood potentate-turned-digital media-pioneer’s IAC Corp. has inked nondisclosure deals with Shari Redstone’s National Amusements Inc., the company’s controlling stakeholder, the paper said. The Times said the status of the Diller-Paramount talks is unclear. A Paramount rep declined to comment
Hungry for some more blood-curdling drama after the Interview with the Vampire finale? Let us tell you about a real horror show currently taking over Toronto. In a plotline straight out of a Scooby-Doo episode or a modern adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera, The Revue Cinema, a historic landmark and favorite haunt of
Cass McCombs has announced a short North American tour for this September, kicking off shortly after a set of three reissues. Early EP Not the Way and the albums A and Prefection will get digital, vinyl, and CD reissues on September 6, from 4AD, with a cassette called 2000-2004 Demos, Live and Radio coming, via
Realme launched its first tablet — Realme Pad — in India in 2021. The Chinese tech brand currently has a couple of tablet models in its portfolio. If rumours are true, the third iteration of Realme Pad could be making its way to the market soon. The exact launch date of the tablet has not
In the charcoaled remains of fires that smoldered more than 10,000 years ago, archaeologists have found evidence of what may be the longest continuing ritual – shared across generations of Indigenous Australians since the end of the last ice age to this day. The ancestral lands of the GunaiKurnai Aboriginal people lie in the foothills
Capcom Next was a more succint affair this summer. It focused on providing updates for only three titles: Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster, and the iOS/Mac port of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. Here’s a brief summary of each announcement, which includes the smallest of teases for the next Resident Evil title.
Indie bookstore Fabulosa Books — located in San Francisco’s historically queer Castro District — is running a program called “Books Not Bans.” Last May, Fabulosa’s Becka Robbins began raising money for the project, which uses customers’ donations to send LGBTQ+ books to places in the country where they’ve been banned. So far, the books have
Days Gone continues to sound unlikely to ever return. Fans of PlayStation‘s open-world action game Days Gone have been told to “move on” from hoping for a potential Days Gone 2. Back in 2021, it was widely reported that developer Bend Studio had pitched Sony to create Days Gone 2. This pitch ended up getting denied by
There are new Lord of the Rings movies on the way from producer Peter Jackson and so, as one might expect, fans have many questions. One of the big ones is whether the Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum cast will include any members of the original trilogy cast. Viggo Mortensen says it’s
One of the best but understated horror directors of our time, Marcus Nispel, is finally going to see a 4K release of his 2009 remake of Friday the 13th. After the success of his remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the Hollywood machine hired him to reboot another iconic horror movie, Friday the 13th. With
Beth Ditto spoke to NME at Glastonbury 2024 to tell us about the return of Gossip for their first new album in 12 years. Watch the interview in full above and check out the full chat below. The singer caught up with us backstage at the Worthy Farm festival, shortly before Gossip headlined the Woodsies
Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio have now revised the pricing of their range of prepaid and postpaid plans in the country, effective from July 03, 2024. Reliance Jio was the first to announce the price hike of its range of plans in the country, followed by Airtel. Jio has also confirmed that it will only