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
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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
NASA scientists have discovered something of an alphabet soup in the ionosphere, the part of Earth’s atmosphere that sits about 48–965 kilometers (30–600 miles) above our heads – and the finding could help improve space weather forecasts and radio communications. Shapes like this have been detected before, but the Global-scale Observations of the Limb and
Helldivers 2 has been in a bit of a quiet period lately, relatively speaking. With Arrowhead largely busy focusing on bug fixes and putting out stuff at a bit of a slower cadence, some players have been getting a bit tired of the same old thing, with an unfortunate milestone the game’s hit PC playerbase-wise
My Rating ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. “Team Jen – Part 01” The Vacation has come to an end but Jack and Jennifer’s relationship is no more stable than when they left. No matter, things are about to become more unstable. Karkas and Ransak the Reject have left the Van Dyne apartment in an
Home News Monogram International Announces Barbie Deluxe Gift Set SDCC Exclusive Monogram International today shared the SDCC exclusive Barbie (65th Anniversary) Deluxe Gift Set. This set includes a lanyard, a figural bag clip and 3 enamel pins. This set is limited to just 300 pieces. You can pick it up at SDCC at booth #3645.
UPDATED: Paramount’s A Quiet Place: Day One not only set a domestic opening record for the franchise, it also did it at the international box office. Of the $98.5M global start, $45.5M is from 59 overseas markets, well exceeding expectations. Overall, on a like-for-like basis, the offshore result on AQPD1 is 4% above A Quiet Place:
Nearly a year since independent Polish studio Kruger & Flint Productions’ arcade throwback FPS Bloodhound burst onto Steam, the shooter is now available on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. Xbox fans won’t be left out for too long, as Bloodhound will arrive this August for the Xbox One and the Xbox Series. Set in
Fresh off his Album of the Year win for Michael at the 2024 BET Awards last night (June 30), Killer Mike has dropped a new single. “Humble Me” comes with a black-and-white music video in which the rapper is stripped of his jewelry and placed in handcuffs. Through the lyrics, Killer Mike addresses his arrest
Apple has reportedly begun developing the next year’s operating systems for its devices. The report comes just a month after the Cupertino-based tech giant unveiled iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11, and visionOS 2 at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2024. iOS 18, which will be publicly rolled out this fall, gets home screen customisation,
Hurricane Beryl plowed toward the southeast Caribbean on Sunday as residents were urged to hurry and finish preparations ahead of the expected landfall overnight of the “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm – the first ever recorded in June. The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned residents that Beryl – currently churning in the Atlantic Ocean
One of the pillars of good PC custodianship is ensuring all your gear isn’t running out of spec, which can cause slowdowns, crashes, and frustration. The chief culprit for something running too hot is the CPU, as it’s always active when you’re using your computer, and when stressed, the heat it generates can sometimes overload
July is already upon us, believe it or not, and all of the major streaming services are readying a ton of new additions for the month ahead. Netflix, Disney+, Max, Hulu, Paramount+, Peacock, and Prime Video all have some big plans for July, and we’ve put all of their upcoming lineups in one convenient location.
The Quiet Place movies are not what one would call exposition friendly films. Because characters have to stay almost entirely silent lest they be attacked and mauled to death, there aren’t exactly a lot of opportunities in the stories for people to sit down together and explain everything they know about what’s going on in
Mugshot via BUSAN POLICE A 23-year-old true crime enthusiast has been sentenced to life by a South Korean court after stabbing her unsuspecting victim over 100 times. BBC reports that Jung Yoo-jung spent countless hours watching true crime content. Curious about “trying out a murder,” she used a tutoring app to find a victim willing
Dua Lipa has responded after being wrongly accused of miming when she headlined Glastonbury 2024 on Friday (June 28). Lipa was the first artist to headline Glastonbury this year, ahead of Saturday headliner Coldplay and Sunday’s SZA, bringing out Kevin Parker as a surprise guest to sing Tame Impala’s ‘The Less I Know The Better’.
YouTube is testing a new way that can provide more community support to small content creators, the company announced on Monday. The feature, called ‘Hype’, is being made available to viewers in select regions. Content creators within the criteria will be eligible for this new program. It is just one of the features that is
WASHINGTON — NASA and SpaceX are examining how to alter the Dragon spacecraft’s reentry process to limit the amount of debris from the spacecraft’s trunk section that reaches the ground. On several occasions, debris from trunk sections of Dragon spacecraft, which are jettisoned from the capsule before the capsule performs a deorbit burn, have been
Image: Nihon Falcom It seems another game localisation announcement may have been accidentally revealed ahead of Anime Expo 2024. This time it’s for the action role-playing game Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana, which is already available on the Nintendo Switch in Japan. In a now-deleted post on social media, XSEED Games shared an image