After the world spent years without any official, legal way to access The Sims 1 and 2 – two of the most popular, influential games ever made – on modern machines, EA and Maxis have finally brought both beloved classics back on PC. But The Sims 2 in particular has been suffering a mixed response
Month: January 2025
No Other Land, Academy Award-nominated for Best Documentary Feature, opens today in New York at Film Forum from mTuckman Media/Cinetic Media with a limited theatrical expansion next weekend. The doc is written, directed, produced and edited by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli activists and filmmakers — Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.
Do you dig Grave Encounters? Are you a Flanagan? If you answered yes to both of the previous questions, I have a Mike Flanagan-endorsed recommendation you’ll surely want to check out posthaste. The flick of which I speak is called Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum. Mike Flanagan is an enthusiastic supporter of the film. So much so
A special edition of David Bowie‘s ‘Ready, Set, Go!’ live album will be released for this year’s Record Story Day. ‘Ready, Set, Go! (Live, Riverside Studios ’03)’ is set for release via Parlophone Records on April 12. The limited edition double vinyl LP and CD will be in collaboration with Record Store Day 2025. The
Apple’s foldable phone has been in the rumour mill for quite some time now. While leaks about the launch timeline of the first foldable iPhone are doing rounds on the Web, a new leak suggests that the company is finalising its supply chain’s main contractor for the foldable screen. The Cupertino-based company seems to be
ORLANDO, Fla. — The emergence of China’s DeepSeek has shaken up the artificial intelligence sector, promising new opportunities for space companies beginning to explore ways to leverage AI in space. AI is seen as key to unlocking true autonomy in orbit and managing an increasingly congested space domain. Yet, while satellite operators like Loft Orbital
Well, EA and Maxis have had something nice for retro Sims fans in store as part of the celebration of the series’ 25th anniversary – those reported re-releases of the first two Sims games are real, and they’re going on sale today. Reports had claimed EA would be putting these games out digitally on PC
Even to a Democrat like me, Donald Trump’s first ten days in office were mind-blasting. President Trump issued over 100 executive orders, proclamations, and memoranda in just his first week in office. Joe Biden had signed 15 executive orders in his first day. Trump signed 26. Then Trump just kept signing. He broke records and hired 1,300 new
Leading toy and game company Hasbro has announced the newest addition to their innovative BEYBLADE X product line, an official portable Stadium with the BEYBLADE X Clash and Carry Beystadium Battle Arena! Bladers can experience the thrill of the next level of BEYBLADE stadiums by bringing the battle wherever they go. Featuring the X-Celerator Rail and BEYBLADE X
Pete Davidson is known for his time on Saturday Night Live and his co-ownership of a Staten Island Ferry but he’s also a guy you’d likely recognize on the street if you saw him simply by all his tattoos. At least you used to. He’s in the process of having most of them removed and
The Sundance Film Festival is almost at an end and we haven’t really heard anything amazing on the horror front coming out of the event; at least nothing like we are used to. Films such Dead Alive (1993), The Babadook (2014), The Blair Witch Project (1999), American Psycho (2000), and Hereditary (2018) had their premieres
Skaiwater, the Nottingham rapper and producer behind the album #Gigi, is back with a new song. Skaiwater produced their new song, “Pop,” with Elkan and Anca Trio Plus One. Listen to the single below. Writing about #Gigi, last year, Serge Selenou said the album “mashes together some of the decade’s most prevalent sounds into a
WhatsApp will likely introduce its Events feature to personal chats soon. The Meta-owned messaging platform first brought this feature to WhatsApp Communities in May 2024. Reports now suggest that the company is testing the functionality in individual chats for both Android and iOS users. It may roll out to global users in the upcoming days. Previously,
You can stop a clock from ticking, but it’s a lot harder to figure out how to stop humanity’s relentless march toward self-annihilation. The keepers of the metaphorical Doomsday Clock have now determined we are closer than ever to catastrophe, and they have moved the second hand forward by one tick. It now sits 89
A computer illustration of HD 20794d. Credit: NASA We might take it for granted that Earth is habitable year-round. Researchers have discovered an Earth-like planet with such an eccentric orbit that it swoops in and out of its habitable zone throughout its year. Though the super-Earth could theoretically be friendly to life when it’s close
EXCLUSIVE: The Apprentice is heading back into theaters after scoring two Oscar nominations for its stars Sebastian Stan in Best Actor and Jeremy Strong in Best Supporting Actor. The Apprentice will play this Friday in Los Angeles at Laemmle’s Monica Theatre in Santa Monica and Noho Theatre in North Hollywood as well as the Lumiere
Fresh off the news that Scream 3 star Scott Foley has joined the cast of Scream 7, Deadline has reported the massive news that Matthew Lillard is also returning to the franchise. Lillard has made no secret of the fact in recent years that he believes Stu Macher is still alive, and that he’d love
The performance line-up for Saturday Night Live‘s ‘SNL 50’ concert has been revealed – see the bill below. Last night (January 30), SNL and the Peacock network took to social media to announce the current line-up for the SNL 50: The Homecoming Concert show, which is due to take place on Friday, February 14. The
Vodafone said it had made the world’s first video call via satellite using a standard smartphone from a remote location, and it plans to roll out the technology for its users across Europe later this year and in 2026. The European mobile operator’s CEO Margherita Della Valle received the call on Monday from company engineer Rowan Chesmer, who was located in the Welsh mountains where there was no network
Though it’s a cold, dead planet, Mars still has its own natural beauty about it. This image shows us something we’ll never see on Earth. Mars has only a thin, tenuous atmosphere, and most of it (95%) is carbon dioxide. When Martian winter arrives, CO2 freezes and forms a thick coating on the ground in
Image: Square Enix, Nintendo If you’re a fan of Super Mario RPG‘s soundtrack, you might want to check out this new release from Square Enix. It’s “three new music products” including the original soundtrack, original sound box and original sound vinyl box and they will be going on sale in Japan on 9th April 2025.
It’s a toss up whether our culture has become more or less sex positive. Shows like Sex Education might make you think more, while the increasing popularity of the 4B movement, which uses celibacy as activism, might make you think less. Regardless, Edmund White has been writing beautifully about sex for 50 years, and his
From the popular YouTube series DC Metal Force comes Spin Master’s new kid friendly collectible line. Available now on Amazon (links are below to items in the collection), this collection brings DC’s mightiest heroes and villains to life through an epic 2-in-1 transforming playset and action figures that wear the same armored mech suits from
While Scream 7 may not be a part of the 2025 movie schedule, we’ve been getting plenty of new Ghostface updates. The newest bit of news includes a past killer behind the iconic mask joining production and returning for the seventh installment. With this latest addition of a past, flashy and visionary slasher, I have
We’re all just looking for love, but sometimes that search leads us to some interesting (and dangerous) places. Such is the case in Drew Hancock’s Companion, a rather prescient examination of love and relationships in the age of advanced technology. The official synopsis simply reads, “New Line Cinema—the studio that brought you The Notebook—and the
Robyn, Devo, Lady Gaga, Jack White, Bad Bunny, and more are participating in a concert special to celebrate the 50th season of Saturday Night Live. The event, called SNL50: The Homecoming Concert, will stream live on Peacock on Friday, February 14, beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Rounding out the SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Xiaomi 15 Ultra is expected to launch in China next month and the global release could take place during MWC Barcelona. Ahead of the official debut, RAM, storage details, and the colour options of the phone have leaked online. The Xiaomi 15 Ultra is tipped to be available in three shades with 16GB RAM. The Xiaomi
Large swathes of one of Earth’s largest carbon sinks are now emitting rather than capturing CO2. More than a third of the Arctic-Boreal Zone (ABZ) – including the tundra, forests, and wetlands around the Arctic Circle – is pushing out carbon rather than sucking it up, according to new research from an international team, led
Geoff Keighley and the team at The Summer Game Fest have confirmed that the annual event will once again be returning this year in June. The event kicks off with a special showcase on 6th June at 2pm PT / 11pm BST. This year’s event will be held at the YouTube Theatre in Los Angeles.
Sony Pictures on Wednesday said that it is pushing back the release date of its latest Insidious movie a year to August 2026, and in its place dating the Darren Aronofsky-directed Caught Stealing starring Austin Butler. The Sony/Blumhouse Insidious pic, to be released by Screen Gems, is the sixth entry in the horror franchise and
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