Nintendo recently did a Nintendo Switch Online Playtest Program. It has been done for a few months now, but despite the company not wanting anything from the program being leaked, it has been the exact opposite. Not only did people talk about what it was that they were testing, the Playtest Program was ultimately datamined.
Month: January 2025
A24’s The Brutalist busted out in limited expansion this weekend with close to $1.39 million on just 68 screens, a $20.4k per screen average, excellent for a period film with a three hour and 35-minute run time about a Hungarian architect in 1950s Doylestown, Pa. It won multiple Golden Globes — for Best Picture –
It didn’t take long for Bandai Namco to give us more info on their upcoming standalone cooperative action RPG title, Elden Ring Nightreign. While there’s no release date just yet, developer FromSoftware have opened registrations for the game’s closed network test, which will run from February 14 to 16 across PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series.
Musical instrument retailer Guitar Center has announced a new program that will help musicians affected by the Los Angeles wildfires replace their instruments or gear – find out more below. READ MORE: Entertainment world reacts to “heart-wrenching” Los Angeles wildfires Last week, Los Angeles began experiencing a total of five concurrent wildfires in several neighbourhoods that
Samsung will launch its next-generation Galaxy S devices — expected to debut as the Galaxy S25 series — on January 22, the company recently announced. Ahead of their anticipated debut, a tipster has leaked the smartphones’ renders that showcase some design changes expected to arrive with the newest models. The Galaxy S25 Ultra appears to
Sheets of gold have been discovered gilding the tongues of more than a dozen mummified Egyptians near modern Al-Bahansa, reflecting a practice once believed to grant the dead an ability to speak in the afterlife. Archaeologists uncovered a trove of treasures from a tomb dating back to the Ptolemaic era 305 to 30 BCE in
If you need a video game pick-me-up that will cure you of any ailment, then you absolutely need to watch this Crazy Taxi speedrun.
I would argue that Crazy Taxi is one of the most video games to ever video game – it is ridiculous, loud, it’s a game many people have played
This is the year Julieta Villarreal will figure out how to escape from the climate disasters threatening her home, the broken friendships she’d rather leave behind, and the grief of losing her twin sister. So when the Cometa Initiative, a private space program, invites New American students to join a space mission, Juli sees a
As of this writing, intense fires continue to rage across parts of California. Various citizens have spoken out on social media and shared their experiences about fleeing their homes for safety. Celebrities like Mark Hamill and Chris Pratt addressed the situation as well. A number of people have been evacuated thus far and, according to
Courtesy of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS Who enjoys a good post-apocalyptic thriller? Stephen King enjoys a good post-apocalyptic thriller. How do I know? I know because the Misery author named The Road one of his top 10 films of 2009. That’s right, dear reader. Mr. King gave the Viggo Mortensen flick
Last month, Rio da Yung OG was released from federal prison and promptly celebrated with a new song called “Rio Free.” The Michigan rapper has now shared a new project called Rio Free, which includes his other recent single “WYDT.” Find the 10-song project, along with a new music video for “Off-Rap,” below. Rio da
A ban on certain components by Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE could have a significant impact on Germany’s mobile network if they have to be replaced on a larger scale, according to a German economy ministry letter seen by Reuters. The German government is currently carrying out a review of telecom tech suppliers which it
A very rare treat is about to grace Earth’s night skies. On the evening of 28 February 2025, all seven of the other planets in the Solar System will appear in the night sky at the same time, with Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars all lining up in a neat row –
Frontier, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Credit: ORNL What do fusion research, weather forecasting, epidemiology, and population dynamics have in common? They’re all fields of study loaded with problems so big that they’re delegated to supercomputers. A supercomputer is a computer of such implausible size and power that it’s in a whole different league.
SATURDAY AM: Lionsgate can relish a No. 1 win in Den of Thieves 2: Pantera this weekend which is now on its way to $15M+ opening, which is about the same as the 2018 original. Let’s hear it for great dating. The studio known for counterprogramming found a great release date on the schedule and
Ironically, the very category Alien: Romulus is being nominated for in early awards competitions is its visual effects, but some scenes are so crispy they take you out of the movie. It’s probably obvious which ones, but if you don’t know, and this is a spoiler, it’s the ones involving Rook, the nefarious robot modeled
Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale has revealed she once broke up with someone after he fell asleep during a Tool gig. The singer and guitarist has given an interview to Guitar Player in which she names the 10 albums that have changed her life. Among her picks was Tool’s 2001 alt-metal classic ‘Lateralus’, which prompted her
Samsung is getting ready to unveil its new Galaxy S series smartphones on January 22 at its Galaxy Unpacked event. As excitement builds around the launch, a new leak suggests that the Galaxy S25 Ultra will ship with new camera features. The upcoming flagship is said to offer high-resolution video recording and an improved macro
For far too long, the decline in the biodiversity of our rivers and lakes has been out of sight and out of mind. As a freshwater ecologist I have long felt frustrated as conservation and research is dominated by land and sea species, even though our rivers, lakes, ponds and other wetlands host a hugely
Be sure to cast your votes in the poll below; but first, let’s check out the box art designs themselves. North America Image: Namco / Launchbox Uhh… Okay, this is a bit boring. Ethereal, maybe, but certainly boring. Lots of white space, while the character models are quite small and insignificant. We’re certain this one
My Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. “Dracula Is Dead!” Dracula has fallen by the hand of Blade the vampire hunter! As Quincy Harker and his team move to inspect the corpse, an angry mob of townsfolk arrive to stop the monster from killing again. Or, so Frank Drake assumed. In moments, they would
Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers premiered relatively early last year, yet remained one of the best movies of 2024. The intense, sultry tennis romance starring Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O’Connor had audiences in chokehold and Challengers’ reviews were stellar. From the EDM soundtrack to the complicated yet sexy throuple dynamics, there really wasn’t much to complain
The ’90s slasher franchise I Know What You Did Last Summer returns to theaters on July 18, 2025, with both Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. coming back to reprise their roles from the original movie and its sequel. But are Julie James and Ray Bronson the main characters or rather legacy supporting players
Sam Moore, the soul singer best known as one half of Sam & Dave, has died, according to a press release from 2911 Media. The musician’s death occurred on January 10, in Coral Gables, Florida, due to complications after surgery. Moore was 89 years old. Moore is best known for his tenor vocal work in
Elon Musk-owned xAI could soon add a new ‘Unhinged’ mode to Grok, its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. The AI firm recently updated its frequently asked questions (FAQ) page and added mentions of this new mode, which is designed to be “objectionable, inappropriate, and offensive.” If this new mode is added, it would join the regular
TAMPA, Fla. — Astranis said Jan. 10 that all four of its recently launched broadband satellites have passed early tests and begun using electric propulsion to reach geostationary orbit in the coming months. The satellites launched on a Falcon 9 rocket Dec. 29 and feature multiple upgrades over Arcturus, the San Francisco-based manufacturer’s debut spacecraft,
For once, there has been a leak or rumor that has absolutely nothing to do with Nintendo’s next video gaming console. In fact, it is related to their current video gaming console and something that Nintendo had planned to have on the Switch when the console was still in active development and hadn’t been revealed
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For Sean Baker, it’s theatrical or bust. Paychecks from streamers can be tantalized in front of him, but when it comes to his original work, not only is about making works for the cinema, but shooting on celluloid, too. “We shouldn’t abandon the medium which created this artform,” Baker tells us on this episode of
Did you know that Oscar-nominated star Florence Pugh starred in a horror movie before her big breakout role (not that one, but we’ll get to that). Malevolent, which I regularly mistake for Malignant, is currently streaming on Netflix. Pugh stars as a plucky ghostbuster and skeptic whose work draws her into a haunting more personal than she could have expected.
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