Here is a wrap-up of all the news you need to know from Tuesday, December 12, 2023. It’s game over for Hightown, which will end its run with its upcoming third season. Despite a renewal, the Monica Raymund drama has been off the air since December 2021, fueling speculation that the show may not be
It’s been over 25 years since My Best Friend’s Wedding first came to theaters starring Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney. Roberts played Mulroney’s lifelong friend who tries to sabotage his wedding due to her jealousy towards the bride. As the ‘90s rom-com queen expressed her wish to be in a sequel to one of the
I’m not normally in a rush to post marketing videos in which developers talk about how great their new game is, but I need all the help I can get in understanding Metaphor: ReFantazio. The new RPG from the makers of Persona looks stylish, dense, exciting, and almost entirely baffling in its trailers, so 14
Kanye West‘s new take on the Backstreet Boys’ hit “Everybody” has been getting a ton of buzz, but there’s one massive problem … Ye never cleared it with the boy band. Sources connected to BSB tell TMZ Kanye failed to get the collective OK from Nick, Kevin, Howie, Brian, A.J. and their team to use
The mad lads (and ladies) at New Blood Interactive and developer David Szymanski have unleashed their full visual remaster of DUSK with DUSK HD, which is now available as a free and optional download for Steam owners of the game. Along with the remaster, the Software Development Kit (or DUSK Development Kit, in this case)
There is no computer even remotely as powerful and complex as the human brain. The lumps of tissue ensconced in our skulls can process information at quantities and speeds that computing technology can barely touch. Key to the brain’s success is the neuron’s efficiency in serving as both a processor and memory device, in contrast
We’ve gotten Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2023 as well as Oxford’s, and now we have Dictionary.com’s pick! Perhaps unsurprisingly for a dictionary at home on the internet, it has more of a focus on technology than the other dictionaries’ picks. Dictionary.com’s 2023 Word of the Year is “hallucinate.” While “hallucinate” has multiple meanings,
Bleecker Street said it’s extending the theatrical run of Waitress: The Musical through the holiday season after its “exceptional performance and sellouts nationwide.” The distributor had initially planned for a one-week run, releasing the film of the hugely popular musical on 1,214 screens across the U.S. and Canada last weekend. It grossed $3.5 million from Thursday to
The Entertainment Software Association has announced that its long-running Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is officially dead, as reported by The Washington Post. The last in-person E3 conference happened in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic and other complications prevented it from coming back in full form since. Despite struggles, the ESA attempted to bring E3 back
News Olivia Rodrigo Performs on Colbert and NPR’s “Tiny Desk”: Watch Watch her do “Love Is Embarrassing,” “Vampire,” “Lacy,” “Making the Bed,” and, on Colbert, “Can’t Catch Me Now” By Allison Hussey and Jazz Monroe December 12, 2023 Facebook X Olivia Rodrigo on Colbert (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS) Facebook X Olivia Rodrigo stopped by NPR’s Tiny Desk
While The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has had several updates and patches since its August 18th release, Gun Interactive recently implemented its first significant content update, boasting a variety of changes including new characters, a new map, and significant tweaks to gameplay. If you haven’t already picked a copy of the game up, there’s no
WASHINGTON — Four federal agencies have signed an agreement intended to improve cooperation on space weather research and translating that research into operations. Representatives of NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Science Foundation and the U.S. Air Force signed a memorandum of agreement at the White House Dec. 7 outlining how they will
Kim Zolciak y Kroy Biermann tienen un montón de problemas, y ahora el juez en su caso de divorcio está tomando medidas enérgicas, ordenando a la mediación en un intento de llegar a un acuerdo. De acuerdo con los nuevos documentos legales, obtenidos por TMZ, a Kim y Kroy se les ordena completar una sesión
As with many film series, the Saw movies have come with highs and lows over the course of nearly two decades. Fortunately, one of the highest of highs came with the latest installment, Saw X, which was among the 2023 movie releases. Not only was Saw X met with primarily positive critical reception, (in fact,
“Modding starts as a hobby and mods are passion projects for most people when they get started,” modder Emmi Junkkari, whom you may know by the handle Elianora, tells me. “I doubt most people started making content for these games thinking they’ll make mad bucks with Patreon. When Oblivion and Morrowind modding started (and earlier
Beyoncé might have fresh beef stewing with a famous artist, who’s strongly insinuating she — or someone on her team — ripped off his work for her “Renaissance” tour. Here’s the deal … artist Hajime Sorayama just took aim at Beyoncé on social media, posting a few of her tour visuals alongside some of his
Columbia Pictures’ Ghostbusters: Afterlife went nuclear with the nostalgia and yet somehow left Slimer out of the reunion. Thankfully, he’ll be returning in next year’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the studio revealed today on socials. The official Ghostbusters socials shared a massive lenticular theater display that announced the return of Slimer and “a new empire of
For many of us, dogs are our best friends. But have you wondered what would happen to your dog if we suddenly disappeared? Can domestic dogs make do without people? At least 80 percent of the world’s one billion or so dogs actually live independent, free-ranging lives – and they offer some clues. Who would
At one point, all signs indicated that Vanderpump Rules Season 10 would end the long-running Bravo series. With dwindling ratings, one too many cheating scandals, and cast changes, the show was growing stale. We thought the cast would throw one last party and sip on pumptinis as they reminisced about the good old days. Then,
Lionsgate‘s 6x Oscar winning feature musical La La Land is returning to China via distributor JL Film on Dec. 22. The Damien Chazelle directed, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling picture starring minted $35M of its $470M global B.O. in China. The movie holds the record for an original live-action movie musical at the box office, and
Image: Zion Grassl / Nintendo Life Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Zion speaks about his feelings after attending The Game Awards 2023, and why the show needs to do better at celebrating game developers. When you first
News Bikini Kill Announce Benefit Show for Palestine Children’s Relief Fund The gig with Portland’s Ghost Ease and guest speaker Selma Al-Aswad happens in Olympia, Washington, next month By Allison Hussey December 11, 2023 Facebook X Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna, June 2023 (Jordi Vidal/WireImage) Facebook X Bikini Kill have announced a benefit show for the
Bloody Disgusting has learned that the horror short The Bleacher has been accepted to Sundance 2024, the short set to World Premiere next month in the US Shorts section. The Bleacher is directed by Adam Wilder and Nicole Daddona, and produced by Zeus Kontoyannis (“Mr. Sam”) and Zeus Pictures. Kate Micucci, Ben Sinclair, and Sky
Awards Season is fast approaching, where both the film and TV industries are honored for their work over the year. The Golden Globes are a unique ceremony because they include both TV and film, with all of Hollywood’s A-listers uniting in one place to see who will be awarded a statue by the Hollywood Foreign
The latest boxed-video game charts are now in from the biggest gaming market in Europe, the United Kingdom. This week sees one new game crack the top ten and it is Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora which entered the charts at No.5. Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. Wonder continues to impress on the sales front as
It’s the 30th anniversary of Doom, and designer John Romero has given fans a treat in the form of SIGIL II. The sequel to Romero’s free 2019 original, the sequel is touted as the unofficial sixth episode for the original Doom, and sports nine new levels, eight new multiplayer arenas, a new soundtrack by James
Mini brains grown in a lab from stem cells spontaneously developed rudimentary eye structures, scientists reported in a fascinating paper in 2021. On tiny, human-derived brain organoids grown in dishes, two bilaterally symmetrical optic cups were seen to grow, mirroring the development of eye structures in human embryos. This incredible result will help us to
It’s a little bit unbelievable that the veil of secrecy surrounding the 2021 Spider-Man No Way Home movie was so thick that we’re only now getting toys for this mega-blockbuster at mass retail. I gave Sandman from the Marvel Legends No Way Home series a glowing review earlier this month, and now I’m ready to
Sean Penn sure looks like a man about town lately — he was making out with one actress earlier this summer, and now … he’s on to the next, and that’d be Nathalie Kelley. The actor was in Miami this weekend for Art Basel, and on Saturday … he and the ‘Dynasty’ star hit up
Refresh for latest…: There were two new Hollywood entries at the international box office this weekend as both Warner Bros/Village Roadshow/Heyday Films’ Wonka and Universal/Illumination’s Migration began early offshore rollout, though on different patterns. It was good news all around with Timothée Chalamet-starrer Wonka launching to $43.2M in 37 markets, well ahead of pre-weekend projections.