Before listening to this week’s discussion on Immortality, please check out last week’s conversation on Scanner Sombre, LIDAR.EXE, and Gamescom 2022! At 30, I tend to think I have experienced a great deal of what games have to offer. Not to place a cap on the medium’s potential or to say there’s a drought of
Ever since his breakthrough performance as Finn in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, John Boyega has been a massive star, being cast in projects left and right. However before he was an A-lister, he starred in the 2011 critically acclaimed film Attack The Block. The film has risen in prominence over the years and become
If the God of War Ragnarok hype train wasn’t already choo-chooing along fast enough, Adult Swim is ramping things up with a Rick and Morty x PlayStation crossover. In a short video, Rick shaves his head, puts on red face paint, and takes Morty to the Nine Realms. GoW Ragnarok Rick and Morty video ad
Scientists reviewing over a decade’s worth of studies on the fate of notorious pollutants – dubbed ‘forever chemicals’ for the way they persist in waterways, soils, and sea ice – have unearthed where environmental hotspots of contamination lie. The review, led by hydrologist Xueyan Lyu of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, focused specifically
Lightyear, a Dutch startup developing a long-range solar-powered car, today announced that it has raised €86 million ($85 million) as it prepares to begin production of its first vehicle in the coming months. While recent history is littered with examples of prototype solar-powered vehicles, the burgeoning electric car movement has so far been mostly limited
After bumping the release of Gloomwood once already, developers Dillon Rogers & David Szymanski and publisher New Blood Interactive decided to do it again. Only this time, they’ve bumped the Early Access release to today! Yep, ahead of its announced September 6 launch, Gloomwood was released today on Steam as a Labour Day treat. In
News Listen to Pixies’ New Song “Dregs of the Wine” The latest single from their forthcoming LP Doggerel was co-written by guitarist Joey Santiago By Madison Bloom September 6, 2022 Facebook Twitter Pixies (Photo by Tom Oxley). Facebook Twitter Pixies have released a new single from their forthcoming album Doggerel. It’s called “Dregs of the
UPDATED, Monday AM: In what was the second lowest-grossing weekend at the summer box office, despite goosing admissions from Saturday’s National Cinema Day, Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick smoked Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home for No. 1 with $7.9 million. It’s as simple as that. Many yesterday were telling me that it was always destined for Top Gun 2 to
Play video content TMZSports.com It didn’t take long for NFL receiver Kalil Pimpleton — one of the stars of “Hard Knocks” — to find new work with the New York Giants … and he tells TMZ Sports he can’t wait to join his new team and hit the ground running. The 23-year-old former Central Michigan
Poet and author Ander Monson has seen the 1987 movie Predator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger on the run from an alien in a Guatemalan jungle, 146 times. To explain why, he wrote Predator: A Memoir. Through a scene-by-scene exploration of the film, which he describes as “satire wrapped in gun pornography,” Monson reckons with his lifelong
Return to the Borderlands in the raucous New Tales from the Borderlands. The upcoming choice-based, narrative adventure developed by Gearbox Software is set to launch on October 21. This all new story brings fresh and familiar faces, new settings, and an original, captivating story while keeping the sci-fi aesthetic and irreverent humor that Borderlands fans
Amid the continuous noise about cryptocurrencies, it’s often hard to pick out what really matters. However this month, if all goes to plan, the energy-hungry digital sector will undergo its biggest shake-up in years. Ethereum, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, is tomorrow expected to start a technology changeover which, once complete, should cause its carbon emissions
Hello and welcome back to Max Q. Happy Labor Day! Due to the scheduling of the newsletter, I’ll have finished writing this by the time NASA makes the second launch attempt of the Artemis I mission. By now, you probably already know how it all went down anyway! In this issue: SpaceX lands more astronaut
Britney Spears is calling out her son Jayden James … accusing him of undermining her and wondering if he’s pissed the gravy train is about to run dry. Britney went on a long rant Monday on social media, and it was mostly a response to Jayden publicly talking about her challenges as a mom. Play
Mark Rosman‘s The House on Sorority Row (1982) and Stewart Hendler‘s Sorority Row (2009) feel shoved aside in their respective horror classes. Titles like Pieces, Black Christmas, and The Dorm That Dripped Blood get more frequent mentions when discussing pre-90s sorority or dormitory slashers. Remake debates rarely include Sorority Row in their reassessments of unfairly
We’ve been waiting a long time for the arrival of Indiana Jones 5, and as things currently stand, Harrison Ford’s reprisal of the fedora-wearing, whip-wielding adventuring archaeologist is a little under 10 months away from hitting theaters. However, during a recent concert at the Hollywood Bowl, John Williams debuted a new theme for the upcoming
The sacredness of a relationship between parents and children can’t be overstated. This sacredness reinforces the boundaries that exist or ought to exist within the confines of the relationship. But sometimes, the limits are crossed. And when this happens, these relationships become corrupt, perverted, manipulative, and downright wrong such that they end up being weird.
The first gameplay footage of Katana Zero‘s free DLC expansion has finally sliced its way onto the internet. Developer Askiisoft released a near-ten minute slice of the DLC’s first level over the weekend, showing off some of the ultraviolent delights we can expect to see when it eventually comes out. Have a watch of the
The company won a $540,000 small business contract known as a TACFI, or Tactical Funding Increase WASHINGTON — Saber Astronautics announced Sept. 5 the U.S. Space Force has extended the company’s contract to develop a space domain awareness tool designed for satellite operators. The company won a $540,000 small business contract known as a TACFI,
More games and more NFTs pose questions for the gaming industry Karan Bhasin 3 days There has been stiff backlash against NFTs in video games since they first started popping up. In general, both gamers as well as industry professionals have disapproved blockchain implementations in video games, mostly over concerns over the environmental impact that
Supermassive Games is diving once again into horror with its upcoming project, which will no doubt please fans of their recent efforts in The Quarry, and in the ongoing The Dark Pictures Anthology. Speaking with Video Games Chronicle, Supermassive Games studio director Will Byles stated that the team’s next horror project will be about the
News Emmys 2022: Tim Robinson Wins Best Actor in Short Form Series for I Think You Should Leave While the series lost to Carpool Karaoke, Robinson himself is now an Emmy-winning actor By Evan Minsker September 4, 2022 Facebook Twitter Tim Robinson in I Think You Should Leave (Kevin Estrada/NETFLIX) Facebook Twitter Tim Robinson is
Labor Day weekend saw blockbusters old and new buoyed by cheap tickets, as was a limited openings like Saloum with multiple sold out screenings at two theaters, including every showtime on Saturday. Over 3,000 theaters, including IFC Center and Alamo Drafthouse LA, where the French-Senegalese indie film began a qualifying run, offered $3 tickets for
Publisher 2K teased back in April that it was bringing back Telltale’s Tales from the Borderlands series but that this time, it would be developed in-house by Gearbox Software. Then, during Gamescom’s Opening Night Live event, Gearbox officially revealed the sequel, which is less a direct continuation of Telltale’s story and more a spiritual successor
Scientists working in the Andes Mountains in Patagonia have been presented with a puzzle: Mice from the same species are growing to larger sizes on the western side of the mountains compared to the eastern side. Now a new study suggests a solution to the mystery. It seems that thanks to the rain shadow effect
Indonesia’s credit bureaus currently have about 92 million credit records, but the founders of SkorLife say many people have trouble accessing their own data. That’s why they built the app, which not only lets people see their credit histories for free, but also gives personalized advice on how to improve data. The Jakarta-based startup announced
Supermassive Games is diving once again into horror with its upcoming project, which will no doubt please fans of their recent efforts in The Quarry, and in the ongoing The Dark Pictures Anthology. Speaking with Video Games Chronicle, Supermassive Games studio director Will Byles stated that the team’s next horror project will be about the
Marjorie Taylor Greene has a lot of people thinking she might’ve flexed her pipes on ‘American Idol’ once upon a time — based on a viral video — but the speculation is bogus. The Georgia Representative is getting talked about on Twitter right now, but not for the usual political reasons. This time it’s about
Most movie lovers are surely familiar with Robert Downey Jr., the man most famous for playing Marvel’s Tony Stark/Iron Man for over a decade. Of course, many cinephiles are probably also familiar with his famous filmmaker father, Robert Downey Sr., who passed away at the age of 85 last summer. (Shortly after, Downey Jr. paid
NECA has recently just revealed the Ultimate Dracula Accessory set which they showed off at San Diego Comi-Con earlier this year. Now NECA has released a gallery showcasing the accessory set and Dracula himself. The accessory set includes a coffin, armadillo, opossum, large spider, and cricket in a coffin. All the accessories look fantastic and