With your help, I’m on a mission to answer the biggest question: what’s the best thing in video games? With a wholly sensical face-off between two things each week, we’ll surely soon discover the absolute best thing. Last time, you decided that bullet time is better than sex cutscenes. I was alarmed by how close
WASHINGTON — The Senate is moving forward with a revised version of a NASA authorization bill that formally authorizes the agency’s Artemis lunar exploration effort and extends operations of the International Space Station. The Senate Commerce Committee released July 20 the text of the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act, a bill primarily
The A Quiet Place spinoff being directed by Michael Sarnoski now has a title and firm release date. Paramount Pictures has set A Quiet Place: Day One to hit theaters March 8, 2024. No cast has been announced yet for the pic, which is based on an original idea by John Krasinski. The Platinum Dunes/Sunday Night Production
News Minneapolis’ First Avenue Cancels Dave Chappelle Show Amid Backlash, Apologizes for Booking Him “To staff, artists, and our community, we hear you and we are sorry. We know we must hold ourselves to the highest standards, and we know we let you down.” By Evan Minsker July 20, 2022 Facebook Twitter Dave Chappelle in
Today during an event focused on Alexa developer and partner news, Amazon announced new features and integrations, including a collection of APIs and software development kits (SDKs) aimed at making Alexa more versatile. They come a month after the company demoed forthcoming and experimental Alexa features at its annual re:Mars conference in Las Vegas, including
Here is a wrap-up of all the news you need to know from Wednesday, July 20, 2022. ABC’s hit comedy series, Abbott Elementary, has handed out a promotion to William Stanford Davis, who plays school janitor, Mr. Johnson. TV Line first reported the news, revealing that the actor has landed a series-regular promotion ahead of
After last year’s stellar debut with Mortal Kombat, New Line aims to test its might with a follow-up. While it’d been previously announced that Jeremy Slater (“The Exorcist,” “Moon Knight”) was tapped to pen the sequel, Deadline reports that Simon McQuoid is returning to the director’s seat. Plot details remain scarce, but it feels safe to predict that we’ll see Johnny Cage appear in
As we learned in June, Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered swings to PC this August. If you’ve been wondering how the game will take advantage of your gaming rig, a new trailer runs down the list of features that will make Peter Parker’s adventure even more spectacular. Spider-Man will be treated to a host of graphical and performance upgrades,
TikTok has joined the ranks of other virtual book clubs by debuting its own this month. The TikTok Book Club is a result of #BookTok, a section of the site where book lovers gather to discuss books. This book club comes as no surprise, as the immensely popular BookTok community has amassed more than 65 billion
As the first dinosaurs were finding their feet around 230 million years ago, the ancestors of modern mammals were also emerging. Somewhere along the way they developed a remarkable ability: to generate their own warmth. This decisive evolutionary step towards endothermy – the ability to generate heat from within and keep a near-constant core body temperature even when
If you’ve been following the Hollywood rumor mill, you might have heard a big one that’s been circulating a while that Chris Pratt might reboot Indiana Jones after Harrison Ford originated the character and will have played him for over 40 years when Indiana Jones 5 is released. This past week, Pratt was asked about
Ricky Martin will appear virtually in court Thursday to adamantly deny claims by his 21-year-old nephew they had a sexual relationship … TMZ has learned. Sources with direct knowledge tell us … Ricky will appear Thursday before a judge in Puerto Rico via Zoom. We’re told he will directly address the judge and vigorously deny
The days of the Galaxy Note Unpacked events are sadly gone, but Samsung’s foldables are more than happy to fill a phablet-sized hole in the company’s annual release schedule. Over the last couple of years, the company has made good on its promise to fully commit to the form factor, and we expect to see
How’s this for a crossover? Behaviour Interactive has announced that their asymmetric multiplayer title Dead by Daylight has launched its first exclusive anime crossover with Attack on Titan in the form of a 10-outfit Collection. Starting now and until July 26th, Dead by Daylight players have the opportunity to participate in a special sale that
Into the Breach is an all-timer. An easy 5/5 from me. It’s deceptive how much strategy and forethought a simple 8×8 grid can conceal. A quick glimpse of the game – teeming with mechs, alien beasts, skyscrapers, and mountains – and you’d be forgiven for thinking it was something to do with Evangelion or Godzilla.
If chemists built cars, they’d fill a factory with car parts, set it on fire, and sift from the ashes pieces that now looked vaguely car-like. When you’re dealing with car-parts the size of atoms, this is a perfectly reasonable process. Yet chemists yearn for ways to reduce the waste and make reactions far more
Universal’s Nope, one of the few remaining tentpoles in a rebounding summer box office, looks to provide a lift this weekend with an estimated $50M start at 3,700 theaters with an eye at guys 17-34. Nope is the third genre film from Oscar winner Jordan Peele, and while its start in U.S./Canada will be above that of his
News Chance the Rapper and Vic Mensa Announce New Festival in West Africa The Black Star Line Festival is to be held next year in Accra, Ghana By Matthew Ismael Ruiz July 19, 2022 Facebook Twitter Chance the Rapper (Keeley Parenteau) Facebook Twitter Chance the Rapper and Vic Mensa have announced the Black Star Line
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Issa Rae‘s latest HBO series “Rap Sh!t” is about to debut, and she says you can expect to see characters spitting lyrics written by her favorite rappers … all women! Issa shouted out PineappleCITI, NCognita and Dreezy, who tells TMZ Hip Hop … writing for the show was a breeze, seeing as how she’s written
The Halloween Ends trailer is finally here and at long last, Michael Myers and Laurie Strode are going to do battle until the bitter, bloody end. The footage is a quick montage of scenes that culminates with the long-promised battle between Michael and Laurie, ending with the Shape trying to shove her hand into the
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Although Intel won’t be releasing its high-powered Arc discrete graphics in the US for a few more months, its PR rep is already making the rounds. Intel’s Ryan Shrout posted a short video to YouTube giving us the first benchmarks
Researchers have peered back through 800 years of history to conclude that Mayapan – the capital of culture and politics for the Maya people of the Yucatán Peninsula in the 13th and 14th century CE – may well have been undone by drought. That drought would have led to civil conflict, which would, in turn,
Play video content TMZ.com Lil Baby is in especially high spirits heading into his Washington, D.C. tour stop with Chris Brown, and briefly clued us in on Gunna and Young Thug‘s moods … even though we interrupted his Future flow. The 4PF Records CEO kindly stopped his rapping rendition of Future’s “Back to the Basics”
JLo is J-Aff! Ok, I’m not sure that one is going to catch on, but Jennifer Lopez is most certainly Mrs. Affleck as of this past weekend. The Marry Me actress and Ben Affleck tied the knot on Saturday in Las Vegas with a super private affair. Lopez wore a wedding dress borrowed from an
An investor in Instacart, Capital Group, has repriced its shares in the company, lowering its estimation of the value of the online grocery delivery service. The news follows other, similar repricings by companies like Fidelity, which also own a stake in the decacorn. It’s really not surprising that one more investor agrees Instacart’s 2021 valuation
Here is a wrap-up of all the news you need to know from Tuesday, July 19, 2022. Breeders, the comedy series that explores the challenges of modern parenting, is sticking around at FX. The series was renewed today by Nick Grad, President, Original Programming, FX Entertainment. The beloved series, starring Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard
At long last Sony Pictures is heading back into The Further! The studio announced today they’ll be releasing the long-awaited Insidious 5 in theaters everywhere on July 7, 2023. After starring in the first two movies as Josh Lambert, we learned in 2020 that Patrick Wilson is returning to the franchise as the *director* of the upcoming
Readers, prepare to meet the most memorable middle grade protagonist of 2022. Twelve-year-old Olive Miracle Martin, the instantly endearing hero of Hummingbird, is, in her own words, a “joy-kaboom.” After being homeschooled due to a medical condition called osteogenesis imperfecta (sometimes known as brittle bone disease), Olive begins attending Macklemore Middle School, where local legend
If you’ve played Hades, you’ll almost definitely wish that you had a huggable, squeezable version of Cerberus in your own home, for company and pats. Fangamer has you covered, dear friend: They’re launching a new collection of Hades merch in collaboration with Supergiant Games! The collection will include a “There Is No Escape” T-shirt, a