It’s been just over a year since we first heard that The Ascent was coming to Xbox and PC. Finally though the highly anticipated cyberpunking action shooting RPG has been detailed and dated, with a July launch set. And yep, we’ll be playing this through Xbox Game Pass! Coming from the publishing team at Curve
News Watch the First Trailer for St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein’s New Movie The Nowhere Inn The meta-film, starring Annie Clark and Brownstein as fictionalized versions of themselves, is out in September By Noah Yoo May 18, 2021 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter Last year, St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein’s film The Nowhere Inn debuted at
John Rambo has moved on from the T-800 and Robocop in Mortal Kombat 11, and is becoming war in Call of Duty. And he’s bringing Die Hard‘s John McClane with him. As part of Season 3’s ’80s Action Heroes event, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone will be getting First Blood-era John
In caves on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, ancient peoples marked the walls with red and mulberry hand stencils, and painted images of large native mammals or imaginary human-animal creatures. These are the oldest cave art sites yet known – or at least the oldest attributed to our species. One painting of a Sulawesi warty
Monica Long Contributor As the price of bitcoin hits record highs and cryptocurrencies become increasingly mainstream, the industry’s expanding carbon footprint becomes harder to ignore. Just last week, Elon Musk announced that Tesla is suspending vehicle purchases using bitcoin due to the environmental impact of fossil fuels used in bitcoin mining. We applaud this decision,
Evil is leaving the world of broadcast TV behind. According to Variety, the supernatural drama is set to move to Paramount+. The news means that Evil, SEAL Team, and Clarice are all leaving CBS to call the ViacomCBS streamer home. Evil Season 1 was a moderate performer on CBS, averaging 3.6 million viewers from September
Yesterday, in an effort to further improve account security, developer miHoYo implemented two-factor authentication in Genshin Impact that all players should automatically be enrolled in. Security concerns have beset the free-to-play RPG since its launch in September 2020; in November, for example, a Genshin Impact security breach resulted in the leak of players’ mobile phone numbers.
Prepare for a battle between titans as the “Godzilla vs. Kong” collaboration begins at the start of the May update for World of Warships: Legends. The collaboration comes alongside new events, like revamped Ranked Battles and a campaign to earn a new French Battleship. First and foremost is the legendary battle of monsters between Godzilla
The Witcher: Blood Origin has ramped up production, and at one point was set to start filming at Arborfield Studios with Jodie Turner-Smith and Laurence O’Fuarain in the lead roles. Unfortunately, Jodie Turner-Smith, who was set to play the role of Eile, had to leave the project due to a scheduling conflict. That conflict was
Soulja Boy wants credit for being the “first” rapper to plug Icebox bling — but the shop couldn’t care less … especially since they say there’s dough he still owes. A rep for the famed jewelry and diamond store tells TMZ … Soulja’s viral tweet from the weekend doesn’t mean diddly squat to them —
High school is hell. Navigating the social hierarchy and adolescence can be downright brutal, which makes sense as to why so many slashers take place there. The latest to use high school as slaying grounds is Seance, the directorial debut by Simon Barrett (V/H/S, V/H/S2, You’re Next, The Guest). Barrett takes an old-school approach to his supernaturally charged
On 8 May 2021, a piece of space junk from a Chinese rocket fell uncontrolled back to Earth and landed in the Indian Ocean near the Maldives. A year ago, in May 2020, another Chinese rocket met the same fate when it plummeted out of control into the waters off the West African coast. No
Merge, a startup that helps its users build customer-facing integrations with third-party tools, today announced that it has raised a $4.5 million seed round led by NEA. Additional angel investors include former MuleSoft CEO Greg Schott, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, Expanse co-founders Tim Junio and Matt Kraning, and Jumpstart CEO Ben Herman. Launched in 2020,
When HBO announced last year they were reviving In Treatment, I thought, “Of course.” After all, the drama is perfect for the pandemic era, since it’s a simple set-up of psychologist and patient, just talking in a room — a string of interconnected two-handers, pared down to the barest of dramatic bones. The new revival
Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s Lackawanna Blues is now the fifth show set to begin performances on Sept. 14, the first day of Broadway’s post-shutdown reopening. The play – written, performed and directed by Santiago-Hudson (Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) – will be the season’s first Broadway production by a nonprofit theater company.
Just yesterday NECA revealed a number of new products on their social media platforms yesterday from some of the licenses that they have had for a while and some that they have just revealed earlier this year! Before pressing on with the reveals I should mention that these are Walmart and Target exclusives for a
Epic Games’ lawsuit against Apple finally proceeded to trial on Monday, and it’s serving up a treasure trove of video game industry secrets. The case itself has broader implications for antitrust law than it does for video games, but court filings and testimony over the past week have shed a lot of insight into an
News girl in red Announces 2022 North American Tour Her first U.S. show since releasing her debut LP if i could make it go quiet will be at Firefly Festival in Delaware this fall By Matthew Ismael Ruiz May 17, 2021 Facebook Twitter girl in red (Photo by Jonathan Kise) Facebook Twitter Norwegian indie pop
It’s been talked about for years and now it’s finally happening. Deadline reports tonight that Joe Cornish will head back to the director’s chair for a sequel to 2011’s Attack the Block! The even better news? John Boyega is coming back as Moses! “Plot of the sequel remains under wraps,” Deadline notes. All we know
Ghost forests could be an invisible source of greenhouse gas emissions, researchers warn. As rising seas poison trees along the Atlantic coast of the United States, a new study suggests that these ghost trees are beginning to ‘fart’ carbon dioxide and methane. Technically, all trees do a little bit of farting. Live trees are known
French startup Ankorstore has raised a $102 million Series B funding round (€84 million). Tiger Global and Bain Capital Ventures are leading today’s funding round with existing investors Index Ventures, GFC, Alven and Aglaé also participating. This is a significant funding round as it comes just a few months after the company raised €25 million.
Miranda Cosgrove now has a Black BFF in the “iCarly” reboot — which is unfortunately receiving hateful and racist backlash that she and the rest of the cast are stamping out. Actress Laci Mosley is cast as Harper in the revived series — which now follows Carly in her 20s — who plays the main
Avengers: Endgame marked an end to an era within the MCU, and set up the departures of Iron Man, Black Widow, and Captain America. Chris Evans’ signature character decided to live his life with Peggy after completing his final mission, but we know nothing about his journey to return the Infinity Stones and Mjolnir to
The story of Robin Hood is often told as a lighthearted tale of a cheerful knave who steals from the rich to provide to the poor. It’s been adapted as a cartoon featuring anthropomorphic animals, a comedy, and more recently a relatively family-friendly action epic. But Hood: Outlaws and Legends takes Robin and friends down
Black Widow star Scarlett Johansson won MTV’s “Generational Award” during the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards last night, and her fiancee – Saturday Night Live‘s Colin Jost – tried to get in on her acceptance speech by sliming the Marvel starlet while she was on video accepting the award. Johansson seems to think the
Ariana Grande is a married woman, because TMZ has learned she tied the knot this weekend. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … the wedding went down at her home in Montecito … which you might also know as Oprah country. We’re told there was no real ceremony and few guests. She and her fiance,
“The safety system has been upended.” The John Krasinski-directed sequel A Quiet Place Part II is *finally* coming to theaters Memorial Day Weekend, May 28, 2021, and it’s arriving on Paramount+ 45 days afterwards. “It’s more ambitious. There’s more people and more creatures. It is like a runaway train,” Emily Blunt teases in a new featurette video, which recaps
When you think of micro- or nanotechnology, you likely think of small electronics like your phone, a tiny robot or a microchip. But COVID-19 tests – which have proven to be central to controlling the pandemic – are also a form of miniaturized technology. Many COVID-19 tests can give results within hours without the need
The tabletop gaming industry has exploded over the last few years as millions discovered or rediscovered its joys, but it too is evolving — and The Last Gameboard hopes to be the venue for that evolution. The digital tabletop platform has progressed from crowdfunding to $4M A round, and having partnered with some of the
Lani’s going to have quite a week! After Chanel manipulated her into allowing her to stay with her and Eli, it was inevitable that there would be fireworks, but Lani probably doesn’t expect what’s coming. According to spoilers for Days of Our Lives during the week of 5-17-21, Chanel will confide in Lani about her