As the Roman Empire drew to a dramatic collapse towards the end of the 5th century, ripples were felt across its former territories. Balances shifted as new powers rushed to fill the vacuums Rome’s retreats left behind. The changes to the everyday lives of the people are far less well documented, but a cemetery in
These days, you don’t need the Millennium Falcon to journey to a galaxy far, far away, you can do it from the comfort of our own home! Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the ninth installment in the world’s most beloved space saga is currently available to buy or rent on digital platforms like Apple
Social distancing has made it difficult for sports fans and athletes alike to find content to enjoy. Video games have helped in a major way, particularly as athletes have started to participate in esports competitions for charity. The latest such example is the Mario Tennis Aces Stay At Home Slam. The Nintendo Switch competition was
Rick May, the iconic voice behind Starfox 64‘s Peppy Hare and Andross and Team Fortress 2‘s Soldier, passed away last month from COVID-19 at the age of 80, and now Team Fortress 2 developer Valve has added a touching tribute to May’s life and legacy in-game. Throughout the month, players will be able to pay their respects to one
Ever since 3dfx debuted the original Voodoo accelerator, no single piece of equipment in a PC has had as much of an impact on whether your machine could game as the humble graphics card. While other components absolutely matter, a top-end PC with 32GB of RAM, a $4,000 CPU, and PCIe-based storage will choke and
DJ Khaled is NOT a single man — which he had to remind one lovely lady who tried ambushing him with a live twerking session on Instagram … which he quickly shut down. The guy went live on Instagram over the weekend, and like several of his contemporaries have been doing lately — especially Torey
In the depths of space 3.5 billion light-years away, two supermassive black holes are locked in one of the most extreme orbital dances in the Universe. Their riotous, somewhat erratically flaring death spiral has been documented for decades. With new observations, astronomers have now characterised the way they whirl about each other in the centre
If ever we could use a little magic in our lives, we need it in May 2020, am I right? That’s terrific timing for the return of Good Witch, one of the most enchanting series on television. Good Witch stars Catherine Bell as Cassie, a highly perceptive woman, as she navigates community life and family
EXCLUSIVE: Despite recent, scattered press reports suggesting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was snubbing Broadway by shutting the industry out of his New York Forward Re-Opening Advisory Board, the state and the theater industry are working closely on how to re-start, Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League, tells Deadline. “We are completely aligned
Welcome to the 41st edition of Box Art Brawl, the weekly vote to find the best of a bunch of regional box art variants from video gaming’s past. Last week we had a blast from the past with Mega Man returning to the brawl. Perhaps as expected, the infamously poor North American cover finished in
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson unveiled a state reopening plan on April 27 that includes a note that live concerts can resume starting on Monday (May 4), Billboard reports. Missouri is the first state in the U.S. to reopen live events amid the coronavirus pandemic. The plan dictates that “seating shall be spaced out according to
Collectibles companies have been playing it safe over the last couple months and heavily limiting new pre-orders during this challenging economic time for many, but we’ve finally started seeing more new pre-orders over the last couple weeks. And to close out April, Hot Toys launched their first two new Marvel 1/6 figures in a while:
Cameron Boyce’s final appearance before his death just got revealed in the Paradise City trailer. The actor played Simon Ostergaard on the series and that trailer is dipping its toes into the darker side of Hollywood. Boyce’s character was a musician caught up in forces that he might not have understood. At one point, he
Waiting For Guffman (1996) Christopher Guest is responsible for some of the greatest mockumentary films of all time like This Is Spinal Tap, Best In Show, and Waiting For Guffman, a 1996 film about a small town in Missouri that thinks they found the perfect way to celebrate their 150th anniversary. Like everything else created
The official SEGA Forever Twitter has announced that SEGA AGES G-LOC Air Battle is now available on the Nintendo Switch. If you don’t know what the game is, it’s a combat flight simulator arcade game that released in 1990 for arcades, the Master System, Game Gear, and SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive. It’s a spin-off of SEGA’s
Play video content Exclusive There’s an old saying — “Close but no cigar” — which precisely describes what went down at Luke Bryan‘s Florida cigar bar Friday night, because patrons were super close to each other. Luke’s cigar bar, Shore Thing Cigars, is located in Watersound, Florida, and on Friday night it was the backdrop
Today Hasbro hosted their first Hasbro Pulse Fan First Friday livestream on their facebook page and revealed several new items. Among the new items were a 3 3/4″ Stormtrooper Luke, new 6″ Stormtrooper and Clone Trooper (Kamino), Vintage-style carded Zuckuss and 4-LOM (swapped names and everything!) (Amazon exclusive), a new ‘The Child’ edition of Monopoly,
Play video content ESPN The Mountain from “Game of Thrones” just broke an almighty weightlifting record that once belonged to his archrival … and now, he wants to break the dude’s face in the ring. Hafthor Bjornsson — who played The Hound’s brother on the hit HBO series — set a new world record Saturday
May 2nd is an important day in the world of Harry Potter. On this date 22 years ago, the Battle of Hogwarts took place at the beloved wizarding school. Despite the fact that the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book was released in 2007 and Part II of the film series was released in
The superheroes Iron Man and Hulk may have next to nothing in common in their superhero forms, as a brilliant armorer and a brutish brawler. But that didn’t stop Marvel Comics from wondering what kind of threat would be created, if rather than becoming an Avenger… Tony Stark became the Iron Hulk instead. Thankfully even the most outlandish
It’s always strange to go back to a game many months on, leaving you frantically trying to work out what the hell is going on and what you were doing when you last stepped away from the experience. This time around it is my training as a bus driver that has come to the fore,
Chicano Batman were the musical guests on last night’s episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. The Los Angeles band convened remotely, shooting segments from their homes for a performance of “Color My Life,” a single from their newly released album Invisible People. Check that out below. Chicano Batman’s last album, Freedom Is Free,
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Satellite images and other data can be analyzed to forecast potential spreads of the disease and move resources to help combat it. WASHINGTON — Using overhead satellite imagery and analytics software, geospatial data companies track the global impact of the coronavirus pandemic. They forecast trends such as shortages of supplies and identify areas where there
Paramount has given a date for a new Transformers movie of June 24, 2022. The studio is in development on two different projects: one by Murder Mystery scribe James Vanderbilt and the other by John Wick Chapter 3 EP and Army of the Dead scribe Joby Harold. The Vanderbilt project, from what we’ve heard, is based on Transformers spinoff Beast Wars which are robots that transform into robotic
We know you’re busy and might miss out on all the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We’ve pared down the past week’s news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you’d rather watch than read, you
Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry are not hiding their allegiance … they’re telling the world they’re on the Fauci train all the way. The expecting couple posted what seems to be their position on the coronavirus controversy, but there are nuances. Dr. Fauci — the undisputed hero in the fight against the pandemic — has
When it comes to action figures, army-builders are pretty much the gift that keeps on giving to toy companies. After all, rather than producing one unique character that most collectors will purchase a singular time, the golden egg that is an army-builder will often be purchased multiple times with no more development expenses than a
A single tail from one of the largest and most enigmatic dinosaur species looks to have solved a longstanding mystery about these extinct creatures: whether they could swim. The discovery of a giant fossilised tail belonging to the theropod Spinosaurus aegyptiacus suggests these huge predators were aquatic animals after all, using tail-propelled locomotion to swim
In the post-Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold) era of The Blacklist, the show has occasionally hinted at a will they/won’t they between FBI colleagues Liz Keen (Megan Boone) and Donald Ressler (Diego Klattenhoff), and Friday’s 17th episode of Season 7, “Brothers,” teased that tantalizing possibility again. In the episode, Ressler went to his hometown of Detroit