2005’s Psychonauts may not have been a runaway commercial success, but it is regularly cited as one of the greatest examples of creative design in video game history. The game focuses on a camp of students who learn to use their psychic abilities to visit the minds of various people. Those minds are represented by
Month: June 2019
Rick and Morty has taken notoriously long breaks in between seasons. It’s not as much of a rarity for hotly popular television shows as it once was, but fans certainly get antsy in anticipation for their favorite show to return. While we had very little information on the prospects of Rick and Morty Season 4 since
Electronic Arts‘ Kerry Hopkins, the company’s VP of legal and government affairs, has defended EA’s use of loot boxes, stating that these microtransaction-assisted game mechanics are “quite ethical and quite fun.” Hopkins seems to like the term “surprise mechanics” as an alternative to “loot boxes.” It’s worth remembering that the abundance of loot boxes in
This The Son review contains spoilers. The Son Season 2 Episode 9 The penultimate installment of The Son, season 2, episode 9, “The Bear,” readies the series for a somewhat forgone conclusion. But the closure is coming like a set of pincers squeezing several wounds at once, and not all of them healing. All three generations of McCullough
Max Gladstone is having a busy summer. Though Gladstone is arguably best known for his Hugo-nominated Craftverse series, that’s the one universe that doesn’t have a book coming out this summer. Instead, readers can follow a team of once-Vatican-sponsored operatives trying to save the world from the pending magical apocalypse—or find a way to change
Release Date: June 25, 2019Platform: PS4Developer: Ryu Ga Gotoku StudioPublisher: SegaGenre: Action-adventure Sega is advertising Judgment as a very different spin-off to its long-running Yakuza series. In reality, Judgment still feels a lot like a Yakuza title for better or worse, but a strong story and solid gameplay make it one of the best games released in 2019 so far. Whereas the
With Celebration 2020 dates announced, our Star Wars experts sit down to talk about the show and the latest new canon content. First, we chat about the difference between attending as press and attending as a fan. What is it going to be like going to Celebration after The Rise of Skywalker is out and
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance recently wowed would-be audiences with a trailer for the Netflix TV series that teased a sublime mix of old-school puppetry and animatronics with just the right amount of complementary CGI effects. Intriguingly, the show – a prequel set several years before the 1982 Jim Henson-directed classic that lends its
This article is part 2 in our History of PC Gaming series. The evolution of PC gaming features ups, down, important characters, and many, many chapters. And these chapters are not always so clearly defined. There is much debate about which pivotal moments define the history of PC gaming. There is no universally agreed upon series of
This review contains spoilers for Agents of SHIELD. Agents of SHIELD Season 6 Episode 6 Whenever Iain De Caestecker and Elizabeth Henstridge take center stage as Fitz and Simmons in Agents of SHIELD, we’re bound to witness a master class in emotionally rich acting, and “Inescapable” certainly delivered in that respect (although shouldn’t the episode
The iconic comics imprint that brought readers The Sandman, Preacher, Hellblazer, Fables, Y: The Last Man, and others will close its doors in 2020. According to THR, DC Comics plans to shutter Vertigo Comics, as well as young adult imprints DC Zoom and DC Ink, starting in January. Replacing them will be three, age-specific imprints:
This article comes from Den of Geek UK. Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire, which launched in 2002, and faced an uphill battle leading up to its release. Game Freak’s Junichi Masuda, who’s directed several installments in the series, has openly admitted that these Gen-3 Pokemon games were “very stressful” to make, presenting one of the
IMAGE: Robert Magnusson view more Credit: UT Arlington A research team from The University of Texas at Arlington is working with the Army Research Laboratory to develop nanophotonic devices that could have applications in thermal imaging and resonant filtering. Robert Magnusson, an electrical engineering professor and the Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics, is the
This The 100 article contains spoilers. One of the greatest things about storytelling on TV is the way character growth can be depicted as episodes and seasons go on. Six seasons in, The 100 is a great example of what this can look like. As we’ve reached the midway mark of Season 6, we’ve seen different sides to many
This Batman article contains major spoilers. The Dark Knight has had a very tough time in Tom King’s 70+ issue run on Batman, and it looks like things are about to get much worse. In this week’s issue #73, Bruce has been ushered away from Gotham City after being defeated by Bane and betrayed by
With the wearable electronic device market having firmly established itself in the 21st century, active research is being conducted on electronic textiles,1 which are textiles (e.g. clothing) capable of functioning like electronic devices. Fabric-based items are flexible and can be worn comfortably all day, making them the ideal platform for wearable electronic devices. The research
A nanomaterial made from phosphorus, known as phosphorene, is shaping up as a key ingredient for more sustainable and efficient next-generation perovskite solar cells (PSCs). PSCs which are one of the fastest developing new solar technologies and can achieve efficiencies comparable to more commonly used commercially available silicon solar cells. For the first time, an
In a candid interview with GameDaily.biz, EA CEO Andrew Wilson opened up about the state of Anthem, which has faced several issues since its launch in February. According to Wilson, one of the game’s problems comes down to the expectations of different types of players — ones who came for BioWare’s signature brand of story content and
Warrior Season 2 is officially set at Cinemax! It didn’t take long for the premium cable outlet to renew the action-packed crime series, which premiered on April 5. Indeed, Warrior, the creation of Jonathan Tropper, who co-created the channel’s 2013-2016 crime drama, Banshee, came to the table with proper familial blessing to brandish the name
One of the most popular fantasy franchises of the literary world, The Wheel of Time, is getting a live-action television adaptation. Originally authored by Robert Jordan, the 80 million-selling 1990-2013 book series depicts a sprawling mythology, amalgamating feudal and magical tropes with elements of Eastern mysticism. Indeed, the books bear philosophical influences from European and
It’s not an electron. But it sure does act like one. Northwestern University researchers have made a strange and startling discovery that nanoparticles engineered with DNA in colloidal crystals — when extremely small — behave just like electrons. Not only has this finding upended the current, accepted notion of matter, it also opens the door
IMAGE: Diagram of NIST’s ion trap used for reversible ‘quantum squeezing’ to amplify and measure ion motion. The ion (white ball) is confined 30 micrometers above the trap surface by voltages… view more Credit: Credit: Burd/NIST Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have harnessed the phenomenon of “quantum squeezing” to amplify and
Despite rumors to the contrary, it seems that Xbox Scarlett is the only next-gen console that Microsoft is currently working on. “Last year we said consoles, and we’ve shipped a console and we’ve now detailed another console. I think that’s plural,” said Xbox’s Phil Spencer in an interview with Business Insider. “Technically that is plural. Right
Emberion was one of the first spinouts of the Graphene Flagship. It was founded in 2016 to take work done in the Graphene Flagship Optoelectronics work package to the market. Emberion’s ultra-sensitive photodetectors combine graphene transistors with an efficient light absorbing layer. This combination enables a wide spectral range covered with a single photodetector, from
As an all-new wrestling promotion, All Elite Wrestling has been hitting all the right notes right out the gate. Their prototype show All In made waves, but not nearly as much as their first real show AEW Double or Nothing. The event was both a critical and financial success. They’re a few months away from
This post is sponsored by Flatiron Books. All opinions expressed in this post are based on the writer’s personal views. In the past decade, our popular culture has become increasingly interested in post-apocalyptic stories—perhaps because, as writer Laurie Penny theorized in The New Statesman way back in 2014, it can increasingly feel like we are all
IMAGE: This new electronic memory device would allow computers which do not need to boot up and which could go into an energy-saving sleep mode – even between key stokes. view more Credit: Lancaster University A new type of computer memory which could solve the digital technology energy crisis has been invented and patented by scientists
Realism and relevance are central to Infinity Ward’s vision for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, a reimagining of the landmark 2007 shooter. Collateral damage plays a bigger role in today’s battlefields simply because the War on Terror is often fought in residential areas with civilians in close proximity, which introduces layers of moral complexity to
This Krypton review contains spoilers. Krypton Season 2 Episode 2 The main man is the main attraction this week on Krypton, as the second episode of the season features a whole lot of the alien bounty hunter, and leaves the audience wanting more. Emmett J. Scanlan is a thrill to watch in “Ghost in the Fire,” and I say
Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron is the first in an upcoming trilogy of books showing the troubled lives of a group of pilots in the early days of the New Republic. In the spirit of Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston’s X-Wing series of novels but with a grimmer, morally ambiguous tone to fit the new canon, Alphabet
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