A class-action lawsuit regarding the Nintendo Switch’s Joy-Con controller problems has prompted a simple response from Nintendo on the matter. “At Nintendo, we take great pride in creating quality products and we are continuously making improvements to them,” said a Nintendo representative to Kotaku. “We are aware of recent reports that some Joy-Con controllers are
It might seem silly to call The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance something uniquely different when the upcoming Netflix series, which just screened its first episode at San Diego Comic-Con, is the continuation of a feature film story that premiered more than 35 years ago. However, for those who attended the SDCC panel and the press
By now, you probably know whether you like Grand Admiral Thrawn or not. I’m one of those fans who could take or leave the almost presciently intelligent villain. Meanwhile, Thrawn has enjoyed a bit of a resurgence since he was brought in from the Legends timeline for Star Wars Rebels. Thrawn: Treason, the latest Thrawn
Remember when Twitch played Pokemon and hilariously tried to work their way through the Game Boy classic using chat commands? Well, now Twitch chat is playing the hit auto battler game Teamfight Tactics, and the results so far have been quite surprising. The Twitch channel, which you can view here, works about as you’d expect.
IMAGE: This is professor Rainer Herges, Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center 677 „Function by Switching. view more Credit: Rainer Herges Chemists usually synthesize molecules using stochastic bond-forming collisions of the reactant molecules in solution. Nature follows a different strategy in biochemical synthesis. The majority of biochemical reactions are driven by machine-type protein complexes that bind
IMAGE: This is the concept of counterfactual communication, where the pigeon and the message do not travel in the same direction. view more Credit: © University of Vienna, created by Jon Ladrón de Guevara Whether it is pigeons in the air, electrons in a telegraph wire, radio waves from a cell phone or single photons in
IMAGE: As the scientists noted, the graph that shows the spatial distribution of the polarization of light turned out to be rather unusual — it resembles a multi-colored marine rapan. view more Credit: © Nature Nanotechnology In every modern microcircuit hidden inside a laptop or smartphone, you can see transistors – small semiconductor devices that control
This Legion review contains spoilers. Legion Season 3 Episode 5 Legion seems to invite questions to its own third season story in “Chapter 24” by wading into the existentialism of time travel. Locked away in essentially a deprivation chamber, Switch dreams of her sterile, almost robotic existence as her audio lessons on time travel discuss the lonely, highly
Jack Kirby’s Eternals are going to get their own movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe next year! These are far from your traditional superheroes, though. Mixing the biggest of big Kirby ideas with concepts like ancient aliens and traditional mythology, Marvel’s Eternals aren’t exactly the easiest group of characters to explain in a few words
3D platformer tribute Yooka-Laylee is getting a surprise sequel that turns the franchise into a more traditional 2D (or 2.5D platformer). Titled Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, this upcoming sequel will reportedly combine elements of 3D exploration with 2D platforming. It’s not entirely clear how the 3D elements work at this time, though, as the
UFO, spiritual and occult expert and author Rosemary Ellen Guiley died on Thursday, July 18, 2019, at the age of 69, according to numerous reports in the paranormal community, including Coast to Coast AM. No cause of death has been reported. A true pioneer in the field of occult research, her death shook the world
The Robotech comics are about to shake things up in a way only this franchise can. With the current Robotech comic set to end at issue 24, Titan Comics will debut a new comic in October. Robotech: Remix, written by Brenden Fletcher and drawn by Elmer Damaso, wil heavily focus on the Masters Saga character of
Overwatch‘s next hero is a scientist named Sigma who appears to have participated in some experiments that went very, very wrong. Sigma comes as something of a surprise given that it’s only been five months since Baptiste was added to Overwatch. However, the Overwatch team have been hinting at his arrival for the last few
IMAGE: Drug improvement has been stalled by a lack of models showing exactly how drugs like setrons attach to their target protein in the body. Without a precise model, drug developers… view more Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine A new study using a special type of electron microscope using samples cooled to extremely
IMAGE: NIST physicist Katie McCormick adjusts a mirror to steer a laser beam used to cool a trapped beryllium ion (electrically charged atom). McCormick and colleagues got the ion to display… view more Credit: Burrus/NIST Showcasing precise control at the quantum level, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a method
Transporting droplets on solid surfaces at high speed and long distance, even against gravity, without additional force has been a formidable task. But a research team comprising scientists from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and three other universities and research institutes has recently devised a novel mechanism to transport droplets at record-high velocity and
Crisis on Infinite Earths is coming. The crossover event that the Arrowverse has been teasing since the very first episode of The Flash will finally arrive in the fall, and it promises to be even bigger and crazier in scope than we could have hoped for. The wheels were set in motion by last year’s
With Marvel’s MCU Phase 4 rapidly approaching, it’s almost surprising that it has taken this long for the Taskmaster to show his skull-covered face. Taskmaster has been taking on various Marvel heroes since 1980 and has gone on to star in two miniseries while getting the occasional supporting character role. He’s on that border where
For any Batman fan of a certain age, Terry McGinnis is as true a Dark Knight as the best of them—and the best has always been Bruce Wayne. This is in no small part thanks to Will Friedle’s dryly counterintuitive performance as a teenage superhero. In different hands, it could be as irreverent as Peter
At San Diego Comic Con 2019, the team behind The CW’s DC shows revealed quite a bit about next season’s big crossover, Crisis on Infinite Earths. Among the news: Tom Cavanagh (who plays the various Harrison Wellses of the multiverse) will be playing Pariah from the comics. That’s…a pretty deep cut. They could have gone
This week marked the end of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s current DLC storyline, The Fate of Atlantis. Following “Fields of Elysium” and “Torment of Hades,” “Judgment of Atlantis” is the final of the three-episode saga and wraps up the storylines built in the previous chapters, which revolve around the protagonist (either Cassandra or Alexios) as they
The Batwoman TV series is coming to The CW, bringing Bruce Wayne’s cousin, Kate Kane, to the Arrowverse. Caroline Dries (The Vampire Diaries) will serve as the writer and will executive produce, along with Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and Geoff Johns. Marcos Siega directed the pilot. He brings a vast CV from director/producer TV runs on Dexter, The Following and The Vampire
At their San Diego Comic Con screening of the next DC Universe Movie, Batman: Hush, DC announced their animated slate for 2020, and they led with a great one. Superman: Red Son is the first movie on the slate for 2020. It’s based on the 2003 comic from Mark Millar, Dave Johnson, and Killian Plunkett,
In a fascinating story published on Polygon, Jeremy Blaustein recalls his time as the sole translator for the U.S. version of Metal Gear Solid. “It was a massive job, the sort of thing that would be the work of an entire team today,” recalls Blaustein. “But back then, it was just one guy in the U.S.,
DuckTales Season 2 continues the incredible adventures of Scrooge McDuck and his family. We know when the show will be back after its hiatus! DuckTales Season 2 Trailer A new DuckTales trailer premiered at SDCC 2019 and it introduces Goofy, Daisy Duck, and the Rescue Rangers to the series. Watch it below: Video of Season 2 Sneak
The world is full of Watchmen purists, people who believe the original comic is sacrosanct and inviolable, and that any attempt to follow it up is doomed to failure because it misses the point of the original. And then there are people like Damon Lindelof, who decided to make a Watchmen TV series for HBO
While many people like to toss around the term “Netflix for gaming,” the Google Stadia team would prefer if people don’t associate Stadia Pro with that concept. “To be clear, Stadia Pro is not ‘Netflix for Games’ like some people have mentioned,” writes Google Stadia director of product Andrey Doronichev as part of a Reddit AMA.
What will likely be the final Hall H panel dedicated to Game of Thrones (at least until a major anniversary down the road) had an unusual duality to it Friday evening. Announced as something of a victory lap for HBO’s once universally beloved fantasy series, tonight’s Game of Thrones San Diego Comic-Con panel doubled as
No one could have predicted how huge and important Marvel’s mid-’00s content would turn out in the long run. On Earth, Captain America and Iron Man were duking it out in Civil War. On Sakaar, Bruce Banner’s alter-ego was being reinvented and turned into a big deal once again in Planet Hulk. Everywhere else, Annihilus was
It’s a good time to be a Pokémon fan, with Pokémon Sword and Shield waiting in the wings for Nintendo Switch owners, and a suite of other Pokemon titles on the way, including Pokemon Masters, a new mobile game from DeNA. The studio has confirmed that the game will be out this summer on iOS and Android.