Yellowstone might be ending, but the spinoffs are going strong. Paramount+ announced that 1923 season 2 will premiere on Sunday, February 23. Accompanying the announcement are two teasers and a series of photos that preview what’s to come in 1923. In the first teaser, Spencer Dutton (Brandon Sklenar) begins his journey home to Montana, stressing that he must hurry because his family is in danger. The second teaser features Jacob (Harrison Ford) and Cara (Helen Mirren) Dutton fighting to protect their ranch. “Our way of life is under attack. I’m asking you to protect them,” Jacob says as he readies for…
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This year may be over, but 2024 has one more major video game sequel left in the tank. On December 10, Ustwo Games will release Monument Valley 3 on mobile devices. It’s the third installment of a series that helped define mobile gaming a decade ago. To make matters even sweeter? It’s being distributed by Netflix Games, which means that anyone with a subscription to the service will have access to it at launch without spending an extra penny. So where’s the fanfare? Monument Valley 3, another mesmerizing puzzler that’s custom-made for small touchscreens, is the latest high-quality mobile release…
The upcoming Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is releasing on December 9, and Bethesda has just shared the hardware requirements for the game. What are we dealing with? Well, to say that you’ll need one of the best graphics cards would be an understatement. If you want to play the new Indiana Jones at maximum settings, you’ll need an RTX 4090—AMD cards aren’t even listed as an option. The latest Indiana Jones game is a real step up in terms of hardware requirements across the board. For starters, you need to have a hardware ray tracing GPU as a minimum…
EA adds more tech patents to its accessibility program,The patents being opened up include a range of speech generation and recognition technologies. Electronic Arts is expanding its accessibility program with 23 additional tech patents that other companies and developers can freely use without being slapped with an infringement lawsuit. The expansion more than doubles the total number of patents that EA has opened up since launching the pledge in 2021, and includes generation and recognition tools for speech and audio. “We believe that games should be accessible to everyone and our industry-leading teams are always looking for new ways to…
Netflix shares new photo of Jenna Ortega as Wednesday season 2 wraps production Created by Beetlejuice Beetlejuice scribes Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, Wednesday stars Ortega as the angsty teenager who inherits her mother’s psychic powers. In season 1, Wednesday transfers to Nevermore Academy, her parents’ alma mater. Wednesday’s rebelliousness and off-putting nature make it difficult to meet friends. When a murder shocks the community, Wednesday uses her newfound skills to investigate and find the killer. The adventures of Wednesday Addams will return to Netflix next year.The streamer announced that production has wrapped on Wednesday season 2. Netflix also released a new photo…
The globe likely breezed past 1.5°C of warming above pre-industrial levels this year, crashing through the 2016 Paris Agreement’s aspirational target. Further warming increases the risk of catastrophic consequences, including more frequent extreme droughts, floods, and fires; stronger hurricanes; faster-spreading infectious diseases; and declining wildlife and fish populations. A host of carbon-capture startups hope to reverse this trend by removing large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. One of those startups, Heirloom Carbon, announced on Wednesday that it had raised $150 million in Series B funding to help scale up its carbon-removal technology. The startup is betting that by building…
After weeks of anticipation, some Spotify users are left underwhelmed by the streamer’s personalized year-in-review feature, Spotify Wrapped — with many even going so far as to call it “boring” or a “flop.” Chief among the complaints are that Spotify prioritized the inclusion of an AI podcast for Wrapped over the other, clever and creative data stories that it typically offers — like those that identify your music personality, match you to a town that shares your musical tastes, describe your “audio aura,” or turn your listening history into a game you can share with friends, among other things. Others are upset over…
In the early days of gaming, you would take the blocky sprites you were given and you would appreciate them, darn it. These days? Character creators are practically a game in and of themselves (my wife usually spends the first couple of hours of any title making her player). Dragon Age: The Veilguard is no exception to this, but it’s character creator is so robust that BioWare has dropped it as a standalone download. The Veilguard‘s character creator is already live on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, with PC access rolling out throughout the day, according to Dragon Age’s post…
The iPhone 16 line has come and gone, and now most of us are looking forward to what the next iPhone has in store. Though the first thing that may come to your mind is the iPhone 17, don’t forget about Apple’s more budget-friendly offering, the iPhone SE. It’s heavily suggested that we’ll be seeing the next iteration of Apple’s budget-friendly iPhone SE in 2025, likely sometime in the first couple of months. While you may not be as interested in this compared to the flagship model, the iPhone SE 4 could be a very big deal for Apple. The…
Over the years, various rumors have indicated that Apple plans to integrate Face ID technology into the display of a future iPhone. Now, the company has been granted a U.S. patent covering the technology capable of achieving this integration. This development suggests that the feature could be introduced on at least one model in the upcoming iPhone 17 series, which is set to launch next year. The patent, reported by Patently Apple, details the intricate placement of cameras and other sensors behind an active display part. This innovation might finally eliminate the need for the notorious iPhone notch/pill cutout that…
