Enlarge / A screenshot from the first Spider-Man PlayStation game. reader comments 27 with E3 might be canceled this year, but the big gaming companies are forging ahead regardless—either as part of Summer Games Fest or with their own presentations and livestreams. Arguably the top dog these days is Sony, which will host what it ..
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Enlarge / Still life of a boy blowing a bubble (circa 1734) by 18th century French painter Jean Siméon Chardin. Public domain reader comments 11 with French painters Jean Siméon Chardin and Édouard Manet both created well-known paintings that depicted children blowing bubbles through straw-like tubes, albeit more than a century apart. Those realistic depictions ..
reader comments 48 with [embedded content] Modern Vintage Gamer shows the frame rate improvements possible by overclocking Tears of the Kingdom with a hacked Switch. For a marquee game on 6-year-old hardware (which was already relatively underpowered when it launched in 2017), the open-world construction set of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom ..
Enlarge / Archaeologists used cosmic rays to detect a secret underground burial chamber from the Hellenistic period in Naples, circa late fourth century/early third century BCE. This is a laser-scanned 3D view of the underground part of the site V. Tioukov et al., 2023 reader comments 11 with The ruins of the ancient necropolis of ..
Enlarge / Just a few of the Activision franchises that will become Microsoft properties if and when the acquisition is finalized. Microsoft / Activision reader comments 80 with The European Commission (EC) has officially approved Microsoft’s long-proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision, concluding a long-running “in-depth investigation” that has long been expected to go Microsoft’s ..
reader comments 4 with [embedded content] Apple TV+ has dropped a teaser for the second season of its epic sci-fi series, Foundation. It has been too long since we binged all 10 episodes of Apple TV’s 2021 epic sci-fi series Foundation, loosely adapted from Isaac Asimov’s hugely influential Foundation series of novels. We’re finally getting ..
reader comments 30 with Disney+ plus Hulu equals Disnulu? Someone may or may not come up with a better name than that, but by the end of 2023, there will be a new streaming app combining the libraries of Disney+ and Hulu, Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed during an earnings call last night. Iger clarified ..
Enlarge / Nvidia’s RTX 4080 and 4070 could finally be getting some more reasonably priced relatives. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 23 with There are two kinds of GPUs you can buy right now if you want to build or upgrade a gaming PC: affordable but old ones and new but expensive ones. Both Nvidia and ..
Enlarge / With the advent of the Asus ROG Ally, you can take Windows gaming anywhere! Should you? That is a good question. Kevin Purdy reader comments 87 with Geralt of Rivia looked good, moved smoothly, and responded swiftly to commands. There was just one problem: He was constantly sucker-punching the villagers of White Orchard. ..
Enlarge / Coming 2 America may be coming to a platform besides Prime Video. Amazon Studios reader comments 120 with Following its acquisition of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM) film studio, Amazon is launching the Amazon MGM Studios Distribution unit, which will be responsible for distributing Amazon original movies and TV shows, including the massive library ..