reader comments 13 with 9 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] The trailer for Mother to Earth At this point, a dozen years into the platform’s existence, Kickstarter documentaries are by no means a new thing. Projects originating on it have gone on to earn virtually every big film accolade, from debuts at major festivals to ..
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Enlarge / “Exploded” view of the new computer model of the Antikythera mechanism, showing how it might have worked. Tony Freeth reader comments 149 with 95 posters participating Share this story Scientists have long struggled to solve the puzzle of the gearing system on the front of the so-called Antikythera mechanism—a fragmentary ancient Greek astronomical ..
Enlarge / Fishing for answers. reader comments 100 with 80 posters participating Share this story Last July, Take-Two announced that NBA 2K21 would be the first game to ask $70 for the standard edition on “next-generation” systems (i.e., PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X). Last week, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick doubled down on that decision, ..
reader comments 40 with 36 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] The same people who brought us Dark are back with the dystopian sci-fi drama Tribes of Europa. The folks who brought us three captivating seasons of the existential time-travel thriller Dark are back with a new science fiction series for Netflix: the dystopian drama Tribes ..
reader comments 18 with 15 posters participating, including story author Share this story For nearly as long as video games have been around, they’ve enjoyed a tight relationship with pop music. As early as 1983, Bally-Midway collaborated with Journey to make a game full of licensed songs and the band members’ digitized faces (which followed ..
Enlarge / Vancouver Public Central Library. Libraries are where books sleep when you’re not reading them. reader comments 435 with 255 posters participating Share this story The past few years have seen an explosion in high-concept, high-budget adaptations for premium TV and streaming services, like The Expanse and Game of Thrones. Following in the footsteps ..
reader comments 92 with 67 posters participating Share this story Meet the happy couple: Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany). YouTube/Disney+ Wanda and Vision: the perfect couple. “Honey, I’m home!” YouTube/Disney+ Kathryn Hahn plays nosy neighbor Agnes. YouTube/Disney+ Fred Melamed as Todd Davis, who plays the role of neighbor Arthur Hart in Wanda’s ..
reader comments 53 with 46 posters participating Share this story Susanne Foitzik is a proud myrmecologist: an entomologist who specializes in ants (it was a new vocab word for me, too). Her lab at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich studies the dynamics between slave-making ant species, which capture ants of other species and get ..
reader comments 39 with 37 posters participating, including story author Share this story [embedded content] Probably the only Paper Mario speedrun you’ve ever seen that includes extensive Ocarina of Time gameplay. The idea of using video games as a way to achieve some form of Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE) on classic hardware has come a ..
Enlarge / Two posters, two free end-of-life games. reader comments 48 with 39 posters participating, including story author Share this story The weird, woeful, and nearly redemptive development of Valve’s digital card game Artifact has ended. Effective today, Valve has launched the 2018 game’s total-overhaul “2.0” version as a completely free—and “unfinished”—card-battling game dubbed Artifact ..
