Enlarge / Xbox One X, we hardly knew ye. reader comments 78 with 64 posters participating, including story author Share this story Ahead of this holiday season’s new Xbox Series X console launch, Microsoft has confirmed a surprising change on the production side: the discontinuation of two existing Xbox One console versions. Following a report ..
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reader comments 64 with 43 posters participating Share this story Welcome to New London, a utopian society where everybody knows their place. Everyone is happy because everyone knows their place. YouTube/NBC Peacock Can’t really argue with that spectacular view. Jessica Brown Findlay plays the young and beautiful Lenina Crowne, a Beta Plus. Lenina’s fellow Beta ..
reader comments 36 with 28 posters participating Share this story The system-on-a-chip at the heart of the system. Overhead view. A model of the airflow “vortex” helping to cool the long rectangular Series X chassis. This image is labeled as a “vapor chamber,” which we can only assume is used for cooling. The chassis used ..
Enlarge / Johannes Vermeer’s View of Delft is considered to be his greatest masterpiece. Johannes Vermeer/Mauritshuis, The Hague reader comments 38 with 31 posters participating Share this story The 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer is perhaps best known in the popular imagination for Girl with a Pearl Earring, which inspired both a 1999 novel and ..
Enlarge / Gotta catch ‘em all while not catching coronavirus (TM). Niantic / Aurich Lawson reader comments 24 with 18 posters participating Share this story Since its launch in 2016, the premise of mobile titan Pokémon Go has centered on roaming the outdoors in search of mystical little creatures. As a result, it’s a game ..
Enlarge / Barret was a complex character in Final Fantasy VII. Then you hear him speak in the remake… reader comments 251 with 138 posters participating Share this story April saw the release of both Final Fantasy VII Remake (FF7R) and Trials of Mana, two 20-plus-year-old roleplaying games recreated for modern times. These re-imaginings have ..
reader comments 186 with 129 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid lend their voices to the new animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks, premiering next month on CBS All Access. With the success of Star Trek: Discovery and Picard, CBS continues to expand its offerings within the Star Trek ..
Enlarge / Ubisoft’s Montreal headquarters. Getty Images reader comments 189 with 105 posters participating, including story author Share this story Ubisoft’s chief creative officer tendered his resignation from the video game publisher behind series like Far Cry and Assassin’s Creed on Saturday, one day before its biggest gaming-reveal event of the year. Longtime CCO Serge ..
reader comments 49 with 36 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti relive the same day over and over in Palm Springs, now streaming on Hulu. Last year gave us two innovative multiverse twists on the well-worn time-loop trope: the Netflix comedy series Russian Doll, and the horror/comedy Happy Death ..
reader comments 90 with 70 posters participating Share this story Most boxed copies of Super Mario Bros. look a lot like this at a quick glance. But they won’t sell for $114,000. That cardboard hangtab in the back is a big part of the reason this copy sold for such a premium. Heritage Auctions A ..
