Enlarge / Detective Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) investigates a missing persons case while haunted by his past. (credit: YouTube/HBO) We’d almost forgotten about HBO’s uneven crime anthology series True Detective. It had a fantastic first season, only to hemorrhage viewers with the abysmally dreary, disappointing second season. But now the series is coming back for season ..
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Enlarge (credit: Blizzard Entertainment) Announcements of a brand-new, smartphone-only Diablo and a remastered WarCraft 3 headlined a news-filled BlizzCon keynote presentation on Friday. The talk focused on games across Blizzard Entertainment’s portfolio—along with a huge freebie from its corporate siblings at Bungie. Starting today, that developer’s Destiny 2 is now free to claim on Windows ..
Enlarge / HBO is none too pleased about President Trump’s Friday tweet. (credit: HBO) Friday morning, President Trump used Twitter to issue a rare kind of foreign-policy announcement: a slogan lifted from a pop-culture meme, repurposed to vaguely suggest future political action. And it drew criticism from one significant party: HBO, who cited its “trademark” ..
Enlarge (credit: Randy Adams) Venerable photo sharing site Flickr has announced that from January 8, 2019, free accounts will be limited to 1,000 photos or videos. Any content above that limit will be deleted, starting February 5, 2019, beginning with the oldest images first. To go beyond the 1,000 item limit, you’ll have to pay ..
Enlarge / Jumpman, circa 1981, before the Segale-inspired renaming to “Mario” Mario Segale, the Seattle real estate and construction business owner who inspired the name for Nintendo’s famous mascot, passed away on October 27 according to reports from The Seattle Times and The Auburn Reporter. He was 84 years old. Segale owned the business park ..
Video shot by Sam Machkovech and edited by Justin Wolfson. Click here for transcript. If you’re interested in a review of Diablo III: Eternal Edition for the Nintendo Switch, here’s a quick one. The new version, out on Friday for $59.99, is still Diablo III. The game’s existing versions on PC and console are nearly ..
Enlarge / A giant Tetris board illuminating the windows of the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality in 2016. Playing Tetris provides a useful distraction during anxious waiting periods. (credit: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images) There’s nothing worse than waiting to hear potentially upsetting news, whether it’s a bad medical diagnosis or learning if you got into your top college ..
What We Do in the Shadows teaser trailer. Fans of the quirky 2014 New Zealand “mockmentary” What We Do in the Shadows rejoice, for FX has dropped the first teasers for its much-anticipated TV adaptation. The half-hour comedy looks to preserve the same deadpan humor and worldweary tone that made the original film an instant ..
Enlarge / Can’t afford a Switch? Mario has a suggestion for you… (credit: Nintendo of America) In the age of the Nintendo Switch, the company’s older 3DS handheld tends to get the short end of the stick in terms of press and player attention. But Nintendo has maintained that it’s not going to abandon the ..
Enlarge / An article about Sony’s and Nintendo’s console fortunes seems a good excuse to run a photo of their decades-old failed console collaboration. (credit: Sam Machkovech) As 2017 came to a close, Nintendo was busy reveling in Switch sales that were exceeding expectations while Sony’s PlayStation 4 was showing signs that its strong sales ..
