2007’s Mass Effect was touted as BioWare’s most ambitious game until that point, which was true in a lot of ways. Unfortunately, all that ambition resulted in a game that clearly wanted to be a more modernized version of BioWare’s best RPGs but often fell flat on its face as it baby stepped its way into a new era of game design. Like re-watching certain TV shows, the quality and design of the first Mass Effect created a division over whether you should endure that awkward first season....

They more than charmed Vaughn during a recent rewatch, however. They inspired him to approach his whole Kingsman universe, which he has developed across three films at his production company, Marv Studios, from an entirely different angle: one where the proverbial stiff upper lip was never raised higher, the sun had yet to set on the British Empire, and blokes like Danny and Peachy could get in over their heads and still be proper gentlemen about it as the ground (or rope bridge) vanished beneath their feet....

Granted, the Metroid franchise has always utilized horror elements (its revolutionary atmosphere can partially be attributed to the various ways it was influenced by the Alien films), but with a few possible exceptions (most notably the SA-X sequences from Metroid Fusion), it’s tough to say that the Metroid franchise has ever been especially frightening. Creepy, perhaps, but not really that more traditional kind of scary that makes you jump out of your seat or keeps you up at night....

Many organizations have added cloud-native technologies to their tech stack to enhance the performance of their products. At the same time, they often continue to run their own networks and on-premises infrastructure. This shift to hybrid infrastructures needs to be addressed in monitoring due to the huge number of metrics being generated every second for various components such as operating system, storage, server, cloud environments, etc. They all are important to make sure applications run at peak performance....

Why Network Security? Most organizations today greatly rely on computer networks to share information in an efficient and productive manner within the defined network. Organizational computer networks these days are very large, assuming that each staff member has a dedicated workstation. A large-scale company would have thousands of workstations and servers on the network. It is likely that these workstations may not be centrally managed, or would they have proper protection parameters....

Over the weekend, Ubisoft held a special livestream event that revealed and previewed numerous upcoming titles. While said event included gameplay of Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope and a sneak peek of The Division Heartland, the bulk of the presentation was devoted to Assassin’s Creed. Virtually everyone tuned in to see which rumors surrounding 2023’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage were true, and the answer was “most of them.” But that wasn’t the studio’s only big Assassin’s Creed announcement....

Netflix has already released a list of all its holiday offerings for November and December, and it’s those holiday offerings that take the most prominence this month. The biggest project of all of these is undoubtedly The Christmas Chronicles 2, which premieres on Nov. 25. In this holiday sequel, Kurt Russell reprises his role as Hot Santa Claus who must save the season once again. On the non-holiday side of things, Netflix’s Emmy-winning series The Crown returns for season 4 on Nov....

Sure, that’s just a wee bit short of the 893 total Pokemon created by Nintendo since 1996, and there will undoubtedly be some players who will find the lack of certain creatures less than ideal, especially after the Sword and Shield fiasco. But for the rest of you photographers, there will be plenty of camera-ready Pokemon for you to discover, including quite a few from the original list of 151....

That being said, it’s not immediately clear exactly how New World‘s attributes actually work. While the game tries to simplify the system through icons and basic explanations, you’re not alone if you initially feel overwhelmed by the possibilities and specifics. In order to help make New World‘s attribute system a little less intimidating and a little more exciting, here’s a slightly expanded look at how the whole thing works and what stats you should focus on for which builds....

“What would Uhura’s character be like in the Mirror, Mirror universe?” Frank Zanca, producer of Renegades: Ominara tells Den of Geek. “Because Nichelle has Alzheimer’s and is retiring, we kind of wanted to do a send-off. Instead of Uhura, it’s Ominara, and she’s the captain of her own ship. She’s built herself into a pirate. And Nichelle is playing her older version, and she’s like the head of the underworld at that point in the future....

If you answered three, then congratulations, you’re one of the 12 people who remember Land of the Dead. But you’re wrong. If you answered five, then you’re one of the two people who actually watched of the last two Romero films. But you’re still wrong. I’ll tell you. I count 28. 28! I’m not joking. And that’s not counting the homages, parodies, or myriad “of the dead” and “of the living dead” titles that have nothing to do with Night of the Living Dead....

This month, NOW TV has a couple of big movies from 2019, along with plenty of new series and complete box sets to binge through. Let’s take a look… TV THIS MONTH Brassic Season 2 I Know This Much Is True A limited series adapts the acclaimed book. Mark Ruffalo plays identical twins Dominick and Thomas as they recount their complex lives for you, the viewer. Bad Education Arriving to scorchingly good reviews, this Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney comedy drama sees the pair riding high in control of an extremely accomplished school district, but everything is about to fall apart in front of their eyes....

Joan Didion famously wrote in her 1979 collection of essays, The White Album, about the night Sharon Tate died. “Many people I know in Los Angeles believe the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969,” wrote Didion. “Ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled....

Only Murders in the Building Season 2 Episode 10 The solution to a murder mystery is always incredible stuff if done well. With all of the pieces of evidence in hand, viewers and characters alike can solve the who-dun-it once and for all. When it comes to Only Murders in the Building, there’s so many items to check off the list it can get a little confusing where one plot thread ends and another begins....

“I am leaving Blizzard Entertainment after 19 amazing years,” writes Kaplan in a brief farewell letter. “It was truly the honor of a lifetime to have the opportunity to create worlds and heroes for such a passionate audience. I want to express my deep appreciation to everyone at Blizzard who supported our games, our game teams, and our players. But I want to say a special thanks to the wonderful game developers that shared in the journey of creation with me....

This premiere is your proof. The opening slips and slides between continents, lassoing the Shelby family together two years after we last saw them. Director Anthony Byrne takes us through doorways in Limehouse that lead to the lobby of Detroit hotels, from bedrooms in the South of France that adjoin offices in Birmingham. It’s a fast, intoxicating start that gives us Michael in America with a girl and a gun, Polly in Monte Carlo being pleasured by a pilot, Finn in London champing at the gangster bit, and Tommy on a horse in the Lickey Hills....

D23 revealed the first trailer for the Disney+ series, giving audiences a hint of how far this iteration of the story has come, in comparison to 2010’s Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief and 2013’s Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters. What are the signs that the Walt Disney Company is moving in the right direction though? What can be learned from those initial movies and what do fans still need to see to be reassured that this incredible fantasy series is going to get the platform it deserves?...

The PlayStation 2 may be the best-selling console ever made, but its infamous launch was hindered by shortages, disappointing games, and explosive rumors. It was a rocky debut for a console that millions of gamers consider to be the greatest ever made, but twenty years removed from the horrors of simply trying to buy a PS2, the console’s infamous launch makes for a great story. So as we celebrate the anniversary of the PS2 and prepare for the release of the PS5, let’s look back on the many ways the PS5 will (hopefully) improve upon the launch of the most popular PlayStation ever....

In the past, players could breed Pokémon by leaving two Pokémon of opposite genders (or one Pokémon and one Ditto) in a Pokémon Day Care or Pokémon Nursery. If the Pokémon shared at least one “Egg Group” (e.g., classifications based on appearance, such as amphibious or humanoid), when players picked them up, the attendant would hand Trainers an egg. Because of the often confusing nature of these egg group classifications, Pokémon you wouldn’t assume would be compatible actually were....

Reading Ready Player Two feels a lot like that. Ready Player One, Cline’s 2011 debut novel, delighted readers with its futuristic generation of gunters who had taken on all things 1980s with religious fervor in search of the Easter egg that would bequeath the OASIS, Willy Wonka-style, to one lucky player. The book also made some incisive commentary on retreating into digital worlds instead of trying to fix the climate change-ravaged Earth....