The Super Mario Bros. Movie is the latest in a long line of smash hit movies from Illumination, one of two animation studios under the Universal umbrella. Illumination launched in 2010, over a decade after DreamWorks — Universal’s other animation company — and still lags behind its sister studio (as well as others like Disney… Read More »
Today, Woot is offering the open box Meta Quest 2 256GB VR headset for only $330.56. Note that this is the larger capacity 256GB model. That’s a rather significant price drop for what is already one of the least expensive VR headsets on the market. The lower capacity 128GB model normally retails for $399.99 new… Read More »
On Saturday past, the boxing world was treated to a very rare prime versus prime collision at the elite level when Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia squared off at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Despite the fact that the bout was contested at a 136-pound catchweight and no world titles were on the line,… Read More »
Enlarge / Grimes attends The 2021 Met Gala Celebrating In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 13, 2021, in New York City. Theo Wargo/Getty Images reader comments 75 with Share this story On Sunday night, Canadian musician Grimes tweeted that she would split 50 percent royalties on “any… Read More »
Warhammer 40,000 and its fantasy equivalent Age of Sigmar are dominant in the tabletop miniatures space. They’ve remained popular for decades thanks to the evocative settings, high-quality miniatures, and comfortable rulesets — not to mention the seemingly endless series of video games, books, and other media. But we’re not wed to Warhammer. Tabletop gamers have… Read More »
Cristiano Ronaldo was thwarted by an inspired goalkeeping performance as Jean-David Beauguel’s brilliant first-half bicycle kick sent Al Nassr crashing out of the King Cup semifinals against spirited 10-man Al Wehda. Monir El Kajoui produced two sensational saves to deny Ronaldo, who shook his head and remonstrated with coaching staff as he left the pitch with… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “Stochastic Parrot” created by Stability AI. Benj Edwards / Stability AI / Stable Diffusion XL reader comments 65 with Share this story On Wednesday, Stability AI released a new family of open source AI language models called StableLM. Stability hopes to repeat the catalyzing effects of its Stable… Read More »
The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of Apple’s App Store policies, saying that it doesn’t violate federal antitrust law. The ruling confirms an earlier decision in an antitrust case brought by Epic Games, Bloomberg reports. The latest decision is another blow to Epic in its ongoing dispute with Apple over… Read More »
Deep Silver and Dambuster Studios announced that Dead Island 2 has sold over 1 million copies within the first three days of release. “Dead Island 2 has won fans from around the world with countless players snapping up a copy of the drop dead gore-geous game in the first 72 hours,” Deep Silver said in… Read More »
Although the latest entry in the Evil Dead franchise has only been out for a few days, director Lee Cronin said he already has plenty of Evil Dead Rise sequel ideas for a follow-up should he be given the green light to make one. Speaking to Variety, Cronin revealed that not only does he have… Read More »