When a city is awarded a WrestleMania, it comes with some benefits. Those benefits include fans coming in droves from all over to enjoy some wrestling and drive up the economy of the selected host. This year, WrestleMania 40 takes place on April 6 and 7 in Philadelphia. WWE hosts several events during WrestleMania week,… Read More »
Zach Edey has been the best player in college basketball over the past two seasons and it’s been impossible to miss him during this year’s NCAA Tournament, both because of his size and production. He’s scored 53 points, grabbed 35 rebounds and blocked six shots in only 58 minutes of play in leading Purdue to… Read More »
PAX East is always a treat. A smaller, more intimate show than PAX West, PAX East is a good way to take the industry’s temperature and see a ton of exciting new games from both major publishers and small indies that are doing exciting new work you may not have heard of before. I spent… Read More »
reader comments 85 Voice synthesis has come a long way since 1978’s Speak & Spell toy, which once wowed people with its state-of-the-art ability to read words aloud using an electronic voice. Now, using deep-learning AI models, software can create not only realistic-sounding voices, but also convincingly imitate existing voices using small samples of audio.… Read More »
Tekken 8’s post-launch content is rolling on with its first new character, Eddy Gordo, who will become available to those with the Playable Character Year 1 Pass on April 1 and as a standalone purchase for all on April 5. Furthermore, a laundry list of patch notes for the April 1 update were revealed that… Read More »
Apple TV+ is back for a third year of “Friday Night Baseball” during the 2024 MLB season. The slate begins this Friday, with a pair of marquee matchups. First, Juan Soto and the Yankees head to Houston to take on Yordan Alvarez and the slugging Astros. Then, in the nightcap, Shohei Ohtani plays just his… Read More »
Capcom has released the first title update for Dragon’s Dogma 2, adding some crucial features to the game. Update 1.050, out now on PC via Steam and PlayStation 5, and on Xbox Series X and S “in the next few days”, adds the option to start a new game when save data already exists. Inexplicably,… Read More »
“They’re just phenomenal to watch. People try to make comparisons of who’s better, etcetera. Just enjoy ‘em, man.” Rio Ferdinand’s 2018 comments about Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have long been classic internet meme fodder, usually for people being far less sincere than the former Manchester United and England defender was. However, when discussing the… Read More »
Cardy, Matt, and Mat are here to talk about a right ol’ mixture of stuff this week. We’ve got new games like Princess Peach: Showtime and old ones like the original Metal Gear Solid trilogy. Then there are brand-new films such as Civil War and Drive-Away Dolls, and a bunch of thrillers from between 1975… Read More »
There might be two MLB games already in the books for 2024 thanks to the Seoul Series, but make no mistake: This is Opening Day. Thursday will officially open up the season, with most of the 30 teams in action — but not all, as several teams announced weather-related postponements. Still, there will be shortage of… Read More »