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Hades, the latest title from Supergiant Games, finally came out of early access late last year. It quickly topped everyone’s game of the year list with its wit and charm. The gameplay is challenging and the characters are hot as hell (get it?). With the completion of the game also comes the completion of the story, so be warned: this article is full of spoilers. Once players manage to fight their way past Hades for the first time and meet their mother, the joy is cut short by Zagreus’ inability to survive above ground for very long....

The second region in Hades sees players traversing the burning fields of Asphodel. While the enemies in this area aren’t that challenging on their own, the environmental hazards are enough to give even experienced players pause. Those that manage to get to the end of this area will have to face the Bone Hydra boss battle. Each run in Hades consists of four separate regions. Players start in Tartarus and eventually make their way up to the surface....

One editor gives his take on Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2 after some hands-on time, trying out the game’s new setting, hacking options, and co-op in the process. Let’s face it, the franchise debut of Watch Dogs made for a lukewarm game. That’s not to write it off completely, but it was ultimately filled with promising ideas that never quite delivered as intended. As a result, the announcement of Watch Dogs 2 was a rather whelming affair in the eyes of many that didn’t particularly feel one way or the other about the Ubisoft property....

It is without a doubt that the Wizarding World of Harry Potter is one of the biggest franchises in recent history with a successful series of books, movies, and some decent video games. Of course, with Warner Bros. announcing Hogwarts Legacy a few weeks ago, it appears that Harry Potter fans are finally getting the game of their dreams with its open-world environment offering players to explore Hogwarts and other areas in the Harry Potter universe....

Deck the halls with bows and arrows. It is a wonderful time of the year for Disney+, which dropped the first Hawkeye trailer down the chimney. Marvel’s latest live-action series will be a Christmas show, and Clint Barton, a.k.a Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), is re-gifting his archery set to young hero Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld). Clint still has the vision to hit a target, but his hearing may not be so great anymore....

The Assassin’s Creed franchise is known for many things like sneaking, jumping into bales of hay, freerunning, and stabbing. Assassin’s Creed has had a massive influence on modern game design as a whole, from Infamous to Metal Gear Solid V to Horizon: Zero Dawn, the open-world action game where one must clear encampments of enemies and climb towers to unlock more of the map was proliferated by Assassin’s Creed. Another signature element of the franchise and of this genre of games is large quantities of side quests....

Hillbilly Elegy, director Ron Howard’s Netflix-bound next film, makes its Oscar aspirations quite clear upon the release of its first trailer. Indeed, we can already see how an impressive cast complements the clear head-turning moments of Amy Adams transformed before our very eyes as an addiction-addled mother amidst an unstable family dynamic. Howard, the ever-reliable cinematic craftsman and Oscar-winning director of A Beautiful Mind, stepped behind the camera for this movie adaptation of “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” a 2016 #1 New York Times Bestseller memoir by J....

Do you remember the Hololens – that futuristic-looking AR project that Microsoft was hyping up a few years back? It got a lot of press for a while, but eventually seemed to have gone the way of other ambitious, hyped-up ideas (like Project Milo), and just faded away without a trace. Apparently, despite falling off the radar of the general public, the headset is still being worked on and is gaining some new talent....

When Horizon Zero Dawn was released in 2017, gamers were blown away by the ambitious open-world title and quickly started begging for more. Their prayers were partially answered with the DLC The Frozen Wilds, but many in the new franchise’s ever-growing army of fans still wanted a “proper” sequel. Now, the momentous occasion of Horizon Forbidden West‘s long-awaited release is just around the corner. Originally, Horizon Forbidden West was supposed to launch in 2021, but it sadly proved to be one of the many games scheduled to release that year that was delayed to 2022 and beyond....

Horizon Zero Dawn is not the most immediately gripping game around town, but that’s why it’s introductory sequence is so brilliant. When you first boot up the game, you’re put in the boots of Aloy, a Nora warrior who was exiled from her tribe at birth. As you beeline along the region’s notorious Brave trails, you learn about a kind of ritualistic gauntlet known as the Proving, which could provide Aloy with a unique route towards becoming a Nora Brave - and, as result of that, a Nora citizen once again....

This article contains light spoilers for House of the Dragon episode 6 and George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood. Midway through House of the Dragon episode 6 “The Princess and the Queen,” King Viserys I (Paddy Considine) gathers his Small Council together to talk about the important political issues of the day. On the docket, as it always seems to be, is a bit of drama in the Riverlands. House Bracken and House Blackwood are at each other’s throats again and the dominant house in the region, House Tully, has requested the Iron Throne’s help in settling the matter....

You may have a preconceived notion of the Child’s Play series, and if it is a dismissive one, that’s fine—it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, I get that. That being said, it is one of the few (if not the only) long standing film series that has found ways to adapt and change itself into something new, while not losing out on its core principles. If you’re new to the series and have a history with other pop-culture phenomena, you can liken it to The Fast and the Furious franchise moving from being about cops infiltrating underground car racing thieves, to full on ridiculous A-Team action territory....

How to enable Facebook Messenger’s dark mode (no moon emoji required) Finally! Facebook Messenger is adding a threaded quote reply feature Why did the FTC settle with Facebook? How does this all affect you? Facebook’s board must create a new committee to monitor privacy practices Facebook must report to the FTC when data of 500 or more users is compromised Facebook’s CEO and compliance officers must conduct privacy reviews every quarter Is this a win for Facebook?...

iPad tips and tricks How to multitask on iPad Open the first app you want to use Tap on the multitasking button (three grey dots) at the top of the screen Tap the Split View button in the middle Choose another app from you Home Screen The second app will appear side by side with the orignal app Open the first app you want to use that will eventually end up in a floating box over the other app Tap on the multitasking button (three grey dots) at the top of the screen Tap the Slide Over button on the right of the three options Choose another app from your Home Screen The second app will take over the screen with the original app appearing in a smaller box on top...

Our quick take Huawei Mate 40 Pro initial Striking looks ‘Space Ring’ camera design 162.9 x 75.5 x 9.1 mm Weighs 212 grams Eye-catching Mystic Silver All screen wonder? 6.76-inch flexible OLED panel 1344 x 2772 resolution Waterfall display design Dual hole-punch cutout Power and speed Kirin 9000 chipset - 5G and 5nm process 8GB RAM 256GB storage 4400mAh battery 66W fast charging - 50W wireless fast charging Camera powerhouse 50MP RYYB 1/1....

Players are hard at work discovering the outer limits of the PlayStation 5. Games are being played to completion, hardware limits are being tested, and DualSense controller memes are running rampant. Of course, not everyone has gotten to enjoy the PS5’s triumphs and problems yet. The console is notoriously tricky to get even now. Pre-orders were a sloppy mess back when they went live, and limited supply has not helped matters....

Warning: contains spoilers for Inside No. 9 Series 7 Episode 5 Out in the world of TV and movie production, millions are regularly spent on scripts containing a fraction of the complexity, ambition or potential in ‘A Random Act of Kindness’. Inside No. 9’s first sci-fi story was an imaginative feat frustratingly limited inside a BBC comedy budget. Given the right backing, this desperately sad tale of a bereaved son’s guilt driving him to invent time travel and sacrifice his life to repair his relationship with his mother would make an excellent feature film....

This animated series, adapted from Robert Kirkman’s comic of the same name, opts to not only include a post-credit scene at the end of its first episode…it includes damn near a whole new post-credit episode! “It’s About Time” concludes with Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) suiting up and announcing his new “Invincible” monniker to some villains, sending the show to its end credits around the 37-minute mark. But there still remains a staggering 10 minutes to the episode’s run time....

Somehow, Rupert Mannion returned. If that was your initial thought upon seeing the first official image from Ted Lasso season 3, you’re not alone. The press photo for Apple TV+‘s sports comedy hit sees three major characters in very pop culturally provocative positions. A fatherly figure (Jason Sudeikis’s Ted Lasso) looks down upon his metaphorical son (Nick Mohammed’s Nathan Shelley) who finds himself on the other end of a conflict much older than them both, all the while the author of all this familial misery (Anthony Head’s Rupert Mannion) looms in the background shadows, darkly content at the discord he’s caused....

HeroQuest is coming back! Cue the trumpets! Except there’s something malevolent in the magic being used to revive this tabletop classic… For those unfamiliar with HeroQuest, it’s a board game that was popular through the late ’80s and early ’90s. Released originally in the UK under a partnership between Milton Bradley and Games Workshop, it introduced a secret world of fantasy roleplay and wargaming to kids the world over. This was not a niche product in the way old-school D&D was, it was a mainstream product appearing in toy shops and on TV....