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Zynga’s popular match-3 puzzler – Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells – is now available on the Apple App Store and Google Play in South Korea. Its launch follows last year’s announcement that mobile game spending in the region is surging, grossing nearly $1.1 billion during Q1 2020. Puzzles & Spells was one of the better mobile games to launch last year, garnering positive reviews from both critics and consumers. It even managed to bring home a Google Play 2020 Award for Best Casual Game and an Apple App Store Editors’ Choice Award....

Marvel Studios’ Hawkeye series has added The Conjuring star Vera Farmiga to the cast in a key role. The Academy Award-nominated actress joins an ensemble of new additions to the team that includes Fra Fee, Alaqua Cox, Zahn McClarnon, and Better Call Saul’s Tony Dalton. Spearheaded by head writer Jonathan Igla, Hawkeye is set to follow Jeremy Renner’s Clint Barton as he trains Kate Bishop to take over his title while also further exploring the archer’s time as the vigilante Ronin....

This Helstrom review contains no spoilers. The first episode of Hulu’s final Jeph Loeb produced Marvel series (aside from the upcoming animated offering M.O.D.O.K.) Helstrom has everything you’d expect from the kind of straight-to-streaming exorcism movie you stumble across on a boring Sunday afternoon and immediately regret watching. There’s expository newspaper clippings about terrible crimes, fake exorcisms broken down by a cynically droll demonologist, a new fresh out of the church Vatican believer who wants to do good, creepy diary entries that look like they’ve been scrawled by demonic child, and a lot of sepia toned flashbacks....

Hidden secrets in games are quite common in the popular entertainment medium. Easter eggs, deliberate glitches, and other silly oddities have become part and parcel of the video game sphere–giving the game an extra layer of depth that you didn’t know was there. However, there are also those rare titles that feature hidden secrets that punish the player for their actions… Yes, it’s not all humorous references and hidden doorways. No, there are also those games that anticipate wrong-doings by the player, only to teach them a lesson for not playing the game in the way that it was intended to be played....

This His Dark Materials review contains spoilers. His Dark Materials Episode 8 Before anything else, the feet have to be right. Whether you’re performing a dance move or throwing a jab, everything springs from the feet. In this finale, His Dark Materials was able to pull off balletic pirouettes and land every punch, all because, months ago, it put itself in a solid stance by casting the remarkable Dafne Keen. Keen is remarkable....

With just two days to go until the game’s official launch, a pair of creepy new trailers have been released for Hello Neighbor. Both trailers are designed to give horror gaming fans a feel for what Hello Neighbor is all about, with the first trailer offering a general overview of the game. The first new trailer for Hello Neighbor, called the “Pre-Launch Teaser Trailer,” shows potential consumers various snippets of different points in the game....

Announced back in May of this year, Bloober Team’s upcoming horror game The Medium looks to be one of the horror-focused studio’s most terrifying experiences to date. Featuring 4K visuals, eerie monsters, and a soundtrack composed by Akira Yamaoka of Silent Hill fame, the game is set to deliver some chilling scares on the next-generation consoles. Unfortunately, those looking forward to getting their hands on The Medium this December will have to wait a little longer than expected, with Bloober Team revealing the game has received a short delay....

I’ve just spent some time with Maquette, one of the free games from PS Plus this month, and the latest release from publisher Annapurna Interactive. It only took me about an hour before I threw my hands up in the air and announced, “Yep, another goddamn Annapurna masterpiece.” I’m not even a little bit surprised at this point. Annapurna Interactive is a relatively new publisher, yet every single thing it puts its name on is solid gold....

Up until the release of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, the Fire Emblem franchise tended to stick to handheld devices after its famicom days, seldom if ever breaking away from the charming pixel artwork we’ve come to associate with series. The pattern held true until the release of Path of Radiance on the GameCube, and its follow-up game Radiant Dawn on the Wii, before the series retreated back to handheld releases for the DS....

While the Marvel Cinematic Universe has, over the past 13 years, gone from milestone to milestone, churning out billion-dollar babies like Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Captain America: Civil War and the highest grossing movie of all time, Avengers: Endgame, the company’s stablemate under the Disney corporate umbrella — Lucasfilm — has stumbled. Lucasfilm’s most recent theatrical entries in its iconic space opera franchise, Solo: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, were respectively an outright flop and the lowest-grossing entry in the Sequel Trilogy....

The Nintendo Switch is a hybrid handheld/home console, but Nintendo hasn’t made it easy to use wireless headphones with the system. If you’re playing in handheld mode and you have a set of wired headphones or a two-way audio jack, then you can hook those up to the system, but there is a bit more work involved when it comes to wireless headphones. The Switch has Bluetooth technology, but this is saved for the controllers....

The mentality most often found in the mainstream video game space tends to be “out with the old, in with the new” - but in the case of Wolfenstein: The New Order, the developers at MachineGames have decided to honor both. The cinematic, sepia-toned warfare of the new game may share little in common with the original entries in the franchise, but it seems the horrors of World War II were too terrible for B....

Anyone who wishes that Bloodborne was more like Diablo might be in luck. Thanks to a new video that’s making the rounds, there’s proof that Bloodborne can be played with a top-down camera - if the game glitches in just the right way. The video was captured by YouTube user PaiNz, in a video named Grand Theft Bloodborne, honoring the top-down perspective used in GTA 1 and 2 (and revived for the recent handheld title, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars)....

Ever wonder what goes into making a character for a competitive game like VALORANT? One of the devs, Ryan “Morello” Scott, recently shed light on how agents are designed. Morello is the Lead Character Designer and responsible for bringing new agents to VALORANT. He spoke about the journey from concept to the release of a new agent, and all the steps to get there. He also talked about what the team aims to achieve with agents when they’re finally released to the public....

Scott Shannon is the King Kong of rock and roll radio. The new feature-length documentary Worst to First: The True Story of Z100 New York describes how he arrived in New York to save a bottom-place radio station, and turned it into a major media force. “Coming to you live from the top of the Empire State Building,” like every other New York station sharing the city’s antenna, Z100 was one of the eight wonders of the radio world....

September usually means the beginning of the traditional fall TV season. As such, Hulu’s list of new releases for September 2021 contains some impressive TV swings. For starters, all of ABC and Fox’s (both now united under the Disney banner alongside Hulu) fall season offerings will be made available to stream on Hulu the next day. More impressively, however, two FX on Hulu originals make their way to the streaming world this month....

I’ve been sitting at my computer, staring at my keyboard, trying to think of a good idea for an article to write about the games that released this year. And for the life of me, I can’t think of much to say about 202o. Hades is undeniably the game of the year for me by a landslide, but at this point, everyone and their grandma knows about it. Everyone’s been singing its praises in regards to its awesome combat, great story, lovable characters, and gorgeous artwork....

The Grand Theft Auto phenomenon is not something new, in fact, it has been around for over two decades now with the first game released back in 1997. Despite some of the controversial content, the GTA series has gone on to become the most financially successful video game series in history. The is quite evident from the fact that on the first day of GTA V’s release, it managed to bring in a mind boggling $815....

Key new features of iOS and iPadOS 13.4 Mouse and trackpad support in iPadOS Apple trackpad support in iPadOS 13.4: How it works and what’s it like to use iCloud folder sharing Combined app purchases Which iOS devices support iOS 13.4? iPhone XR iPhone XS iPhone XS Max iPhone X iPhone 8 Plus iPhone 8 iPhone 7 iPhone 7 Plus iPhone 6s iPhone 6s Plus iPhone SE iPod touch 7th generation Don’t know what iPhone you have?...

This Bullet Train article contains some spoilers. Bullet Train comes barreling into theaters loaded with a heaping helping of gratuitous violence. This is no surprise from director David Leitch, who began his career as a stuntman, specifically Brad Pitt’s stuntman. Consequently, Leitch is a master at delivering action and ultra-violence on a grand scale. The title reflects this and its setting, with the Shinkansen, a 50+ year old network of high-speed railways, colloquially known as the “bullet train” in Japan....