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The horror genre has always been good to Kevin Bacon, starting with his breakout role–and shockingly memorable death scene–in 1980’s classic Friday the 13th. That appearance made him a permanent part of one of horror’s most legendary franchises while roles in other films like Tremors (which launched a genre brand of its own), Flatliners, Hollow Man and even genre-adjacent offerings such as TV’s The Following have made him a steady presence in the field....

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is finally letting some information about its season pass and upcoming DLC see the light of day, but there are still many questions about how certain things will work. One curious thing about the promotional material shown thus far is the images of Super Saiyan God Goku fighting Raditz and Super Saiyan God Vegeta fighting Dodoria. While this would seem to confirm that the two character can be used in conjunction with the time machine, the fact that the God forms can be unlocked before completing the story brings that into question again....

Our quick take Withings Aura Total Sleep System - 4.0 / 5 Withings Aura review: Smart, not subtle design Withings Aura review: Fiddly setup, but worth it Withings Aura features: More than just sleep-tracking Withings Aura review: Spotify integration Withings Aura review: App needs to be in range To recap The Aura has its flaws and like any device, it isn’t perfect, but it does a very good job at what it does do....

Fans of Blizzard’s Warcraft series of strategy games were finally able to become a more direct part of the story when World of Warcraft came out ages ago. Since then it has seen eight expansions, including the hotly anticipated Shadowlands. In turn, players have seen fan-favorite characters return and fall, explored new regions, and even traveled back in time. Now, in Shadowlands, Sylvanas Windrunner destroys the Lich King’s Helm of Domination, destroying the barrier between Azeroth and the Shadowlands, the lore’s version of the afterlife....

Ladies and gentleman, best batten down the hatches because pretty soon all hell is going to break loose, as the first major leak of the next console generation has taken place. The leak comes by way of an Assembler Gamers forum member, who claims to have in his possession a genuine Xbox 720 dev kit. The device itself is pretty innocuous, as indicated by the images above, but it’s the hardware inside that gamers are really curious about, and that’s what we have for you....

Everything’s coming up roses for the Xbox Game Pass right now. Cloud gaming is a relatively new frontier in the overarching history of the industry, but Microsoft is working very hard to make its Game Pass a success. So far, it looks like it’s working. The Xbox Game Pass is still ramping up and subscribers, and it’s ramping up in content too. Even though games regularly come and go, Xbox has made some deals and acquisitions that seriously increase the value of the pass....

As Fortnite continues to surpass expectations and even challenge the once thought to be untouchable PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, developers and fans have started to rally around the idea of crossplay more and more. Epic has a history of tinkering with the idea of linking players between different platforms and even had to remove the feature when players discovered it after the game launched last year. With more and more players continuing to join, Microsoft appears to be once again pushing for crossplay compatibility....

More and more rumors continue to swirl about Xbox’s E3 2019 plans, with a new rumor claiming that Xbox will announce 3 new games. Details regarding those 3 new Xbox IP remain mysterious, however. Xbox has plenty of blockbuster franchises to talk about in addition to new IP at E3 2019. Another rumor says that Xbox will be sharing a lot of information about Halo: Infinite during E3, including having the game playable....

As Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo continue to fight for the position of bestselling console with their respective products, a comment from the executive vice president of gaming at Microsoft puts the battle in a different perspective. Phil Spencer, head of the Xbox brand, recently went on record to say that Microsoft isn’t worried about outselling Sony or Nintendo in the console arena. The Microsoft exec dropped this observation during an interview with screenwriter Gary Whitta in the popular online talk show Animal Talking, where Whitta regularly talks to big names in the video games industry on a faux set in Animal Crossing: New Horizons....

With the rise of digital purchases this past generation, both Xbox and PlayStation made game sharing easy on the Xbox One and PS4, respectively. For the uninitiated, game sharing is when players allow their accounts to be tied to someone else’s system and vice versa. So for example, this means a pair of friends can purchase one copy of a digital game and both of them will have complete and uninterrupted access to it (assuming they can maintain an internet connection)....

With all the changes in the world as of late, gaming has become an incredibly important part of people’s lives, and the next generation consoles releasing in November will only amplify that. Unfortunately, a lot of gamers are struggling financially as well due to current events, but it seems Microsoft has a solution for fans wanting the Xbox Series X. Now that the Xbox Series X finally has an official release date and price, prospective buyers have started checking their pockets to see if they’ll actually be able to afford buying one....

Back in December, Sega released a brand new title, Judgment (formerly titled Judge Eyes) in Japan - a spin-off of its popular Yakuza series - that sees players take control of a private detective as he gets into brawls throughout the city of Kamurocho while trying to solve a serial murder case. The title has been doing well commercially since then, and many Western fans have been eager for its scheduled Summer 2019 release....

Zack Snyder’s Justice League is headed to HBO Max on March 18 of this year, and in anticipation, the brand new trailer has just debuted with further looks at Darkseid, Joker, Steppenwolf, and all of the heroes. “The bells been rung,” Lex Luthor opens the trailer while Superman, in his red and blue costume, is ripped apart, right before the next cut that shows a city on the brink. The trailer emphasizes the scale, with Themyscira falling apart as Luthor states, “God is dead....

What Does Nastygram Mean? A “nastygram” is an email or other communication that is hostile, threatening or malicious. This term can be applied to any medium of communication, but in the digital era, it is commonly applied to formats like email, chatting or mobile SMS texting. Techopedia Explains Nastygram The term “nastygram” simply refers to something that is written with a hostile intent. Nastygrams are often vulgar and demeaning to the recipient....

What Does Bitcoin Mining Mean? Bitcoin mining is the process of creating, or rather discovering, bitcoin currency. Unlike real-world money that is printed when more is needed, bitcoin cannot simply be willed into existence, but has to be mined through mathematical processes. Bitcoin maintains a public ledger that contains past transactions, and mining is the process of adding new transactions to this ledger. Techopedia Explains Bitcoin Mining Bitcoin mining is essentially the acquisition and creation of bitcoins as a way to introduce more coins into the system, as rewards for doing computational work....

What Does Genomic Data Mean? Genomic data refers to the genome and DNA data of an organism. They are used in bioinformatics for collecting, storing and processing the genomes of living things. Genomic data generally require a large amount of storage and purpose-built software to analyze. Techopedia Explains Genomic Data Genomic data are primarily used in big data processing and analysis techniques. Such data are gathered by a bioinformatics system or a genomic data processing software....

What Does JobTracker Mean? JobTracker is a daemon which runs on Apache Hadoop’s MapReduce engine. JobTracker is an essential service which farms out all MapReduce tasks to the different nodes in the cluster, ideally to those nodes which already contain the data, or at the very least are located in the same rack as nodes containing the data. Techopedia Explains JobTracker JobTracker is the service within Hadoop that is responsible for taking client requests....

What Does Reinforcement Learning (RL) Mean? Reinforcement learning, in the context of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), is a type of dynamic programming that trains algorithms using a system of reward and punishment. Techopedia Explains Reinforcement Learning (RL) Reinforcement learning is an approach to machine learning that is inspired by behaviorist psychology. It is similar to how a child learns to perform a new task. Reinforcement learning contrasts with other machine learning approaches in that the algorithm is not explicitly told how to perform a task, but works through the problem on its own....

What Does Server Down Saturday Mean? “Server down Saturday,” a phrase popularized by the HBO TV series “Silicon Valley,” refers to a time when technology is turned off and its users go out and interact with the physical world. The implication with this term is that users typically work on technology every day, instead of interacting with the physical world, and the server down Saturday is a kind of special event....

Several weeks ago, Warner Bros. Interactive surprised the gaming community when it announced Hogwarts Legacy, which is the long-rumored RPG game set in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Given that the game was just announced, there are still tons of information that players know nothing about, but based on what was shown in the debut trailer, it appears that Hogwarts Legacy is shaping to be the dream game of Harry Potter fans....