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Some people are holding out hope that a Nintendo Switch Pro will be announced after Sony and Microsoft’s next-gen console have released. To that end, one YouTuber has given us a glimpse of what The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 (tentative title) would look like running on a 4K console… and that is enough tinder for a fan frenzy. YouTuber SnazzyAl has a penchant for enhancing various movie, television and video game trailers to 4K standard....

I’ve said this before, but one of my all-time favourite mini stories in the entire Zelda series happens in Minish Cap. There’s this little shoe shop in Hyrule Town owned by a narcoleptic cobbler named Rem, and somehow it manages to thrive despite the fact that its sole employee is asleep almost exactly 100% of the time. You eventually find out that the Picori - or Minish, as the Hylians call them - have been sneaking in at night to finish Rem’s work for him (original story, that)....

For those old enough to remember a time before The Walking Dead premiered on AMC, it’s strange to admit we’ve reached a zombie saturation point. Believe it or not, there was a moment where you were not inundated with zombie movies, zombie TV shows, zombie video games, and zombie memes. Rather the undead were a cult novelty that allowed indie filmmakers to speak truth to power… via allegories involving lots of brain-munching and disembowelment....

What Does Quantum Volume Mean? Quantum volume is a term coined by tech leader IBM in pursuing measurements for how powerful a quantum computer is. Quantum volume can help to determine the uses and applications of quantum computing systems in modern industries. Techopedia Explains Quantum Volume IBM’s quantum volume measurements take into account things like gate and measurement errors as well as device crosstalk capability. The connectivity of devices may also be a factor, as may compiler efficiency and circuit design....

What Does Rubber Duck Debugging Mean? In IT, the slang term “rubber duck debugging” has been created to describe an often effective yet simple strategy for debugging code. In rubber duck debugging, the programmer sits a small rubber duck (or other inanimate object) near them on a desk or near a computer, and explains the code to the duck line by line. Techopedia Explains Rubber Duck Debugging The idea behind rubber duck debugging is simple – by explaining the process out loud, the programmer is able to better understand the nature of the code, the purpose of individual lines or modules, and what code is intended to do, in contrast to what it actually does....

What Does Shaking My Head (SMH) Mean? Shaking my head, commonly abbreviated as SMH, is a type of chat and Internet slang for user expression. It often effectively signals someone’s disappointment or disgust for something, or other similar negative emotional reactions. Techopedia Explains Shaking My Head (SMH) Like other typical acronyms, SMH developed from user patterns where the keyboards, touch screens and interfaces of the devices led people to try to type things more quickly and take a lot of lexical shortcuts....

The Silent Hill series is rife with deeper meanings and symbolism. In fact, many of the monsters and the world itself are representations of the main character’s psyche, morphing to reflect their deeper insecurities, fears, and dark secrets. Because of this, players can gain deeper insight into the world of Silent Hill by understanding the mind of the main character. Once their inner demons are understood the nature of the town itself becomes understood as well....

WandaVision’s use of sitcom tropes made it stand out from the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The show was praised for how well it recreated the feeling of different decades of television. Up until episode eight, the amount of time and money put into recreating the feeling of classic shows felt fun but fairly arbitrary. By this point in the series, it seems the show is done with these masterful homages....

This What We Do in The Shadows review contains spoilers. What We Do in the Shadows Season 4 Episode 8 After straying from the core mockumentary premise of the series, What We Do in the Shadows’ season 4 episode 8, “Go Flip Yourself,” doubles down on it as the worlds of vampire reality TV and human home improvement collide. This union has been a long time coming, as Laszlo (Matt Berry) is quite the fan of flipping shows, and the titular fixer-upper program is his long-time obsession....

Stage three of the massive Pokemon GO Throwback 2020 Challenge is here, which means trainers are racing through a long list of Hoenn-related tasks to complete the timed Special Research this week. The ongoing event offers some massive rewards, especially for players who have been keeping up and plan to complete the parts of the connecting Special Research events. This time around, the Hoenn Pokemon GO Throwback Challenge tasks are providing some tough challenges for players....

Rumors have been flying of a live-action Legend of Zelda series incoming from Netflix, perhaps in response to their success with other game series such as Castlevania and The Witcher. This begs many questions, first and foremost being: who would play Tingle? But after that, it’s certainly worth wondering who could play the part of the titular leading lady in Princess Zelda. While it would be a refreshing change of pace to see a woman play the role of Link for a change (Link is just a Nintendo Dr....

Earlier this month, The Elder Scrolls Online developer ZeniMax Online Studios broke the news that the console versions of their recently released MMO would not be following right behind their PC brethren. Rather, ZeniMax figured that the PS4 and Xbox One versions of Elder Scrolls Online were at least 6 months away…if not more. The announcement of The Elder Scrolls Online’s delay brought with it a ton of disappointment, as most gamers were looking forward to seeing how the MMO would port to the console....

Have you ever found yourself standing in a crowd but feeling lonely? The world around you buzzes with purpose, but you don’t know which direction you’re going in. Sometimes life just feels like a series of tasks which you have to complete before you die. Wait… did I mention I was talking about open world video games? I probably should have led with that. But yes, this has been a recurring feeling for me when it comes to large open worlds in video games....

Few movies in recent memory have had such a difficult time releasing as The New Mutants. Part of Fox’s defunct X-Men film franchise, The New Mutants was originally scheduled to release in 2018. It was then delayed, and then delayed again after Disney purchased Fox. It seemed as though Disney was finally going to release The New Mutants this past April, but the coronavirus pandemic forced the company to change course, delaying the movie for yet another time....

CD Projekt Red has become a prominent developer primarily through its releases of The Witcher series. The most recent release from the developer, The Witcher 3, has had an incredible shelf-life and sold very well and the upcoming releases from the company are highly anticipated as a result. With that said the company only utilises two IPs, The Witcher and the yet to be released Cyberpunk 2077 so it is somewhat of a surprise to see the latest valuation of the Poland-based video-game company....

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a massive game. Every single Witcher installment has been steeped in lore from the source novels by Andrzej Sapkowski, as well as being larger and more ambitious than the last. This final round (for the time being, anyway) presents players with a massive open world with its own problems, opportunities, and dangers going far beyond the main quest line of the game itself. Hundreds of hours can be spent just uncovering these secrets, a staple of other open-world games like Fallout, GTA, Far Cry, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Horizon Zero Dawn....

What a long road it’s been for Wonder Woman 1984. Ever since the film got its initially planned release date over a year ago, Patty Jenkins’ latest work has been surrounded by uncertainty, culminating in what is now a highly anticipated simultaneous Christmas Day release on HBO Max and local cinemas in the United States. Wonder Woman 1984 has been seen as one of the biggest blockbusters for 2020 since the start of the year, alongside the likes of No Time to Die, Black Widow, Top Gun, and Ghostbusters: Afterlife; all of which were set to spark the box office after the disappointing performance of early big-budget features such as Birds of Prey and Dolittle, in the middle of a truly game-changing year for the movie industry....

There’s a lot to chew on in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, especially with the new Covenants. When it comes to the Venthyr Covenant, one of the best for Shaman healers, players must hunt down souls. This isn’t too surprising considering what the Venthyr of Revendreth are all about: hunting down sinful souls. Revendreth is the destination for those who were overly prideful and sinful in life, in whatever quality of sin is most appropriate....

World of Warcraft Shadowlands is due to release sometime before the end of 2020, but some players have already been lucky enough to gain beta access to the upcoming expansion. Blizzard is still doing a lot of balance testing and making weekly tweaks to the testing environment, but the community has already been able to learn a lot about Shadowlands thanks to the beta (including some spoilers about the death of an important character)....

Even the most forgiving WWE fan will admit that WWE 2K20 was an unmitigated disaster. Being the first to be developed entirely by Visual Concepts, which took over from experienced wrestling game studio Yuke’s, it was a bug-laden mess with some superstar character models that looked more melted waxworks than their real-world equivalents. It caused both publisher 2K Games and the developer itself to take stock, postpone the annual series refresh and effectively start again....