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Twenty years ago, gamers around the world joyfully welcomed a cybernetically enhanced super-soldier named Master Chief into their pantheon. Halo: Combat Evolved was Microsoft’s killer app for the original Xbox and established one of the most successful media franchises of all time. No surprise, within a few years, the Halo property was being optioned to movie studios for a big-screen production. To some surprise, what ended up happening was a corporate boondoggle....

Hooray! Taskmaster is returning to Channel 4 for its fourteenth series on Thursday 29th September at 9pm. There’s no denying the previous thirteen series have provided some moments of pure glory: Richard Osman fiendishly finding a loophole to the gruelling ‘Place These Yoga Balls On The Mat On Top Of That Hill’ task. Kerry Godliman’s genius quick change. When Mawaan Rizwan made a giant cow disappear. But if there’s one thing the UK loves more than queuing, it’s an underdog....

It’s impressive how much people love Yuffie Kisaragi, the Final Fantasy 7 series’ spunky (and sneaky) thief from Wutai, given she was only an optional party member in the original. As might be expected, then, many people would like to try the Yuffie-focused DLC episode coming to the remake later this year. Yet, after the DLC announcement aired, many PS4 owners wondered whether they would be able to play the DLC without upgrading to the PS5 version of Final Fantasy 7 Remake....

For a few years, peripheral-based music games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band were inescapable. Unfortunately for fans of the genre, these franchises were worn out quickly with a rash of releases over a very short span of time, flooding the market and burning out relatively quickly. However, recent developments would seem to suggest that developer Harmonix might be about to get the band back together. Over the course of the last couple of months, we’ve seen Harmonix poll fans of the series on what sort of follow-up they would like to see and only just recently released suggestive DLC for Rock Band 3 after a two-year hiatus....

World of Warcraft has been a genuine gaming phenomenon for years now. This is a game so big that its early days have been packaged as a separate game: World of Warcraft: Classic. With a new expansion on the horizon, players are still wrapping up their last tasks before Shadowlands drops. It seems there is no end in sight when it comes to WoW. Of course, that’s just in the regular World of Warcraft....

Bray Wyatt has been having a lot of fun playing The Fiend on WWE TV for the last year, but now he wants to expand his portfolio with the help of Netflix. Excitement for the TV adaptation of The Witcher was high from day one. (To be honest, even before day one.) As soon as rumors started to circulate that Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri might be brought to life by actors rather than just video game characters, anyone who had played the games waited with bated breath to see what those in charge of the project could do with the game....

Xbox is back with another wave of games to be added to the Xbox Game Pass library, filling out the second half of July 2019. Eight games were added to Xbox Game Pass in the first two weeks of July, and six more games are now planned to be added between July 17 and 25. Two Xbox One-only titles are the highlights of the Game Pass additions, with both Resident Evil 4 and Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain becoming available soon....

Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass continues to grow as the company adds even more iconic titles to the service. In the past months, there have been tons of rumors about certain games coming to the service, and a handful of them, such as Fallout 4 and Outriders, has been confirmed by their respective developers. On the other hand, some games were also rumored to come to the Xbox Game Pass, such as Fall Guys....

Just about the only thing gamers can do right now as they count down the days until the release of the Xbox Series X and Series S consoles is figure out how they are going to set up their gaming rigs. With the intention of making it easy for gamers to figure out where they are going to set up their brand new console, Xbox is letting fans print out their own version of its 8th-gen consoles for free....

Ever since its implementation during the early years of the Xbox One, Microsoft has made a major effort to turn its backward compatibility features into the definitive way to play older Xbox titles. Today, the company has strived to build upon that sentiment, announcing that a host of games will benefit from enhanced frame rates when played on the Xbox Series X and S. Revealed via Xbox Wire, the company has designed a new feature known as FPS Boost, which will be accessible through select games when they’re played on the next-generation consoles....

With the release of the Xbox Series X just a little over a month away, many gaming enthusiasts frok around the world have begun to pre-order the next-gen console. Though, Xbox fans in Turkey are having a slight problem compared to other countries. The Xbox Series X costs about four times as much in Turkey than it is nearly anywhere else in the world. It took a while before the official price and release date of the Xbox Series X was unveiled....

Our quick take Xbox Wireless Headset - 4.5 / 5 Design Ear-cups: Over-ear design with polyurethane leather and foam cushioning Headband: Inner steel metal band with foam cushioning Boom-style microphone Weight: 312g Best gaming headsets: The best wired, wireless and surround sound headsets around Features Windows Sonic, Dolby Atmos, DTS Headphone:X supported Up to 15 hours playback, with fast charge USB-C charging Bluetooth 4.2 Dolby Atmos for gaming: What is it and which games support it?...

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has had its fair share of glitches. While some have been to the detriment of players, this terraforming glitch is something that is getting island designers really excited. After completing all of the major building in New Horizons, players are given a NookPhone upgrade that allows them to plaster patterns on the ground and create new cliff faces and water features. These new building features allow players to essentially redo huge swaths of their islands, expanding the river ways and creating waterfalls, even raising up sections of the island....

All Yu-Gi-Oh cards are great, but some cards are better than others. Take the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, a single example of which hit $13.4 million USD at a Chinese auction on Monday before court officials stepped in. It’s that this particular Blue-Eyes White Dragon card wasn’t valuable. According to the South China Morning Post, this special limited edition card (of which only 500 were made back in 2019) could fetch anywhere between $31,000 to $46,000 at auction if the card’s authenticity was verified (which it wasn’t)....

In the early days of the DC Cinematic Universe, there was a lot being worked on all at once. Multiple films being shot, details being hashed out on the fly, and lots of grey areas that would be needed in order to tie an entire universe together in real-time. Sometimes that means things get changed, and certain details are left out of films. Zack Snyder recently gave a small peek behind the curtain into one such scenario regarding the Wonder woman photo in his film Batman V....

Zappa is an intimate look into the innovative life and eclectic works of Frank Zappa, the composer. The Beatles, Brian Wilson, and Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd pushed boundaries of what rock could do in the mid-1960s, but Zappa ignored any preconceived compositional restraint. He mixed rock with classical, jazz with chamber, and twelve-tone with Spike Jones. From his 1966 proto-punk, garage band debut, Freak Out, through the immediate experimental turns he took on Lumpy Gravy, We’re Only In it for the Money, and continuing through his career, Zappa’s music sounds unlike any other sonic unit....

If you’ve ever wondered what a combination of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Pokemon Red would look like, this designer has the answer. By dropping Link into a turn-based RPG, we have a clear example of what it would be like if you could choose to flee the enemies of Hyrule. It’s fair to say that Ocarina of Time is often regarded as the best Zelda game - despite harboring one of the world’s hardest puzzles, the Water Temple - but the 1992 SNES title A Link to the Past is also held in high esteem....

What Does Apache Mesos Mean? Developed at the University of California, Berkley, Apache Mesos is an open-source cluster manager. It aims to provide efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed frameworks or applications. In other words, it helps in resource sharing in a fine-grained manner, thus improving cluster utilization. Apache Mesos is considered the foundation for a large number of distributed systems. Techopedia Explains Apache Mesos Apache Mesos has been built with the same principles as the Linux Kernel....

What Does Baklava Code Mean? Baklava code is an IT term for code that is too complex, specifically, a code base that has too many layers of abstraction or architectural layers. Programmers talk about this and other problems with code in evaluating how best to develop software products, and what pitfalls to stay away from when writing code. Techopedia Explains Baklava Code Baklava code can be contrasted with other key terms in IT....

WhatsApp tips and tricks How does Signal work? What features does Signal offer? How do you set up Signal? How do you use Signal? 17 tips and tricks to get you started Turn on Disappearing Messages Turn off Read Receipts Turn off Typing Indicators Delete a message Turn on Registration Lock Link/Unlink an iPad or Laptop Turn on Dark Mode Change the chat wallpaper Change the chat colour Change what is shown on a notification Send a view once only picture Remove Signal calls from call lists Stop Signal appearing in the app switcher Turn on Screen Lock Add an emoji reaction to a message Directly reply to a specific message Make a video call with Signal Blur faces or information in images How to use Signal’s face-blurring tool and what’s the point