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With Disney’s announcement of a live action Hercules movie, it is no wonder that many actors would love to play the role of the titular lead. The latest in interesting casting requests comes from Paul Bullion, who is currently slated to be in The Witcher season 2 as Lambert, one of Geralt’s fellow Witchers. Bullion responded to a tweet referencing the upcoming film, pantomiming a phone call with his agent asking whether Hercules’ role has been filled or not....

The next World of Warcraft expansion is just around the corner, and more details are being revealed about what exactly that update will bring to the game. Shadowlands, the bold new adventure that allows players to cross through the veil of death into another world entirely, already boasts many changes to how the base game is played. One big change to character customization that will be implemented in Shadowlands is how character gender can be changed....

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has released, bringing back long-gone characters from across the Warcraft timeline as Azeroth’s adventurers dive into the realms of death itself. Players hoping to see deceased fan-favorites from tragically flawed blood elf prince Kael’thas Sunstrider to conniving Lich and doting cat owner Kel’Thuzad are in luck, but the return of some of Warcraft’s biggest names has far bigger implications than simple cameos or even the story of the new expansion alone....

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Classic was announced at BlizzConline 2021 last week. Veteran and new players alike will be able to journey back through the Dark Portal to face the demonic Burning Legion in the broken world of Outland. Naturally, the transition between World of Warcraft Classic and WoW: The Burning Crusade Classic will be slightly different to the one seen in The Burning Crusade’s 2007 retail release. Here’s a breakdown of how WoW Classic will be transitioning to The Burning Crusade Classic, and the options available to players....

Calin Mateias, a Romanian hacker who was extradited to the United States on November 20 after being indicted for launching DDoS attacks against Blizzard’s World of Warcraft servers, has been sentenced to one year in federal prison. Additionally, Mateias will have to pay $29,987 to Blizzard to compensate it for the time spent countering his DDoS attacks against World of Warcraft. Mateias pleaded guilty to one count of intentional damage to a protected computer back in February....

Last night, WWE Money in the Bank 2017 descended upon St. Louis, MO, bringing all the thrills and spills you might expect from the ladder-centric pay-per-view extravaganza. However, one member of the SmackDown Live roster decided to skip the show’s main event to play some Destiny. Rusev — the hulking former powerlifter known as the Bulgarian Brute — hasn’t wrestled since March 2017 following shoulder surgery. While he has appeared on television intermittently to request a world title shot, the most we’ve heard from him has come via his Twitter account....

Microsoft has a couple of subscription services for owners of the Xbox One, Xbox Series X or Series S. Xbox Live Gold is a monthly membership plan that is required for online play and, while it gives you a couple of free games a month, that’s its primary purpose. On the other hand, Xbox Game Pass is the firm’s service that gives you access to hundreds of games for just one monthly fee....

At the beginning of every console generation, there is always a discussion about how long a publisher will support a system. Companies often make wild claims about how long a generation will be around, both reassuring developers and consumers that they won’t need to upgrade their hardware any time soon. There was talk when the PlayStation 3 came out that it was going to be “future-proof” and would be around for ten years....

With the release of the Xbox Series X coming up next holiday season, fans are anxious to see which games will be released on the next-gen console. Some expected ones, like the new Halo Infinite, have already been revealed. With the release of xCloud, the service that lets gamers play their Xbox games anywhere on their phone, Microsoft has more console options than ever before. And now Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox, has reiterated the company’s stance on exclusive games, announcing that it will be a few years before anything releases solely on the Series X....

You may have heard it by now but Yellowstone is a big deal. We’re not talking about the American national park (though that is also a big deal) but rather the Paramount Network series. This Kevin Costner-starring modern Western was a surprise hit from the beginning but reached new ratings heights in its most recent fourth season. Yellowstone is so successful that the series, created by ascendant writer/director Taylor Sheridan, is set to be spun off several times....

As cute as it looks, Yoshi is a powerful creature and there are few enemies within the Super Mario franchise that it can’t defeat in battle. However, there are some Pokémon that would destroy Yoshi very quickly if it happened to get into combat with them in the Pokémon universe. Although there a lot of Pokémon that would also be weak to Yoshi, there are also those that would have very little trouble taking it out with ease....

Streamer and Fortnite player H1ghSky1 has been banned from Twitch following claims that the gaming prodigy lied about his age. Fortnite is no stranger to controversy. The game is always surrounded by it but continues to thrive. Right now, there is story after story about issues heading into Fortnite’s first ever World Cup, plus the well-documented issues surrounding Turner Tenney’s lawsuit against FaZe clan. One of the issues raised by that lawsuit is the allegation the clan asked its youngest member to lie about his age....

The Legend of Zelda is a long-running series that has tons of recognizable characters. These characters have appeared in many games over the past few decades, making them a part of a countless number of childhoods. One of the best-known characters is Epona — Link’s faithful horse that helps him traverse the vast land of Hyrule. Epona is often pictured alongside Link in popular art from the series and even assists him in Hyrule Warriors as a DLC “weapon....

What Does Hadoop Cluster Mean? A Hadoop cluster is a hardware cluster used to facilitate utilization of open-source Hadoop technology for data handling. The cluster consists of a group of nodes, which are processes running on either a physical or virtual machine. The Hadoop cluster works in coordination to deal with unstructured data and produce data results. Techopedia Explains Hadoop Cluster The Hadoop cluster works on a master/slave model. A node called NameNode is the Hadoop master....

What Does Superconverged Cloud Infrastructure Mean? A superconverged cloud infrastructure, or superconvergence, is an approach to IT resources that integrates network, storage, compute, virtualization and management in a single platform. Driven by the need for increased operational efficiency, superconvergence reduces performance, resource and usage limitations identified in previous IT infrastructure management approaches. It represents a significant step in the evolution of data center technology. Techopedia Explains Superconverged Cloud Infrastructure A superconverged cloud infrastructure is an advanced way of delivering IT resources to data centers....

What Does Apple Watch Mean? An Apple Watch is a smartwatch manufactured by Apple Inc. It is designed to integrate various fitness tracking and health-related apps with the Apple operating system, iOS. Apple Watch is dependent on iPhone 5 and later models (iOS 8.2 and above) for many of its default functions as well as to access Apple products and services through Bluetooth and/or Wi-Fi. Techopedia Explains Apple Watch The Apple Watch was announced in September 2014 and was available to consumers in April 2015....

It won’t be long now until Fortnite fans are able to soak in all that the beginning of Season 5 will have to offer, as Epic Games is currently hard at work behind the scenes in preparation of the big update coming to the multiplayer sandbox survival shooter tomorrow. Naturally, the studio wants players to be as prepared as possible for the content drop, so Epic has decided to detail exactly when everyone should expect to encounter downtime ahead of Season 5’s launch....

The twelve zodiac signs can indicate the outcomes of someone’s life. Using the alignment of constellations and stars, one’s horoscope can say a lot about them. Astrology is complicated, but there might be some merit to the study. You might not be an expert in zodiac signs, so we’ve simplified things a tad bit. The following zodiac signs relate to PlayStation characters. Based on your date of birth, we can tell which PlayStation character you are the most like....

We were stunned by the recent revelation that Wolfenstein developer MachineGames and Bethesda are working on a new Indiana Jones game, but nothing prepared us for the news that Ubisoft is working on a new open-world game set in the Star Wars universe. The details of Ubisoft’s Star Wars game are thin at the moment, but the only detail that really matters right now is the fact that Ubisoft is making a modern Star Wars game in the first place despite the fact that Disney and EA previously struck a deal that seemingly granted the publisher exclusive rights to the franchise....

Well, it’s official. After the past few months have seen most of the news surrounding Blizzard focus on waning subscriptions, a mysterious new project in the works, and the impending release of Diablo 3, we’ve finally got some big news concerning World of Warcraft. At Blizzcon today, the company’s creative director Chris Metzen finally announced that the next expansion for the genre-topping MMO would indeed be World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria....