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Ever since the first camera was added to a phone, we’ve become obsessed with taking pictures of just about everything that moves and a lot of things that don’t. From selfies to waving a smartphone around at a gig or sporting event, we just can’t get enough of taking pictures in locations and circumstances that we never would if a trip to the developers awaited after. That isn’t necessarily always a good thing, although some of the best comedy posted online can be attributed to those who can’t leave their phone’s camera alone....

What Does Commodity Server Mean? A commodity server, in the context of IT, is a readily available, all-purpose, standardized and highly compatible piece of hardware that can have various kinds of software programs installed on it. It is simply a computer system that has server-side programs installed on it and can carry out related tasks. The hardware used in such servers is readily available and easily replaced. Techopedia Explains Commodity Server Commodity servers, as the name suggests, are servers that are not built for a specialized purpose....

Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic was announced back in March 2020, face masks have become an essential part of everyday life all around the world. But if you’re in the mood for a brand new and stylish face mask that shows off your love for Pokémon, then you have to check out this upcoming deal from The Pokémon Company that can get you a free face mask. The Pokémon Company has just announced a brand new campaign with Pokemon Center Online, which is the official website of Japan’s Pokémon Center....

The original The Sims launch version (released in February 2000) was a phenomenal game, but there was actually a lot of content removed from the retail version. Some of this content was minor; however, some of it would have made the game quite different. This list will include content that was removed from the game’s many expansion packs before their launch, and when this content was later introduced - if applicable....

A couple of days. That’s how long director James Gunn had to wait before Warner Bros. and DC came calling in 2018. Up until that moment, it’d been a pretty turbulent July. The iconoclastic filmmaker who made audiences cry over a talking tree in Guardians of the Galaxy was just fired by Disney—temporarily as it turns out—and his name was being besmirched on social media. Yet less than 72 hours after that dismissal, WB was making him an offer that could change the face of DC superhero movies forever....

The way Fortnite constantly updates its map, weapons, and vehicles is surely revolutionary to online gaming. The Season 9 Fortnite map is almost unrecognizable in comparison to the map gamers fell in love with in earlier seasons. There are still some familiar areas that mostly look the same, such as Junk Junction, Haunted Hills, and Snobby Shores in the northwest corner of the map. There are also areas of the map that have remained the same but have been entirely transformed....

While the endpoint of The Walking Dead’s decade-plus television run has been visible on the far horizon for some time now, its arrival feels a lot closer with the latest reveal, a full look at the show’s final major villain, Pamela Milton. The controlling governor of the post-apocalyptic Midwest-located nation-state known as the Commonwealth, Milton is an intriguing change from the blunt instrument antagonistic tyrants of the show’s past, since, rather than barbed-wire baseball bats or skin masks, her primary weapons are promises and platitudes—in other words she’s a proper politician....

There are no dragons in The Wheel of Time. In fact, most characters in the Robert Jordan novels wouldn’t even be able to tell you what a dragon is. But assuming the mythical creatures went extinct millennia ago provides a sense of the scale for the cyclical history that gives the series its name, and one of the most notable historical figures from the long gone Age of Legends is an ancient hero who named himself the Dragon....

This week in Final Fantasy XIV marked a high point for Balmung as the first North American server to fully rebuild Ishgard, finishing ahead of Gilgamesh, the next closest rival. This is not a world first achievement, as that honor goes to several other servers in Japan, but it is still impressive to see finally complete here. With patch 5.3 delayed but still arriving soon, Shadowbringers will see its main story come to an end in the near future....

Riot Games has been on a roll lately with its new games in beta, but there’s no rest for League of Legends. Patch 10.8 was announced and will see meta shifts with how Junglers operate, new skins, and further penalties for players who look to dodge. To begin, Junglers are seeing changes to items like Hunter’s Machete and Skirmisher’s Blade, among others, require more reserved and passive strategy to farm. This means that ganking will more difficult in the early game....

A new collectible statue depicting The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt protagonist Geralt post-battle is so expensive that fans can opt to buy it using a payment plan. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is absolutely raking it in. Not only is the base game still making big bucks for developer CD Projekt RED over a year after its initial release, but the recently released The Witcher 3 Game of the Year edition is also likely doing wonders for CD Projekt’s bank balance....

The Dark Knight trilogy star Christian Bale is returning to the superhero genre as the primary antagonist to Chris Hemsworth’s Thor. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced the Batman alumn will portray Gorr the God Butcher in director Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder. Introduced in Marvel Comics’ Thor: God of Thunder #2, Gorr was raised on a nameless planet by parents who taught him to revere the gods in order to ensure the safety of his family....

Pro controllers are the single best investment you can make as a console player. Brands like Scuf, Razer, and Evil are in an arms race to deliver a device that offers unparalleled precision, customization, and ergonomics. Thrustmaster’s newest contender is the eSwapX, a modular pro controller that combines the mouse-like buttons of the Razer Wolverine V2 with the mix-and-match parts of the Scuf Vantage 2. In some ways, the eSwapX manages to outdo the competition....

The organizers of E3 announce that this year’s event will be open to the public, with an allocation of 15,000 tickets set to go on sale next Monday. Video game fans know E3 as the biggest event of the year in terms of surprise reveals and sneak previews of upcoming releases. This year, the expo is opening its doors to the public, meaning that anyone can attend — as long as they’re lucky enough to snag one of 15,000 tickets that are being made available next Monday....

Very few actors in the Marvel Cinematic Universe seem to have a true grasp of their future in the franchise – how many interview snippets have we seen where they admit they genuinely have no idea if they’ll return for another Marvel project or not? – but Tom Hiddleston was told that his God of Mischief was going to die at the start of Avengers: Infinity War by the film’s directors well ahead of time....

The professional skateboarder Tony Hawk announces plans to release a documentary on the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater game series, and pursue a new game without Activision. Without a doubt, the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater franchise has not only been one of the longest-running gaming franchises in history, with sequels spanning some of the best video game consoles of all time, but also it has been one of the most influential titles as well, especially considering the fact that the original installment inspired countless gamers to pick up the game as well as a skateboard, which helped to grow the sport into a full-fledged phenomenon in the late ’90s....

During Microsoft’s E3 2012 Press Conference, a brief, essentially nondescript trailer announced the existence of LocoCycle, the next game from Twisted Pixel, developer of such surreal entertainments as Comic Jumper and The Gunstringer. The LocoCycle announcement trailer gave practically nothing away, focusing as it did on an stationary, futuristic motorcycle that brought to mind Tron Legacy or, perhaps, the Extreme-G games (remember those?). LocoCycle is on its way to PAX Prime this weekend, and in advance of that appearance, Twisted Pixel has released two trailers for the game: one focused on gameplay, and one focused on LocoCycle’s voice cast....

Thousands of Twitch users are being transfixed by a decades-old series about painting as Twitch celebrates the launch of its dedicated Creative section. Over the past several days, video game streaming service Twitch has been celebrating the launch of its new creative channel — and the site has called in a bona fide legend to do so. Starting last Wednesday, a channel has been streaming every single episode of The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross....

It used to be a rarity on consoles, but now multiplayer betas are all the rage. It seems every shooter has a multiplayer beta of some sort, with Call of Duty even throwing its hat in the beta ring with the successful Black Ops 3 multiplayer beta that ran a few weeks ago. It’s practically a given now that any major shooter is going to have a multiplayer beta, and that’s true for the upcoming Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End as well....

The Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg officially confirms that he is not playing the lead of Nathan Drake in a movie for Naughty Dog’s Uncharted video games. As of late, the Uncharted movie has encountered several instances of being held up in the production process, with one of them being Sony’s removal of the film from the release schedule. Now it seems as if the movie based on Naughty Dog’s series of action-adventure games is becoming even less likely as making it to theatrical release, as the Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg recently declared that he is no longer attached to star in the franchise’s lead role of Nathan Drake....