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In The Velvet Underground, director Todd Haynes expertly captures the outsider quality of the titular band. While much of the youth of the Aquarius age wanted to let the sunshine in, the band preferred to close the door, so they’d never have to see the day again. This disconnect is glaringly featured in a segment about the band’s first trip to California. When The Velvet Underground were playing Los Angeles in 1966 as part of Andy Warhol’s art collective, The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, they ran afoul Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention....

Production has revealed that filming of the eleventh and final season of the hit zombie series, The Walking Dead, has begun this week. On February 8, The Walking Dead’s official Twitter account shared a first photo of the set with the caption “the first day of the last season of #TWD.” The image teases a burnt windmill in Alexandria, which looks like it has been left in ruins. Season 10 saw Beta lead a horde of walkers and Whispers to the city....

The Wheel of Time is difficult to define, but in simplified terms the story follows a cycle of history that repeats: one in which a hero called the Dragon is reborn into each turn of the wheel to defeat the Shadow. But the light the Dragon Reborn brings is earned through much hardship, and the only guiding force through this peace by the sword are the Aes Sedai, the women who harness elemental forces and use their magic to influence the pattern of the prophecy as it unfolds....

The five magical signs that players can take advantage of in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt each act as a tool for specified jobs. There is no single best sign, as each has its positive and negative aspects. Some are better for offense, like fierce Igni and unrelentingly forceful Aard, yet there are times when a strong defense is the best offense. For such situations, Quen is the sign that witchers should use....

Like failure, misconceptions and criticisms are inevitable. You can’t create a film, a TV series, or a groundbreaking video game without some backlash or misunderstandings. If you try to create a game that will not only entertain audiences but also tries to teach them lessons about the real world, you have to accept the fact that not everyone is going to understand or agree with your intentions. And, if you end up turning that video game into a top selling series with numerous sequels, you have to be prepared to get a few aspects of your own lore and game wrong eventually....

Genshin Impact and Persona 5 Royal are two of the most stylish games of the year, albeit it for very different reasons. While Genshin Impact boasts a gorgeous aesthetic not unlike that of Princess Mononoke, Royal teems with tasteful artistic sketches that are imposed over even its most rudimentary sequences. An excellent example of this is its All Out Attack screen, which a fan recently reworked into a Genshin Impact clip....

In less than two months two new pieces of hardware will enter the gaming space ushering in a new generation after seven years with the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. As it is with any generation change, developers are utilizing both existing player bases and those upgrading to spread as far across the market. Yet, for one developer its annual simulation franchise will be skipping out on a set of consoles...

This is the portable N64 that Nintendo should really start making now so that it’s here in time for the holidays. The Switch has proven that portable consoles are not dead. In fact, they’re better than ever. Now you can connect your console to your TV or take it with you wherever you want to go. This portable N64 doesn’t quite have the Switch’s docking capabilities, but who cares? It’s a portable N64!...

Digital Foundry released a video going into some serious detail about why Unreal Engine 5 is going to be such a big deal in the future of game design. The video does a deep-dive into Epic Games’ impressive UE5 tech demo running on the PS5, released last week. UE5 features Lumen, a system that dynamically generates realtime global illumination and promises a drastically-enhanced potential for more natural indirect lighting and specular reflections....

Following the leak of source code for both Team Fortress 2 and CS:GO last week to the public domain, there was major concern that players might see malware in the present version of the game. Valve has repeated that they have reviewed the leaked code from 2017 and state that there is no reason to be alarmed or to avoid current builds, and that this code had already been leaked once in 2018....

WandaVision may be the MCU show on everyone’s mind right now, but that doesn’t make next year’s Thor: Love and Thunder any less anticipated. After Taika Waititi breathed new life into the Thor franchise with Thor: Ragnarok, Marvel wisely chose to bring the director back for another sequel, one that appears to be leaning in to the quirky, cosmic, space opera vibe that brought Ragnarok so much success. Just how cosmic are we talking?...

Respawn Entertainment’s debut game and high profile Microsoft exclusive Titanfall had a very busy weekend. After inviting media to test the game the week before last and opening up the beta to select players last week, Respawn and publisher Electronic Arts opened the mech-heavy first-person shooter to all Xbox One players over the weekend to try. Unfortunately, while the gameplay is being applauded, the Origin systems (on PC) and Microsoft servers (for Xbox One) weren’t ready for the load and server errors, party systems and voice chats were screwy for many players over the weekend....

This past week, news broke that the 2020 Summer Olympics, set to be held in Tokyo, Japan, later this year, would be postponed to sometime in 2021 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the first Olympic event in history to ever be postponed, people have raised numerous questions and concerns about what this means for the future. However, there’s one pressing issue that, in the days since the announcement, no one has officially addressed: What’s gonna happen to Mario and Sonic?...

2021 is proving to be a particularly nostalgic year for long-time Tomb Raider fans, being the series’ 25th anniversary year. Fans all over the world are celebrating Lara Croft and her long and incredibly successful career thus far as the iconic Raider of Tombs, and are revelling in the sweet memories associated with it. One thing you may have no memory of, however, are the four obscure Game Boy games Lara Croft has under her belt....

The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series will be coming back in a big way in a few months’ time with the newly-announced remaster collection Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2, and in the wake of the its announcement, developer Vicarious Visions has given fans an idea of what kind of content to expect at launch, and later on. From the look of it, fans won’t be wanting for content when the games launch in September....

When thinking of great skate locations in video games, players may think of School II or Downtown from the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series, or even The University from Skate 3. Most are unlikely to think of the Isle of Delfino, home to Super Mario Sunshine, but thanks to the efforts of a dedicated fan, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 players can see just how much fun riding around Delfino Plaza would likely be....

What does animation software do for you? YouTube Video Training Video Marketing Video Advertising Video Business Video Education Video 10 best animation software online for free 1. Doratoon Props and Templates AI Drawing and Dubbing Path Animation Animated Cartoons 2. Biteable In the in-built library of Biteable, you can explore tons of animation styles and effects that you can apply to your work project for innovation and creativity. For every single animated video, you can add high-quality soundtracks from the stock library of this tool to engage the viewers....

Top 15 Games That Need Sequels Throughout the years, gamers have been blessed with a myriad of classic games. Some have since gone on to become hit franchises that crank out a new installment every single year, while others saw brief success with one iteration and were then never seen or heard of again. There are plenty of excellent games that were never given a second chance, and that’s why myself and Game Rant’s own Kyle Matthews have teamed up to summarize which games we feel are in need of a follow-up....

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the hot tub streamers on Twitch, and had a suggestion to offer: everyone needed to shut up. It seems that my advice went unheeded, as since then there have been multiple flareups and controversies, culminating in Twitch creating a specific Hot Tub channel. With that, the whole affair should be over, and maybe we can finally shut up about it - once we do that, we can start to talk about it too....

In a brand new gameplay trailer for the upcoming Resident Evil spin-off Umbrella Corps, Capcom details a new mode for the game called Multi-Mission Mode. Ever since its announcement, Resident Evil shooter spin-off Umbrella Corps has been criticized by many that would rather have a more traditional Resident Evil experience. Regardless, Capcom is looking to go all-out with the game, making sure it is as fully-featured as possible come its launch in a couple of months, with the latest game mode added to the suite of options in Umbrella Corps called Multi-Mission Mode....