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It’s no secret that Mads Mikkelsen has become great friends with Hideo Kojima as the pair work together on the Metal Gear creator’s next game, Death Stranding. Now, we’ve been given a glimpse into the motion capture process that makes hiring top-tier actors for the forthcoming video game so worthwhile. Earlier this year, Mikkelsen spoke about the importance of trust and imagination in an appearance on Hideo Kojima’s YouTube series. Seeing how Kojima Productions’ motion capture technology works in practice, it’s definitely easy to see why the actor trusts his collaborators for the game....

This The Time Traveler’s Wife review contains spoilers. The Time Traveler’s Wife Episode 5 This week on The Time Traveler’s Wife, Henry and Clare still have complications dealing with friends and family. How do you tell your family you’re dating a man you met when you were six but he’s a younger version of the man you met? How do you become best friends with a guy who you can’t stand but everyone swears you’re besties in the future?...

This article contains spoilers for the Interview with the Vampire season 1 finale and Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles. In the gory aftermath of the Mardi Gras blood feast in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire’s season 1 finale, it is easy to underestimate how much there is to digest. Even if it is easier to keep down than a paralyzing brew of laudanum and arsenic. The journalist Daniel Molloy, played by veteran actor Eric Bogosian, is finding it harder to swallow the realities of things that rise up....

What Does Bit Error Rate (BER) Mean? The bit error rate (BER) of a transmission is the percentage of bits in the transmission that have errors as a result of noise, interference or other issues. The bit error rate can be used to determine the quality of a signal and the relative success of packet delivery. It can be an essential part of examining different types of systems for quality and efficacy....

We realize that some franchises have incredible amounts of staying power, but we did not expect to see this amount of it from Pokémon. As kids, fads, and trends would come and go, such as Beyblades, Thomas the Tank, etc. So, even though we loved Pokémon Red and Blue, we knew it couldn’t last forever. Yet here we are, more than 20 years later, and Pokémon is just as big a part of our lives as it was during the late ’90s, if not bigger....

There is a large portion of the gaming community that takes advantage of in-game horse-naming functions - featured in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Red Dead Redemption 2, to name a few. You can’t, however, name your horse in The Witcher series, because Geralt’s steed is the horse with a name. Aside from the well-known collection of glitch memes attached to the Witcher’s mount, Roach has been Geralt of Rivia’s name for all his steeds....

The Sims 4 has been around for over 7 years now, but still has content planned through 2021. A leak in late February suggested The Sims 4 had a new DLC called “Kits” coming soon, and the revealed images looked pretty convincing. It wasn’t too much later that the developer made an announcement confirming the existence of Kits, but didn’t provide any further information. Instead, the dev told players to look out for more info on March 2....

Like the Kurosawa films that inspired it, Ghost of Tsushima is a game of dramatic extremes. From breathtaking autumn leaves and bamboo groves to razed villages with peasants impaled by Mongol forces, everything is filtered through the narrative and aesthetic equivalent of an HDR lens. That kind of hyper-realism is dominant in game design and storytelling, and it would not be worth mentioning if Ghost of Tsushima did not temper those poles with extremely deft touches of nuance and subtlety....

Netflix has renewed The Umbrella Academy, a superhero show based on comic series of the same name by Gerard Way, for a third season. Series leads Ellen Page and Tom Hopper are among the cast members set to reprise their respective roles as the Hargreeves siblings. The Umbrella Academy premiered on Netflix in February 2019 and returned for its second season in July 2020. According to Neilsen, the second season of The Umbrella Academy ranked as the number one streaming series from August 3 to August 9, besting popular acquired shows including Shameless and Dexter....

This article contains spoilers for The Watcher. Hot off the success of his Jeffrey Dahmer series Dahmer, Ryan Murphy is back with another Netflix show inspired by a true story. This time, though, there’s a bit of a twist. The Watcher, inspired by the true story of the Broaddus family who bought a very expensive house in Westfield, New Jersey and received a series of threatening letters from someone calling themself “The Watcher”, takes a slightly different approach to true crime....

Since it’s a game that serves as a direct follow-up to a lengthy saga of books, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt can be quite an exposition dump. One thing that confounds lots of new players involves all of the plot points carried over from previous games. While The Witcher 3 does its best to explain the context behind the plot and why some characters are more important than others, it can be easy to get lost....

One LEGO fan decides to mix together the building blocks with Naughty Dog’s acclaimed world of The Last of Us, recreating some incredible scenes from the game. The worlds of LEGO and video games have been intertwined for years, and not just because of the various LEGO games that are now available for fans to enjoy. Indeed, many a video game fan has been more than willing to create incredible gaming LEGO builds, including some who have even gone to the lengths of recreating The Legend of Zelda’s Hyrule Castle with the building blocks....

There is not much happening this week in terms of official Blizzard news in the world of Hearthstone, but still plenty to speak of. However, Blizzard did confirm that Seasonal Rewards Chests were bugged at the end of April and did not offer duplicate protection for player collections. This has been corrected going forward, and rewards for the month end of May should see cards awarded properly. For players looking to get the best value of cards or additional dust for future crafting, the 45 pack Year of the Dragon bundle is a great offer that will be leaving after Monday, May 4....

This week’s indie releases feature something for everyone, from survival management and sci-fi thrillers, to puzzle games and bullet hell boss battles. Here are TheGamer’s picks for the indie games that you should check out this week (April 19 - April 25). The Shattering (April 21 - PC) The Shattering - from developer Super Sexy Software - is a story-driven psychological thriller that looks vaguely reminiscent of 2019’s Superliminal, with one major difference: the black and white aesthetic of the dynamic environments....

Romance has never been the strongest element of the MCU’s Thor solo movies—so much so that, when Thor: Ragnarok wrote out Thor’s central love interest, Natalie Portman’s scientist Jane Foster, no one really cared. This is why it’s so damn impressive that Taika Waititi, the director and co-writer of Thor: Love and Thunder, plans to go hard-core romance for the Phase 4 flick. Don’t worry. Waititi knows it’s kind of a wild idea: “What I wanted to do from the beginning was to ask: ‘What are people expecting the least from this franchise?...

Titanfall’s official YouTube channel releases the trailer for the game’s upcoming Live Fire game mode DLC, and Titanfall 2 will soon be getting even more multiplayer depth. Titanfall 2 is 2016’s antithesis to Pokemon GO. The latter showed critics that even a relatively shallow game could go on to obscene financial success, while the former proved that even one of 2016’s best games could flounder on the open market. Titanfall 2 made drastic improvements to its predecessors deep multiplayer, and even added one of 2016’s best single-player campaigns to the mix, but consumer memory ensured that a lot of potential buyers ended up passing on the series that had burned them before....

Tom Cruise made a surprise appearance at San Diego Comic-Con to drop the first trailer for the upcoming Top Gun sequel. It’s been 33 years since Top Gun first arrived in theatres. Originally based on a magazine article about the US Navy’s TOPGUN fighter program, it featured a young Tom Cruise make his way from a standard Navy pilot to a TOPGUN instructor and ace pilot, downing three enemy MiGs in a single sortie....

In celebration of Fallout 4’s release, we reflect on the Fallout series and rank our top 10 favorite weapons from Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. After months of excitement and buzz, Fallout 4 is finally here, and based on the reviews, it looks like fans have a lot to look forward to. One feature in the game many fans are excited about are the unique weapons, which they’ll use to wreak havoc on all manner of enemies in the Boston wasteland....

Treyarch was the studio to introduce Call of Duty fans to the original Nazi Zombies mode, and they’ve had a knack for creating a little slice of horror in every title since then. This trend is set to continue with their next title in the franchise, Black Ops 4, which teased the mode’s return earlier today on Twitter. The Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 tweet shows a terrifying image of a zombie removing a carved mask from its face....

Twitch streamer Kiaraakitty has been banned for the second time in 2021. While the reasoning behind her ban may seem mysterious, videos from Kiaraakitty’s most recent Twitch stream point to a likely cause. Unlike other controversial Twitch streamers such as Alinity and CodeMiko, Kiaraakitty, also known as Kiara, isn’t a gaming streamer. Rather, the Singaporean content creator does what’s known as real-life streaming, often hot tub streaming. Many female streamers have spoken out against these types of sessions, feeling they promote sexism....