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Warning: SPOILERS Below for Dark Phoenix: Dark Phoenix seems to be copying a lot of plot points that were also used in X-Men: The Last Stand. Writer-director Simon Kinberg is taking his second stab at adapting the classic X-Men story The Dark Phoenix Saga and he is repeating several key elements that fans saw in Brett Ratner’s The Last Stand, which Kinberg co-wrote. X-Men: The Last Stand mashed together the stories of The Dark Phoenix Saga with Joss Whedon’s Gifted story arc....

Defense Grid 2, a tower-defense game first released in 2014, has now landed on the Nintendo Switch, and the result is of mixed quality. It’s easy to recommend the game at its $19.99 price point - its multiplayer features, numerous levels, and challenge modes ensure plenty of replayability, and its core gameplay is quite enjoyable. Plus, the game also includes the DG2: Aftermath expansion, which was previously exclusive to VR versions of the title....

After her time as a writer on HBO’s The Deuce it seemed inevitable that author Megan Abbott would bring an adaptation of one of her novels to television. As it turns out, USA was the network with the foresight to do just that, turning Abbott’s Dare Me into a smart, dark thriller that’s as enticingly unconventional as it is deliberately paced, making for a must-see series to close out 2019 and continue on into 2020....

Darkroom is a popular photo editing app for iPhone and iPad with a suite of powerful features, such as RAW support and Portrait editing. In an update today, Darkroom has added a pair of new features, but also switched its business model. With today’s update, Darkroom for iPhone and iPad is now a subscription-based application. The key thing to note here, however, is that this only affects new Darkroom users. Anyone who paid for Darkroom in the past will get “access to all premium features today....

The range includes an iPhone studded with 88 diamonds commemorating Beijing’s summer Olympics. 88 signifies double wealth in Chinese superstition, the jewellers explained. That’s why the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics is 8/8/08 at 8pm. The 88 diamonds are set into the steel bezel surrounding the iPhone’s screen. The price is £4148 ($8219). De Vere’s is aiming its exclusively blinged-iPhones at the booming £700 million ($1.4 billion) luxury cellphone market that is driven by the new rich of China, Russia and the Middle East....

Crowdfunding campaigns from sites like Kickstart and Indiegogo are great ways to support cool projects, but it can be difficult sometimes find the gems at times. Rather than make you sift through all of these projects, we’re tracking down the best or most notable crowdfunding projects from around the web and delivering them to you in a simple roundup. If there’s a project that you’ve backed – or even a project that you founded – be sure to leave a link below so it can be considered for the next roundup....

Update: Score this app bundle for $48 when you apply promo code MACSAVE20. This is the second-best price we’ve tracked on this bundle which includes over $1,300 worth of value. We’re kicking off Cyber Monday with a very notable Mac app deal here at 9to5Toys, one that delivers some of the most popular apps out there at new all-time low prices. This year’s Limited Edition Mac App Bundle delivers big names like Parallels Desktop (1-year), TextExpander, Aurora HDR, and more at rock-bottom pricing....

Life has imitated art, with veteran actor and action star Danny Trejo rescuing a baby from a car accident. The actor is one of the busiest in Hollywood, having broken into movies back in the 1980s and working consistently to this day. In recent years, Trejo has appeared in everything from such critically acclaimed dramas as Breaking Bad to popular comic book adaptations as The Flash. On the big screen, in recent years he reprised his Spy Kids role in the cult-favorite standalone Machete film and its sequel, Machete Kills....

From Software last released the third title of Dark Souls, and the trilogy has been a huge success for the franchise. It is one of the most popular games out there, and fans of the trilogy are eagerly for the fourth version of the game to launch. Currently, From Software is working relentlessly to release Elden Ring, and it is coming to the masses soon. But what about the sequel to the Dark Souls trilogy?...

Just when it seemed like Hollywood would never allow a faithful, fourth wall-breaking, R-rated Deadpool movie to get made, Ryan Reynolds got one into production. Reynolds had to persevere with the project for 12 years, working closely with writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, to make sure it was the movie that Deadpool fans wanted. It broke all kinds of box office records upon a release, so a sequel was in order, and Deadpool 2 managed to subvert audiences’ expectations even more than the original....

KGI’s Mingchi Kuo has suggested in a note to investors that the mystery of the apparent delay in the iPhone launching on the world’s largest carrier, China Mobile, may be due to last-minute renegotiations with Apple on volume discounts across the two new models. The implication here appears to be that China Mobile agreed separate volume breaks with Apple for both iPhone 5c and 5s, expecting demand for the 5c to be significantly higher....

When the pandemic originally hit, many people scrambled to set up whatever ad-hoc work-from-home environment they could to get the job done. But as weeks have become months, and months have become years, some folks have decided to stay working at home, some businesses have become more virtual than in-person, and society’s style of working has become more individual and custom than it’s been since we were a mostly agrarian society....

Since the Victorian era, crime fiction has been a popular genre across various mediums including books movies and TV shows. Yet there are some exemplary works that have not only stood out on their own but also influenced the genre itself. One such example is CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, a show that ran for fifteen seasons on CBS with multiple spinoffs in its chronology. Whereas previous crime shows focused on detectives and attorneys, this one was about the specialists who provided physical evidence of crimes....

Cyberpunk 2077’s first-person focus is the right choice for CD Projekt Red’s upcoming open-world RPG title, according to level designer Max Pears. Cyberpunk 2077 made headlines recently by announcing that almost all of the game would be locked into first-person view, including most of the game’s cutscenes. It’s a dramatic departure for a studio that made its name on The Witcher series, a critically-acclaimed trilogy of video games that all featured third-person cutscenes where the player could see what their version of Geralt looked like and how he responded to certain cues....

UPDATE: A representative for Tuque Games confirmed with Screen Rant that Dark Alliance will now definitely support drop-in and local co-op play. The original article follows. Now that the world has seen Dark Alliance, the spiritual successor to Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance 1 & 2, developer Tuque Games has also revealed that the game wants to resurrect couch co-op as a modern gaming design choice. Dark Alliance will follow the adventures of Drizzt Do’Urden, the drow created and made famous by author R....

The popular Darkroom photo editing app for iPhone and iPad has been updated this weekend with major under-the-hood performance improvements. This includes a rebuilt depth engine, RAW editing improvements, and much more. The Darkroom developers say that the rendering engine has been rebuilt to “dramatically improve the performance, stability, and reliability” of photo editing in the app. The year-long process impacted 50% of the Darkroom code, bringing improvements to performance throughout many features in the app....

The Epic Games versus Apple dispute is not the David versus Goliath battle the game developer wants people to believe, said the Cupertino company: It is instead a battle of two Goliaths. Apple asked an Australian court to rule against a trial in the country, arguing that Epic agreed to terms that clearly state that any legal challenges need to be made in California … Background Back in August of last year, Epic Games installed its own in-app purchase system which bypassed the App Store, meaning Apple didn’t receive its 30% cut....

Behind-closed-doors Death Stranding trailer footage shown at Gamescom 2019 has been leaked, and it reveals details about the game’s story that previously had the gaming community scratching its head. The previous, publicly released Death Stranding Gamescom footage, meanwhile, raised more questions than answers. Since the game’s reveal, details about what exactly Death Stranding is about have been scarce. It didn’t help when creator Hideo Kojima gave fans a strange definition of Death Stranding, categorizing it under an entirely unique genre he called “action game/strand game(social strand system)....

Hideo Kojima has revealed that Kojima Productions’ upcoming PS4 exclusive Death Stranding will have a Very Easy Mode for “movie fans.” Death Stranding is a very different game when compared to Kojima’s other work, the most notable of which is the Metal Gear Solid series - a more hardcore stealth-action series with sprinkles of political drama and satire found throughout. Death Stranding is described by Kojima himself as an entirely new genre in video games that he calls “action game/strand game....

With the latest update, Chrome 77 has gotten a lot of features and enhancements that the users were waiting for. Example, there is the new customization and theming option, tab grouping, and previews, simple share between two devices, etc. These features all in all makes the Google Chrome 77, a fully packed web browser. One of the main feature that this new update brought in for the Chrome web browser, is the theming options....