Be warned, all ye who watch House of the Dragon thanks to your parents’ Max account: A password-sharing crackdown is coming. Warner Bros. Discovery, Max’s parent company, plans to launch the restrictions in late 2024, WBD’s head of global streaming and games, JB Parrette, said at Morgan Stanley’s Technology, Media …
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Throughout the 1970s, the author Frank Herbert saw many producers and directors take stabs at bringing his Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning sci-fi novel Dune to the screen: Roger Corman (Battle Beyond the Stars), Arthur P. Jacobs (Planet of the Apes), Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo), Ridley Scott (Alien). Director David Lynch …
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As music from Universal Music Group artists started to disappear from TikTok recently, a different kind of earworm got stuck in my head. Even though it’s not a song, I sang it in the shower and whispered it in my sleep: “You have been promoted! You are now one of …
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The second part of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune adaptation, efficiently titled Dune: Part Two, contains a single line that is as much about fans of Frank Herbert’s book as it is about its protagonist, Paul Atreides. It’s delivered by Chani, Paul’s concubine in Herbert’s novel and equal/skeptic in Villeneuve’s meticulously crafted …
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Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against Tropic Haze, the makers of the popular Yuzu emulator that the Switch-maker claims is “facilitating piracy at a colossal scale.” The federal lawsuit—filed Monday in the District Court of Rhode Island and first reported by Stephen Totilo—is the company's most expansive and significant argument …
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Let’s get one thing out of the way first: Neither Warner Bros., which produced Wonka, nor the character Willy Wonka are actually affiliated with the disastrous viral Glasgow event known as Willy’s Chocolate Experience. It’s an easy mistake to make. Aside from the name, the event featured actors clearly costumed …
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Lanny Smoot builds lightsabers for a living. No, not like the ones kids used to create with flashlights and plastic tubes—realistic extendable ones, with penumbral edges and laser-blocking abilities. Like an actual Jedi. He’s whipped up giant electromagnetic eyes, too, as well as an omnidirectional HoloTile floor, which adapts to …
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There aren't a lot of games I buy on every device I own, but Stardew Valley is among them. I have the farm life sim on PC, multiple Nintendo Switches, and mobile. It's only $15 ($5 on mobile) and has brought me hundreds and hundreds of hours of joy. Stardew …
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Of the 12.5 million works currently hosted on the fan fiction hub Archive of Our Own, SenLinYu’s Manacled ranks as the second-most-read on the entire site—but you won’t be able to read it there for much longer. A dark romance between Harry Potter’s Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy set in …
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A new Pokémon Legends game is coming to the “Nintendo Switch family of systems” in 2025. Pokémon Legends: Z-A, announced Tuesday with a brief teaser trailer, is an “ambitious new entry” into the series that will launch simultaneously worldwide. It’s also fuel for the fire that a new Nintendo Switch …
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