In what should not come as a surprise to anyone, Sony has indicated they are no longer interested in producing handheld gaming devices. “PlayStation Vita was brilliant in many ways, and the actual gaming experience was great, but clearly it’s a business that we’re no longer in now,” said Jim Ryan, President and CEO of
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This Power Rangers Beast Morphers review contains spoilers. Power Rangers Beast Morphers Episode 21 While last weeks Beast Morphers’ showed off all the season’s strengths, this episode sadly shined a spotlight on all the weaknesses. The biggest issue in Beast Morphers has been its villains. On the surface Blaze and Roxy could have been two of the
Stephen King’s novel The Outsider is becoming a drama series at HBO, which has given the adaptation a 10-episode order. The story of The Outsider puts a mind-blowingly monstrous twist on traditional murder fiction. Here, police detective Ralph Anderson (Ben Mendelsohn) fields an investigation in the fictional Oklahoma town of Flint City that upends the local populace when a
Developer Red Barrels is working on a new Outlast game called The Outlast Trials. “Whilst not a direct sequel to the other critically acclaimed Outlast titles in the series, The Outlast Trials will be set in the same thrilling universe: more precisely, right in the middle of the Cold War era,” Red Barrels says of
This Van Helsing review contains spoilers. Van Helsing Season 4 Episode 11 “You pathetic old hags.” It’s reasonable to think the revelation of a relatively intact United States government and military might be the most compelling reveal to emerge from the latest episode of Van Helsing. Nope. “All Apologies” throws a little shapeshifting into the
This Batman article contains spoilers. Tom King is all about reflections. He’s the most prominent formalist working in superhero comics today. For him, “how” tells as much of the story as “why” or “what.” So it’s natural that Alfred’s death in his last story arc on Batman proper is a way for King to examine
The PC has been a staple of the video game industry for decades. Consoles come and go, talk of new generations pop-up every handful of years, and companies continue to try to get in on the nostalgic classic console scene, but the one constant that remains is that you’ll never be able to experience the
IMAGE: A sample of the novel homogeneous polymer gel. view more Credit: Image: © 2019 Li et al. Gel-like materials have a wide range of applications, especially in chemistry and medicine. However, their usefulness is sometimes limited by their inherent random and disordered nature. Researchers from the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Solid State Physics have
Bram Stoker’s Dracula was not an instant hit in 1897 when it was first published, despite positive reviews. But the figure of the vampire himself has since become a cultural figure with a status few others have achieved. Consequently, there have been an enormous amount of stage and screen adaptations of the Dracula novel, or featuring
With His Dark Materials currently making waves on HBO, we’re taking the time to look back at what went wrong the last time someone tried to adapt Philip Pullman’s beloved trilogy of fantasy novels to the screen in the 2007 flop The Golden Compass. Pullman’s His Dark Materials was much praised for its rich, imaginative fantasy
The internet has revealed a brand new look at a canceled Spider-Man 4 game, which would have tied in with Sam Raimi’s movie sequel of the same name (which also got cancelled, of course). A decent chunk of footage from the binned spinoff game has arrived online thanks to a YouTube channel called Hard4Games. This
IMAGE: A photoresponsive chiral catalyst based on an oligotriazole-functionalized unidirectional molecular motor has been developed for stereodivergent anion binding catalysis. The motor function controls the helical chirality of supramolecular assemblies with… view more Credit: R. Dorel / University of Groningen Many organic molecules are chiral, which means that they are non-superimposable on their mirror image. Those
Wilmington, DE, Dec. 6, 2019 -Amidst rising hopes for using CRISPR gene editing tools to repair deadly mutations linked to conditions like cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease, a new study in the Nature journal Communications Biology describes a new innovation that could accelerate this work by rapidly revealing unintended and potentially harmful changes introduced
IMAGE: High-resolution 3D pHe mapping of living melanoma cells with feedback-controlled double-barrel SICM-pH nanoprobe. The 3D SICM topographical images (left column) and 3D pHe distributions (right column) of low-buffered living melanoma… view more Credit: Kanazawa University “It is becoming clear that an acid extracellular pH plays an essential role in cancer cell progression, invasiveness and resistance
Tokyo, Japan – Researchers at The University of Tokyo introduced a new physical model that predicts the dynamics of glassy materials based solely on their local degree of atomic structural order. Using computer simulations, they showed how this theory greatly improves our understanding of how glassy liquids become more viscous on cooling. This work has
The Netflix documentary series The Confession Killer is filled with more twists than a feature film. Convicted murderer Henry Lee Lucas actually changed law enforcement procedure. The Texas Rangers and the state’s police both wanted a piece of him. District Attorney Vic Feazell wanted to ride the case to a political career. Dallas homicide detective
While much of the comedy world circumnavigates around the perilous waters of microagressions, there is at least one laughter delivery system which sails straight into it. Coming from an irreverent tradition which included an album called That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick, National Lampoon provides gags for an audience who can take a joke. They promise
A new report by Kotaku suggests that Microsoft is still working on a disc-less version of Xbox Scarlett. As the report notes, there seems to be a bit of confusion regarding this development. The earliest rumors regarding Microsoft’s next-gen plans suggested that Microsoft was working on a flagship premium next-gen console as well as a
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2019 — Journalists may now apply for press credentials for the American Chemical Society’s (ACS’) Spring 2020 National Meeting & Exposition, one of the largest scientific conferences of the year, at https://bit.ly/33Hd9TD. The meeting will be held March 22-26, 2020, in Philadelphia. Each ACS national meeting and exposition attracts 11,000-16,000 chemists, chemical
There’s a certain funereal atmosphere surrounding the impending release of the third season of Marvel’s Runaways. Season 3 has already been announced as the series’ last, as Marvel’s original television programming arm is slowly being smothered in the name of corporate synergy. The consolidation of the Marvel brand—and all iterations of the MCU as we
The Power Rangers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover is about to get certified Spider-fied for its upcoming second issue! The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover by BOOM! Studios (under license by Hasbro, Inc. and in partnership with IDW and Nickelodeon) already has no shortage of variant covers and we’ve got the exclusive reveal of
Nintendo Switch Online is the subscription service for owners of, you guessed it, the Nintendo Switch. The portable games console’s snazzy membership club launched properly in September 2018, and, although membership isn’t essential to enjoying the Switch, it does connect you to some pretty cool stuff. In terms of pricing, single-user membership to Nintendo Switch
IMAGE: “We have learned that magnetic nanoparticles can receive magnetic fields and translate them into signals that neurons can understand. ” GABRIELA ROMERO URIBE, UTSA Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering… view more Credit: Courtesy of UTSA Dec. 5, 2019 — For decades the renowned English physicist Stephen Hawking lived with a motor
IMAGE: Associate Professor Farshad Moradi from the Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, is heading the project. view more Credit: Peer Klercke The cost of corrosion runs to 3-4 per cent of the gross world product (GWP) annually, and therefore there is increasing international focus on monitoring infrastructure projects. The Department of Engineering at Aarhus University is
This Vikings review contains spoilers. Vikings Season 6 Episode 1 “I no longer wish to be famous.” Welcome back Vikings fans. The long wait has ended, and the final stage of Michael Hirst’s history inspired drama that began with a simple farmer and his wife so many years ago sets out to complete its tale.
The Power Rangers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have crossed over before but this time it’s going to be even bigger. The original team-up between the two titans of kids TV rocked the world in the 90’s but it was with the Power Rangers in Space team and the turtles of the Next Mutation live-action series. Still
As Sony and Microsoft eye the next generation of video game consoles, and Google experiments with cloud gaming with its Stadia platform, studios everywhere are preparing to give this generation its swan song while crafting the future of the industry. The result will be a 2020 full of compelling new experiences, jaw-dropping remakes, long-awaited sequels,
IMAGE: (a) Scanning electron micrograph of the measured Superconductor(Nb)/Normal metal (Ag)/ Superconductor(Nb) Josephson junction. (b) Color-coded sketch of the normalized energy-phase dependent density of states of a long diffusive SNS junction…. view more Credit: University of Jyväskylä/Pauli Virtanen Understanding how microwave absorption changes the transport properties of diffusive Josephson junctions is at the forefront of interest
IMAGE: Jose Cortez of NASA Ames (left) and Joel Contreras of UPAEP (right), conduct final integration of AzTechSat-1 into the Nanoracks CubeSat Deployer (NRCSD) in preparation for launch to the International… view more Credit: NASA The first satellite built by students in Mexico for launch from the International Space Station is smaller than a shoebox but
Conditioning is a method made famous by Ivan Pavlov’s experiments with dogs. Pavlov trained a dog by ringing a bell every time the dog was fed. The dog learned to associate the bell with food, and then drooled when it heard the bell ring, even if it didn’t see anything to eat. In an earlier