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In May 2023, players of Sims 4 were invited to vote on what they wanted to add to the game. The winners were a castle-themed item pack and a Gothic-themed clothing pack. Thanks to Sims Community, we’ve got our first glimpse of one of them — the Castle Estate Kit! The Sims community are not rookies when it comes to leaks – for almost every Pack or Expansion, there seems to be some kind of leaked information shortly before they’re released. Now, not even two weeks into 2024, we’ve received the first leak of the year with…

The Powell/Pressburger season at London’s BFI Southbank has given us this rediscovered gem from the later works that Michael Powell directed on his own. It is an amazing and expressionist-hallucinatory adaptation of Béla Bartók’s one-act opera Bluebeard’s Castle, with original libretto by film critic and theorist Béla Balázs; it was first transmitted in 1963 on West German television, but mostly unseen since then, due to legal issues with the Bartók estate. Now it has been restored under the supervision of Powell’s widow…

I have seen many Hayao Miyazaki films, but there are still many that I need to watch, After seeing The Boy and the Heron at a screening at the Chicago International Film Festival, I restarted my journey of watching the Miyazaki films that I hadn’t seen. Castle in the Sky seemed like the perfect place to restart as one of Miyazaki’s early feature films. I didn’t know much about Castle in the Sky before watching it. Going into it unaware of the plot helped enhance my viewing experience. Though it didn’t become my favorite…

The name sounds terrible, but Second Impact Games’ Super Crazy Rhythm Castle is out today to remind us that Konami still sometimes publishes video games. Super Crazy Rhythm Castle is, predictably, a rhythm game, but the whole musical gameplay is set alongside an adventure mode. Rather than just be a series of similar challenges, the musical tracks are set alongside a variety of different situations and utilized for different means. Not only that, but you can team up with other humans for four-player co-op so you can…

The keep from the southeast. Questenberg, Lkr. Mansfeld-Südharz. Credit: Felix Biermann, State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt. Jahresschrift für mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte (2023). DOI: 10.11588/jsmv.2023.1.100718 Castles served to enforce law and order during the Middle Ages and the early modern era. Often, they had facilities to hold people captive. The Questenburg near Sangerhausen…

Takeshi's Castle is returning this month with its rebooted edition, and ahead of that, Amazon Prime Video has unveiled its Hindi language commentator. Content creator and actor Bhuvan Bam will be providing comedic voiceover for the game show, re-enacting one of his YouTube personalities, Titu Mama. The eight-episode series premieres September 26 on the platform, and brings back the original Castle Lord Takeshi Kitano to set up challenging obstacles for the contestants. With its entire cast lineup announced earlier this…

After Richard and Pamela Bard married in 1990, they wanted to purchase a home together. Bard, who previously owned an Evergreen ranch, knew what he wanted: a castle in the woods. The realtor he worked with told him he would love Greystone Estate, but it just sold. A few days later, Bard got a call saying the property was returning to the market. “We agreed to look at it, and as we drove up the driveway, I thought, ‘We’re going to buy this.’” The Bards purchased Greystone Estate, a former dude ranch, for $1.4 million in…

Upgraded visuals, m’lord Firefly Studios is celebrating the twenty-year legacy of the Stronghold series with an all-new Definitive Edition of the original game. Stronghold: Definitive Edition is updating the two-decade-old castle sim with upgraded visuals, modernized gameplay, Steam-integrated multiplayer, and a brand-new campaign. Stronghold: Definitive Edition will feature the original game’s classic military and economic campaigns as well as a new 14-mission narrative campaign. Furthermore, a 10-mission “Castle Trail”…

Time to return to Return to Castle Wolfenstein It’s not uncommon for older games to be given a modern facelift. Case in point: the original Half-Life recently got a ray tracing mod, and the new lighting makes the aged FPS look pretty spiffing. Now it’s Return to Castle Wolfenstein‘s time to shine, thanks to an upcoming modification for the 22-year-old title. As spotted by DSO Gaming, graphics engineer and Twitter user Dihara Wijetunga is currently working on a project that will see the lighting for the 2001 Wolfenstein…

Douglas County’s seat is nationally recognized as one of Colorado’s safest and healthiest cities. Janell Arant with West+Main, who has lived in Douglas County for 17 years, including three in Castle Rock, says the town is one of her favorite places to live. “The terrain is stunning with the rolling hills and rock formations,” she says. The community also is ideally located. “It’s a great place for commuters,” Arant says. “It’s not as far as people think. It’s 30 minutes to downtown Denver and 30 minutes to Colorado…