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The YouTuber apology video is an art form. A penitent creator must be remorseful, but not theatrical. Concise, but not rehearsed. Honest, but not defensive. Above all, an apology video cannot be memeable, or it’ll never be taken seriously.  Colleen Ballinger’s apology saga, however, will be one of the most memorable in YouTube history because it just keeps getting worse.  Representatives for Ballinger, who built a devoted following of young viewers as the satirical and often offensive character Miranda Sings, are now…

Maybe we’ll get a Boardwalk Empire reference or two Fallout 76 still gets monthly quality-of-life updates and bug fixes, but every six months or so (give or take), the team gives us something new to chew on. This past weekend at the Microsoft Summer Game Fest showcase/conference, we got a brief look at what’s next for Fallout 76: a new adventure set in Atlantic City (New Jersey). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZR25_y5XL4 Billed as “coming soon” (which no exact date or window in mind), the clip is presented in a…

Image via Netflix Look folks, I love Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. They are excellent books, full of captivating characters, and who doesn’t love a good, impossibly complex heist? But the shows inspired by these beloved stories — and Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone trilogy — are simply not it. The actors are doing a spectacular job, but they’re doing it with dull, uninspired material whose few fine moments are snatched directly from Bardugo’s pages. Everything else — which equals out to the vast majority of…

Google’s big Pixel 7 event is happening next week in Brooklyn. And on the way to that event, the Google hype train for the Pixel 7 has made another stop. Releasing a new video about the design of the Pixel 7 today, on YouTube.It’s a pretty short video, only about 50 seconds, and it just shows the design of the Pixel 7 – not the Pixel 7 Pro, interestingly. Google doesn’t really show the front of the phone, mostly the back and the side of the phone near the camera bar.It ends off by showing the Pixel 7 in all three colors:…