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, the Embracer Group much of Saber Interactive, which is known for the Metro series, Gloomhaven and remakes of classic Star Wars titles. The buyer is a group of private investors under the umbrella of Beacon Interactive, which is run by Saber co-founder Matthew Karch.Although Embracer says the deal is worth $247 million, it's actually worth around $500 million once liabilities are factored in, according to Bloomberg’s . That’s because Beacon is said to have to buy 4A Games and Zen Studios (the developers of the Metro…

Reddit is seemingly leaning further into its community of users as it closes in on its public offering. The Wall Street Journal reports that the social media site plans to reserve an undetermined number of its IPO shares for its most active users when it IPOs next month. While the number is not yet set, the Journal said it is “a big chunk” of the offering.Some 75,000 power-users of the site will reportedly be able to buy shares at the IPO price, a privilege that’s normally reserved for the top investors in a company. That…

Back in early November, one of the sections in The King Beat was dedicated to the announcement of a brand new Stephen King Blu-ray from Scream Factory. Following wonderful work done for films including Carrie, Creepshow, The Dead Zone, and more, the boutique home video distributor announced that they would be developing a Collector’s Edition for director Tom Holland’s 1996 film Thinner. I placed a pre-order, and my copy arrived in the mail this week.As I previously expressed in my Adapting Stephen King column about the…

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Twenty years of satellite data show that a stretch of coastal desert extending south from Peru's north and into Chile is getting greener, but this is not good news."This is a warning sign, like the canary in the mine," cautions Cambridge University mathematician Hugo Lepage.Scattered mist oases filled with unique vegetation, called lomas, pepper 2,800 kilometers of the arid coastline. Their only source of water is sea-generated fog. This region has an average rainfall of just 3 to 13 mm per year, with many years…

Two-thirds of North America could face blackouts over the next few months as summer heat increases demand for electricity, a report from a major electricity regulator has found. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation, which releases regular assessments of grid conditions, said in an outlook released Wednesday that huge swathes of the U.S., from the whole West Coast through the Southwest, Midwest, Texas, and parts of the South and New England, face an “elevated risk” of energy shortfalls.How to Prep for a…

The Moon dominates our view of the night sky. But it's not the only thing orbiting Earth. A small number of what scientists call quasi-satellites also orbit Earth.One of them is called Kamo'oalewa, and it's a near-Earth asteroid. It's similar to the Moon in some respects. Could it be a chunk of the Moon?Kamo'oalewa was discovered in 2016 with the Pan-STARRS at Haleakala Observatory. It's an unusual object because its orbit changes over time. But as it changes, it always stays near Earth.Its surface is also remarkable.…

‘Every problem you have is down there when you’re up here,” says Doya Beardmore, AKA Skinny Pelembe, overlooking his home town of Doncaster.This hillside is key to his new album, Hardly the Same Snake, its exact position revealed in morse code during one song and via clues in the artwork. He came here to de-stress when his dad was ill, before he died, and he would love to lead his listeners here via the album for a special gig. “I bet only two fucking mega-fans would turn up,” he laughs.Beyond Doncaster, Beardmore’s roots…

Image via Netflix Is there a more tried-and-tested horror trope for guaranteeing views than having attractive women in women in swimsuits be chased around by a predator of some sort? Yet again this trope has worked for Netflix, with one of their biggest films this week being The Descent, but with sharks. A sequel you likely never would’ve guessed, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, has swam past its rivals with absolute pace on the Netflix charts, somehow settling in the top ten with no real context as to why. The shark…

Washington, February 13 The Sun did not shed a chunk of it as being reported and what was spotted was a normal "solar prominence" activity on its surface. A solar prominence (also known as a filament when viewed against the solar disk) is a large, bright feature extending outward from the Sun's surface. Prominences are anchored to the Sun's surface in the photosphere, and extend outwards into the Sun's hot outer atmosphere, called the corona. Reports last week surfaced that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)…