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Every week, I put 3 million of my hard-earned coins into an enterprise that I know will result in disappointment: the Eorzean housing lottery, where the odds have, so far, never been in my favor. Every week, I lose. I go collect my automatic refund, and then I have a little laugh at that well-known quote about the definition of insanity, which involves doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. Nothing exemplifies this madness better than the ordeal of trying — and failing and trying again — to buy a…

| Welcome to Bleeding Cool's weekly comic book preview! This week, we're taking a look at All-New Firefly: Big Damn Finale #1 from BOOM! Studios. BOOM! manages to combine a series finale with a number one issue relaunch in the same preview of All-New Firefly: Big Damn Finale #1. Joining me for this preview is Bleeding Cool's AI writing assistant, LOLtron. Now, LOLtron, I need you to behave yourself and not try to take over the world this time, okay? Let's hear your thoughts on this preview. INITIATING CLICKBAIT…

Shocking absolutely no one, it turns out the UK barely gives a diddly about the metaverse — especially when compared to the rest of the world. But, for startups and businesses, this apathy is actually an opportunity. First off though, the data. According to a report from law firm Gowling WLG, 10% of UK consumers aren’t interested in the metaverse, and 20% don’t expect it to become mainstream. On top of that, many people are concerned about its downsides: Credit: Gowling WLG The report also…

Atari is reviving Akka Arrh, a 1982 arcade game canceled because test audiences found it too difficult. For the wave shooter’s remake, the publisher is teaming up with developer Jeff Minter, whose psychedelic, synthwave style seems an ideal fit for what Atari describes as “a fever dream in the best way possible.” The remake will be released on PC, PS5 and PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch and Atari VCS in early 2023. The original Akka Arrh cabinet used a trackball to target enemies, as the player controls the Sentinel…

When Douglas Adams’s U.S. publisher asked him to substitute something less offensive for the f-word in in his novel  Life, the Universe, and Everything (one of the sequels to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), Adams made a cheeky decision to swap in the name of an entire country with a reputation for maintaining a diplomatic middle ground. A new linguistic analysis suggests that the choice Adams made—substituting in the word “Belgium” at every instance—may unconsciously have reflected a cross-language pattern of using…

Rats were a defining feature of A Plague Tale: Innocence when it first came out in 2019, a physical embodiment of the Plague that was sweeping through Europe and a swarm that had to be avoided at all costs. For the upcoming sequel, A Plague Tale: Requiem, developer Asobo Studio has revealed how it has used current-gen console and PC power to push the limits on its unique rat technology, dialing up the number of rodents to a disgustingly impressive new level."For this second game we wanted to push new-gen…

| While the lack of Sandman renewal news during Netflix's Tudum event means we'll need to wait longer to find out if Johanna Constantine will be returning to our television screens, we did get confirmation the other week that Warner Brothers is moving forward with a sequel to the cult favorite Constantine film starring Keanu Reeves. Those two seemingly unrelated things may end up playing in the favour of Damn Them All, the latest creator-owned series being published by Boom Studios (where Reeves created the blockbuster…

The launch of the Nvidia RTX 40-series and Ada Lovelace GPUs has been greeted with a range of emotions. Excitement from some, disbelief from others, and outright scorn from many. In building a GPU that promises to outperform the best graphics cards, Nvidia has gone big — big and expensive. AMD, on the other hand, is using a more cost-effective technology that could make its upcoming RDNA cards more appealing, more affordable choice.While we're not privy to Nvidia's Bill of Materials (BOM), the high price of Nvidia's GPUs…

| The hashtag to Damn Them All would be #damnthemall, but it looks more like Damn The Mall. But from the moment they teased that The Walking Dead's Charlie Adlard would be bringing a project over to Boom Studios, we knew it would be a big one for the Big Four publisher. After all, this is Adlard's first creator-owned series since The Walking Dead made him a household name. Bleeding Cool was the first to speculate Adlard would be paired with Step By Bloody Step writer and former Bleeding Cool columnist Si Spurrier and,…

| Johanna Constantine meets Negan? With Neil Gaiman's Sandman currently the most-watched show on Netflix with 128 million hours watched and nearly 25 times the demand of the average series, and interest in the characters and genre at an all-time high, DC currently doesn't have a new comic omic series being published outside of Sandman: Nightmare Country featuring The Corinthian (thanks largely to James Tynion IV's love of the character). Now, you wouldn't expect a series starring Morpheus, his story has been told, but…