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Nightdive Studios has defended its decision to use AI software for an illustration of SHODAN, the rogue AI villain of the studio’s upcoming System Shock remake. Last week, Nightdive Studio shared artwork of SHODAN given human form (via Eurogamer), with a caption reading: “Imagine, how would my immortal body look like? Designed by an immortal machine for an immortal machine”. Look at you, hacker: a pathetic creature of meat and bone. Your body, weak, fragile.How can you challenge a perfect machine?Imagine, how would my…

Serendipity dictated that the American writer and academic James Shapiro received the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction’s Winner of Winners award, given to celebrate its 25th year, at a ceremony in Edinburgh. In his teens and early 20s, Shapiro tells me as we talk over Zoom the morning after his victory, he would often hitchhike from London to the Edinburgh festival as part of his immersion in the plays of Shakespeare. This period in his life sowed the ground for his acclaimed book, 1599: A Year in the Life of William…

Tom Cruise in "Top Gun: Maverick"Source: ParamountParamount Pictures is upping the theatrics. Chris Aronson, president of domestic distribution for the studio, demonstrated as much Thursday, kicking off Paramount's studio presentation at CinemaCon by rising through the stage with a sewer grate in hand. Aronson, donning an orange eye mask a la Michelangelo from "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and carrying a pizza box, told an audience at Caesar's Palace in Vegas that studios and exhibitors need to focus "on the long-term…

Their name was Pizza!? Purveyor of video game merch, Fangamer, has released a plush of the protagonist of 2021’s Chicory: A Colorful Tale. And, oh my gosh, just look at it. Designed by Alexis Dean-Jones and Audrey Waner, this Pizza plush is 8” tall. It comes with a magnetic paintbrush that attaches to their hand and includes a set of washable markers so you can draw on them. It’s a rather cute nod to the game, where you could draw on anything in the game world, and even paint your character to customize them.…

About 200 Apple fans hoping to be among the lucky few to enter the tech giant's first retail store in India gathered from early on Tuesday outside the shop in the commercial capital of Mumbai.People came from different parts of India to catch a glimpse of Chief Executive Tim Cook, who is set to inaugurate the 28,000-sq-foot (2,600-sq-m) store later in the day, and open it to the public."The vibe here is just different," said 23-year old Aan Shah, who travelled from the western industrial city of Ahmedabad to attend the…

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NEW YORK—In the ever-dramatic world of opera, conflicts of all sorts play out behind the scenes. Singers make royal demands of management. Musicians push for better pay.Deep in the bowels of New York City’s Metropolitan Opera on a recent Saturday afternoon, a fight of a more literal sort broke out: a boxing match with punches aplenty, a few blistering taunts and even an eventual knockout. The Met, as the organization is simply called, has been in rehearsal for the company premiere on Monday of “Champion,” an…

Photo via Anthony Harvey/Getty Images The fandoms of Percy Jackson and Harry Potter have traded quips online, following reports that the latter franchise will receive a reboot on HBO. Earlier today, it was reported that Warner Bros. Discovery is currently in talks to produce a television adaptation of Harry Potter, with each season based on one of J.K. Rowling’s seven entries in the uber-popular fantasy series.  While the status of the Harry Potter reboot remains unconfirmed — Rowling is reportedly yet to sign…

But Rosemartin echoed Alonzo in cautioning against attributing the earlier bloom directly to climate change. “I wouldn’t say that climate change caused the early spring,” she said. “But climate change is loading the dice every year. We’re more likely now than we were 30 years ago to have an early spring.”This is a trend with some consistency. In 16 of the past 20 years, peak bloom has occurred earlier than the historic average date of April 4. That average has advanced by seven days since 1912, when the first cherry…

Constellation Brands is teaming up with Tastemade to form a content studio that will feed free ad-supported streaming platforms.Courtesy: Constellation BrandsConstellation Brands is pouring into the streaming business.The company, which owns beer, wine and spirits brands, is forming a partnership with media company Tastemade to create a content studio and produce shows that revolve around Constellation's brands. The companies called it a "multimillion-dollar, multiyear partnership," but declined to give specific terms.It…