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Aspyr Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection should have been a slam dunk. The new package contains some of the best Star Wars video games ever made, which are all now widely available with multiplayer support across all modern platforms. Star Wars: Battlefront II is my favorite game of all time, so I was ecstatic about its announcement at February’s Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase. It is gratifying to have these two Battlefront games bundled together on a platform like Nintendo Switch, where local co-op or…

Photo: Michael Tullberg (Getty Images)Spotify Wrapped went live today, giving users a detailed roundup of the music they listened to in the past year, which makes us all ask, “Is that seriously my most listened-to song?” This year’s Wrapped featured messages from your favorite artists, such as Taylor Swift, SZA, and even Weird Al, who had some choice words for Spotify’s pay structure.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI Unlocked“It’s my understanding that I had over 80 million streams on Spotify this year, so if…

Dad rap is having another fine year. From Killer Mike to Billy Woods, veteran spitters with things to say keep capitalising on a rising tide of pertinence – kicked off in 2020 by Run the Jewels’ authoritative howl of protest RTJ4 – that hasn’t let up yet. Once a mainstay of the Def Jux label in the 2000s, Aesop Rock (born Ian Matthias Bavitz) has long been one of hip-hop’s more eloquent wordsmiths. His last album, 2020’s playful-serious Spirit World Field Guide, garnered late-career rave reviews.Integrated Tech Solutions…

Film: The First Slam DunkCast: Luis Bermudez, Paul Castro Jr., Abby EspirituDirector: Takehiko InoueRating: 3.5/5 This animation, comedy drama is definitely among the best manga anime movies ever …and it’s a sports movie too. So the adrenaline rush is guaranteed. The First Slam Dunk brings Takehiko Inoue’s legendary basketball series to the big screen nearly 25 plus years after the original sports anime premiered on Japanese TV.Takehiko Inoue, as writer and director of ‘The First Slam…

Photo by Adam Glanzman/Getty Images/Disney/ Remix via Apeksha Bagchi Disney’s The Little Mermaid had the perfect opportunity to wrangle in a broader demographic with prime advertising during the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics playoff game, but a technical error from YouTube TV left both fandoms wanting nothing to do with the mermaid princess or desiring to be part of her world in any way.  What should have been the final minutes of the Eastern Conference Finals wound up becoming a Groundhogs Day moment for fans…

Photo: Kevin Winter (Getty Images)Now that HBO has announced a pair of new shows set in the Game of Thrones Westerosiverse (for the lack of a better term), it’s high time for A Song of Ice and Fire’s George R.R. Martinto weigh in on the next televisual representations of the world he created. While he doesn’t have much to say about the spinoff focused on the original Aegon’s conquest, he did mention the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms series, for which he hopes to write more stories to enable future seasons of the…

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This big-hearted underdog sports comedy runs on rails, with no great surprises, but it’s likable. It’s the story of Marcus (Woody Harrelson), a washed-up, grumpy basketball coach with a booze problem who gets busted for drunk driving: the judge sentences him to 90 days’ community service coaching a basketball team of teens with learning disabilities.It’s a remake of a Spanish film called Campeones and inspired by a true story from Spain, but the fact that this film is directed by the broad comedy maestro Bobby Farrelly…

Dunkleosteus terrelli was an armor-plated fish that lived approximately 360 million years ago during the Age of Fishes (Devonian Period). It was believed to be up to 30 feet long and the first vertebrate “superpredator.” It lived in the shallow subtropical waters above what is now Cleveland when North America was near the latitude of Rio de Janeiro. Credit: Dunkleosteus illustration by Russell Engelman/Case Western Reserve UniversityScientist applies new calculations to reveal downsizing and chunky details about <span…

With no proper way to summarize what just happened, no possible explanation that could convey the emotions of one of the most ridiculous endings in California high school basketball history, Corona Centennial senior Jared McCain kept it simple.“I love you,” McCain exclaimed to senior teammate Aaron McBride, in a haze of celebration. “So much.”One mistake from seeing his team’s dreams of three-peating for the Open Division crown extinguished, Corona Centennial’s Aaron McBride was in the right place at the right time. St.…