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Mario vs. Donkey Kong MSRP $50.00 “Mario vs. Donkey Kong is a fun, if unremarkable way to kill time while you wait for the Nintendo Switch 2.” Pros Faithfully remade Lots of new levels Excellent music Cons Puzzles get repetitive Challenge lacking Rigid…

When the “old” and “tottering” widow Rachel – she is in her late 60s – hosts Christmas at her Sussex seaside home, comfort and joy fail to show. This acidic novel, first published in 1951, tackles an important subject to which many modern readers will relate: the murderous claustrophobia of a family Christmas. It is also a novel about post-second world war Britain: the nostalgia, grimness and traumatic memories, the fear – of nuclear annihilation and shifting gender roles – and the desperate hopes of this shaken land.The…

The move comes just a few days after Google announced that it's making passkey the default login option for all accounts, effectively moving away from passwords entirely.It's worth noting that the Chrome app already does have an autofill option for passwords, so this feature is likely aimed at those folks who use Apple's own Safari as their primary browser. The option to enter a saved password will appear in the suggestions row on the keyboard and will still require either a fingerprint or face verification to…

Some films don’t globetrot so much as globelurch, steered by creatives going wild on Expedia after a heavy night on the Kestrel. Pinging haphazardly and often nonsensically around central and eastern Europe, this trashy runaround sees French action specialist Camille Delamarre (Brick Mansions, The Transporter Refuelled) emerging from sometime mentor Luc Besson’s shadow, for better or worse. Liberated from Besson’s more questionable fetishes but also untethered from a healthy line of credit, the result never rises above…

The Game Awards in person are a doozy Last month, I got a mysterious email in my inbox. What’s that? I was being invited to be a seat filler at The Game Awards? There’s no way this is legit. Oh wait, it is legit? Okay, I guess I can’t pass up on an opportunity to go to TGAs for free, right? Right. At least I’ll get some good content out of it. For those who don’t know (because I certainly didn’t when I got that email), seat fillers are people that go to large, televised events like the Oscars or, in this case, The Game…

It’s the middle of August but Samsung, Xiaomi, Motorola and OnePlus kept things busy with a slew of announcements. Here’s a recap of all the new phones launched during week 32. It all started with OnePlus and its Ace Pro smartphone which was launched in China as a local equivalent to the OnePlus 10T. You can see the differences between the two come down to RAM/storage with the Ace Pro starting with 12GB RAM and 256GB storage and maxing out at 16/512GB. The other differentiator is the software with the Ace Pro getting…

In the age of thunderingly loud blockbusters and hyper-serial prestige television, Star Trek has struggled. The J.J. Abrams films tried to reinvent Star Trek for the mega action film era, and Star Trek: Discovery tried to reinvent it for serial TV. And others, like Picard and Lower Decks, have just tried to play to the fans with intense nostalgia and in-jokes. They’ve all been Star Trek, but they haven’t had quite the same impact as the original series or the Star Trek series of the ‘90s. Watching Star Trek: Strange…

Does literally every publisher need a stream? The answer is no With E3 dead and buried for this year, it’s all about Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest 2022, and whatever scattered streams decide to casually show up around it. Thankfully, there might be less of the latter in 2022. Speaking on Twitter Spaces (as reported by VGC),  Keighley does what he does best: hype up his Summer Game Fest event. But this time he provides cold hard facts that actually highlight what this year’s festival could look like, and things seem…

Irene and Franklin York are a lot like other older couples. They keep on top of each other about following doctor’s orders, joke about their complicated daily intake of pills, and, when the mood is right, they put on some Sam Cooke and dance in the living room, just like in the good old days. In short, they’re adorable. But there’s one key difference between the Yorks and most retired couples: hidden away in their shed right behind a wooden sign that says “to the stars” is a portal to another world. This is the basic…