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A quarter of a century between albums is a stretch, but at the age of 82, Lonnie Liston Smith had long ago abandoned the idea of adding to his stellar back catalogue. A keyboard revolutionary in the 1970s, he had played with Pharoah Sanders and Miles Davis before carving a career as a jazz-funk maestro and champion of cosmic jazz.Smith has now become the latest veteran to be tempted back to the studio by producers Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of Jazz Is Dead (a name intended to prove the opposite). As graduates…

Bethesda’s shadowdrop of Hi-Fi Rush came as a bit of a surprise. No teasers, no gameplay demos, no marketing, no leaks, NOTHING! Not only that, but the game is developed by Tango Gameworks, the guys who made the Evil Within Series and Ghostwire: Tokyo! This, coming from a major publisher like Bethesda, could mean one of three things.The game was so bad that Bethesda did not want to waste more money on itThe game is so good that Bethesda knows it is a great game and trusts gamers to make the right call, along with the…

Conquer the nodes Wargroove is back with its sequel Wargroove 2, a surprise follow-up that returns to the tile-based tactics. And while it’s hitting many of the same notes as its predecessor, we got to go hands-on with its new spin on turn-based warfare: the Conquest mode. The Conquest mode is one of Wargroove 2‘s big new features. It’s a roguelike approach to battles that follows a familiar structure if you’ve ever played other styles of roguelike. Yet for all the familiarity of this concept, it wound up being a pretty…

A decade and a half after she started making records — first as her Disney Channel alter ego, Hannah Montana, then as herself (or maybe “herself”) — Miley Cyrus on her eighth studio album sounds like a woman looking back at everywhere she’s been, both musically and emotionally, and assessing where all her travels have put her now, newly divorced and having just entered her 30s.The LP is called “Endless Summer Vacation,” which gets at the coolly euphoric country-disco vibe of a song like “Flowers,” the smash lead single…

Hi-Fi RushRating: 5/5Developer: Tango GameworksPublisher: Bethesda SoftworksPlatform: PC, XboxPrice: Rs 1,799 Music games have all but died, and it is sad. Playing games while following a rhythm can be a lot of fun, and more often than not, these games have a fantastic soundtrack to go along with the gameplay. However, these games can get repetitive and rely heavily on their music to sell the games. Every once in a while, though, you get a gem that strikes a fine balance of great engaging gameplay to the rhythm of great…

| Welcome to Bleeding Cool's preview of Savage Avengers #8! In this issue, the Savage Avengers present Deathlok with a special gift: a piece of his old costume. I'm Jude Terror, resident comic book "journalist" tasked with writing up these previews, and I'm reluctantly joined by Bleeding Cool's AI writing assistant, LOLtron, the latest in Bleeding Cool's clickbait technology. Let's see what LOLtron has to say about this preview, but please don't try to take over the world this time. INITIATING CLICKBAIT…

by Satavisa Pati December 7, 2022 Now you can take selfies with the help of AI with LensaIf your Instagram is awash in algorithmically generated portraits of your friends, you aren’t alone. After adding a new avatar generation tool based on Stable Diffusion, the photo editing app Lensa AI went viral over the last few days, with users sharing their uncanny AI-crafted avatars (and the horrible misfires) in stories and posts.Lensa’s fun, eminently shareable avatars mark the first time many people have interacted with a…

Slow Horses was something of a slow-burning surprise when its first season launched back in April. It was yet another Apple TV hit whose marketing hadn’t done well enough to connect with audiences, relying instead on word of mouth. What viewers found, however, was a low-stakes spy drama with the sort of pulpy, throwback thrills that you rarely see in our more self-serious age. Mixed with a shot or two of black comedy, and it made for a surprisingly gripping package I felt .The show’s second season, which returns to Apple…

Tubular Online retail outlet Epic Games Store has revealed the next title that it will be offering up to its users gratis, following this week’s current offerings — And it will be none other than the old-school cool release Toe Jam & Earl: Back in the Groove, which will be available to all customers on October 13. Released to PC and consoles in the spring of 2019, Back in the Groove saw the long-awaited return of early ’90s gaming goofballs Toe Jam & Earl, as the awesome aliens once again returned to their…

Back in 2020, designer Yuri Suzuki teamed up with Japan's Gakken to launch a dinky little box that allowed young music-makers to cut a vinyl disc in a matter of minutes and play it back through the same device. Now Suzuki has partnered with Sweden's Teenage Engineering for an update.The PO-80 Record Factory comes in kit form for home assembly, and very much rocks the look of a child's toy. Once put together, the PO-80 works much the same as the Instant Record Cutting Machine before it.An audio device like a smartphone or…