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Are you looking for that first great game of the year to play before 2023’s AAA heavy hitters arrive? Check out Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider. Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider - Release Date Reveal Trailer That title is a mouthful, but this is a straightforward 16-bit action-platformer inspired by classic series like Ninja Gaiden, Shinobi, and Mega Man. It hits all the proper retro gaming notes, like being easy to pick up but tough to master gameplay and having a delightful 16-bit visual style. The teams…

Josh Nicholas / The Guardian: The number of active users on Mastodon dropped from a peak of over 2.5M in early December 2022 to about 1.8M in the first week of January 2023 — More than 130,000 people were joining the new independent social media network a day in November. So why hasn't it taken off? Josh Nicholas / The Guardian: The number of active users on Mastodon dropped from a peak of over 2.5M in early December 2022 to about 1.8M in the first week of January 2023 — …

Enabot’s EBO X looks like a cute Robot from Star Wars, featured in CES 2023 has been honored both in the robotics and smart products categories Enabot, a robotics start-up, revealed on January 4th that EBO X, a new member to its robot buddy, had been awarded at CES 2023 both in the robotics and smart home product lines. Meanwhile, the EBO X robot will be formally revealed as well as on demonstrate from January 5 until January 8 at CES 2023 in Las Vegas. The EBO X looks like a cute robot from Star Wars, but it is an…

Killers of the Flower MoonLily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio in Killers of the Flower Moon. Photograph: Apple TV+My most anticipated film of 2022 has now, through a shift in scheduling, become my most anticipated film of 2023. Sending Martin Scorsese and his first-rate artisans to the Great Plains with $200m to recreate the bloody boomtowns of early 1920s Oklahoma is a tantalizing prospect on its own. But in David Grann’s book about the murders of Osage people made rich on the oil deposits beneath their tribal land,…

As part of a January 2023 Fortnite update, Epic Games has introduced a handful of new changes, including the removal of many Christmas-themed items. One new feature is the implementation of the Guardian Shield, which adds another layer of strategy when used correctly. This new item is tied to a series of in-game challenges, incentivizing players to give it a try. But where can you find the Guardian Shield and how does it work? Here’s what you need to know about the Guardian Shield in Fortnite. Recommended reading:…

Martin McDonagh is such an incredible writer, and he can direct like hell. Here, he manages to do the impossible and make a film better than In Bruges and Three Billboards. I’ve always adored Farrell and Gleeson, but they both outdo themselves. I cannot wait to see it again. I also wonder if there are any friends who could be expunged from my life … Chris Lycett, 44, Colchester I saw Wakanda Forever in the theatre on opening weekend, with my girlfriend who is from Nairobi – a hi-tech city in Africa – and she knows some of…

Prominent news organizations are high-value targets for hackers and it appears that The Guardian is the latest to have fallen victim to an attack. A "serious IT incident" struck the publication on Tuesday evening. “We believe this to be a attack but are continuing to consider all possibilities," editor-in-chief Katharine Viner and Guardian Media Group chief executive Anna Bateson told employees in a note. "Our technology teams have been working to deal with all aspects of this incident, with the vast majority of our…

To get to the end, you must go back to the beginning. That’s what writer-director James Gunn has been saying about Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, the final film in his time with the Marvel heroes, which will finally reveal where and how Rocket Raccoon came to be.You get a little of that in this first trailer for the May 5 release, which brings back all the original stars, and a few new ones too. Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Pom Klementieff, Karen Gillan, and Sean Gunn make up the current Guardians (along with the voices…

Image: Frederick M. Brown (Getty Images)If there’s one thing you can count on the MCU to often provide, it’s often a callback. The recently released Guardians of the Galaxy holiday special offers maybe the greatest callback of the whole enterprise by bringing in Kevin Bacon as himself. You may recall that Chris Pratt’s Star-Lord is deeply enamored with the Friday the 13th and Footloose actor, and has made that well-known to his alien companions throughout the Guardians’ many appearances.For Bacon himself, he told IGN that…

“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” World Premiere at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on August 30, 2022 in London, England. (Photo: Tristan Fewing (Getty Images)Amazon’s new hit show, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, broughtviewers back to the gorgeous world Middle-earth, once again filmed in New Zealand. But the country’s pristine landscape may be suffering under this production and others, as workers speaking to The Guardian described vast waste and lack of care for the local environment. The Guardian…