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The inventive Harold Halibut, an adventure game leaning into the plasticine visuals of famous IPs like Wallace & Gromit, hits all major platforms in early April 2024, so clear your schedules. When it was first revealed, Harold Halibut stunned me with its ingenious mix of stop-motion animation, adventure game mechanics, and a story that dives deep for a little soul-searching. The game looks like a labor of love and the story sounds like it’ll be as zany as the works that inspired it. Harold Halibut cruises onto all…

If there’s one word that could encompass all of Samantha Poulter’s output as Logic1000, it’s warmth. Over six productive years, the Sydney-born, Berlin-based DJ and producer has evolved into one of dance music’s most intriguing talents, with a refined, enveloping sound that’s indebted to decades of house music history.Her 2018 debut EP, Logic1000, was released in December 2018, when she briefly went by the name DJ Logic. Its centrepiece track, DJ Logic Please Forgive Me, winningly sampled R&B singer Deborah Cox over a…

In a few weeks, the ‘90s are back in style—well, if you’re a fan of Marvel’s merry mutants, that is. It’s not too much longer until X-Men ‘97, the new continuation of the iconic X-Men: The Animated Series hits Disney+, and Marvel has now dropped the titles for all 10 episodes of season one... including a few that will raise the eyebrows of comics fans.Who Should Be The New Wolverine? io9 PicksIn a suitably retro style, a new poster done in the vein of a TV Guide cover reveals that ‘97 will debut with a two-episode…

The memory capability is available to all paying users of the $20-per-month Plus version of ChatGPT. The Plus version has the added capability of using the latest model, version 4 rather than version 3.5, and the quality of output can be noticeably better. Plus also allows use of DALL-E, the image-generation program.The company notes that memories stored in Pro plans might be used to train ChatGPT, but memories in enterprise accounts will not. Also: I fact-checked ChatGPT with Bard, Claude, and Copilot - and it got…

News Tower, from four-person developer Sparrow Night, tasks you with saving a sinking 1930s newspaper. The game’s early access release feels more like an extended demo, but it’s one that definitely has me intrigued about the future.  The game begins with you inheriting a small newspaper business from your uncle. The paper publishes each Sunday, so you need to start sending out your small team of reporters to find stories immediately. Every story is marked by tags – like crime, politics, or sports – that correspond to the…

Meet Christine Ward, a talented artist based in Brisbane, Australia. With roots in the tattoo industry since 2011, Ward's creative journey took a turn in 2019 when she decided to explore her role as a photographer. Specializing in bird and nature photography, Ward's work reflects her deep connection with the great outdoors. Nature is Ward's muse, and you can often find her wandering in forests, drawing inspiration from the colors, shapes, and textures around her. Her photographs aren't just pictures; they're a way to…

For the majority of film-makers, the restrictions insisted by Covid became a stifling force and created a clear dividing line between those who could flourish in extremely prohibitive circumstances and those who could not. Steven Soderbergh, a director who has never allowed anything – from Oscar glory to blockbuster success – to kill his plucky spirit of invention, made one of the only essential pandemic movies with the maddeningly underseen thriller Kimi, a sleek and canny new-tech upgrade of a paranoid 70s thriller. He…

There are plenty of what-if Hollywood casting calls. There are so many stories of actors almost cast in famous roles, but this one is a doozy. According to The Termiantor’s OG Kyle Reese actor Michael Biehn, James Cameron originally had a very different person in mind regarding one of the best sci-fi movies of all time’s protagonist and Sarah Connor's protector. The role apparently was meant to go to The Police frontman Sting. That is one intriguingly weird pick, and I kind of want to see it. Biehn recently returned to…

Learning never ends! Or, well, at least it shouldn’t. Even if you’ve finished school or college, it doesn’t mean that you can kick back and relax for the rest of your life. Your mind needs to work out just like your body. Not to mention how deeply satisfying it is to discover new things about the world.All that it takes is a dash of curiosity, a bit of patience, and—potentially—the support of a massively popular online community. That’s where the ‘Today I Learned’ or TIL subreddit comes in. Its 34.4 million eager…

A luxury item that seemingly every warm-weather homeowner covets, the swimming pool has somehow become troubled waters for a wide range of movie and TV characters. In The Swimmer, it’s a symbol of personal decay for Burt Lancaster’s alcoholic suburbanite. In the simply-titled Swimming Pool it’s the stuff of Franco-British erotic intrigue. And in Stranger Things, there’s all manner of nastiness lurking beneath the seemingly placid chlorinated surface. In short, there are – ahem – depths to the onscreen pool party, more…