Mythology

Xbox Game Studios Microsoft and World’s Edge gave us our first glimpse of its upcoming remaster of real-time strategy game Age of Mythology: Retold during Friday’s New Year, New Age livestream. They also confirmed that it will launch on PC and Xbox later this year. Age of Mythology: Retold’s segment of the livestream began with Art Director Melinda Rose introducing the gameand  teasing that it will contain all-new 3D character models, animation, textures, and UI. Rose also highlighted the details of the character…

According to this book, there are more than 5,000 euphemisms around the world for menstruation. Not that its author, Dr Jen Gunter, tends to be euphemistic. Once described as “the world’s most famous – and outspoken – gynaecologist”, she is already the author of The Menopause Manifesto and The Vagina Bible – a book that became a bestseller despite ads for it being banned on social media because algorithms flagged “vulgar, obscene or distasteful” words.Language and the naming of things are important to Gunter, and she is…

The doctor who taught me about human reproduction at medical school was in fact a veterinarian. More is known about a sheep’s rhythms than a woman’s, he said, setting the tone in our first tutorial, presumably because ewes drive a healthy profit. I was disappointed. I felt that menstruation and pregnancy shouldn’t be narrated to us like they would be for any other animal. These aren’t just biological events, but experiences coloured by memory and anticipation. What about days of frantic maxi pad changes in school cubicles…

The Minecraft movie expands its cast. David Rysdahl teases just how different the Alien show is going to be. Plus, what’s coming on Quantum Leap. Spoilers, away!Zillow Says You’ll Buy Your Next House With… AI? | AI UnlockedMinecraftDeadline reports Emma Myers (Wednesday, Family Switch) will star alongside Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks and Sebastian Eugene Hansen in the live-action Minecraft movie at Warner Bros. and Legendary. Details on her character are not available at this time. The Incredible Hulk In conversation with…

December 1, 20233min readThe powerful symbolism of forests, an AI that struggles to optimize the life of a “post-body” person, and more books out nowBy Amy Brady NONFICTIONEnchanted Forests: The Poetic Construction of a World before Time Boria Sax Reaktion, 2023 ($35)The word “forest” came into English from medieval French, where it meant a place reserved for the king's hunt. Poachers who violated this divine gift to royalty were punished, sometimes by death. Forests, then, are social constructions as well…

Adipurush has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Despite having a budget of Rs. 600 crore which made it the most expensive Indian film ever made, it created a furore over its portrayal of characters as well as its storyline. It even had to redo some of its VFX after the initial teaser faced some backlash from viewers. Moreover, the HD version of the film has leaked online despite the film still running in theatres. reports have surfaced that have revealed where the film can make its online debut and the time…

Upcoming Star Wars Projects To Expand On Franchise Lore & Mythology (Photo Credit –Imdb) At the recent Star Wars Celebration 2023, Disney+ unveiled many new projects, including web series such as ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3, ‘Ahsoka’, ‘Andor’ Season 2, and more. As per the official Star Wars portal, forthcoming projects will focus on expanding the existing Star Wars lore and mythology, focusing on both the “great past” and the “distant future” post the events of the sequel trilogy. Keeping most of the details…

Daniel Craig, daughter are ‘bonding’ over ‘Star Wars,’ says wife Rachel Weisz ( Photo Credit – IANS ) Actress Rachel Weisz’s husband Daniel Craig and their four-year-old daughter Grace are big ‘Star Wars’ fans. While promoting her new series Dead Ringers, the actress, 53, shared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Friday that her 4-year-old daughter got a little too “obsessed” with the popular sci-fi movie series after watching it with her father. “It was like a father-daughter bonding experience, and they…

Image via Warner Bros. Evil Dead Rise is finally upon us, and as much as fans are excited to see how the new installment will fare against its predecessors, they might be disappointed to that it doesn’t use any elements from the Ash vs. Evil Dead. Cronin has a valid reason for avoiding the popular plotlines from the series, as he mentioned in an interview with ComicBook that he wants the movie to be a part of a straightforward continuity with Sam Raimi’s original. “Giving you a really candid answer, I…

The X-citing X-Men news continues with the announcement of Realm of X, a new series that sees “a small band of mutantkind’s fiercest warriors are sent on a mystical mission across the Ten Realms.” From writer Torunn Grønbekk and artist Diógenes Neves, with a first issue cover by Stephanie Hans, the series finds Magik, former Valkyrie Dani Moonstar, Marrow, Dust, Curse, and Typhoid Mary on a mystical mission. Press release below: Since 2019’s revolutionary HOUSE OF X and POWERS OF X series, mutantkind has experienced…