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Web gaming on iPhone and Android continues to gain momentum with services like Microsoft’s xCloud and Nvidia’s GeForce Now and Opera is opening up the beta of its customized browser for gamers today. The new Opera GX is available to try now and comes with haptic feedback, custom skins, gaming news/deals, and more. Update 6/15: Opera GX for iPhone and iPad has now left beta and is available for all users for free on the App Store (and Android too). Opera detailed the launch of the GX gaming browser beta…

It may be hard for anyone born after 1990 to understand, but there was a time when rock/blues singer Elvis Aron Presley was a pop culture phenomenon whose presence touched every corner of the country. When he was drafted into the Army, it created such a sensation that it inspired a hit Broadway musical, Bye Bye Birdie. His 1968 comeback special on NBC, simply titled Elvis, is still held up as the ideal example of a celebrity reconnecting with old fans while introducing himself to new ones.…

The Batman — out Thursday in IMAX and Friday in all cinemas — is both a big-swing risk and the safest bet one could make in Hollywood. The latter because it's a movie about one of the most popular comic book characters of all time. So popular in fact that even an irresponsible movie about his archenemy grossed over a billion dollars at the box office a few years ago. The former because The Batman director and co-writer Matt Reeves, driven by Robert Pattinson's emo sulking Mr. Vengeance, has made a Batman movie grimmer…