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Roland’s synth lineup seems a little odd at times. It doesn’t really offer much in the midrange. Its only two pure synthesizers in the $500 to $800 space are the 13-year-old Gaia SH-01 and the eight-year-old (and objectively hideous) JD-Xi. The company has mostly been focused on its miniaturized classics in the range and building out its lineup for the last few years. The company’s doesn’t perfectly fill this gap in the lineup, but it’s a big step in the right direction. It’s a synth-focused desktop groovebox with lots…

Swords will clash Some major gaming franchises have incredible fighting games attached to them. Pokemon has Pokken, Persona has Persona 4 Arena, and Final Fantasy has the fast-paced Dissidia series. It’s about time that The Legend of Zelda gets the same treatment after multiple decades of successful games. Here’s why a Legend of Zelda fighting game would work so well. Link’s fighting game appearances https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU6nrVEexAg Before we get stuck into what a Legend of Zelda fighting game would be,…

via 20th Century Fox As we’ve seen countless times over the years, the best – and often most successful – family-friendly franchises appeal to the younger demographic and adults alike, cementing them as certified classics in the process. Unfortunately, down in the seventh circle of hell, we have repeat offenders like the dreaded Alvin and the Chipmunks series. Driving an entire generation of parents round the bend, up the wall, and to the brink of abject despair, the four-film saga hung around way longer than…

June Wan/ZDNETXDA's Mishaal Rahman has uncovered what might be a silver bullet coming in Android 14. That silver bullet is called Advanced Memory Protection and it could finally stand as a prevention against memory safety vulnerabilities.Before we go any further, let me explain what a memory safety vulnerability is. Essentially, a memory safety bug is a problem with the way an application may handle or use memory in a device. What happens with these types of bugs is that an application could be capable of writing…

The journey to a debut album has been almost a decade long for British singer Rachel Keen, AKA Raye. First coming to prominence with the EP Welcome to the Winter in 2014, she released pop-inflected collaborations with everyone from producer Jax Jones to Charli XCX, rapper Mr Eazi and house superstar David Guetta. A hit-making featured artist, Keen’s own solo material has been uneven, and in 2021 she provided a reason, alleging on social media that her record label, Polydor, had been holding back her first album for seven…

Image: Rafael Albuquerque/DC ComicsDespite the various fluctuations in management, objectives, and the general passage of time, Warner Bros. did reaffirm over the weekend that its Blue Beetle movie would actually be coming out. With a debut poster focusing on the titular superhero’s alien Scarab, all that’s left now is to wait for the trailer (or two, three, you know the deal) that spells out what we can expect from Jaime Reyes’ (Xolo Maridueña)‘s first live-action film appearance. DC has a lot of teen superheroes in its…

As popular as they proved to be up to a point, it’s impossible to argue that Michael Bay’s time at the helm of the Transformers franchise peaked with the very first installment. From there, reviews got progressively worse with each subsequent installment, until the final nail was thankfully hammered into the coffin when The Last Knight cratered at the box office. Bay claimed that threequel Dark of the Moon would be his last contribution to the mythology, but a $1.1 billion haul saw him return for Age of Extinction, which…

Image via Dreznick Goldberg Productions Shelley Duvall is set to hit the big screen again after 20 years when The Forest Hills is released. It’s currently in filming and it has Duvall fans already buzzing. The iconic actress has been in such movies as McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Thieves Like Us, Three Women, Popeye, Time Bandits, and Roxanne. The performance that hits home with most fans though is in The Shining with so many great scenes of her starting to lose her mind while trapped in an empty hotel by a huge…

More than a decade after Tim Roth’s debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Emil Blonksy, AKA Abomination, in The Incredible Hulk, he’s finally getting his own solo character poster following his reappearance in the Disney Plus series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. “Meet #EmilBlonsky aka She-Hulk’s first client aka HUGE conflict of interest” was the caption accompanying the photo on the official Marvel Studios Twitter account. Technically, Emil has appeared in a Marvel movie poster before, but not in over a decade.…

Sony has unveiled an updated premium controller for the PlayStation 5 – the DualSense Edge – which features customisable controls, interchangeable stick caps, and back buttons and profiles for control mapping. The company has long rumoured to be developing a ‘pro’ style controller, and this looks to be exactly that. That makes it the PS5’s equivalent to the Xbox Elite Series 2 controller, which has similar features – though Sony’s pad has the extra edge of the adaptive triggers and advanced haptic feedback that have…