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"Edge of Spider-Verse" #1 features a story titled "New Toys" (by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, Travel Foreman, Brian Reber, and VC's Joe Caramagna), which tells the familiar tale of Wolverine escaping the throes of the Weapon X Program with a new twist. In Looper's exclusive preview of the issue, the Wolverine of Earth-72 runs thru=ough a snowy forest after breaking out of the secret government facility that experimented on him. He immediately recognizes he's being followed, smelling the scent of Weapon…

The Sims 4: City Living, one of the game’s many expansion packs, first introduced livable apartments in 2016. For longtime Sims players, this was a welcome addition to the most recent iteration of the long-running series. But since then, players have asked for far more freedom in both apartment gameplay (i.e., playing a Sims family that lives in an apartment) and building. The Sims 4: For Rent expansion looks to step up and provide players with some long-requested features that haven’t been available before. In a…

Reconstruction of the Linmere pits. Credit: Mola/Hugh Gatt In Britain, the Mesolithic period (10BC to 4000BC) was the last time people lived exclusively as hunter-fisher-gatherers. The recent discovery and excavation of a series of large Mesolithic pits at Linmere, Bedfordshire, is important for rethinking how historians have previously considered life and society during this period. …

Image: 20th Century StudiosOne of Agatha Christie’s most famous characters, Hercule Poirot, returns to the big screen in A Haunting in Venice, the third film to come out of the partnership of director/actor Kenneth Branagh and screenwriter Michael Green. The previous two films; Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Death on the Nile (2022), where fairly cut and dry murder mysteries, but A Haunting in Venice seems to take a turn towards... the supernatural. Check out the trailer.Threads Needs These Five Missing Features…

Annapurna Interactive’s Thirsty Suitors trailer wraps with the tagline: “Battle Your Exes. Disappoint Your Parents. Find Yourself.” (If that doesn’t proclaim that the upcoming title is venturing off the beaten path, I’m unsure what would.) Annapurna and developer Outerloop Games announced today that the cross-platform RPG about returning home and trying to resolve the disarray of the past arrives on November 2nd. Initially revealed in 2021, Thirsty Suitors places you in the world of Jala, who heads back to the small town…

The July 4th weekend is a time to stand around outside, eating and watching distant fireworks from a backyard. A fire pit is a mighty fine accessory for these festivities, and industry leader Solo Stove just announced a major sale on its line of products to celebrate Independence Day. The sale covers the popular Bonfire 2.0, the extra-large Yukon 2.0, the portable Ranger 2.0 and a whole bunch of bundles and standalone accessories. Solo Stove…

We're still a couple of weeks away from the unofficial start to summer, but some Memorial Day sales are already popping up, including one on mostly smokeless fire pits from Solo Stoves. Discounts there range up to 45 percent. BioLite's sale takes up to 25 percent off of outdoor power gadgets and Ring security devices are discounted up 30 percent so you can keep tabs on your home for less. Outside of site-wide sales, Apple's second-gen AirPods Pro are back down to $200 and the Apple Watch Ultra is the cheapest we've seen…

Image has just announced the September release of Edenwood, an epic fantasy ongoing from Tony S. Daniel and colorist Natália Marques. The title will follow Rion, a young man born into a Midwest scarred by battles between demonic forces and unearthly witches, as he grows into becoming a hero in the ongoing war over Earth’s future. Edenwood #1 cover by Tony S. Daniel Here’s the official description from Image: Edenwood—An eons-long series of multiverse wars between demons and witches has found earth as its latest…

The Current10:59Critters face off in March Mammal MadnessRead transcribed audioIn the real world, a wolverine would probably never meet an emperor penguin in the wild.But in the March Mammal Madness tournament, not only do these magnificent creatures engage in combat, they do so on a beach in Oregon — a habitat neither animal is familiar with."People were really, really excited," said the contest's creator Katie Hinde, a biological anthropologist at Arizona State University.Created in 2013, the bracket pits 64 different…

Moshing is inherently community-driven. You’re floating in a sea of colliding humans with a (typically) intense beat and song as the soundtrack, but there is more community to the madness than most people realize.In late September 2022, we brave the cold New York City air outside of Citi Field to travel into Rolling Loud’s pit’s orbit. My ears are ringing, but it’s not because of the music booming from what has become a center for young moshers. The people around me are screaming louder than any of the artists on stage.…