Rage

Mythical monsters and ancient Indian gods are trumping trolls and orcs as the characters of choice for Indian gamers who are increasingly demanding locally relevant themes and motifs in their online games. This trend, which follows the rising popularity of India-focused content — both contemporary as well as drawn from folklore and mythology — that is visible on television shows, music, animation and comics is pushing gaming companies to also follow suit, say industry executives.Game studios such as SuperGaming, Giga Fun,…

Forest plot of the mean difference of mean speed (error bars represent the 95% confidence interval). A positive value on the x-axis represents how much faster aggressive driving behavior is than the driving behavior of the control group; a negative value indicates a mean speed slower than the control group. Credit: Accident Analysis & Prevention (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2023.106972 New research by the University of…

Now 70, Linton Kwesi Johnson, AKA LKJ, doesn’t age; he just gets more LKJish. His signature look – the neat, triangular goatee, jacket, tie and trilby – hasn’t changed. Nor has his poetry aged, whether on the page or stage, and best performed by the man himself, his deep Jamaican voice infused with gravitas. An innate musicality has always carried the rhyme and rhythm of his work.In his new book, LKJ writes without false modesty that, looking back, he sometimes finds his feat of straddling poetry and music “astounding”.…

DJ, producer, remixer, rapper and singer Yaeji is on a mission to destroy limitations. Hammer in hand on her debut album proper, she targets everything from Asian American stereotypes to her own self-limiting holdovers, all the while retaining the more nourishing parts of her family’s culture. The NYC-based Korean-American continues to swap between Korean and English in her singsong delivery; two previously released tracks, For Granted and Done (Let’s Get It), take her work notably pop-wards.Yaeji began as a creature of…

Nina Metz | Chicago Tribune Two strangers let their road rage get the best of them in “Beef,” the 10-episode series from Netflix starring Ali Wong and Steven Yeun as a pair of hotheaded Angelenos locked in a battle royale that spirals out of control. Their mutual reign of terror begins in the parking lot of a home improvement store. He’s backing his pickup truck out of a spot. She drives by in a gleaming white SUV, nearly hitting him — or he nearly hits her. They’re probably both wrong! No harm, no foul, you’d think.…

Talks between trade union leaders and French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne quickly broke up Wednesday with no breakthrough, setting the stage for protesters' return to the streets. The newly elected general secretary of the CGT union, Sophie Binet, describes Macron's government as completely disconnected from…

Before making his literary debut in 2017 with Montpelier Parade, Irish-born novelist Karl Geary spent more than two decades acting and screenwriting, with credits including Coney Island Baby (starring his wife-to-be, Breaking Bad’s Laura Fraser), The Burrowers and an episode of Sex and the City. (Just don’t ask him about his shirtless appearance in Madonna’s 1992 coffee-table tome, Sex.) Now 50, he’s back with a second book, Juno Loves Legs, a piercing platonic love story whose misfit protagonists careen into young…

One morning as he was getting up, Henry Dimbleby’s daughter asked him if he’d always been quite so chubby. It was, he admits, both “a bruising start to the day” and a tricky question to answer. “Maintaining a healthy weight”, for the co-founder of Leon restaurants turned food campaigner, “has always been a struggle”. And Dimbleby isn’t the only one. In fact, he says, 28% of us are clinically obese, which is startling when you compare that with just 1% of the population in 1950, an age when the planet too was in far better…

Show me your (new) moves These streets never sleep. Or at least, the Streets of Rage never do. Streets of Rage 4 just got a massive free update, adding a custom survival mode, new co-op moves, character balancing, and more. Co-developers DotEmu, Lizardcube, and Guard Crush Games released the new update on Friday. In it, the crew says, are over 300 improvements to 2020’s Streets of Rage 4. I’ve looked at the list, and it’s massive, including character balancing changes across the cast of this beat ’em up. One of the big…

When I went to university in 1988, feminism was wildly unfashionable; if students of both sexes happily queued around the block to hear Germaine Greer lecture on Aphra Behn, it was considered deeply uncool to own a copy of The Second Sex, let alone to go on about Andrea Dworkin or the Sun’s page three. I guess we thought – even those of us who did call ourselves feminists – that progress was inexorable, an optimism that strikes me as blackly comic now. Sometimes, as I sit at my desk in front of a machine that can, with a…