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Red Dead Redemption 2 Hits New Player Peak — Christmas Update Adds More Content

Red Dead Redemption 2 has broken its record of concurrent players three years after its PC release. In addition to a wave of new players, Rockstar will have new rewards, seasonal outfits, and more for a limited time.Thanks to SteamDB data, as discovered by Eurogamer, we know that on November 27, there were 66,492 concurrent players on Red Dead Redemption 2 on Steam. Prior to its new record, Red Dead Redemption 2 previously had 55,000 players when it launched on Steam in 2019. The report suggests that the…

Steam Autumn Sale: Best Deals on PC Including Red Dead Redemption 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Resident Evil 2, More

Steam has launched its annual Autumn Sale, offering heavy discounts on a slew of games, across both the AAA and indie landscape. The promotion is scheduled to run until November 29, at 11:30pm IST, offering price drops of up to 90 percent off on select PC games. Gamers can claim offers on critical darlings like Red Dead Redemption 2, coming in with a historically low price tag of Rs. 1,055. Capcom's latest Monster Hunter entry, Rise has gone down by 50 percent this time, and is listed at Rs. 1,199.Sekiro: Shadows Die…

Bruce Willis stars in trailer of Christmas action sequel Detective Knight: Redemption

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBruce Willis is back with Detective Knight: Redemption, the Christmas-themed sequel to Detective Knight: Rogue.On Monday (7 November), Lionsgate released the trailer for the second chapter ofthe 67-year-old actor’s thriller trilogy.The new trailer shows how Detective Knight (Willis) remains in custody after the first movie’s events where he chased a group of bank robbers that killed…

25 unmissable films that were box office bombs, from Shawshank Redemption to Children of Men

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIt can be easy to predict which movies will set the box office alight, but every now and then, something great comes along that doesn’t fare so well.Over the years, there have been a startling number of films that have struggled, or indeed failed, to recoup their budget, unfairly earning the “box office flop” tag.It’s hard to pin down exactly why films such as these – Children of Men…

A Self-Indulgent Epic Aiming for an Even Lengthier Shot at Redemption Drifts Across the Streaming Plains

20th Century Fox For better or worse, Baz Luhrmann’s career has been almost entirely defined by excess. Sometimes it works, in the case of Moulin Rogue! and Elvis, but at the other end of the spectrum live self-indulgent slogs like Netflix bust The Get Down and 2008 epic Australia. In the buildup to its release, there was genuine awards season buzz gathering around the sweeping romance set against the backdrop of World War II, but in the end all the lavish tale had to show for it was a solitary Academy Award…

Cramer’s lightning round includes a fintech ‘on the road to redemption’

PayPal (PYPL): "PayPal did very well today. They are already on the road to redemption."MicroVision (MVIS): "It's a $3 stock. It's a dice roll. It could go down $3. Stocks stop at zero. It is losing a lot of money. So therefore, it's not my cup of tea."Verizon (VZ): "Verizon's got that big yield. But it looks like AT&T has finally passed them. And I am concerned they are going to have to spend a lot more to get back in competition with AT&T. So right now, I cannot recommend the stock of Verizon."Signature Bank…

Commentary: Redemption, writ large, in L.A. Opera’s divine ‘Omar’

“Omar,” the new opera by composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, finds its strength in the simplicity of prayer.The work, which is too fluid to be classified in discrete musical or dramatic genres, is derived from the autobiography of a West African Muslim scholar named Omar Ibn Said, who was abducted and sent to America, where he was enslaved in the Carolinas. His 1831 memoir, written in Arabic, leaves behind in veiled form the spiritual journey of a man who, brutalized by history, managed to hold on to the faith…

Genshin Impact 3.2 live stream start time, Primogems redemption codes | Gaming | Entertainment

Genshin Impact 3.2 live stream is dropping soon, with the upcoming Special Programme set to reveal more about the next big update for the hit free game. As per usual, the Genshin Impact 3.2 live stream will air first on Twitch with a re-run dropping on YouTube a couple of hours later. And fans that tune in will be treated to some new redemption codes which will give Genshin Impact players free rewards such as bags of extra Primogems.The official Genshin Impact Twitter account has confirmed the 3.2 live stream will have a…

‘Red Dead Redemption 2’ Stadia player can now transfer his 6,000 hour save to another platform

The Red Dead Redemption 2 player who stood to lose nearly 6,000 hours of playtime can now transfer his save from Stadia to another platform. READ MORE: Google Stadia is dead, what went wrong? YouTuber ItsColourTV was one of many gaming casualties that emerged after Google announced the imminent death of its streaming platform Stadia. Upon the announcement, the YouTuber shared his 5,907 hours of playtime in Red Dead Redemption 2 with a tweet saying, “No you don’t understand how seriously pissed off I am.” Desperate to…

‘Fame, greed, redemption – the story is biblical’: behind the scenes of Tammy Faye | Musicals

As a child of 80s America, Jake Shears recalls the influence of Tammy Faye Bakker, an American evangelical talkshow host, on his own life. “When I was a small kid, growing up in a fairly Christian home, she was part of the culture, and she had a warmth and a way about her – not to mention a touch of camp that I responded to.”Faye’s extraordinary rise and fall as one of the most famous televangelists in the US is the subject of the musical Tammy Faye, which is premiering at north London’s Almeida theatre. It is a…