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Avast, ye! An update is here! It always makes me happy to see Sea of Thieves in the news — it’s one of those games that I think has a great premise and always delivers on the fun, and it’s managed to live on despite threats of a shutdown in 2022. The game is not only alive now, but thriving — evidenced yet again by announced a new update for 2023 that Rare announced this week. This release will focus on matchmaking improvements, as well as the addition of Pet Rocks and a brand new live event called The Secret…

Beast Wars: Transformers - The End of Optimus Primal | Transformers OfficialAny Transformers fan worth their Energon cubes knows that Beast Wars takes place on Earth in between the crash-landing of the original Transformers, such as Optimus Prime and Megatron, and their eventual awakening in the modern-day. But when they first arrived on the prehistoric planet, they had no idea because there were two moons overhead. Eventually, it was revealed the second “moon” was secretly an alien superweapon, which Optimus Primal gave…

The study found that daughters were 22% more likely than sons to be estranged from their fathers, but slightly less likely than sons to be cut off from their mothers.A recent national study has found that estrangement is fairly common among individuals.According to a recent long-term nationwide survey, adult children are over four times more likely to be separated from their fathers than their mothers.According to the survey, just 6% of adult children indicated they had ever been estranged from their mothers, compared to…

Samsung Galaxy S23 leaked prices reveal a tight competition with the Apple iPhone 14 series. All details here. It is only a matter of a few weeks before we see the Galaxy S23 series phones in showrooms and billboards across the cities. Leaks and rumours have revealed almost everything, leaving nothing to the imagination. We already know what these phones could look like and what will be the underlying specifications. However, the Galaxy S23 series prices are still in the dark. There have been reports of Samsung hiking…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeChanning Tatum has once again made his disdain for the GI Joe film series abundantly clear.The actor starred as elite soldier Duke in GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) and GI Joe: Retaliation (2013), the first and second instalments of the saga.However, per Tatum’s request, his character was killed off in the first 10 minutes of the sequel. On a new episode of Vanity Fair’s popular Lie…

A recent Korean language report on the mental and physical health of webtoon creators has some alarming statistics. The basics of the report were translated and tweeted by the account ManhwaBlog. (“Webtoon” is a generic term that refers to comics formatted for mobile comics apps; Line WEBTOON is just one such publisher, and we’ll refer to it as that to avoid confusion.) Webtoon creators are under huge pressure to turn out work regularly, and the grueling deadlines and low pay have been pointed to as contributing to the…

The first event kicks off on January 27 Did you get your Charizard or Cinderace yet? While those events are in the rear view mirror (hopefully we get info soon on how others can get them in the future), there’s another one coming up, as per The Pokemon Company. Yep, Pokemon Scarlet & Violet players will be able to catch a special Greninja in January via the Tera Raid mechanic. Just like the previous Charizard and Cinderace events, the following parameters will apply: You can only catch one Greninja per save…

Helen Thomas / Financial Times: The UK's Online Safety Bill has become complex and confusing, things it sought to avoid, leaving social media companies grappling with implementing the rules — What is left looks like a regulatory hodgepodge, something that the parliament could yet address Helen Thomas / Financial Times: The UK's Online Safety Bill has become complex and confusing, things it sought to avoid, leaving social media companies grappling with implementing the rules — …

Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times: A look at LockBit, a Russia-linked hacking group that claimed responsibility for compromising 40 organizations in the past month, including the UK's Royal Mail — LockBit claims it has compromised 40 organisations around the world in just the past month — As the UK's Royal Mail grappled … Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times: A look at LockBit, a Russia-linked hacking group that claimed responsibility for compromising 40 organizations in…

It’s a common (and unfortunate) misconception in the horror genre that features will fail to attract a wide audience at the box office without an eye-watering budget built as its foundation. And while this notion has been undeniably proven to carry some truth in the past, director Kyle Edward Ball is here to shake up the narrative and turn the wheels of change with his directorial debut in Skinamarink. The latest horror experience has unsurprisingly become a viral sensation, with a leaked version of the film finding its…