Role-playing games have a massive fan following. Although role-playing games are designed to give players a sense of thrill and grind, oftentimes, the characters are way too powerful or the enemies are overpowered. This creates an imbalance in the gameplay. Diablo 1 was a great game no doubt, but Diablo 2 and 3 had the same recurring issue of overpowering characters. This issue seems to be fixed in the new game, i....
Disabling Auto-Play Videos in Popular Mobile Apps Mobile apps are becoming notorious for auto-play videos. The options here won’t be comprehensive, but for the apps that you often use like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, here are some tips to help you out. If you are using an app such as Snap Chat, which is heavily video-based, you will probably have to accept the trade-offs. But with YouTube, sometimes you can get away with watching a couple of videos now and then....
Apple cleaned up its MacBook lineup this week with updated hardware, better prices, and one casualty: the 12-inch MacBook. While the MacBook Air and entry-level MacBook Pro saw changes (and Mac storage prices dropped), Apple killed off its lightest notebook after four years and three generations. The death of Apple’s coolest MacBook has sparked many hot takes, exposing just how hated the 12-inch notebook was by a group of customers who had plenty of other Mac options....
It’s been over 80 days since Apple announced the original HomePod was being discontinued. Now, Apple appears to be winding down sales of its smart speaker at retail stores, even though availability continues online. As spotted by MacRumors, most physical Apple Stores don’t have a HomePod available for pick up. However, it’s still possible to order the smart speaker online for next-day delivery with no problem. Since April 12, when Apple discontinued the product, the space gray model of the HomePod has been completely sold out, but the white version has been available broadly....
Discover announced today that it’s made a deal with Apple to join the other three big card companies already offering support for the company’s new payments service, Apple Pay. That means that starting this fall, Discover cardholders will finally be able to add their cards to the service and make contactless, NFC-based payments using iPhone and Apple Watch, as well as make payments within apps supporting the platform on all iOS devices....
DJI is at it again, bringing technology from its bigger, more expensive products down to its diminutive sub-250-gram DJI Mini 3 Pro drone, which means you don’t need a license to fly it in the US and other jurisdictions. That makes it a great high-end first drone for people who are just getting into the sport or for people who want an ultraportable drone that can do tricks that until now, only the much bigger drones could do....
Conditional forwarding is a new feature of DNS in Windows Server 2003. Conditional forwarding can be used to speed up the DNS name resolution process by directing queries for specific domains to specific name servers. They can also be used to help organizations resolve each other’s namespace in a situation where the organizations may have direct links into each other’s networks and have the need to resolve internal hostnames to access internal resources....
But as anyone who works remotely will know, extended periods of working in solitude can carry some undesirable side-effects, including loneliness, productivity hurdles, and a lack of visibility for career development. The impact of remote working on software developers is the subject of a new report of over 1,000 engineers by software platform Terminal. SEE: New year, new job: The tech resignations are coming, so get ready The 2022 State of Remote Engineering Report aimed to capture sentiments of software developers across a range of issues impacting the profession, including remote working, burnout and productivity, compensation and pay equity....
Currently, Disney and Universal are reportedly the only two movie studios planning to promote upcoming projects during this year’s Super Bowl. In some respects, the commercials that air during the annual broadcast are as big a spectacle as the game itself. With a huge viewing audience guaranteed, companies pull out all the stops in an attempt to come up with a memorable advertisement and make a big splash. Each year, several blockbuster movies get in on the fun, using the high profile of the Super Bowl as a showcase to unveil new footage for eager fans....
Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox was primarily based on the decision to move forward with their own streaming service, Disney+. After a lengthy and complex legal process, The Walt Disney Company’s purchase of Fox’s entertainment assets was completed in March 2019 in a $71.3 billion deal. In an interview with CNBC, Disney chief Bob Iger spoke about the decisions in the lead up to the acquisition, stating clearly that the reason this action was taken was based solely upon Disney’s plans to enter the streaming market:...
Disney has announced it is shutting down Marvel Heroes, the role-playing video game that was officially launched in 2013. The announcement was made with the decision to cut ties with embattled Marvel Heroes game developer Gazillion Entertainment after months of uncertainty. It’s a surprise for a game that earlier this year expanded from just PC to Xbox One and PS4 as Marvel Heroes Omega. The game, which launched in 2013, had a great pedigree with original Diablo creative lead David Brevik behind it as Gazillion’s then-CEO....
The new Star Wars canon created after Disney purchased Lucasfilm and started a new movie trilogy helped clear up some serious confusion regarding Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi. There’s been a lot of debate among Star Wars fans since the Mouse House took over the franchise, with perhaps the earliest and most long-standing controversy being the decision to get rid of the Expanded Universe. The de-canonizing of previous books, comics and more was pretty much inevitable with a Star Wars sequel trilogy on the way, but some fans were still surprised when it was announced everything outside of the six core movies and TV show The Clone Wars would be no longer part of official continuity....
[This article includes SPOILERS for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ‘The Patriot’.] - The most recent episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., ‘The Patriot’, was full of surprises for fans of the popular sci-fi/spy series, from the full truth about the nature of Director Jeffrey Mace’s superhuman powers coming to light to the disturbing revelation about Leo Fitz’s continued fixation on the malevolent LMD Aida. But the most eyebrow-raising reveal may have been reserved for eagle-eyed viewers who’ve also kept current with Marvel’s gritty Netflix offerings – specifically Luke Cage....
Disney+ is aiming to bring the magic of its shows and films to users across the globe. This week, the hit streaming service is launching in 42 new new countries and 11 new territories, according to Variety. New countries can experience Disney+ On Tuesday, the company launched the service in Greece, Turkey, and many Central Eastern European nations like Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, and Croatia. On May 18, Disney+ launched in South Africa and new countries in West Asia and North Africa on June 8....
Bloomberg reports that Disney shareholders re-elected Steve Jobs to their board. Probably a better idea to get a new advisory group. Disney said, “The Walt Disney Company considers itself fortunate to have Steve Jobs as a member of its board of directors.” That’s more like it. Jobs with Disney CEO Bob Iger up top, video below. http://null Steve Jobs continues to move up Forbes’ billionaire list (9to5mac.com) Apple CEO Steve Jobs called to answer questions in iTunes antitrust suit (9to5mac....
New reports suggest that Disney is planning to buy out WarnerMedia’s stake in Hulu. The SVOD service was originally founded in 2007, and investments were eventually split between Disney (30%), 20th Century Fox (30%), Comcast (30% ) and WarnerMedia (10%). With Disney’s acquisition of Fox tentatively coming to finalization within a month, acquiring the shares held by WarnerMedia, which was acquired by AT&T, would give the company 70% control over Hulu....
Disney’s remake of Beauty and the Beast is the latest in a slew of live-action adaptations of animated classics,with many more to come. The trend originated with Tim Burton’s psychedelic adaptation of Alice In Wonderland, which grossed over $1 billion worldwide, tipping the company off to an untapped goldmine of potential remakes and re-imaginings. Although Beauty and the Beast was considered a comparative risk for retreading a story that many fans still remember from the first time around, pre-sales for the upcoming reboot featuring Harry Potter allumni Emma Watson are tracking as the fastest-selling family film ever....
Disney’s plans of turning many of its animated movies into live-action features won’t stop anytime soon: filming for a live-action Pinocchio movie should begin as early as 2019. The studio already has many other similar projects in production, including The Lion King, Mulan, Aladdin and Lady and the Tramp. The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Italian writer Carlo Collodi, was written in 1883. That children’s book served as inspiration for Disney’s second full-length animated feature, Pinocchio, which released in theaters in 1940....
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Warner Bros. has set David Ayer to direct a remake of The Dirty Dozen. Easily one of the most famous WWII thrillers of all time (even among those who’ve never actually seen it), Robert Aldrich’s Dirty Dozen hit theaters in 1967. An adaptation of E.M Nathanson’s novel, the movie follows a group of hard-edged Army prisoners (played by actors like Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, and Jim Brown) as they’re trained to carry out a top-secret mission ahead of the Normandy invasion....
