Even more than the movie industry, video games love to create franchises. If a game does well and finds an audience, it’s almost certainly going to have a sequel (or several) planned. The occasional standalone title might be released but even the most narrative heavy games usually get a follow-up. The result is, usually, a best-case scenario for the studio making the game and the fans playing it. The franchise keeps making money and gamers get the stories, characters, and gameplay that they enjoy....

Bilal and Shaeeda’s cycle started the most recent season of 90 Day Fiancé, and watchers loathed him deceiving Shaeeda rapidly upon her appearance to the United States from Trinidad and Tobago by at first telling her that his altogether more unpretentious youth home was the continuous home he lived in. The examination advanced forward with the season’s tell-all remarkable when individual cast part Patrick alluded to him conclusively as “salesman” since he knew how to get what he wanted in contentions with Shaeeda, and individual cast part Ariela saw that he by and large had a reaction for all that which made her questionable of him....

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Sponsored by Raptic: Get 20% off the new Raptic Shield cases for iPhone 12 with code 9to5MACiP12. Stories discussed in this episode: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro reviews: New design and camera upgrades overshadow 5G Apple Music TV launches as MTV-style 24H music video stream iPhone 12 preorders twice that of last year’s iPhone 11 Enjoy the podcast?: Follow Chance: Twitter: @ChanceHMiller Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Overcast RSS Stitcher TuneIn Google Play Share your thoughts!...

Cases If you own a phone, this is likely one of the first purchases you’ve made. Manufacturers are always trying to make our gadgets thinner, lighter, and more attractive. The only downside to this trend is they can be a little easier to damage. Your Nokia phone from the 90’s might have been able to withstand a nuclear blast, but today you’ve got to keep your gadgets protected. This doesn’t just apply to phones, either....

Each major web browser shares a large number of keyboard shortcuts in common. Whether you’re using Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, or Opera – these keyboard shortcuts will work in your browser. Each browser also has some of its own, browser-specific shortcuts, but learning the ones they have in common will serve you well as you switch between different browsers and computers. This list includes a few mouse actions, too....

He is a twitch player whose gaming abilities are acknowledged remembering his recordings for TikTok and YouTube. The following are 10 facts about 4freakshow that you probably won’t know. tvguidetime.com Who Is 4freakshow Tiktok? 4freakshow is a TikTok star and a YouTuber whose content are valued by his fans and adherents. How old is 4freakshow? indeed, 4freakshow was born in the year 2002 in Illinois. He praises his birthday on March 5 and his age is 18 years of age....

With the success of Aladdin fresh in its shareholders’ minds and the impending floods of people heading to multiplexes to see The Lion King, it’s not a crazy thought that Disney might look at what else is available in its animated back catalog to give the live action treatment. There are just short of 60 animated movies to choose from if we only go on the official releases from Walt Disney Animation Studios and not any of the questionable sequels....

Now that I’m older, I think back to some of the great books I’ve read over the years and wonder, “With so many book-based movies, why aren’t there more classic books getting their own games?” I mean, out of the hundreds of amazing stories I’ve read in my life thus far, why not make the medium more interactive and turn some of these great stories into games? With this burning question on my mind, I set out to find five books I really enjoyed reading while growing up and to explore what about them would make them great games....

PC games offer seemingly endless screens of graphics options to fiddle with. Each involves a trade-off between graphical quality and performance, but it’s not always clear what each option does. In addition to toggling these settings from within games, you can generally force them from your graphics driver’s control panel and enable them even in older games that don’t offer such modern settings. Resolution RELATED: Why You Should Use Your Monitor’s Native Resolution...

As easily as we could think about getting rich, it is not easy to become one. It takes a lot of time and effort that most people are not ready to give in to. Becoming rich is a time-consuming process; in today’s fast-paced world, we need to keep ourselves on the run. Now, there are many employers and job providers who will tell you about various jobs and stuffs to invest in, to get a huge amount of money in a short period but most of them turn out to be scams or frauds....

With the most recent news of John Wick 4 revealing it’ll be released on the same day as The Matrix 4, fans of both mega-franchises are understandably excited. With the elation comes the whirlwind of fan theories correlating the two, already percolating from the fact that John Wick: Chapter 2 introduced Keanu’s old Matrix alum Laurence Fishburne as the Bowery King. The third outing in the John Wick Universe, Parabellum, left Wick an enemy of the High Table and all of its resources, despite the fact that he painstakingly re-entered the assassin fold and had all of his sanguinary privileges restored....

Kentucky Route Zero This masterpiece of narrative experimentation is absolutely haunting, getting a near perfect score from me back in August. Providing the player with several unique and inventive ways of story-telling aurally, visually, and textually, the game also boasts some wonderfully beguiling artwork and a haunting musical score. It’s a shame that since January we’ve only seen two of the five planned acts get released. But right now, these two parts alone provide plenty of top-notch playtime....

Martin Scorsese’s last drama was Silence, released in 2016. Since then, fans have been patiently awaiting The Irishman, a crime drama starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino. As if this team-up wasn’t exciting enough, the film will also feature extensive use of de-aging technology. A trailer dropped just a couple of weeks ago, piquing interest and heightening the already high anticipation for the project. No movie is a sure thing until it is out, however, and uncertainty still floats in the air around this project....

The Conjuring series of films and its many spin-offs have been some of the most successful horror movies of the past decade. James Wan’s horror franchise has managed to breathe new life in the haunted house style horror movies and introduced a wider audience to the terrifying investigations of the Warrens. Ed and Lorraine Warren were some of the world’s most renowned demonologists and investigated countless cases of ghosts, demons, and even werewolves....