Summary AfterThe Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & SnakesreignitedThe Hunger Gamesfilm franchise, I’ve been thrilled at the prospect of a sequel, but recent news puts a wrench in my dreams. As the firstHunger Gamesspinoff,The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakeswas my most highly anticipated release of 2023. Released ten years afterMockingjayand five years afterThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2,it hinted that the beloved franchisecould make a full-fledged return. However, even with a $337 million box office, my hopes forThe Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’sequelmay be misplaced....

Cillian Murphy in OppenheimerUniversal Pictures The holiday season may be over, but awards season is just heating up. The Golden Globes and Emmy Awards have been given out, and the next major event on the calendar is the Academy Awards. But who’s competing, and who is staying home this year? The 2024 Oscar nominations were announced this morning, and as expected, Christopher Nolan’s critically acclaimed blockbuster about the creation of the atomic bomb,Oppenheimer, leads the pack....

Pokemon players demand the end of evolution gimmicks in future games Pokemon players are over some of the more complicated gimmick evolutions they have endured over the years. Aposton the Pokemon subreddit laid out justhow ridiculoussome Pokemon gimmick evolutions have become, pointing to Alcremie, Kingambit, and Runerigus as examples. To reach their final evolution, all three Pokemon involve players doing something in-game other than leveling the creature up or giving it a stone....

Pokemon TCG Pocket players convinced they’ve found Wonder Pick “life hack” Pokemon TCG Pocket’s Wonder Pick is a tricky feature, but players are convinced that doing this one thing would help them out. If you’re playing Pokemon TCG Pocket as a free-to-play player,unlocking everything will take ages, especially if you’re only relying solely on opening booster packs daily. That’s why knowing how to utilize Wonder Pick to snatch extra cards is essential....

While each Pokémon title has built off the previous one, it hasn’t been until recently that the series has been able to take advantage of modern technologies to really encourage and reward longtime fans of the series. Sure, the games can’t support including every single Pokémon from the entire series anymore, but the more streamlined roster found inPokémon Legends: Arceusis still impressive considering how far the game pushes the series in every other respect....

Red One Official Trailer Summary The holiday season is getting an action-packed twist with the firstRed Onetrailer. Led by Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans, the movie centers on Johnson’s North Pole’s Head of Security as he races against time to find who has kidnapped J.K. Simmons' Santa Claus, turning to the world’s most infamous bounty hunter, and Level 4 Naughty Lister, to find him. Also starring Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Liu, Bonnie Hunt and Mary Elizabeth Ellis,Red Onehails fromJumanjidirector Jake Kasdan with a script fromFast & Furiousfranchise vet Chris Morgan....

Summary According to a report fromVGC,the Taiwanese ratings board has rated aTimeSplittersrelease for PS4 and PS5. As a first-person shooter for the PS2,TimeSplittersbuilt on the style popularized by the Nintendo 64 gamesGoldenEye 007andPerfect Dark.A modern rating classification for the game means that it’s likely to appear in the PS Plus Premium catalog in the future, a huge stride for a title that isn’t currently available on any modern platforms. Perfect Dark Reboot Could Give Me The One Thing I Thought Xbox Never Would A genre in dire straits might be coming back from a source that’s particularly surprising, especially considering Microsoft’s recent failings....

If there’s one thing that you can say about Samsung, it’s that they are doggedly dedicated — some might say stubborn — but however you want to spin it, it’s clear that Samsung has a vision and will see it through, come hell or high water. Not going to lie, I respect that. But what does all that have to do with Samsung’s best NeoQLEDmini-LED TVs? It’s all about their8K TVstrategy....

TVs aren’t always a form of art, but The Frame TV certainly pushes the boundary between a TV and an art piece, is a pretty unique piece of tech to snag, and is probably one of thebest TVson the market. That said, being something that is half painting, half TV can get pretty expensive, especially if you want something on the bigger side to fill a big space. Luckily, there’s an excellent Memorial Day weekend deal on the The Frame TV, knocking up to $1,000 off the stylish telly....

It’s been one week since the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost missionlaunched on its journey to the moon, carrying NASA payloads and aiming to make the second ever commercial soft lunar landing. During this week, the spacecraft captured a gorgeous view of asolar eclipse seen from space, and now it has captured an even more impressive visual: our planet Earth, as seen from a distance of 4,000 miles away. “Firefly captured the beauty of our home planet during another Earth orbit burn,” Firefly Aerospace wrote in a mission update, sharing the image above....

Free communication apps like Slack andDiscordlet people of all stripes enjoy the company of friends, colleagues, and long-time groups, find and join games, or hang out and meet new people. While both offer similar capabilities, you might wonder which service will best suit you and your group’s requirements. Lucky for you, we’ve done the hard work of comparing Slack vs. Discord, making it easier to decide which is best for you....

Slack desktop app users can finally use the workplace chat app with the popular visual theme, dark mode. Thecollaboration softwarecompany announced the desktop availability of an optional dark mode feature on Thursday, September 12,via a tweetanda blog post. According to Slack’s blog post on the matter, dark mode can be enabled on all versions of the desktop app: Mac, Windows, and Linux. The desktop availability of dark mode is in addition to the mobile platforms that already had the feature....

Last week Dish’s burgeoning Web TV service, Sling TV, jumped on the Xbox One, added two new options to the growing list of $5 add-on bundles, and announced plans for the addition of four new channels slated for the core channel pack, including A&E, History, H2, and Lifetime. Today, those channels are live, bringing the growing core pack to an even 20. Dish has been sly with its metered unveiling of Sling TV’s core channel offering, aka the “Best of Live TV” pack, which comes part and parcel with your $20 monthly subscription....