Why is everyone so interested in Manor Lords? The game, an ambitious city builder/RTS hybrid, attempts to simulate how medieval towns were constructed by embracing organic layouts and doing away with the grid systems common in the genre. And, today, it hit 3 million wishlists on Steam – that's no mean feat. It's currently above even Hades 2. That's impressive. Its trailers have been attractive, interesting, and intriguing – but there's something else to the game's rampant success. It's 2022...
The head of the company’s gaming subscription service explains its priorities as it anticipates the Vision Pro revolution, and tries to bring originality to a market still dominated by free to play mobile titlesWhen Apple launched its games subscription service, Arcade, in September 2019, it drew a huge amount of attention – as with everything the company does. Offering 100 premium (ie, not ad-infested) mobile games for a monthly subscription fee of £4.99/$4.99 (now £6.99), and the promise of...
Geek Girl, the Canada/UK coproduction based on Holly Smale’s young-adult novel of the same name, is set to become the first scripted series to premiere on Corus Entertainment’s multi-channel streaming platform StackTV.
Netflix is surprisingly upfront about its upfront plans. The company is set to make its second upfront presentation this May, and in an earnings call today, Netflix's leaders explained exactly what to expect. Typically, upfront week presenters are somewhat clandestine about the contents of their presentations ahead of the annual advertising event; however, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos was an open book when teasing Netflix's first looks and content clips marketers can look out for. ...
Carl Erskine, one of the last surviving Dodgers from their days in Brooklyn, who spent his entire career with the team and who in 1958 started their first home game in Los Angeles, died Tuesday at age 97, the team announced. “The Los Angeles Dodgers express their condolences to the family of renowned pitcher Carl […]
Netflix has acquired the British young-adult drama A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder in multiple global markets including the US. The 6×45’ series will launch on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer in the U
The Gist: London, 1939. Two days prior, Hitler invaded Poland. The British
MEGHAN Markle’s new podcast has been put on ice until next year, reports claim. The Duchess of Sussex, 42, will instead focus on making her new Netflix series about “cooking, gardening
What the latest news in AI means for you. How fast is AI evolving? It’s now reached parity with humans on a variety of tasks, including image identification, basic reading, visual reasoning and English-language understanding, according to an AI Index published by the Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence program. That’s impressive progress in just a […]
Suge Knight doesn’t like Drake’s “Taylor Made Freestyle” diss to Kendrick Lamar. Not because it attacked Lamar, but because it put 2Pac and Snoop’s voices together on the song. Speaking on his Collect Call with Suge Knight podcast from Breakbeat Media, Suge said, “Putting him on a song and dissing Kendrick for everybody entertainment–that ain’t […] The post Suge Knight Says 2Pac’s Voice Next to Snoop’s on Drake’s Diss Track Isn’t a ‘Good Look’ first appeared on The Source.
Netflix will stop disclosing the number of people who signed up for its service, as well as the revenue it generates from each subscriber from next year, the company announced on Thursday. It will focus, instead, on highlighting revenue growth and the amount of time spent on its platform. “In our early days, when we had little revenue or profit, membership growth was a strong indicator of our future potential,” the company said in a letter to shareholders. “But now we’re generating very...
We already knew the entertainment industry has more or less become a technocracy, but hearing about it still feels surreal. Sadly, all the human entertainment execs can do these days is lay down mere mortal ideas on the altar of the almighty algorithm, enslaved to the whims of whatever ones and zeroes say will be successful. That is to say, according to A Knight’s Tale director Brian Helgeland, Netflix shot down his pitch for a sequel because its algorithm said so. “Paul Bettany called me after...