Month: July 2021
‘Skin Deep’ is a stinky sci-fi shooter from indie icon Brendon Chung
Brendon Chung knows what people expect out of a first-person shooter. Guns? Check. Strafing? Yep. Ammo drops in strategic yet predictable locations? You betcha. A sneezing system? Uh, sure. Noxious green clouds that follow you when you're smelly, giving away your location? Um. Actually, yes. Skin Deep is the latest…
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‘Solar Ash’ brings surreal 3D platforming to PC, PS4 and PS5 on October 26th
As a kid, Alx Preston spent a significant amount of time as a member of the audience, watching his brother sing in choir and opera groups. One night, he found himself sitting in a pew at the heart of a large, elegant church, letting the sounds of yet another performance…
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Jason Schwartzman plays a floating brain in musical adventure ‘The Artful Escape’
The Artful Escape is an idealized vision of everything the music industry could be, straight out of the brain of Australian rockstar Johnny Galvatron. In five years of development (at least), The Artful Escape has transformed into a psychedelic adventure game with a living soundtrack of original folk and rock…
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Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney over Black Widow’s streaming release
Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney over the simultaneous streaming release of Black Widow, which debuted the same day in theaters and on Disney Plus through its Premier Access service. The suit was filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court and alleges that Johansson’s contract with Marvel Entertainment, which is owned…
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New PayPal ‘super app’ includes messaging at last Headquarters
PayPal will be moving forward with its plans to transform its mobile payment app into a “super app” according to the company’s CEO. As reported by TechCrunch, during a recent Q2 earnings call PayPal CEO Dan Schulman told investors that the initial version of its new consumer digital wallet app…
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Motorola debuts Edge 20 flagships globally with fast refresh screens and 108-megapixel cameras
Motorola is keeping its return to flagship devices running for the second year in a row with today’s global announcement of the Edge 20 Pro, Edge 20, and Edge 20 Lite. The top-end 20 Pro includes a periscope-style telephoto lens for the first time in a Motorola device and includes…
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