Category: television
DirecTV launches Genre Packs, a more affordable way to get channels you actually want
DirecTV just announced the availability of Genre Packs, which are channel groupings tied to specific interests. The satellite TV provider teased this in January with the introduction of a sports-related bundle, but now there are more to choose from. These new packs include options for news, entertainment and Spanish language…
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Star Trek: Lower Decks sets up its finale elbowing its own ribs
Spoilers for Lower Decks, “Fissure Quest.” It turns out you can have your cake and eat it. The penultimate episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks is an exercise in box ticking for the show’s creative team. It does the grunt work of laying the table and raising the stakes for…
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Valve celebrates Half-Life 2’s 20th anniversary with a big update
It’s Half-Life 2’s 20th anniversary, and in celebration, Valve has released a special update that adds the Episode One and Episode Two expansions to the base game so you can play it all straight through, along with a two-hour documentary, developer commentary, and much more. The game is also free…
Read MoreStar Trek: Lower Decks bows out on business as usual
The following article discusses the fifth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks and older Treks. There’s no such thing as “dead” in Star Trek, the sprawling, perpetual opus that has thrived in spite of itself for almost sixty years. What started as a cornball space-ships and punch-fights show for atomic-age…
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Amazon is rebooting its live-action adaptation of the God of War reboot
Amazon is reshuffling the deck with its God of War series. After the success of Fallout, it wants its next Prime Video gaming adaptation to live up to those lofty expectations — and it’s apparently willing to start fresh to do so. Deadline first reported on Thursday that the series…
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Say goodbye to Boomerang, the streaming service dedicated to classic cartoons
Warner Bros. Discovery is shuttering Boomerang, a streaming service dedicated to classic cartoons, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The platform started as a digital cable channel back in 2000 before expanding to a streaming platform in 2017. Boomerang will officially cease operations on September 30, giving subscribers around two months…
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