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Game Of Thrones And Exorcist Star Max Von Sydow Dies

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Legendary actor Max von Sydow has died. The Swedish star was 90 years old, and leaves a formidable body of work, including iconic roles in The Exorcist, Game of Thrones, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.Von Sydow's long screen career began in the late 1940s, but it was his many collaborations with influential Swedish director Ingmar Bergman that brought him to the attention of film fans worldwide. Their best known work was 1956's classic The Seventh Seal, with its much-parodied scenes in which von Sydow's character plays chess with Death

Final Fantasy 7 Remake’s Midgar Is Designed To Make You Feel Bad About Your Actions

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With the news that Final Fantasy VII Remake will take place exclusively in Midgar, it's not surprising that the city is going to be expanded and reworked. In the remake, the city will be a sprawling, living city--just to make you feel bad about blowing part of it up.A new interview with producer Yoshinori Kitase and co-director Naoki Hamaguchi has revealed some of the thought that has gone into designing a larger, more complete Midgar.In the original game, players only spent a few hours at the start of the game

Binging The Office Will Earn Someone $1000

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Dish Network is going to pay someone $1000 to watch 15 hours of The Office--so what's the catch, and more importantly, where do we apply?The Office officially turns 15 years old on March 24, and Dish is celebrating with this paid 15-hour marathon. Considering The Office is Netflix's number one most watched show, Dish is unlikely to have a hard time filling this role.It's not the first time a company has paid for a dedicated binge-watcher--just last year CableTV paid $1000 for someone to watch the entire MCU collection back-to-back,

Former PlayStation Boss Doesn’t Miss The Console Wars

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Former PlayStation executive Adam Boyes sounds as if he is happy for the "console wars" period of his life to be over. Boyes, who was vice president for third-party relations at PlayStation from 2012-2016, told USgamer that he loved what he did, who he worked with, and what he achieved during his run at Sony. But there was also a lot of stress."Sometimes I feel like I have an opinion, but it doesn't matter because I did that," Boyes said about the forthcoming launch of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox

Here’s Another Look At How Resident Evil 3 Remake’s Gameplay Compares To The Original

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Time Stamp: March 8, 2020 10:10 PM - Modified On: March 8, 2020 - Published By:
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Prepare to be scared just like you were in 1999--but this time in higher resolution. While we've already compared old and new in a side-by-side video, a new Resident Evil 3 remake video shows extended sections of gameplay against their retro counterparts.After the success of the Resident Evil 2 remake, we're all looking forward to seeing what will be done with the next game in the series. This video gives a bit of insight into how 2020's gaming technology can make the game (but mainly Nemesis) feel so much bigger,

Box Office: Pixar’s Onward Does Well In US But Stumbles Internationally Amid Coronavirus Concerns

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The latest box office numbers are in, and Pixar's Onward was unsurprisingly the biggest movie of the weekend in America. The film raked in $40.4 million in the US, which is a huge number, but it's also well below the $50 million that estimates suggested.The downturn in the US isn't due to the coronavirus, Deadline reported. Instead, "it's Onward itself here that isn't working," the site reported. The site points out a number of issues with the film and how it's framed, but it's too soon to say for sure

Apex Legends But Everything Is Smooth As Eggs | Potato Mode

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There are people who are always pushing for better graphics and smoother textures. And then there are idiots like us. Welcome back to Potato Mode, the series where we play some of the most visually-appealing video games with their visual settings knocked down to as low as we can.This episode's victim is Apex Legends. In the video above, Max Blumenthal and Jean-Luc Seipke drop into Respawn's battle royale to see how World's Edge looks without all the technical settings that make it one of the prettiest locations in the Outlands.

Symphony of the Scam – The TouchArcade Show #437

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This week’s podcast kicks off with a explainer in three acts regarding the unbelievable scam I’ve been dealing with that has soaked up … far, FAR too much of my time. From there we talk about GDC getting canceled before swerving into the big news stories of the week which includes a borderline unbelievable surprise release of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. As usual, it’s a good time. Don’t forget to shoot us emails with any questions, feedback, or anything else relevant or irrelevant to [email protected]. We read ’em all,

TouchArcade Game of the Week: ‘Castlevania: Symphony of the Night’

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TouchArcade Rating:The idea behind the TouchArcade Game of the Week is that every Friday afternoon we post the one game that came out this week that we think is worth giving a special nod to. Now, before anyone goes over-thinking this, it doesn’t necessarily mean our Game of the Week pick is the highest scoring game in a review, the game with the best graphics, or really any other quantifiable “best" thing. Instead, it’s more just us picking out the single game out of the week’s releases that we think