Odds are you will first discover these red crystals sticking to various walls and doors throughout The Daunt and No Man’s Land. When scanned, they are classified as “Anomalous Growth,” and their description reads: “Hybridized crystalline and fungal growth of unknown origin. Invulnerable to impact. Special gear required to clear.” That last sentence should be your first clue. Much like how the Pullcaster lets Aloy grapple certain items and ledges, a similar device lets her destroy the red crystals....

As officially announced, House of the Dragon has added characters Ser Harwin “Breakbones” Strong (Ryan Corr), Lord Jason Lannister/Tyland Lannister (Jefferson Hall), Grand Maester Mellos (David Horovitch), Ser Harrold Westerling (Graham McTavish), Larys Strong (Matthew Needham), Lord Lyman Beesbury (Bill Patterson) and Lord Lyonel Strong (Gavin Spokes). Yet, amongst the group, Hall’s Lannister role immediately raises a red, lion-emblazoned flag, seeing as it confirms the most sinister, habitually-backstabbing family in Westeros—which is saying something....

After an introductory and incendiary business lesson, American Gangster opens on Thanksgiving. Harlem Godfather Bumpy Johnson (Clarence Williams III) is standing on the back of a freight truck, giving out turkeys to the less fortunate. The crowds are cheering, and he calls Frank over bask in the loving spotlight. His young protégé demurs, allowing his boss to be the sole beneficiary of the mass gratitude for this act of beneficence....

However, as we saw most recently with Cyberpunk 2077 (a game that fell victim to its hype in both avoidable and unavoidable ways), this kind of prolonged period of fan-driven marketing combined with a lack of official information can turn a once-beloved project into the source of scorn for fans who are left wondering what happened. Elden Ring could indeed be a truly unique and special game, but its pre-release hype period is starting to become far too familiar....

You will also learn how to switch WordPress from PHP 5 to 7 on Shared Hosting, VPS/Cloud. PHP7 was released in 2015 with many performance improvements but it looks like the industry is yet to adopt the new version of PHP. As you can see PHP7 got just above 3% of market share despite providing better features. Does it lack awareness? I read a lot of articles on PHP7 vs....

Note: Den of Geek may receive a commission from links on this page. The manila envelope is unmarked and tightly sealed. It takes some effort to tear it open, as if the envelope itself is warning me: “Are you sure you want to see what’s inside? Are you entirely certain you’re up for this?” I answer the question by tearing the package open. As the 10 objects within slide across my desk – a journal, incident report, map, newspaper clipping, and more – it would seem I’ve accepted my role as a detective on the case....

And yet, while watching how the dazzling sizzle reel footage is framed in Dead Reckoning, it is hard not to think this will be some kind of capstone on the entire Mission: Impossible franchise. After all, this is the first feature in nearly 30 years to directly call back on the events of the original Mission: Impossible movie from 1996. Most obviously, that is apparent in the way the trailer is structured around a verbal dressing down from an IMF and/or CIA handler....

Though the basic premise of Resident Alien will feel fairly familiar to genre viewers—an extraterrestrial forced to live in disguise as a dead human doctor named Harry Vanderspeigle contemplates whether or not to help his race kill us all—it may come as a surprise to many that the SYFY comedy is probably one of the most original and heartwarming things on-air right now. (Yes, really.) Based on the Dark Horse comic of the same name, the series initially appears to be the story of a dangerous alien who may or may not be plotting the human race’s doom....

I see the game a little differently, though. While it’s easy to look at these kinds of projects that were never released and wonder what could have been, the fascinating thing about the canceled Dark Knight game is that wondering what would have happened if the game had been released is the quickest way to distract yourself from the many ways that the world of gaming was changed by the fact it wasn’t released....

While the notion of James Gunn taking on a team of misfit, C-list characters for a big team movie may call to mind his other superhero franchise, the director told reporters during a 2019 visit to the set of The Suicide Squad that any similarities end there, promising that his DC movie “is a much, much, much rougher film” than what we got in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies....

Well, we’ve been keeping an eye on many of the major retailers that are offering deals throughout Black Friday week, and we’ve honestly found that it seems like few of those retailers are making any promises regarding specific restocks and next-gen console availability. However, anyone who feels like their rapidly approaching their last chance to grab a next-gen console before the year is over will certainly want a little more information regarding some of the best available retail options....

This is often you have to do when you are working in a DMZ environment for migration or new projects. Let’s take a real-time example – you are working on migration, and you have to ensure connectivity exists between application “A” to “B” on a particular port. Well. It’s straightforward you can perform telnet but how about when “B” doesn’t have any service running? That’s where you need the port listener to help in this situation....

One of the very early attacks that computer science made on human “intelligence” was through the game of chess. Chess is (or should we say, was?) assumed by many as the ultimate test of human intellect and creativity, and back in the 1960-the 70s, there were different schools of thought within computer science. Some held that it was just a matter of time before computers overtook humans in playing chess, while others believed this would never happen....

If you look at the previous track record of Microsoft, you can find this surprisingly silly pattern where it screws every alternate Windows release. Remember how Windows Me was a disaster, but Windows XP was a massive hit? Then released Windows Vista, another disaster, but Windows 7 was superhit again. The story continues with Windows 8 being bad and Windows 10 being a heartthrob. So, what are your bets on Windows 11?...

Minecraft has grown upon me in just the first few hours. I have learned to craft my way out of many situations. One such condition is the night which is dangerous and boring for us Minecrafters, at least beginners. One fine trick to get past the darkness quickly is using a bed. And there are mainly two ways you can get a bed: make one or steal. 🤫 First, we will see it the right way followed by stealing a bed after this section....

Especially when a person works on multiple windows at the same time that too on a single computer, one can slowly feel suffocated and frustrated. For people who multitask, setting up two monitors is a must. Any modern laptop or desktop can run dual displays. All one needs is a second monitor. This investment won’t go to waste. It will only boost productivity and efficiency. Before we move towards the purchases of dual monitors, let us look through the process of setting up dual screens....

There is great encouragement from every side when an Android user intends to switch to iPhone. This momentous shift happens sooner or later, but it also comes with a set of doubts and hesitation. Android is widely used globally, with over 2.5 billion active users. However, iPhone is slowly catching up. Over a billion active iPhone users acquire about 23% share of the global smartphone market. It’s common to switch from Android to iPhone....

You’ve probably seen * and ** in other’s code or even have used them without actually knowing what their purpose is. We’ll be walking through the concept of unpacking, and how to use it to write more Pythonic code. Here is a list of concepts that you’ll find useful while reading this tutorial: Iterable: Any sequence that can be iterated by a for-loop, like sets, lists, tuples, and dictionaries Callable: A Python object that can be called using double parenthesis (), for example, myfunction() Shell: Interactive runtime environment which let us run Python code....

This is how it played out last month when Jackman shared a Boss Logic fan image of the Wolverine claws he wore in nine X-Men movies and then an image taken of himself chatting with Feige back in 2013 when they were hanging out in a talent lounge at San Diego Comic-Con. Innocuous stuff, right? Well, according to more than one publication, from comic book sites to major print magazines, it was all a clever wink and nod that Jackman was planning to reprise his signature role of Logan, aka the Wolverine, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

Many people don’t depend on geo-restricted services, and honestly, Google finding out you like kittens over puppies doesn’t bother most people. So many people find VPN redundant. But is it really useless except for these circumstances? At its very core, a VPN will just redirect your connection to hide your IP address and encrypt your data. However, this simple change can completely change how you interact with the online world....