It’s impossible to deny the significance and popularity of battle royale games in recent years, but we’re getting to this point where the cries for something different just keep getting a little louder. The problem is that some of the genre’s biggest names (such as Call of Duty and Battlefield) are struggling to find out what that alternative looks like in the modern age while intriguing indie experiences (like the Halo-esque Splitgate) just don’t have the resources to compete and really push their vision as quickly or as far as Triple-A titles can....

Throughout the day, Hideo Kojima has been tweeting and retweeting memories of the Metal Gear Solid franchise (specifically Phantom Pain). While that’s hardly unusual in the grand scheme of things, it is slightly unusual to see Kojima be this open about his MGS memories given both the circumstances of his departure from Konami and some current reports regarding the immediate future of the MGS franchise. This tweet, in particular, has been getting a lot of attention....

The unique bit of ugliness about Home Sweet Home Alone’s cynicism, however, is that it’s not even nostalgia done particularly well. Disney rolls out the red carpet when they’re mining their own vaults for animated classics to remake, or when capitalizing on a $4 billion investment in Lucasfilm. But Home Sweet Home Alone plays like an afterthought that was penciled onto a spreadsheet somewhere—a project which will begin with the Fox fanfare like it’s the grave robber who chuckles about the tomb he’s raiding, but then has the pure ineptitude or quiet embarrassment to not also shoehorn in John Williams’ majestic Home Alone score at the top of the movie....

House of the Dragon, HBO’s new highly anticipated prequel series set before the events of Game of Thrones, seeks to change that. The show will wind the clocks back to events that occurred about 200 years before Ned Stark ever traveled to King’s Landing, and it’ll find a far grander and more decadent period than anything we saw from the hobbled kingdoms under the reigns of Robert and Joffrey Baratheon....

The Grishaverse books series on which Netflix’s Shadow and Bone is based are wildly popular, which means many viewers heading into a binge-watch of the epic fantasy series already know some of the biggest plot twists coming their way. But not all viewers. It might not be hard to guess that a character who can manipulate shadow is a bad guy, but Ben Barnes is so god damn charming that some may be surprised by the mid-season reveal that General Kirigan, aka the Darkling, is actually the Black Heretic....

Were Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) an item in the original Jurassic Park movie from 1993? Fans still debate the issue almost 30 years later. While the characters never embrace with more than a hug over the course of that Steven Spielberg classic, and refer to each other as almost anything other than friends or colleagues, it was long assumed by most who viewed the movie in ’93 that they were a couple....

While Snyder has been doing a plethora of press as of late to promote his new Netflix feature, Army of the Dead, the director seems to possess a nigh-unlimited stock of headline-making revelations about his past works, as exemplified by his appearance on this week’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, via THR. Indeed, while the iteration of the DCEU that manifested under his creative purview, now dubbed the “SnyderVerse,” has, for all intents and purposes, reached its curious end with the recent HBO Max release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, the proverbial onion that is Snyder’s creative process continues to peel with the director’s disclosure about the Batman he was looking to cast in a no-Affleck scenario, Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts....

In the early 2000s, a new movement in horror hit Western audiences. It came from Japan, was known as “J-Horror” and it was scary as all hell. Though not the first of the new wave, Ringu was definitely the breakout hit of the subgenre and the one that landed big, introducing us to the long haired creepy girl-ghost trope that would quickly become ubiquitous. It certainly wasn’t the first use of this kind of ghostly character in Japanese cinema, but for many viewers, the sodden, jerky, strange Sadako with her giant eye and torn up fingernails was a revelation....

Lucasfilm’s most recent theatrical entries in its iconic space opera franchise, Solo: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, were respectively an outright flop and the lowest-grossing entry in the Sequel Trilogy. Then came The Mandalorian, the first live-action Star Wars TV series to premiere on Disney+. It launched to fan and critical praise, giving the new streaming service a massive promotional boost and washing away some of the bad taste left by those last two movies....

But, as fans will learn from the very first episode, the Campus Colony (as it’s referred to) does have a seemingly precarious arrangement with the Civic Republic Military (CRM), whose ominous helicopters act as a narrative thread that ties the three shows together. It’s safe to say you’ll learn way more about this mysterious faction in World Beyond than ever before. The show primarily centers on sisters Iris (Aliyah Royale) and Hope (Alexa Mansour), who leave the safety of the University in search of their father, brilliant scientist Dr....

In June 2021, global crypto adoption soared over 880% compared to last year. So, it’ll only count as massive ignorance to miss the crypto going mainstream. Yeah, there are some scalability issues, but that’s pretty common with any nascent technology. Accepting crypto payments gives you access to an international audience. That leaves you and your customers without any annoying middlemen, like a bank. While you can always set up a manual wallet and accept payments, the convenience of using a dedicated third-party solution is unmatched....

Considering the increase in malware, phishing & dangerous links on the Internet, it’s probably good to validate the website if it’s safe to visit. Safe browsing validation is integrated with much online business including Facebook, DuckDuckGo, Mail.ru. For ex: if you click on a dangerous link on Facebook then you will get the warning message about marked as abused by partner – WOT (Web of Trust). Another example of one of the most popular search engine that doesn’t track is DuckDuckGo....

You can express percent error as absolute error or relative error. Errors may occur because of precision error in a machine, computing error, measurement error, or environmental conditions. Percent errors help us to determine how significant our errors are during any analysis. More minor percent errors mean that we are close to the original value, while more substantial percent errors mean a considerable discrepancy between the actual value and approximate value....

When you turn your blog post into a video and upload it on a platform like YouTube, you’re doubling the chances of it getting seen. When more people see your content, it means more traffic, and we all know what more traffic can possibly bring – SALES. Also, it’s a well-known fact that video marketing is enormous and highly effective for any business. But, there are also possibilities that a lot of people can’t make good videos for a variety of reasons....

What is a Funnel Chart in Marketing? In Microsoft Excel, a funnel chart is a graphic representation of data generally shown as a pyramid. It usually refers to the number of site visits, prospects, or buyers going through a sales funnel. Typically, it displays the succession stages of rectangle-shaped bars, with the width of each bar corresponding to its value. Each subsequent level’s height corresponds to the percentage of things that fall into that category....

There are many ways to implement HTTP response headers to secure sites from common vulnerabilities, such as XSS, Clickjacking, MIMI sniffing, cross-site injection, and many more. Its widely adopted practice and recommended by OWASP. Previously, I wrote about implementing headers in a web server like Apache, Nginx, and IIS. However, if you are using Cloudflare to protect and supercharge your sites, you may take advantage of Cloudflare Workers to manipulate the HTTP response headers....

How do you currently monitor your Nginx and PHP applications? Meet – Nginx Amplify A SaaS-based monitoring solutions for Nginx open source, Plus, PHP-FPM application and underlying operating system components. Amplify is hosted in AWS, and it communicates through agent over TLS. The agent is available for all the primary operating system. How does it work? You need to install the agent on the server where Nginx and PHP application is running....

According to the State of Cybercrime 2017 report, cyber attacks would cost businesses $6 trillion yearly by 2021. As hacking attempts get more sophisticated, online businesses need a holistic approach to cybersecurity. Let’s take a quick look at the data breach cost by country. The USA score high, but one thing is clear, data breaches everywhere. If you are an online business owner, then you need a website security solution that is easy to deploy, provides proper instant protection with rules in block mode, and takes away the pain of continuous management and updates....

This information comes from the Adobe Digital Economy Index, which measured over a trillion visits to various U.S. retail websites and found that the Xbox Series S was not only more popular than its next-gen competition but was one of the most popular items over the sales weekend across the board. Given that the Xbox Series S typically doesn’t generate a lot of buzz compared to the Series X, PS5, and Nintendo Switch, that information might come as a surprise to many....

Ford also told the crowd, “This is it,” confirming that this will be the last time he’ll don Indiana’s signature hat onscreen. Ford’s exit from the franchise will come after another large piece of the Indiana Jones creative team already metaphorically hung up his own whip; director Steven Spielberg, responsible for helming the first four films in the series, handed the reins over to Mangold of Logan and Walk the Line fame....