Indeed, even some of the most positive reviews of Horizon Forbidden West take a little time to offer a disclaimer that those expecting a substantially different experience from Zero Dawn may be surprised to find that after five years and the introduction of a new generation of console hardware, Forbidden West still feels surprisingly similar to Zero Dawn in many ways. That revelation has inspired some to call Forbidden West “formulaic” and even suggest that it’s not the game we should have gotten after all this time....

“Maybe we should start a band,” Smith muses while they consider the implications of the moniker. And yet, it’s not an inaccurate way to consider the characters they play or how author George R.R. Martin has presented them in Westerosi history. Fire & Blood, the fictional Targaryen history text on which House of the Dragon is based, intentionally offers conflicting information about Smith’s Prince Daemon Targaryen and Frankel’s Dornish Ser Criston Cole....

In ‘The Princess and the Queen’, House of the Dragon whipped through a great deal of information in a short space of time. There were new royal heirs and new dragons; new allies, new enemies and brand-new cast members to play them. We saw that Alicent and Rhaenyra’s friendship had not been repaired in the past decade at King’s Landing – far from it. The battle lines between the Queen and the King’s heir are now firmly drawn....

With the original 1968 Planet of the Apes a huge smash at the box office — it arguably saved 20th Century Fox from going bankrupt — a meeting took place that included studio head Richard D. Zanuck, producer Arthur P. Jacobs, associate producer Mort Abrahams and Fox production exec Stan Hough. At some point the idea came up: why not make a sequel? As we’ve stated elsewhere, sequels at the time were not the big business they are today....

But now Clarice is back, headlining a new CBS drama that picks up where The Silence of the Lambs left off and charts the next stages of the young agent’s career. For fans of the film it’s an enticing proposition, albeit one that has to contend with the inverse of the rights situation that plagued Fuller’s show; Clarice can use any character that originated in The Silence of the Lambs, but none from the rest of Harris’ works, meaning that Hannibal Lecter is nowhere to be seen....

Seven years later, the His Dark Materials TV show is about to enter its third and final season. Those who have read the source material know this is the most fantastical yet. The Amber Spyglass includes the same talking bears, angels, and daemons as previous installments but also introduces the mulefa (horse-like, trunked beings who roll around on seed pods) and the Gallivespians (tiny humanoids who fly on dragonfly-like insects)....

Well, Splitgate is a free-to-play competitive first-person shooter that combines elements of Halo and Portal. It’s developed by 1047 Games: a studio you’ve probably never heard of before simply because Splitgate is their first project. I’d say that the best way to find out what Splitgate is would be to play it for yourself, but given that the game’s servers have been taking a beating lately, you might be better off doing some outside research....

Every saga has a beginning. Episode I of the Star Wars “Skywalker Saga” was faced with a unique challenge when it was released in cinemas in the summer of 1999. As the first part of a Prequel Trilogy charged with “setting up” one of the most successful and beloved movie series of all time, the sheer weight of fan expectation placed upon The Phantom Menace‘s shoulders was pretty much unprecedented....

Corman recruited horror and sci-fi writer Richard Matheson (I Am Legend) to adapt the Poe tale, while also hiring Vincent Price — already established as a horror star in films like The Fly and House on Haunted Hill — for the lead role (just one of four in the film) as the tormented, doomed Roderick Usher. “This film was a gamble for all of us and yet I was prepared to take a gamble because I believed in the works of Edgar Allan Poe,” Price told film historian David Del Valle (in the liner notes for the Shout Factory Blu-ray set The Vincent Price Collection)....

Each week, Gladiators pitted members of the public against the eponymous gladiators: a coterie of contoured, chiselled athletes and bicep-bulging body-builders with fearsome names like Hunter, Lightning, and Warrior. Two male and two female contestants competed against the gladiators, and each other, across a series of six gruelling games, building up points that would determine how much of a head-start they’d receive in the final contestant vs contestant challenge: the dreaded Eliminator obstacle course....

Google Cloud Operations suite is a collection of tools to monitor, troubleshoot, and enhance the performance of your cloud infrastructure or application. Previously, you may have known it as “Stackdriver.” As a part of its offering, it provides end-to-end monitoring solutions using the Google Cloud Monitoring toolset. You can choose to use it for free or pay for it if you want to get rid of the limits to the uptime-check configurations added....

Running massive traffic WordPress sites is challenging. There are many factors: Expensive – require server(s) based on the size of the traffic Skills – you must be skilled in optimizing web server, database, PHP, WP for optimal performance. Security – have to ensure necessary WP related security is implemented to avoid being hacked. Maintenance – you need to regularly updated WP core, themes, plugins to ensure doesn’t expose any vulnerability or break because of compatibility issue....

Introduction GRR (Google Rapid Response) is an incident response framework based on Python that can be used for live forensics and investigations. It allows you to examine and attacks and perform analysis remotely. GRR can be deployed in a server-client architecture. It comes with a web-based user interface that allows you to analyze data collected from the clients. It provides support for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows OS. Requirements A server running Ubuntu 18....

I have always felt Minecraft is a creator’s paradise. This has some of the amazing builds one generally believes impossible: You might not be pursuing a similar path, yet decorations become crucial after the initial Minecraft gameplay. You soon realize it’s not just about crafting recipes; the style has a vital say in the overall adventure. Inevitably, you turn towards the colorful concrete, crafting your builds to visual perfection....

It happens because temporary files, unwanted apps, and cache files gobble up your disk’s space degrading its performance. While this is not common on a brand new PC, older PCs are the ones that tend to be more sluggish since they collect more junk files and bloatware. Moreover, malware attacks can also infect your PC and slow it down. Hence it is recommended to use PC optimization software to speed up your PC to avoid these issues....

Rumors of Apple intentionally slowing down old iPhones make an Android user distrustful as well. The users might feel like they have no control over their Android phone’s sluggishness, but that’s far away from the truth. Many reasons contribute to the slowness of Android devices. However, one can quickly solve these issues with simple tricks that speed up the android phone. Many Android phone users don’t prefer upgrading their devices as they see a new model in the market....

Traditionally, APM tools, like many other applications before the rise of SaaS (Software-as-a-solution) solutions, were deployed on servers and developer machines. However, as SaaS solutions became more popular, these tools transitioned to the cloud. As with any SaaS application, cloud-based APM offers several advantages over on-premise software. There is no need to acquire new hardware to host the APM tool, and management of the APM tool itself is left in the hands of the vendor....

Voice-changing tools are being used to a large extent by gamers and influencers around the world. And Voicemod is one tool on top of the best voice changer solutions list. What is Voicemod? It is primarily a free program that lets you modify your voice while talking to other people. This tool allows you to make real-time modifications and apply various effects. It also works as a soundboard, using which you can play with various audio effects and create ready-to-use voice skins....

With a live-action Netflix movie on the way, incoming fans are wondering… Do you start from the very beginning? Or wait, maybe start with the prequel show? Hold on, what about a more recent series? Even when you decide where you want to start watching Gundam, figuring out how you’re going to watch it is a little trickier. The Gundam franchise isn’t consolidated in one or even two streaming platforms for easy access, which makes all this harder....

If you’ve not been living under a rock these past couple of weeks, you may have noticed social media users posting what looks like a miniature version of a minesweeper screenshot. Mostly grey tiles with a few yellow ones strewn across and a row of green blocks at the bottom. If you don’t know what it is, do not fret, we’re here to help you understand it and subsequently win it (most times)....