Producer Adi Shankar said that his animated series Castlevania would be “the western world’s first good video game adaptation.” With two seasons currently available on Netflix and a hotly anticipated third season currently in the works, it appears he was right. Success stories like Game of Thrones have given dark adult fantasy a new life, twenty years after the Spawn first appeared on HBO twenty years ago and showed the potential of the genre to be adapted from comics into television....

A new game type is coming to Fortnite Creative Mode, and it’s making its first appearance at PAX South 2020. Creative Mode debuted in Fornite in late 2018 and gives players a place to build freely and even create new games modes without the distraction of a winner-takes-all deathmatch going on around them. Fortnite is best known for its massively popular battle royale mode, but its importance as an online gathering place shouldn’t be underestimated....

Research company Wavemetrix presented its new data at special digital industry event, mashup*, last night. The data indicated an extremely high level of satisfaction among UK iPhone users, who appear particularly interested in social, music and gaming applications. Distorted Loop reports one iPhone customer, who said, “I generally check for new applications daily and end up usually buying at least one a day." Apple will be pleased to learn that the feedback canvassed during the survey indicated customers see most of the applications available on the App Store to be good value – and the largest complaint among users was that it can take some practice to get to learn how to control Super Monkey Ball....

A video game lawyer has revealed exactly what Electronic Arts would have to do in order to make a new NCAA Football game happen, and it’s thrown a wrench into fans’ hopes for a comeback. The lawyer’s clarification follows the NCAA announcement that it would start the process of letting students profit from their own image, name and other likenesses, which many thought meant NCAA Football games could return. The NCAA Football series ran from 1993, when it was known as Bill Walsh College Football, to 2013....

Over the past month, the new “Google Nest” replaced Nest.com with the Google Store and gained a new Help Center. The unified brand has now killed its Wear OS and Apple Watch apps for home control right from your wrist. Released yesterday, version 5.37 of the Nest app coincides with the deprecation of the wearable apps on both platforms. On Wear OS, opening the app will result in a “Nest is no longer supported for Wear OS” prompt, with users advised to uninstall....

Niantic heavily touted this weekend’s Pokémon GO Fest in Chicago, the first-ever event of its kind. Despite the company’s promises, however, the event didn’t live up to expectations. Server and network issues plagued Pokémon GO Fest from the start, and Niantic is now saying it will offer refunds to those who attended… As detailed in a report from TechCrunch, Pokémon GO Fest attracted some 20,000 attendees to Chicago’s Grant Park. While the weather was expected to be the primary concern, focus quickly shifted to the logistical problems....

Statistical analysis is typically geared toward performing anomaly detection. Based on the wealth of information available to the analysis algorithm, it can make educated guesses about what should be considered “normal” versus what is “abnormal” or “anomalous.” Any deviations from the norm may be an indicator that something is going on, making statistical analysis ideally suited to helping an incident responder determine where their investigative efforts can be focused to maximize their probability of success....

All the way back in January, we posted the first photographs of the back shell for the next-generation full-sized iPad with Retina Display. According to these photos, the next 9.7-inch iPad will look like a larger iPad mini, complete with thinner bezels. Since then, videos and some photos of the front panel and digitizer for the future product have also emerged. Today, a series of new shots have emerged at repair shop MacFixit’s website (via MacRumors) of the front panel and digitizer....

That’s both a hell of a problem and a benefit. We can speak to people on the other side of the globe as if they were in the same room, collaborating on documents and producing things that truly represent global collaboration. We have technologies that can reach virtually everyone via smartphones and devices and global technology brands operating in similar ways for everyone on the planet. The benefits of globalization are easy to see, and common approaches are key....

Netflix releases a trailer for The Silence. Based on Tim Lebbon’s 2015 novel, the horror adaption stars Kiernan Shipka and her Chilling Adventures of Sabrina co-star Miranda Otto. Directed by John R. Leonetti, The Silence follows a family who retreats to the woods during an apocalyptic event. Like John Krasinski’s 2018 mainstream hit A Quiet Place, which featured deaf actress Millicent Simmonds portraying a deaf character, Shipka’s character, Ally Andrews, is deaf....

Mindy Kaling’s Netflix teen sitcom Never Have I Ever has won audiences over with its clever writing, cultural specificity, and empathetic view toward high-school students. Centered on sophomore Devi Vishwakumar, the series sees her navigating a traditional high-school experience while also dealing with the death of her father and the impact it has on her strict mother. Devi is far from perfect, makes many mistakes, and navigates a series of heartbreaking struggles....

A new trailer for New Mutants has finally been released, but what is the song playing in the background? After spending years in post-production limbo, Josh Boone’s horror superhero film New Mutants will finally see the light of day this year. Originally planned for an April 2018 release, the film was delayed due to reshoots to make it more frightening and also to avoid competition like Deadpool 2 and X-Men: Dark Phoenix....

Just over a month ago, we showed you the case of what seems to be the next generation Nano with a camera. The leak’s proximity to April Fool’s day led many to be skeptical of the leak. Fast forward to today where the same source produced a more complete picture of what Apple may announce in September. The new photo shows a more complete picture with the clip pulled from the design....

From 9to5Toys: Nike has announced the official rollout of its latest NikePlus rewards for members. The new benefits include exclusive Nike playlists on Apple Music, a deal for four months free of the music service, personalized promotions, and more. Nike announced the fresh rewards in a blog post yesterday. The new NikePlus Unlocks are now available and include: Getting Rewarded For Workouts, New Partnerships Adding Variety, Personalized Promotions, and A Refreshed Exclusive Shop....

The rebranding Companion of Nokia, HMD Global has cleared that the monthly security patches of the smartphone are going to roll out along with the software updates on a regular basis for all of its flagships. Now, the promise is being analyzed as true. New Update of 7.1.1 Nougat for Nokia 6 is being Roll Out This is simply because Android 7.1.1 Nougat update has been rolled out for all the users of Nokia 6....

Officials noted in the blog post on February 16 about the new build that Microsoft is no longer planning to publicly note when it changes the branches (which have been codenamed using periodic element names for the past few years) that are used for particular builds. As officials said previously, the Dev Channel branch will be for testing all kinds of experimental features which may or may never be included as part of a future Windows release....

At the end of 2021, total CVC capacity on the network was 23.4Tbps, down 2.5%, and average capacity per user dropped 3.5% to 2.7Mbps, according to the latest NBN Wholesale Market Indicators Report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). Broken down by state and territory, the ACT and Victoria had the highest decreases at 15% and 12%, respectively, with NSW shrinking by 6% as well. Headed in the other direction were the Northern Territory with an 11% rise, followed by Queensland and South Australia on 10% increases, Tasmania on 6%, and Western Australia on 4%....

[vimeo 122338477 w=700 h=394] I’ve tried a number of Mac email clients over the years before settling (for now) on Postbox, but if I were running a company, I’d definitely give Hiri a whirl. Once your company grows, however, the chances are you’re going to need Office 365 and Exchange compatibility – and that’s what the company is now working on … Hiri is built around the idea of separating essential emails from nice-to-know ones, allowing team members to choose who needs to action an email and who just needs to be kept in the loop....

The teaser trailer for Netflix’s Daybreak imagines what would it be like if Matthew Broderick and a bunch of teenagers found themselves fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The series and Broderick’s casting were announced late last year, as filming was about to get underway. And though news surrounding the series has been mostly quiet, Netflix is finally ready to unleash the apocalypse on Generation Z… and Broderick doing his thing....

Fox’s long-delayed New Mutants movie reportedly features a queer romantic relationship between two of its main characters: Moonstar and Wolfsbane, as played respectively by Blu Hunt and Maisie Williams. It feels like eons ago when Fox set writer-director Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) to adapt Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod’s New Mutants comic books as part of the studio’s X-Men movie franchise. Boone had initially compared his vision for the film to horror movies like The Shining and Nightmare on Elm Street, but was reportedly forced to tone things down during production....