While standard plug-in kettles were a big step up from their stovetop counterparts, nothing has shaken up the core routine of brewing up quite like the modern smart kettle. If you’re living in a smart home, and control your lights and other fittings with your phone or your voice, why not get a brew boiling without having to stand up and do it yourself? Best smart cooking thermometers Connected kettles are a simple, glorious innovation....
As Better Call Saul heads into its sixth and final season, the AMC hit has found a way to carve out its own path beyond the enormous shadow of its big brother, Breaking Bad. The series combines incredible cinematography, outstanding acting, and intelligent storytelling in a peerless fashion. As we continue to anticipate the show’s final episodes, we were lucky enough to get the chance to talk with executive producer Thomas Schnauz about how much the drama has already accomplished, how instrumental actors like Rhea Seehorn and Tony Dalton have been to the program’s success, and what the show’s lasting legacy will hopefully be....
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has given fans one of the best iterations of Zombies to date. With it, many new features and mechanics have been introduced to the game. Previously, you only spawned in with a Pistol or other weak weapons. Black Ops Cold War has flipped the script, as you can use any gun in the game (outside of Wonder Weapons) as your starting weapon. Some of these guns are amazing, and you’ll want to keep with you the entire game and upgrade it to higher rarities as you progress....
Blizzard is one of the most well known video game development companies in the industry. Their MMO, World of Warcraft, paved the way for dozens of massive multiplayer online games – some more successful than others. It’s a company that understands its customer base and has dedicated itself to making them happy. It’s also a company that hasn’t produced a new franchise in 17 years. Sure, they’ve developed new games and expansions, but they’ve also been playing it safe – sticking with a formula that was working very well for them....
http://youtu.be/6VlBv7TzRNE In the world of competitive collectible card games, there aren’t very many properties that can compete with the popularity of Magic: The Gathering and Pokemon. With the help of Blizzard’s loyal fanbase and a long and effective beta, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft has risen through the ranks and become one of the most exciting and popular online card games in the market. Many Magic pros now dedicate at least some portion of their Twitch streams to Hearthstone games and, starting next month, there will be a whole new batch of cards to draft and build decks around....
Bloodborne’s Vicar Amelia resides in the most obvious boss arena to have ever existed. You open the grand doors of the cathedral, ascend the large staircase, and see a figure hunched over at the end of a long room. Though her location is pretty eldritch, her overall design veers away from the Lovecraftian aesthetic into…dead mummy deer wolf thing. All players can do is charge in and slay the beast, but Vicar Amelia is a challenging boss due to her large health pool....
Having been online for a little more than a weekend, the climax to Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat 2—or its full title of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan—has already become the stuff of legend. Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City, once dubiously titled “America’s Mayor,” and current personal attorney of President Donald Trump, appeared to be sticking his hand down his pants while in the hotel room of a young woman....
It’s been about a week since Borderlands 3 got its next-gen debut on the Xbox Series X and a few days since it’s been out on the PS5. We knew courtesy of Gearbox marketing that the big sell on both consoles would be 4K resolution at 60fps, but neither console mentioned an available Performance Mode that would allow up to 120fps on screens presenting at 1080p. Performance Mode gives exactly that....
The Nintendo Switch has plenty of JRPGs to play at the moment and they just keep on coming. At the end of February 2021, a new challenger entered the fray: Bravely Default II. This video game is the third entry in the Bravely series, following Bravely Second: End Layer in April 2015 and Bravely Default in October 2012. Bravely Default II takes place on the continent of Excillant and features a compelling story through the journey of a group of four exceptional characters....
Brands and businesses worldwide have reacted to recent events surrounding the evil embedded in the US justice system. In some cases, their responses have been tone-deaf. Thankfully, however, plenty of other businesses have used their platforms for good. Independent video game distribution service Itch.io is now among these, having debuted a set of games titled the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality, from which proceeds will be donated to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Community Bail Fund....
Yesterday, news broke that the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 would be the first mainline Call of Duty game without a traditional campaign mode. While this may have disappointed some fans, others may be excited to learn that the campaign appears to have been swapped for a battle royale mode. This is according to both Kotaku and Polygon, who have sources that have confirmed the existence of a battle royale mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4....
Even with Season 2’s release, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War continues to receive a fair amount of new content and performance fixes. One of which included fixing the game’s servers that repeatedly crashed the game for players. Of course, there are still things the players would like to see added into Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. The patch notes for the latest update reveal the issues its developer is addressing in the game....
The full trophy list for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered on PlayStation 4 appears online, and all are centered on the game’s single player campaign. In about a month’s time, Call of Duty fans that opt for Infinite Warfare’s Legacy Edition will be able to get their hands on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered. There is significant hype for the remaster, as it promises to update one of the most critically acclaimed first-person shooters of all time for modern consoles....
There probably isn’t a gaming franchise as polarizing as Call of Duty. Obviously, there are more offensive series, such as Grand Theft Auto, but that is an issue of offensive content versus CoD, which divides the gaming community for multiple reasons aside from offending whiners. While games that try to push the envelope like GTA are just going for shock value, it is seldom this element that causes anger and fury with regard to CoD....
The state of Call of Duty: Warzone right now is a bit of a mixed bag. Although the meta for weapon loadouts is currently in an experimental state, there has been a recent uptick of players caught cheating, with one particularly egregious instance affecting a $250,000 tournament. With the community calling for anti-cheat measures and some Call of Duty: Warzone content creators leaving the game, some players simply want to keep their heads down and continue to try and get better....
Call of Duty Mobile has found success by merging elements from each CoD game into one collection of content, and the latest content teased for the game shows that mentality going a bit further. If recent developer teases can be believed, night mode is on the way for CoD Mobile’s battle royale mode. This is not the only Call of Duty battle royale with a night mode in development, however, as numerous leaks have appeared online for a night version of the Warzone map....
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is both a large departure and a return for the series. This game acts as a soft reboot to the classic Modern Warfare series, bringing back fan-favorite mechanics and boots-on-the-ground gunfights. It has also made many changes such as crossplay and a free-to-play Battle Royale mode called Warzone. Both console and PC players can hop into this chaotic 150-man BR experience for free, and both parties can even play with each other thanks to Crossplay!...
Part of the anticipation surrounding this weekend’s Call of Duty XP was focused on the multiplayer for Modern Warfare 3, but an equal part of that anticipation was also curious to hear full details for Call of Duty Elite. Touted as the franchise’s premium content service, Call of Duty Elite has now been revealed to be Activision’s version of the “season pass,” only with some extensive stat tracking and clan support thrown in....
Johnny Depp’s recent legal troubles surrounding his public breakup with Amber Heard has apparently made him persona non grata in Hollywood. Recent news has shown him being dropped from various high-profile projects like the sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and, perhaps more gutting for Depp and his career, the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. The news that he will no longer reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow opens up questions about the future of the series....
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla finds itself in a unique crossroads of the franchise. Mechanically, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla bridges the old action-adventure titles with the newer RPG approach to the franchise, while also telling a story with a lot of forward momentum (and still respecting the past). That’s impressive enough alone, but it doesn’t seem this particular entry in the franchise is done there. The Wrath of the Druids DLC releases Spring 2021 and will see Eivor travel to Ireland....
