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The best Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 DMZ traits can turn your operator into a real menace across Hajin, since several of the options are outrageously powerful. One caveat: each skill tree has only six fixed traits, shown with the larger icons. We’ll call these the major traits. The smaller, minor traits appear in...
Ned Stark’s best quote in Game of Thrones One reason Game of Thrones hooked viewers when it debuted on HBO in 2011 was its characters. The large main cast was full of cutthroat bastards, both metaphorical and literal. Yet every one of them had enough depth that you understood who they were. That understanding came...
New details continue to surface about Mass Effect: Universe, the fifth mainline Mass Effect game that BioWare had been developing until EA shut the studio down on Wednesday. EA laid off BioWare’s staff and scrapped the project fans had long called Mass Effect 5. The next day, an internal trailer built from pre-production assets leaked...
Ridley Scott takes his time with sequels. His post-apocalyptic thriller The Dog Stars comes to streaming this month. Before it, he waited 33 years to return to the Alien franchise with 2012’s Prometheus, for better or worse. He followed up much faster with 2017’s Alien: Covenant. Earlier still, he directed a sequel to another filmmaker’s...
Ariana Grande at the 83rd Annual Golden Globes held at The Beverly Hilton on Jan. 11, 2026, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Christopher Polk/2026GG/Penske Media Ariana Grande has a new bob, which she showed for the first time in a Friday (Oct. 23) post on Instagram. Her boyfriend, Ricky Alvarez, commented on the photos. The pop...
James Ohlen, a BioWare veteran who was director on the first Baldur’s Gate games, has defended the studio’s staff after Electronic Arts closed BioWare. He argued that rank-and-file developers should not be held responsible for questionable decisions made by management. After news of the closure, many players criticized the laid-off employees and blamed them for...
Jazzy Courtesy of Chaos Records Jazzy released her debut album, Peace & Patience, today (Oct. 23) via Chaos Records. The 13-song set runs 36 minutes and centers on house-leaning dance pop. She had recorded a large amount of music for the project and chose tracks built around two related themes, peace and patience, which she...
Production has started on season 3 of Netflix’s The Gentlemen, and the show has announced several new cast members. Guy Ritchie’s action-comedy-crime drama stars Theo James. Its new additions include two members of The Fellowship of the Ring. Netflix announced that Elijah Wood and Orlando Bloom are joining the season 3 cast. Wood and Bloom...
A new Team Fortress 2 update is now available. It will install automatically the next time you restart the game. Key changes include: Resolved a crash caused by wearables leaking when weapons are dropped (community fix contributed by Sean McGeehan) Source
Every legendary BioWare tale begins in the same place: assembling your party. Over thirty years, the studio gave us companions we would have followed into any fire, decisions that haunted us long after the credits, and worlds we hated to leave, from Candlekeep to the Citadel to Thedas. On Oct. 21, EA revealed that it...
