The annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), our city’s greatest cultural event, kicks up on March 2 with a lineup of films selected from a greater pool of applicants than ever before. According to Claudia Puig, SBIFF’s new head of programming, the festival got 5,000 applications from filmmakers from 54 nations. The outcome of…
Spring has finally arrived! Outside, it’s growing warmer, brighter, and overall more pleasant, which has traditionally had the opposite effect on spring movie releases. The summer blockbuster season and the more prestigious fall/winter award-bait season are notorious for releasing the duds that studios didn’t feel fit to feature in either the summer blockbuster season or…
As part of their monthly incentive, PlayStation Plus subscribers will receive four free games. On March 1, PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 owners will be able to download Ghost of Tsushima: Legends, Ghostrunner, Ark: Survival Evolved, and Team Sonic Racing. It will be possible to claim the games until April 4, 2022. Legends is a…
After a year and a half of development, Amazon’s Luna cloud gaming service is now more than just a prototype. Luna for Android, iOS, Chrome OS, macOS, and Windows has been officially released in the United States. The Luna+ service, which includes over 100 games, will cost $10 per month, with the Family Channel and…
According to Axios, the first Whole Foods using cashier-less technology opened its doors earlier this week, allowing consumers to buy without having to use a register at the 21,500-square-foot store in Washington, D.C. Since at least 2016, Amazon, the supermarket chain’s parent firm, has been working on a “Just Walk Out” system that allows consumers…
Hidetaka Miyazaki, the developer of the Souls series and Elden Ring, spoke with The New Yorker about his influences, creative aspirations, and some musings on his stratospheric climb in the games business over the last decade. “I’ve never been a particularly great player, and I did a lot,” Miyazaki admitted regarding his own mechanical competence…
Adders, grass snakes, and common lizards live in Epping Forest, as do white admiral and purple hairstreak butterflies, as well as animals such shrews and voles, which offer food for birds of prey and owls. The forest’s bovine denizens, on the other hand, have had a difficult time adjusting to their new surroundings. Forest rangers…
I used to travel a lot for business before the outbreak. My over-the-years-honed bag packing list was pretty well fixed in stone. Backbone’s iPhone gaming controller is one of a few new additions to that list in recent years. It’s a fantastic gaming experience on the move, and it’s well worth the space it takes…
In the latest example of the merger between game production and non-fungible tokens, Ubisoft has partnered up with the Sandbox metaverse platform (NFTs). Ubisoft will obtain its own area in the metaverse and produce gaming experiences using NFTs in the virtual world, according to Animoca Brands, the Hong Kong-based blockchain business behind The Sandbox, which…
It’s happened to all of us. The desire to connect your sophisticated gaming setup to your TV or bed so you can play games away from your computer while lounging on the sofa or in bed using a wireless controller. This Newegg bargain for a 48-inch 4K OLED beauty for under $800 could just be…
