Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director says it could never have been made at a AAA studio Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s director believes the game would have taken over two decades to be greenlit, had he pitched it to a AAA studio. Guillaume Broche, creative director and CEO of Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive, discussed the difficulty of pitching a brand-new IP to bigger companies in a YouTube interview withPouce Cafe....

The now-defunct CNN+ lived only for a month before execs killed it in 2022.CNN+ / Digital Trends Forget CNN+. It’s now CNN Max. Sort of. If that little trip down memory lane isn’t confusing enough, CNN Max is being billed as part of an “open beta for news that will enable experimentation with product features, content offerings, and original storytelling, all with the input and feedback from the Max community.”...

Microsoft revealed the next batch of games coming toXbox Game Passand it’s one of the biggest rounds yet. Over the next few weeks, the service will addControl,Yakuza: The Remastered Collection, and more. Controlcomes to the PC version of the service on January 21. Remedy Entertainment’s third-person action game was a big hit in 2019, landing multiple nominations at the Game Awards including Game of the Year. In ourreviewof the game, we called it “a bizarre paranormal action game that feels like it can sit alongsideThe X-Files....

Summary This article contains spoilers for The Acolyte episode 3.DeepStar Warslore set upThe Acolyteepisode 3’s shocking twist six years ago, and ensured it doesn’t have any impact on Anakin Skywalker at all. Viewers were taken aback whenThe Acolyteepisode 3 apparently revealed twins Osha and Mae - who had been brought up in a coven ofwitches on the planet Brendok- seemed to have been born of the Force. In one key scene, coven leader Mother Aniseya and the Zabrak Mother Koril discussed their conception, seeming to hint Mother Aniseya had used the Force to create the two children....

Andrew Beehler, Digital Trends’ senior manager of Programmatic and Yield Operations, is scheduled to speak at the 2018 Portland Publisher Forum. Beehler’s talk,Publisher Session 1: CDPs and Advanced Audience Segmentation, will introduce marketers to consumer data platforms (CDPs), explore their uses, and explain some of the surprising ways they can boost revenues. The Publisher Forum is a three-day event organized by AdMonsters. Every year, the forum brings together a cross-section of marketing professionals for a unique exchange of ideas and learning opportunities....

When most of us think aboutDolby Atmos, an immersive movie experience with loads of speakers is what comes to mind. It is, after all, where the first Dolby Atmos experience happened back in 2012 at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood. The object-based surround sound system extended into the home a couple years later, initially requiring either up-firing speakers (integrated into the speakers or added with a separate module on top of a speaker) or ceiling-mounted speakers paired with anAV receiver (AVR)....

We’re sitting on the edge of Nvidia GTC, where it’s all but confirmed the company will launch its next-genRTX 4090 graphics card. The last time we were in this situation, almost two years ago to the day, Nvidia’s launch kicked off what would become the worstGPU shortagewe’ve ever seen, and it’s fair if you’re nervous we might be caught in that situation again. The RTX 4090 will almost assuredly sell out when it launches, but you don’t need to get yourF5key ready to get a GPU....

Facebook dataallows for targeted advertising to deliver ads relevant to users — but those same targeting tactics build a profile about you that includes your political stance. In the wake of theCambridge Analytica scandal, you may not want Facebook to track this information, but it does so it automatically — even if you don’t expressly label yourself as a liberal or conservative. Based on who you follow and what you choose to share, Facebook tracks your moves to guess where you lie on the political spectrum....

Facebook announced that it had uncovered a new security flaw that allowed hackers to take control of as many as 50 million user accounts. The company is still in the early stages of investigating this latest security flaw and it announced that law enforcement has been notified. “On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 25, our engineering team discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts,” the company said in astatement....

Summary Joe Mantegna’s daughter, Gia Mantegna, appears inCriminal Mindsas a notable character. In the15 seasons ofCriminal Minds, and one season ofCriminal Minds Evolution, dozens of guest stars have featured in the series, either as unsubs or as come-and-go members of the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI. Even the daughter of one of the series' most popular actors makes an appearance, and a relatively long one at that for a guest star....

Marvel is bringing back another old friend for the next Avengers saga. PerDeadline, Hayley Atwell will reprise her role asAgent Peggy CarterforAvengers: Doomsday. The news comes days afterChris Evansreportedly signed on to return forDoomsday. Atwell first appeared inCaptain America: The First Avengeras Margaret “Peggy” Carter, a British MI6 agent with the Strategic Scientific Reserve who becomes Steve Rogers’ love interest. Atwell later headlined the ABC TV showAgent Carter, which ran for two seasons from 2015 to 2016 and followed Carter’s adventures as a secret agent post-World War II....

Notifications are a necessarily evil for a lot of us. We get loads of them every day, only some of which have any real importance. You know how it goes. You let them stack up all day and when you finally get a chance to sift through it all, you’re welcome by a huge mess of a lock screen.Thanks to iOS 12, clearing notifications on an iPhone is easier than ever....

IShowSpeed fan walks over 1,000km after losing race against YouTube star IShowSpeed was left completely floored after one of his fans walked over 1,123 km from Bali to Jakarta after losing to the YouTube star in a footrace. IShowSpeedis becoming well-known for his athletic abilities just as much as his viral on-stream antics. Fromjumping over oncoming supercarsto nearly beatingpro athletes in a 50-yard dash,Speed is surprisingly fit. That’s why, when one of his fans challenged him to a race during hisfamous tour of Southeast Asia,Speed won handily — but the loser had to undertake a self-imposed challenge that he’d advertised on a massive poster....