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Instagram, Facebook, Threads and Messenger are back online after widespread “technical issues” took down many of Meta’s biggest apps for several hours on Wednesday. “We are 99% towards our goal, just making final checks,” the company wrote. update For X, it happened almost 4 hours after I first noticed the outage.The company did not elaborate on the cause of the problem or when it would be fully resolved. As of 4:30 p.m. PT Wednesday, Meta’s status dashboard still shows “significant disruption” to business and transparency tools, but other services are listed as “resolved” or “recovering.” It was marked. However, Facebook,…
Plan your vacation now, because Sony has announced which games will be joining the Playstation Plus games catalog starting in December. The biggest highlight for PlayStation Plus Premium and Extra subscribers is Forspoken, an RPG filled with parkour and magic released by Square Enix in 2023. I didn’t expect the PS5 game to quite match the eye-popping visuals of other games like Horizon Forbidden West. We reviewed it and the holidays seem like the perfect time to wander around and try out some spells.Sonic Frontier has also been added to the catalog for another take on open-world running and jumping.…
MasterClass has expanded beyond pre-recorded video lessons to offer on-demand instruction from some of the most popular celebrity instructors. And if you’re wondering how the company managed to get the busiest people on the planet to answer your questions, guess what? The answer is generative AI.On Wednesday, MasterClass debuted On Call, a new web and iOS app that lets you talk to an AI version of your instructor. For now, on-call is limited to two personas representing the expertise of former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss and University of Berkeley neuroscientist Dr. Matt Walker. In the future, Masterclasses says that…
I’ve always been fascinated by the future timeline that much of the Alien series exists in. I choose to call it a “functional future” or a “crappy tomorrow” because so much of what we see is from a working-class perspective. There are no glittering fortresses or huge sunlit vistas that allow our characters to really appreciate the beauty of human progress over hundreds of years. Instead, we’re usually on a cargo ship or a prison or a remote settlement that we barely pass. The Alien series has long been an ode to people doing their best to survive in a…
The year is almost over and Christmas has arrived early for us sales nerds! Our gift? A brand-new list of the Top 10 best-selling manga in Japan of 2024, courtesy of Oricon. So, without further ado, let’s unwrap this year’s rankings! Rank Series Author(s) Estimated Sales 1 Jujutsu Kaisen Gege Akutami 7,610,995 2 One Piece Eiichiro Oda 5,250,210 3 Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Kanehito Yamada & Tsukasa Abe 4,988,170 4 The Apothecary Diaries Natsu Hyuuga, Itsuki Nanao, Nekokurage, & Minoji Kurata 4,723,562 5 Blue Lock Muneyuki Kaneshiro & Yusuke Nomura 3,881,269 6 Kaiju No. 8 Naoya Matsumoto 3,398,326 7 Kingdom…
It’s all about Marvel’s Doctor Doom. The company today announced a new series, “Doom’s Division,” which will continue until the next game, “One World Under Doom.” Doom’s Division was written by Yoon Ha Lee and illustrated by Mingyu Jung, and you can see Tiger Division roaring in action.”When I was in high school in Seoul, a friend of mine got me into Marvel Comics,” Ha Lee said. “After several decades, I am honored to write for Taegeukgi and his friends in ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM—힘내!”Doom’s Division #1 will be released on March 26, 2025. Check out the main cover by…
“What would Shakespeare write if he were alive today?” Philipp Stollenmayer asked viewers on this week’s Day of the Devs 2024: Game Awards stream. Stollenmayer said Shakespeare wrote about the invention of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich from the perspective of a rebellious strawberry and a disillusioned peanut. Also, it will be a musical. Oh, and it’s going to take the form of an interactive scrapbook featuring kids as the main voice actors. clearly.PBJ — The Musical, the latest mobile game from Stollenmayer’s studio Kamibox, offers a completely unique approach to interactive play. PBJ is a side-scrolling narrative adventure…
On Sunday afternoon, the second day of MICE, I headed to a panel discussion. The Massachusetts Independent Comic Expo is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, and from a (locked) room at the end of Newbury Street, to the Boston on Comb Avenue, a former luxury car showroom along the Charles River. It will even be held in the university’s historic Fuller Building. This is a different comics convention than most comics. Small print run, huge cultural capital. To reach the panel, you must first go through the Curiosity Portal. A small museum attendant hangs on from friendly volunteers in…
Every year, there are books that fall off soon at the end of the year, and everyone slips their favorite book into place forgetting to leave space for another, and that book always falls in line with that year’s book. One of the best. Thank you to Mr. Ram V., Mr. Campbell, Mr. Watters, Mr. Kumar, Mr. Loughridge, and Mr. Bidika for making our winter tradition a reality at One Hand & Six Fingers. Many were already calling it “one of the best comics of the year” when it was published as a single issue. In fact, I called it…
In the first issue of Black Lightning, Jefferson Pierce appeared to be on top of the world, acting as a top member of the Justice League and working with his family along the way. Black Lightning #2 serves as the flip side of that coin, showing how Jefferson’s daughter Anissa, aka Thunder, gradually gains control of her powers due to their absolute power influencing the metahuman community. Find out what you are losing. But that’s not the only problem. It turns out there’s a new movement to evaluate Amanda Waller as her metahuman powers get out of control.It throws a…