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As announced last month, starting with issue #6, artist Juan Ferreira will be joining the ongoing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series as an artist. It follows a lineup of acclaimed artists who each worked on issues spotlighting various Turtles and new villains. Today, The Beat is proud to exclusively reveal and solicit information on the cover of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #7, which will be released in comic shops on February 26, 2025. Needless to say, IDW’s reboot of the TMNT continuity series was a huge success. More than 300,000 copies of the debut issue were ordered, making it the…
Tiny MEMS ultrasonic drivers are already making a big difference in the sound quality of true wireless earbuds. Now xMEMS Labs, the company behind these “sound from ultrasound” speakers, is aiming for open-fit earbuds, smart glasses, and smart watches with its new Sycamore microdriver. xMEMS says it is the first full-range, all-silicon, near-field micro speaker to deliver full-range audio to open-air devices.Sycamore is based on the same platform as xMEMS’ Cypress drivers for active noise cancellation (ANC) earphones. This means that this component uses ultrasound to generate full frequency sound from a 1mm thin chip. The company explains that Sycamore…
Sonic the Hedgehog has been making a bit of a comeback in recent years. He has gained attention in both blockbuster movies and video games. So does his supporting cast, including his frenemy, Knuckles the Echidna. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, where Knuckles first appeared, and IDW has done its part with Sonic the Hedgehog: Knuckles 30th Anniversary #1.In Sonic the Hedgehog: Knuckles 30th Anniversary #1, Knuckles returns to his hometown of Angel Island, where he protects the Master Emerald. He then decides to visit the neighboring North Star Islands to teach Trip the…
Black Friday is here again, and the internet is full of gonzo deals on the world’s most popular tech. Naturally, you are too busy living your real life to check if the deals on offer are as good as you expected. That’s why Engadget employs a talented team of spreadsheet experts to scrutinize what’s hot and what’s not. If you’re in the market for a new device, keep an eye out for our guide to real deals.For example, significant changes were made from the M3 MacBook Air to make room for the M4. Considering the M3 was already a top-of-the-line…
Listening to music from within Opera’s browser has been possible for a long time. If you move down the sidebar, you’ll see a player icon that lets you choose between Apple Music, Spotify, and Deezer, and you can log in to any of them using your account details. But now Opera has partnered with Spotify to make the music streaming service a default option in Opera One, the company’s flagship browser with generative AI capabilities.Once you log in to your account and activate your player, you can detach it from the sidebar and move it anywhere on your screen where…
Single Player or Multiplayer: Single Player | Free to Play: No Horror comes in many forms in Still Wakes the Deep. Otherworldly creatures strut around the Beira D oil rig with spindly, overlong limbs that jut out from their bodies like cutting bungee cords. Human-sized pustules and bloody ribbons grow along the hallways, giving off a sickly cosmic glow. The North Sea is an unrelenting threat, groaning with every step. And the rig itself is a labyrinthine industrial platform supported on thin, tensile legs in the middle of a raging sea, groaning as it is torn from the inside out.…
IDW shocked the horror comics world with the announcement of IDW Dark, a new horror title that came out with a bang considering the scale of the licenses under its umbrella. Smile, Event Horizon, Twilight Zone, A Quiet Place are among the titles that are poised to turn the publisher into a new face of the genre in the field of sequential art. As if this wasn’t enough to take center stage, IDW is also announcing another, more focused horror series called Nightcaps. Nightcaps is an oversized one-shot that aims to show how far horror can bend in the hands…
Today, Marvel announced its 2025 Free Comic Book Day offerings, including five separate titles for all fans. Readers can look forward to the entrance to an all-new era for the Fantastic Four and the Amazing Spider-Man, a prelude to the upcoming X-Men saga, and a glimpse of the first events set in the new Ultimate Universe. Probably. Considering The First Family is coming to the big screen, it’s no wonder that the 2024 Marvel Free Comic Book Day title spotlights the Fantastic Four. Additionally, for the second year in a row, Marvel is proudly announcing Star Wars Free Comic Book…
Two undersea communication cables in the Baltic Sea have been severed, and at least one appears to have been physically severed. CNN has received confirmation from a local telecommunications company that the cable between Lithuania and Sweden was cut on Sunday morning. The second cable is located approximately 60 to 65 miles from the first cable and routes communications between Finland and Germany. The cause of the outage has not yet been determined, but authorities suspect “intentional damage.”The outage follows a US warning in September about the increased risk of Russian “sabotage” of submarine cables. This followed a joint investigation…
Back in 2022, Skybound is the first in a trilogy set in the world of The Walking Dead by award-winning writer/artist Tilly Walden (Spinning, On a Sunbeam). The YA work “Skybound Comet”, which includes Clementine Book 1, which is a bullet, has been released. Unsurprisingly, the graphic novel was a huge hit. But as the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. Today, the publisher released an internal preview page for Clementine Book 3, the long-awaited, heart-breaking finale to the Eisner Award-nominated YA trilogy. The official press release and preview are below. From the world of Robert…