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Welcome to the first installment of The Beat’s Tabletop Crowdfunding Roundup! We want to take full advantage of what pop culture board game crowdfunding has to offer and show it to all of our invested fans. I thought. Check out the dice game powerhouse and its creepy characters, a JRPG legend, an opera tabletop board game, and two projects you’ll love. Dice Throne Outcasts + Adventures UnchainedProducer: Dice SloanGoal: $50,000End date: November 18thMerchandise: Get the 4 Heroes Outcasts Game Box and Outcasts Promotional Pack for $50. Or get game boxes, promo packs, and expansion games for $70. You can also…
Marvel Comics has revealed the lineup of free comics for Free Comic Book Day 2025, which will be held on May 3 next year. FCBD’s offerings include glimpses of the Fantastic Four and X-Men mash-up that serves as a prelude to the next X-Men saga, the 2025 Ultimate Universe, Spider-Man, and more.Some notable details that can be gleaned from the request are that Chip Zdarsky is returning to Marvel and doing something “surprise” in the Final Fantasy/X-Men special. He also does his own storytelling art. He is joined by Ryan North, Colin Kelly, Jackson Lansing, Edgar Delgado, Humberto Ramos and…
A 4-pack of Samsung Galaxy SmartTag2 trackers is on sale for just under $62 via Amazon. This Black Friday sale brings this particular combo pack to a record low price. The regular cost is $100, so this is a 38 percent discount.This is one of our favorite Bluetooth trackers, and for good reason. These are the perfect companion accessories for Samsung phones. The search network is vast and the battery life is great. These trackers stay powered on for up to 500 days, or even longer if you enable power saving mode.samsungThe simple yet beautiful design is also popular. There’s…
There are two universal truths in today’s rapidly changing comics industry. The first is that Dog Man is the defining comic of our time. Second, more people are reading manga and webtoons (aka vertically scrolling comics) than ever before. Therefore, we at Comics Beat have decided to embark on a new venture called Beat’s Bizarre Adventure. Each week, three writers recommend their favorite books and series from Japan, Korea, and other countries. This week we have a zombie dad, a high school romance long past our high school days, and of course CLAMP. Where would we be without CLAMP? human…
Black Friday is just around the corner, and we’re sure there are some related sales to prove it. Solo Stove has a huge Black Friday sale where you can save big on fire pit bundles.The most notable deal here is the Bonfire Backyard Bundle, reduced from $580 to $400. That’s a savings of $180. This combo pack includes the popular Bonfire smokeless fire pit and a range of related accessories. Bundle includes removable ash plate, lid, carrying case, stand, outdoor shelter, and more.solo stove This combo pack includes a fire pit and lots of useful accessories. $400 for solo stoveThe…
The Pixel Watch 3 is one of the smartwatches available for less than usual during the early Black Friday sale. Just a few months after Google debuted the wearable, it hit a new record low price of $280. That’s a huge discount of $70 for the Wi-Fi only 41mm model.An LTE-enabled version of this size is also available, but only if you choose the matte black aluminum case with an obsidian band. Its Pixel Watch 3 model fell 17% to $373.googlePixel Watch 3 has fallen to its lowest price ever. The base model can be purchased for $280, but other…
Marvel Comics has shed new light on One World Under Doom’s event tie-ins, three in fact, following last week’s announcements of Red Hulk and Thunderbolts. The Main Event is written by Ryan North with art by RB Silva. Check out our exclusive chat with Ryan North and the launch of his new Star Trek: Lower Decks on the AIPT Comics Podcast.”One World Under Doom is a story I’ve been working on since 2023,” said One World Under Doom and Fantastic Four screenwriter Ryan North. “When you’re telling a story like this, this big head start is a huge gift. It…
The winter holidays are approaching and you may be expecting a festive mood, but this time of year is often combined with increased stress, worry, and anxiety. Luckily, there are tools out there to help you manage your negative emotions and make the most of the holiday season. Meditation app Headspace is one such tool, and its Black Friday sale reduced the cost of its subscription by 50%. Right now, you can get a year’s worth of Headspace for $35. That’s half the regular price of $70.Headspace’s services include features to help users with meditation, sleep tools, mindfulness, and general…
Today, Cryptozoic, in collaboration with Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products, is launching the first-ever complete DC Heroes Role-Playing Game 40th Anniversary Kickstarter. Now, AIPT can exclusively share the game’s full cover gallery.The campaign premiered in 1985 and has since seen the release of dozens of adventures and sourcebooks, many of which feature some of DC’s best writers and artists of the 1980s, including Jack Kirby, Alan Moore, Denny O’Neill, and George Perez. , John Byrne, and many more. Despite being unavailable outside of the secondary market for decades, thousands of gamers and comic book fans still play the original…
When supercomputer maker Cray Computing, which was acquired by HP in 2019, announced it would build El Capitan, it expected the computer’s peak performance to reach 1.5 exaflops. The 64th edition of the TOP500 (a long-term ranking of the world’s non-distributed supercomputers) was released today, and El Capitan not only exceeded that prediction by clocking 1.742 exaflops, but also became the world’s most powerful supercomputer. Won the title of computer. The world now.El Capitan is only the third “exascale” computer, meaning it can perform more than 1 quintillion calculations per second. The remaining two are called Frontier and Aurora, and…