By now, everyone’s heard of BioShock However, not everyone might be aware that System Shock 2, released in 1999, was developed by the same studio – Irrational Games – and heavily influenced the ideas later fleshed out in BioShock.
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Altered Carbon: Resleeved is a Netflix original movie, available to stream now. A Japanese anime movie spin-off, it is set in the Altered Carbon Universe and features Takeshi Kovacs and Taneda Hideki on planet Latimer.
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Hyper Jam is what happens if you paint a Neon Synthwave sheen over Super Smash Brothers. With fast-paced, high-intensity action and constantly spawning items that can be thrown, its levels include punishing consequences if you step out of the arena.
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Steven Kotler’s Last Tango in Cyberspace makes culture a character to be explored in equal measure as the main character. Lion, an empathy-tracker, or em-tracker for short, uses his unique talent to consume curated content provided by clients and extrapolate a future. Not at an individual level, mind you, rather as a glimpse at the cultural significance regarding the content in the future.
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If you got your nerd game on point then obviously you know all about Neill Blomkamp cinematic hits like District 9 and Elysium. But what you’ve gotta see is Chappie. The 2015 hit coming-of-age tale with a remarkable twist spotlights a robot being raised by gangsters. The film itself did well and more than doubled its budget of $49 million. It was another successful feather in the film making cap of Blomkamp as a writer and director. The film is a bad-ass fun watch with crazy characters and insane action. Chappie is well worth anyone’s time to check out.
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It used to take years, sometimes decades, to build a spaceship. But if Elon Musk’s prediction is correct, his new SpaceX factory in Texas will be pumping out Starship rockets once every 72 hours. If anybody wanted to know how bad Musk wants to get to Mars, that’s the only bit of information you need.
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Comic reading has been around for decades, but a new app has changed the game. Line Webtoons is a digital comic reading app…