As videogames become services instead of products, will their world-building suffer?

Sorgente: The Real Problem with ‘Games as Service’ Isn’t Capitalism

DC follows the triumph of Wonder Woman with a bust.

Sorgente: Justice League Is a Big, Ugly Mess

Deadpool arrives just in time to mess with the opening of “Justice League.”

Sorgente: ‘Deadpool 2’ Teaser Trailer: Ryan Reynolds Reminds Us Why the World Needs an R-Rated Superhero

 

We’ve been waiting awhile to see more footage of Deadpool 2, and today we got our wish in spades. Dressed as legendary painter Bob Ross, Deadpool takes us on a painting journey we won’t soon forget that I was more than happy with sitting through for two minutes. Then, out of nowhere, all these quick

Sorgente: New DEADPOOL 2 Teaser Trailer Features Our Hero as Bob Ross!

In what will surely give it a boost as it battles with the likes of Netflix and Hulu, Amazon has acquired the global television rights to The Lord of the Rings, based on the celebrated fantasy novels by JRR Tolkien.

Sorgente: Amazon to produce Lord of the Rings TV series

The new novel, about a troubled smuggler who finds herself caught up in a metallurgy-based conspiracy, is out November 14.

Sorgente: How Andy Weir Scienced the Lunar Colony in His New Book Artemis

The inventor and author talks with WIRED Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson about progress in artificial intelligence and how humans should control it.

Sorgente: Ray Kurzweil on Turing Tests, Brain Extenders, and AI Ethics

From 1 January 2018, the wizarding world will have a new home when all eight movies in the Harry Potter film franchise arrive on HBO.

Sorgente: Harry Potter flies into HBO for the New Year

 

Service providers are losing $6 to $8 billion annually in revenue to piracy, according to ABI Research.

Sorgente: Piracy evolves with video usage changes

A.C. Thompson specializes in asking the dangerously uncomfortable questions and living long enough to give us the answers.

Sorgente: The Punk Rock Journalist Making Real News at the Source

As local newsrooms remain decimated, new programs send reinforcements.

Sorgente: The New ‘Peace Corps’ for Journalists

Journalist María Paulina Baena is taking Colombia’s politicians to task with her searingly funny commentary.

Sorgente: She’s Redefining the Tone of Latin America’s Political Conversation

Lucasfilm is putting a lot of faith in the guy behind the next installment of the Skywalker saga.

Sorgente: Rian Johnson Is Getting a Star Wars Trilogy—’The Last Jedi’ Must Be Amazing

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Eddai, che non si può fare così. Ebbasta. Continuano a dire che in Italia manca l’industria del cinema. Dicono che si devono uccidere gli autori (troppo autoreferenziali e ombelicocentrici) e si devono rottamare tutti quei produttori fighetti che sono ormai diventati più egocentrici degli stessi autori (Pigneto docet). La tesi è stantia.

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Google could gain increased clout in the pay-TV market as interest from operators in Android TV picks up and creates a surge in shipments of Android TV STBs.

Sorgente: Google’s TV clout set to accelerate with Android TV

The 2018 Pirelli calendar is the publications first all-black cast since 1987.

Sorgente: Pirelli Calendar 2018 Photos: Tim Walker’s All-Black Cast Fantasy – Vogue

 

‘He’s a butcher,’ Christian Bale says of a Cheyenne war chief, but so is he

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