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Key Points Supersonic planes are airplanes that can fly at supersonic speeds. This means they travel faster than the speed of sound, or Mach number 1. Supersonic planes were invented in the second half of the twentieth century for military and research purposes. The Concorde was the most expensive supersonic plane ever built, at 2.8 billion. Since the Wright brothers’ success at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903, humans have been obsessed with the speed of airplanes for travel and defense....

The Nintendo 64 redefined what a platforming title was. Platformers had been around for a long time, but most were 2D sidescrollers. While there were some 3D titles like Super Mario RPG, they lacked the detail that the Nintendo 64 was able to deliver. The console also made it possible to tell richer stories that gave players a better understanding of the game they were playing. © iStock.com/luza studios This even included adding voiceover to character conversations, which were largely unnecessary in the 2D sidescrolling platformers....

Despite what you may be thinking, no, it’s not Ryan Reynolds. Though, that does sound like a great idea of having Ryan Reynolds play what is supposed to be a 12-year-old. Probably with a lot less swearing than his usual characters. No, Percy Jackson will actually be played by Walker Scobell who played the younger version of Ryan Reynolds’ character in The Adam Project. Percy Jackson started as a books series written by Rick Riordan....

Riley Stearns’ The Art of Self-Defense is what might happen if Fight Club was directed by somebody like Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite), only not quite as good. Stearns’ absurdist black comedy does address many of the same issues of toxic masculinity and male insecurity as David Fincher’s 1999 cult classic, examining how both find expression through wanton acts of violence and undercurrents of homoeroticism. That it does so through a vaguely surreal lens, with arch dialogue and purposely antiquated details, emanates more from the Lanthimos section of Stearns’ personal film collection....

The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit will be available to download from Monday, June 25. News comes by way of the Life is Strange Twitter account, which also confirms specific release times for major regions. Those of you who live in the UK can grab it at 5.00pm BST, while folk across the pond will be able to snap it up from 9.00am PDT/12.00pm EDT. In case you forgot, The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit is a prequel to the hotly anticipated Life is Strange 2, which we’ve yet to clap eyes on....

Today, Vanity Fair has showcased the latest information about the upcoming prequel movie to the Hunger Games series, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. In this debut, we learn all about the cast, lore, and the love story between President Snow and a Tribute from District 12, Lucy Gray Baird. The timeline of this installment will be set around 64 years before characters like Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, and others revolted against the Capitol....

Key Facts The Neo Geo AES/MVS, Neo Geo CD, and Neo Geo Pocket/Color were the Neo Geo consoles released.The Neo Geo Pocket was released in 1998 but hastily withdrawn and the Neo Geo Color released. However, the 40-minute battery life and lack of a backlit screen of the latter prevented it from being able to threaten the Game Boy Color’s dominance.At present, Neo Geo remains a favorite among retro gamers eager to relive fond memories of an earlier era of gaming....

The House of the Dead franchise has been dormant for quite a while, which seemingly signifies the emphasis - or lack thereof - on lightgun arcade titles in the gaming industry. Yet, as reported by Bloody Disgusting, the first two House of the Dead titles will be receiving remakes at some point. According to an article from Polish publication Graczpospolita, Forever Entertainment, which is also the developer behind the Panzer Dragoon remakes, will be heading the development of the House of the Dead remakes....

The Humble Ubisoft Bundle is back as the Encore edition, giving those who missed the collection the first time another chance to grab a host of great games for $1 or more. Pay $1 or more for Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, Grow Home, Rayman Origins, and a coupon for 10% off one month of Humble Monthly. Pay more than the average price – $6.44 for all of that plus Far Cry 3, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist, and Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China....

The Last of Us: Part II is in development for PS4, Naughty Dog and Sony announced at PSX over the weekend. “Let’s cut to the chase,” said Naughty Dog Creative Director, Neil Druckmann. “The sequel to The Last of Us is happening. It’s called The Last of Us Part II and here is the just released announcement trailer.” Set five years after the first game, Joel and Ellie are back, only now a 19 year-old Ellie is the main playable character....

In its State of Play showcase, Sony published a new trailer for The Last of Us: Part II and confirmed its release date: February 21 2020 for PlayStation 4. There was a rumour that the new game would be out in February, but it’s nice to know for sure. And, the new cinematic trailer revealed an atmospheric insight to the plot of The Last of Us: Part II. The following will be super spoilery, so this is your forewarning!...

As it goes with any other form of media, there are certain video games that are universally considered among the best ever made. And just as few people dispute, say, The Godfather and Citizen Kane being two of the best films of all time, or The Beatles being the one of the best bands of all time, so too does The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time have its rightful place among the generally-agreed-upon greatest video games in history....

The following story contains spoilers for The Magicians Season 4 and Season 5 Episode 1. The impact of a fictional character death doesn’t just play out on screen. Fans who make an investment in a TV show can find themselves grieving the loss of a favorite character in a way they never expected—through emotions that mirror how we mourn in real life. A recent Popular Science article notes that professional counselors consider this legitimate grief, and marketing studies found that people “not only form relationships with their favorite characters, but with the real-life humans they watched the series alongside or went to all the movies with....

Warning: This The Magicians article contains MAJOR spoilers for the Season 4 finale. The Magicians Season 4 finale was arguably the most devastating season-ender in the show’s history (and, honestly, that’s a very competitive category). The only thing that is keeping me going at this point is the knowledge that the writers’ room is already hard at work on The Magicians Season 5, spinning out the most emotionally-affecting, unpredictably truthful answers to the following questions…...

This The Outsider review contains spoilers. The Outsider Episode 2 Early in The Outsider episode 2 “Roanoke,” there’s a meeting between Frank and Terry at the jail that is one of the most crackling, sharp exchanges in any television show in recent memory. It has the snap of real conversation, or the snap of a 1930’s screwball comedy without the wordplay. Frank and Terry are sharp, batting a conversational ball around, cutting each other off, finishing each other’s thoughts....

This review contains spoilers. 1.5 How You Gonna Outrun The Rest Of The World? In the first episode of The Passage, Amy Bellafonte told us this is a story of how the world ends. But I didn’t expect it to be happening so quickly. The Passage has the unenviable task of being a weekly genre series competing with binge-able streaming programming, while abiding by network limitations for horror. Still, it has become a solid show....

The Pokémon Company is taking stern measures against those who leaked information about Pokémon Sword & Shield before their releases. Weeks before Pokémon Sword & Shield released, a bunch of information started to come out on the internet via leaks. People who managed to get the games early leaked various things, such as gyms, Pokémon evolutions, gameplay, and much more. Now, it seems that The Pokémon Company has decided to crack down on those who leaked the game and has started searching for those particular people....

Krysty Wilson-Cairns is quick to describe herself as a history nerd. She happily said as much when we first met several months ago to discuss 1917, and she recalled childhood afternoons watching World War documentaries in her grandfather’s Glasgow den. Yet this interest is more than just a passing curiosity. When director Sam Mendes called Wilson-Cairns with the idea for 1917—a First World War film that he already knew would be filmed to appear as a single, uninterrupted shot—her next stop was obvious: the personal storage space filled with World War I history books and journals that she’d been meaning to dive back into for years....

Welcome back to The Video Game City Week. Where else would we go for our city’s rooftops? It has to be Jet Set Radio Future. The Skyscraper District The level I return to most often in Jet Set Radio Future - by now I’ve been returning for almost twenty years - is also the level that has never really made sense to me. As the name suggests, The Skyscraper District and Pharaoh Park is a level that covers two areas - a downtown hub of honey-coloured stone filled with pedestrians, and then…?...

Saying goodbye is difficult. And yet, as we come to the last episode of The Walking Dead: The Final Season, that’s exactly what we’ll need to do. Episode 4, titled Take Us Back, does just as it implies. It’s not just taking you “home” or towards any “conclusion,” but it also recalls past events in a series fans have grown fond of for the last seven years. The story of Clementine and AJ wraps up in a satisfyingly spectacular manner, filled with emotionally impactful moments and themes that resonate....