Author: Max Smith
Spring is here and with it comes the promise of indie favorites and triple-A hits being released every week. This year is off to a strong start so far, although we still have a lot of work to do compared to the best releases of 2023.Check out what video games are hitting stores this week.Lana's Planet (4/16)Platform: PS4, PS5, SwitchOne of the best indie games of 2023 turns out to be fully multiplatform this week. Lana's planet Released on Switch and PlayStation consoles. This is a cinematic puzzle platformer with gorgeous visuals and a cinematic soundtrack. You, as Lana, try…
The 2024 WNBA Draft is Monday at Brooklyn’s Academy of Music in New York, and it’s bound to carry all the momentum women’s basketball has had following the NCAA tournament. Young college stars Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, Cameron Brink and Kamilla Cardoso elected to not use their final years of college eligibility, and their desire to play in the best women’s basketball league in the world should debunk assumptions made about college players taking pay cuts to enter the league.Now that we know who has declared for the WNBA Draft and who is taking an extra year of college eligibility…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Americans increased spending faster than expected in March, highlighting how resilient shoppers have remained despite inflationary pressures and other economic challenges.Retail sales rose 0.7% last month, nearly double what economists expected, following a 0.9% increase in February, according to figures released by the Commerce Department on Monday. February numbers have been revised upward. This comes after sales decreased by 1.1% in January, partly due to bad weather. Excluding gasoline prices, which are on the rise, retail sales remained strong at 0.6%.The national average gas price on Monday was $3.63 per gallon AAA, up 6 cents from…
Ario is a 2.5D action-adventure with occasional bits of tower defense mechanics. Unfortunately, a lack of polish and some really head-scratching design choices make this game unplayable. The plot makes no sense when you play as a boy searching for his mother while being attacked by strange masked enemies. Usually the story gets pushed to the side because it might not make much sense from a gameplay perspective, but here it's quite the opposite. There's a lot of emphasis on the plot, as the story is told through several beautifully drawn cutscenes, but players are left with no idea exactly…
Watch Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard and Noah Schnapp try the Stranger Things 3 video game for the first time! For more … source
Written by John Lopez, Tech Times April 15, 2024 09:53 AM EDT Cybersecurity company BrandShield has successfully taken down more than 250 websites selling counterfeit weight loss and diabetes medications in a joint effort to combat the proliferation of counterfeit medicines online. According to Reuters, BrandShield CEO Yoav Keren said that the majority of these illegal websites are counterfeit drugs belonging to the GLP-1 class, a group of drugs primarily used to treat metabolic diseases. It was revealed that the company was a supplier of pharmaceuticals. Cybersecurity firm shuts down websites selling fake Ozempic and Wegovy GLP-1 drugs targeted by…
The Indianapolis Colts have spent the offseason re-signing players for the 2023 team, and now it's DeForest Buckner's turn. The Colts announced Monday morning that they have extended the highly productive defensive tackle.The Colts have not released details regarding the contract extension. According to multiple reports, Buckner will be paid $46 million to remain in Indy for two more years. His current contract ends after the 2024 season, leaving him with the Colts through 2026.Buckner, 30, is entering his ninth season in the NFL and fifth in Indianapolis. He was drafted seventh overall by the San Francisco 49ers in 2016…
The UK video games and interactive entertainment sector was valued at £7.82 billion ($9.76 billion) in 2023.That's according to the annual report Consumer game market evaluation report UK industry body Ukey said the figure was a 4.4 per cent increase on the revised valuation of £7.49bn it had placed on the UK games industry in 2022.Ukie said the latest valuation results show the UK video games market is on a “strong growth trajectory” despite facing headwinds that have disrupted the industry around the world. “This increase highlights the stability and resilience of the video game market and consumers' continued appetite…
Rivian (NASDAQ:RIVN) and Nicola (NASDAQ:NKLA) were once two of the most popular electric vehicle stocks on the market. Rivian went public in November 2021, and one week later it soared from its IPO price of $78 to a record high of $172.01. Nikola went public in June 2020 by merging with a special acquisition purpose company (SPAC), and the combined company's stock price opened at $37.55 on the first day of trading, more than doubling to an all-time high of $79.73 a week later. Rose.But now Rivian's stock is trading at about $9, making Nikola's stock worth less than $1.…