Xbox’s latest console patch has hidden DRM that appears to brick some commonly used third-party Xbox accessories. While the company claims that these unauthorized controllers and USB ports somehow hurt gamers’ experience, gaming accessibility advocates say it could drastically limit what they can do with their own…
Source: Gizmodo – Microsoft May Drop Support for ‘Unauthorized’ Xbox Controllers, Accessories
The Gizmodo Monday Puzzle is back from summer hiatus! After a long season of sunshine, flip flops, and mental atrophy, it’s time to fall back into the cool, brisk world of rationality. Our last challenge before the break was also our most controversial yet. The comments section bubbled with animated debate over the…
Source: Gizmodo – Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?
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Horror movies usually hit big no matter when you release them, but October can help them do especially well. Almost every year, there’s a particular movie that outpaces all the rest, and for 2023, that distinction goes to the newly released Five Nights at Freddy’s.
Source: Gizmodo – Five Nights at Freddy’s Scares Up a Massive Box Office
Though the original Harry Potter films managed to make it all the way to the finish line without a hitch, its theatrical follow-up wasn’t so lucky. The Fantastic Beasts movies have had a rough go of it—mostly of series author JK Rowling’s own repeated volition over the last several years. It’s why we here at io9…
Source: Gizmodo – Fantastic Beasts Is Probably Dead, As It Should Be
The original Twilight movie and its four sequels were known for many things, chief among them being catapulting the leading trio of Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner into super stardom that. Back during the late 2000s and 2010s, the three of them were hot young actors, to the point that you can’t…
Source: Gizmodo – Josh Peck Very Well Could’ve Been Twilight’s Edward Cullen
In 2021, following his split with Marvel over Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, director Scott Derrickson pivoted back to full-on horror with The Black Phone. Based on a 2004 short story by Joe Hill, the film was notably one of the few instances where leading man Ethan Hawke played an all-out villain. If…
Source: Gizmodo – Somehow, The Black Phone Will Ring Up a Sequel
David Fincher is known for a number of films and TV shows, though his 2011 adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo isn’t one that gets talked about as heavily. With widespread critical acclaim and an Oscar nomination for Rooney Mara (along with a still pretty great opening title sequence), the movie mainly…
Source: Gizmodo – Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is Hacking Its Way to a TV Reboot
In the same way that video games get turned into movies (or TV shows!) these days, the reverse is true. It doesn’t happen quite as often, but a number of movies have jumped over to games in some capacity, and they’re usually pretty famous or long-running franchises. Star Wars is the most obvious example, but there’s…
Source: Gizmodo – 2022’s Horror Hit Barbarian is Giving Birth To a Video Game
A few weeks before its release, Wizards of the Coast revealed it’s pushing back the physical editions of its Deck of Many Things set.
Source: Gizmodo – D&D’s Deck of Many Things Delayed Due to Defects
Actor Charles Richard Moll passed away on Friday at the age of 80.
Source: Gizmodo – Richard Moll, Batman Animated’s Harvey Dent, Has Died at Age 80
Marine biologists discovered two pristine deep-sea coral reefs off the coast of the Galápagos islands this week, one of which is over eight football fields long. The reefs sit between 370 and 420 meters below the surface, and their discovery expands our understanding of deep, cold-water reefs in the Galápagos Marine…
Source: Gizmodo – Thriving Deep-Sea Coral Reefs Discovered Near the Galápagos
There’s no shortage of horror movies on all the streaming services, but for those who prefer their nightmares tinged with reality, we have some suggestions of where to start. These documentaries and docuseries, all released within the past year or so, dig into history and beyond headlines to unearth crimes, mysteries,…
Source: Gizmodo – 10 Eerie Recent Documentaries to Stream for Halloween
Back when when Hollywood was remaking 80s films at a reliable clip, Highlander was one of those that seemed to just be eternally on the docket. The last substantial piece of news about it was that former Superman/Witcher Henry Cavill was attached to it, and that was back in 2021. A lot has changed a lot in the past…
Source: Gizmodo – Highlander’s Henry Cavill-Led Reboot May Be Alive and Kicking Again
Leaders and policymakers from around the globe will gather in London next week for the world’s first artificial intelligence safety summit. Anyone hoping for a practical discussion of near-term AI harms and risks will likely be disappointed. A new discussion paper released ahead of the summit this week gives a little…
Source: Gizmodo – This AI Safety Summit Is a Doomer’s Paradise
The quantum world operates by different rules than the classical one we buzz around in, allowing the fantastical to the bizarrely normal. Now, a team of physicists has used quantum entanglement to simulate a closed timelike curve—in layman’s terms, time travel.
Source: Gizmodo – Physicists Simulate Time Travel Using Quantum Entanglement
The top non-English language film on Netflix last week was The Conference—a Swedish horror movie that’s no doubt drawing viewers in with its thumbnail of a ghoulishly grinning, dirt-stained mask. Those who click on it will be rewarded with a blend of corporate satire and campground slasher, filled with some of the…
Source: Gizmodo – Surprise Netflix Hit The Conference Blends Drama, Gore, and Pitch-Black Humor
There’s a bit of a running joke in the world of Insomniac’s Spider-Man games. Avengers Tower, Bleecker Street, and Nelson and Murdock are lit up across its New York City: but when shit hits the fan, where’s everyone but Spider-Man? Perhaps the real question of these games is more of why would NYC want any other heroes…
Source: Gizmodo – Spider-Man 2’s Best Moments Broaden Its Perspectives
Sam Bankman-Fried testified before a jury for the first time on Friday saying he did not defraud FTX customers or take their funds, according to Bloomberg’s live reporting of the trial. The FTX and Alameda’s founder said that Alameda “borrowed” them, but admitted “a lot of people got hurt.”
Source: Gizmodo – SBF Testifies That Alameda Only ‘Borrowed’ Customer Funds
Google’s antitrust trial revealed the multi-billion dollar tech company paid out a whopping total of $26.3 billion in 2021 to keep its status as the default search engine on phones and multiple browsers, Bloomberg Law reported Friday. The Justice Department argued that by spending an exorbitant amount of money to…
Source: Gizmodo – Google Paid How Much to Be the Default Search Engine?