“To all you lads and lasses holding the line in 2018 on land, at sea or in the air, thanks for keeping the faith.”
GOP Senator Says Shutdown Means Time To ‘Hunker Down Like Jackass In Hailstorm’
“This is my fifth shutdown,” Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) told CNN. “I’m beyond frustrated.”
KFC’s New Yule Log Smells Like Fried Chicken
Kentucky Fried Chicken announced the fried chicken-scented 11 Herbs & Spices Firelog just in time for the holidays.
The log, which can be found on KFCfirelogs.com, is produced by Enviro-Log and is made of 100% recycled materials (just hopefully not chicken gizzards). With no shelf life, it can be burned for up to 3 hours, though KFC warns that it “may attract bears or neighbors who are hungry.” KFC also insists that, no matter how great the log smells, you cannot eat it.
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The Best TV Shows You (Probably) Didn’t Watch in 2018
With over 500 TV shows currently on the air, it’s easier than ever to miss the true gems. It’s impossible to keep up with all the shows we know about and want to watch, much less the ones out there we may have never heard of. So with everyone’s hectic lives and busy schedules in mind, we’ve comprised a humble year-end list for some of the best TV shows of 2018 that might have flown under your radar.
A few of these series are, yes, more notable than others, and on popular premium networks, but – again – with the glut of programming out they might need another call out to wind up on your must-watch list. The rest of the shows are honest to goodness sleepers and it’s more than understandable why they’ve gone relatively unnoticed.
Nintendo Switch Setup Guide, Helpful How Tos, Troubleshooting Tips, and More
If you’re just setting up a new Nintendo Switch or trying to transfer your data over to a new one, these helpful Nintendo Switch guides should make that process much easier. In this article, you’ll find quick links to popular Switch setup guides (as determined by traffic, user questions, and popular searches) and troubleshooting wiki pages.
IGN’s Nintendo Switch guide has plenty of great hardware information, but if you’re looking for more guides on Nintendo Switch games, be sure to check out these popular game wikis:
First Trailer For Get Out Director’s New Horror Movie Is Terrifying
Jordan Peele’s next horror movie is just right around the corner, and since his last film Get Out was such a huge success, Us should be on everyone’s “must watch” radar. Today, on Christmas Day, the very first trailer was released for the upcoming film, which releases in March.
In the first trailer, which you can see above, the movie follows a family who goes on vacation. They quickly find themselves being stalked by a deranged family. However, these psychopaths has something peculiar about them. They look exactly like the people they’re hunting.
Us stars Lupita Nyong’o as Adelaide Wilson, Winston Duke as Gabe Wilson, and Elisabeth Moss and Tim Heidecker as members of the Tyler family. The film also features Yahya Abdul-Mateen II from Aquaman and Anna Diop from the DC Universe streaming series Titans.
Additionally, Peele has more in store for fans in 2019, as he’s producing and hosting CBS All Access’ new Twilight Zone. So far, we’ve only seen a teaser for the new show, and the only other information that’s been released is that Marco Ramirez (Sons of Anarchy, Daredevil) will serve as writer and showrunner.
Us comes to theaters on March 19, 2019.
Pope Francis urges peace in conflict zones in Christmas address
“My wish for a happy Christmas is a wish for fraternity among individuals of every nation and culture.”
Trump: ‘Nothing new on the shutdown’ on Day 3 of closure
“Nothing new. Nothing new on the shutdown. Nothing new. Except we need border security,” Trump told reporters.
Phil Hornshaw’s Most Anticipated Game Of 2019: Twin Mirror
With 2019 right around the corner, we’ve polled GameSpot’s staff to find out what games they are looking forward to most in the new year. To be eligible, a game must simply have a release date currently planned for 2019. Of course, we all know nothing is set in stone; there’s always a chance some games could slip into 2020. When you’re done reading this entry, follow along with all of our other end-of-the-year coverage collected in our Best of 2018 hub.
I have a soft spot for Dontnod games. I’m one of the few people I know who got really into Remember Me, the studio’s first offering. It was a flawed game that struggled with its moment-to-moment gameplay, grabbing weaker versions of the combat from the Batman: Arkham series and the environmental climbing puzzles of the Uncharted franchise. But Remember Me had a ton of great ideas about delving into characters’ minds and reconstructing their memories, and it managed to tell an affecting story using those mechanics.
Vampyr, another fascinating Dontnod offering, contains a deep story into which it looks to integrate its gameplay. It expanded on the idea of narrative choices as mechanics by putting you in the role of a vampire who’s also a doctor, torn between feeding on people and saving them. If you don’t murder people, you stay weak, and you have a hard time completing the various investigations (and fighting the various scary monsters) that obstruct your path through the game; but if you do murder people, you’ll irrevocably change the game world and the story. Not every decision that went into the game worked, but Vampyr definitely pushed the envelope in the realm of games that react to player choices.
And then there are the Life is Strange games. I bounced off Dontnod’s best-known titles, but I appreciated the attention to story and character development in what I played of them. And from all accounts, the first episode of Life is Strange 2 is a powerful start to the sequel.
Dontnod’s willingness to experiment means that whatever project the developer is working on is always pinging my internal video game radar, and Twin Mirror looks like it could have potential. It’s about Sam, an investigative journalist, heading back to his Rust Belt town for his best friend’s funeral. Things aren’t great for Sam–he has an imaginary friend who constantly hassles him called The Double, and he wakes up the morning after the funeral with his clothes covered in blood, unable to remember what happened or what awful thing he might have done. The setting and aesthetic give the whole thing an alluring Twin Peaks meets Life is Strange vibe.
Twin Mirror seems like it’s trying to riff on some of the ideas of visiting and viewing memories from Remember Me, a very cool mechanic that was sadly underused in Dontnod’s first effort. And while a lot of games, from the Batman: Arkham series to LA Noire and beyond, have tried but struggled to make investigating crime scenes an engaging mechanic, Dontnod’s past attempts with tough systems mean it might have a novel mechanical solution in mind.
Not all of Dontnod’s titles have been raucous successes, and not all of the ideas they put into their games manage to stick the landing. But the developer is constantly trying interesting things, for better or worse. I’d much rather play a game like Vampyr, which takes a run at trying new and exciting things, than a much safer AAA title. There are some things about Twin Mirror that give me pause (the imaginary friend conceit is extremely played, for one, and lots of games have attempted investigation mechanics but not many do them well), but I’m willing to go with Dontnod on its journey. I know no matter what, their game will care about its story and its characters, and it’ll make attempts at bringing new ideas into the lexicon of video games.
The Best Noise Canceling Headphones
Get yourself a pair of Bose QuietComfort 35 Series II noise cancelling headphones, or maybe a pair of Beats Studio 3 Wireless headphones, and cancel all the noise.