Halo Episode 8 Halo is painting in broad strokes. The story focuses back in on Doctor Halsey, Master Chief, and TV show exclusive character Makee this week, trying to say something about the value of human life, the importance of our connection to each other, and how people should not be implanted with technology to make them better weapons. In doing so it further removes some of the pulpy specificity that made the world of the games work....

But all 343 needed to change the conversation was to put the game in players’ hands. A technical preview held from July 29 to Aug. 2 finally allowed fans (including this writer) to jump into Halo Infinite‘s multiplayer and get a feel for 343’s take on a faster Halo PvP experience that also hearkens back to the franchise’s roots as one of the foremost competitive console shooters. Despite offering only a snippet of the final product — three maps, a handful of weapons, and the first 20 tiers of a Battle Pass — the preview seems to have been a success, with many players immediately asking for more when the demo closed down on Monday....

After struggling through four very slow-paced episodes in which not much of note happened at all, The Book of Boba Fett has finally delivered a chapter that demands attention. “Return of the Mandalorian” is exciting, spectacularly shot, and takes us to new places we’ve never been to before, including a very cool ringworld called Glavis. Most importantly, it pushes the story of the post-Return of the Jedi era of Star Wars forward....

The Ridley Scott-directed sci-fi epic Raised by Wolves helped launch HBO Max back in 2020 and now it’s finally back for another season. Raised by Wolves season 2 premieres with three episodes on Feb. 3. This season will continue the conflict between future atheists and theists on a remote planet, while two androids raise some kids (Yes, there’s a lot going on here). February 2022 also sees the end of another, more recent HBO Max hit....

“The beautiful thing about the horror genre or just genre filmmaking in general is that you can take personal material and you can just sort of push it through the genre filter and out comes a work of relative invention, right?” says Aster when Den of Geek gets him on the phone. “So I can say that the feelings that fueled the writing of the film were very personal and coming from personal experiences....

Gaga commands the screen of Ridley Scott’s second film in as many months so thoroughly that it might as well be taking place on a stage in Madison Square Garden. But as good as she and other aspects of the movie are, you might also rather be at an arena concert than sitting through a movie with all the pieces to be a camp epic, but which nonetheless are inexplicably played straight and even demurely by the film’s maestro....

When House of the Dragon began, it was like being invited to an extended family reunion full of relatives we’ve never met. Here are five major Targaryen characters, all with silver hair; and here are also the Velaryons, each of the same silver hair, who’ve married into the Targaryens. And though they hadn’t married into the royal dynasty yet, the prospects of Ser Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans) and his daughter Alicent (Emily Carey) were clearly signaled to be on the rise by the end of the first hour....

House of the Dragon Episode 4 Sex plays a big role in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire world (as it does in our own). Not only does the act, you know, feel good, but procreation is kind of a big deal in a political landscape dominated by inherited dynasties. So while Game of Thrones certainly reveled in spicing up the fantasy genre with nudity and violence, both elements at least felt natural to the story that the show wanted to tell....

One thing is for certain about the Fast and Furious film franchise—it has been a wild ride. Other aspects of the Fast Saga are less certain. Although the F9 title definitively labels the latest film as the ninth installment, it’s actually the 10th film. Or the 11th. You could even say the 12th if you include the short film. It depends how you want to count it. For a franchise laden with car chase clichés, the Fast Saga makes a lot of long, winding detours....

If you break Marvel’s Eternals down to a barebones premise, the latest MCU film is the story of a family that loves each other but is torn asunder by ideological differences in spite of that love. It’s one of the more topical thematic explorations in the MCU pantheon—a central tension Captain America: Civil War promised us, but never fully delivered on. Eternals isn’t about Deviants. It’s not about shepherding humanity through millennia of technological development....

Sure enough, screenwriter Paul Dehn was asked to immediately get to work on a new story following Escape‘s release. The next one would follow Milo, renamed Caesar by circus owner Armando (Ricardo Montalban), as he laid the groundwork for the series of events that would bring about humanity’s downfall and make apes the dominant civilization on Earth. Released 50 years ago this week, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes was directed by J....

When New Pokémon Snap is released for Nintendo Switch on April 30, Nintendo fans everywhere will have a chance to experience the long-awaited follow-up to one of the company’s most fascinating and beloved experiments: 1999’s Pokémon Snap. As an on-rails FPS game where the only shooting you did was take pictures of wild Pokémon, Pokémon Snap was a true oddity. While developer HAL Laboratory elevated that premise through Metroidvania-like unlock mechanics and a fantastic photo grading system, most of Pokémon Snap‘s gameplay really was based on the thrill of capturing in-game moments with a camera....

Stargirl Season 2 Episode 2 Every fan of the DC TV universe has been waiting for what feels like forever to see some form of the Green Lantern pop up on our screens. Arrow’s John Diggle has felt like the most likely candidate, ever since he found a strangely glowing green box in that show’s series finale and then proceeded to bounce through almost every other superhero series on the network this year, dropping awkward hints about inexplicable headaches and destiny along the way....

Originally a creature of tragedy in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, the once nameless heroine was reshaped by Disney, and more precisely Walt Disney Animation Studios during a moment of crisis, into an animated life so vibrant it is recognized as the beginning of the Disney Renaissance: the era in which Disney Animation reclaimed its legacy by influencing millions of children to embrace newly revitalized fantasies of princesses and castles, musicals and magic....

There is arguably no journalist who has covered The Sopranos in greater depth for the last two decades than Alan Sepinwall. Now Rolling Stone’s chief TV critic, Sepinwall helped shape the narrative of television discourse just as Sopranos creator David Chase forged a revolutionary subject to evaluate. The New Jersey native started his career writing at the Newark Star-Ledger, putting him in an intimate position to cover The Sopranos close to the show’s setting....

Expecting easter eggs and nods to Star Trek: The Original Series in any contemporary Trek series is normal. Discovery season 1 had a Gorn skeleton and a tribble. Picard season 2 basically hinged on the underrated TOS episode “Assignment: Earth.” Lower Decks season 2 had an entire episode focused on how to pronounce “Mugato.” And of course, nearly every episode of Strange New Worlds has had a least one wink-or-nod to something from The Original Series....

There’s high-demand for exceptional artists of the modern web, and this guide is going to show you how to get started. And since people who work in the software are some of the most well-rewarded individuals, it’s well worth your while to consider picking up this new skill. You never know, it could eventually turn into a career for you. The first section of this guide is dedicated to answering pressing questions about front-end development....

Are you an IT professional and want to be more into managing the business rather than developing apps or databases? Want to do what works for you through improved IT services and productivity in a startups? Are you a business manager with IT skills and need a certification for the next big movement in your career? The ITIL Certification is perfect for all the above scenarios. This article is the ultimate guideline that brings you one step closer to the ITIL accreditation challenge in 2022....

While I have used Windows 10 and Ubuntu 22.04, the process should be the same regardless of which Windows or Linux operating system you use. What is Anaconda? Anaconda is a very popular open-source Python and R distribution platform for scientific computing. It is a single application that comes with many useful tools out of the box. These include the Python and R language interpreters, IDEs such as Spyder and Jupyter Notebooks, and many popular Python packages you will likely need, such as Numpy, Matplotlib, and Tensorflow....

Once you subscribe to a service like the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you do not have to worry about the high capital and maintenance costs of an equivalent in-house data center and associated infrastructure. However, traditional on-premise security practices do not provide sufficient and prompt security for virtual environments. Unlike an on-premise data center where perimeter security protects the entire installation and resources, the nature of the cloud environment, with diverse technologies and locations, requires a different approach....