But then there are the puzzles that seem to have little or no logic governing them. Instead of just finding a code to open a locked door, you might need to complete a 10-step puzzle that damn near requires an advanced degree to solve. For those gamers who love to be truly challenged by their video games, here are the 15 hardest puzzles of all time… 15. Hatching the Owl – Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake Long before the Metal Gear series was known for its convoluted, barely coherent plot, it was known for its convoluted, barely coherent puzzles....

Notice that I said good jumpscares. While horror is filled with things suddenly going “boo” that only scare you because they trigger an almost unavoidable natural reaction, the best jump scares are so much more than that. They’re the payoff of the perfect set-up, the perfect atmosphere, and the perfect timing. While there will always be those who would rather look down on all jump scares rather than simply enjoy the fun of being “got” by them, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t jump scares that are a cut above the rest....

While it’s amazing to think that the video game industry has refrained from making sequels to some of these games given the sequel/reboot/remake culture that we live in, the fact of the matter is that there’s just something about each of the games on this list that make them tough sells for a revival. Some were too weird, some are stuck in licensing hell, and some have simply fallen through the cracks of history despite being exceptional....

Solo ex-Beatles took to the streets and concert halls while The Rolling Stones, as a group, went deep into exile. Aretha Franklin went to the courthouse to post bail for former University of California philosophy professor Angela Davis, charged with “aggravated kidnapping and first-degree murder in the death of Judge Harold Haley.” Bill Withers quit his day job but held tight to his lunch box. David Bowie twisted a knife into the hippy movement, and Alice Cooper went to hell to celebrate....

The biggest draw of the show, which celebrates its 20th anniversary on Nov. 6, is undoubtedly its unique format. Each season takes place over the span of a day and in real-time, meaning that a season’s 24 episodes make up 24 real-time hours (with some carve outs for commercials, of course). Then there’s the show’s hero, Jack Bauer. The character brought to life by Kiefer Sutherland begins as an ex-military counter terrorism unit bureaucrat before slowly blossoming into one of the most ruthlessly efficient killing machines in pop culture history....

The recent controversy regarding the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing’s lawsuit against Activision Blizzard has prompted players and streamers to stage various forms of in-game and real-world protests. The very short version of this story is that the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing has filed a lawsuit against game publisher Activision Blizzard following a two-year investigation into the company’s culture, practices, and policies. What they found has been described in official documents as a “pervasive frat boy workplace culture” where women, minorities, and anyone else who the practitioners of that culture deem to be outsiders are often subject to verbal and physical harassment as well as unequal treatment in terms of pay, workload, and benefits....

While the news has elicited sadness, especially perhaps from newer fans of the globally popular group, it has also been met with understanding and support from most members of the diverse fandom. And as we all wait for the next chapter in BTS history to begin, there is an expansive backlog of BTS content to watch or rewatch. While much of BTS’ content is, of course, music videos and performances, the Korean band has also produced a plethora of additional content in the form of web series, TV shows, and DVD boxsets....

American Gods star Yetide Badaki, known to fans of the show as love goddess Bilquis, has an upbringing as unique as any fictional character from Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel. She lived in England for three years, has lived in American since age 12, and went to college in Canada, but Badaki’s roots are planted in the soil of the country of her birth, Nigeria. Nigeria, Africa’s largest country, serves as the centerpiece of the larger tribal community known as Yorubaland along with Benin, Ghana, and Togo....

With the exception of 2010’s Devil, the Dowdles have worked pretty exclusively in the “found footage” esthetic and adopt it again here, although like most filmmakers these days, they bend the rules of the format as they see fit (as usual, we don’t know how all this footage was edited together). The film opens with an American named Benji (Edwin Hodge) making a documentary about Scarlet Marlowe (Perdita Weeks), a young British history professor intent on following her late, suicidal father’s study of alchemy and learning the location of the Philosopher’s Stone, the mythical alchemical substance that can turn lead into gold or help one achieve immortality....

Most exciting of all is the fact that this will be the first next-gen entry in the series, making the jump to Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 4 this November. Of course, if you’re a PC gamers with a new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU, you’re probably most looking forward to playing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla on your gaming rig. As far as that goes, Ubisoft has released the recommended system requirements for the best gaming experience....

Attack on Titan Season 4 Episode 18 “You did a good job holding out on your own, Eren. Now just leave the rest to your big brother.” Attack on Titan is a complex series that features dozens of crucial figures that all represent unique pieces of a gigantic puzzle that’s been steadily coming together and taken apart for centuries. Thousands of lives have been lost and history has been rewritten in the process, all for this war to come down to the union of two brothers, who started this story as utter rivals, only to progressively learn that they’re two sides of the same coin and equally essential to ending an eternity of suffering....

While smaller-budget comedies and dramas tend to fall by the wayside or go directly to streaming these days, horror movies can still drum up big business relative to their ambitions due to the shock and surprise inherent in a good spooky story. The adrenaline-fueled buzz that a particularly jolting scare or some creatively deployed horrific imagery can provide remains a pull for casual audiences just hoping to see something new....

But then screenwriter Chris Terrio comes along and delivers a bombshell interview to Vanity Fair that just seems destined to get people relitigating the events surrounding a movie that just recently celebrated its fifth anniversary. Terrio, who won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for 2012’s Argo, is “happy and relieved” that Zack Snyder’s Justice League has been released, but he has plenty to say about what went into the studio decisions surrounding the making of Batman v Superman and how they changed the direction of Justice League....

On Nov. 12, 2019, pop culture was forever changed when Disney+ launched The Mandalorian. Although the Star Wars saga had already established a presence on TV thanks to cartoons like The Clone Wars and Rebels, there had never been a well, good, live-action attempt to bring a galaxy far, far away to the small screen. (And no, The Star Wars Holiday Special, The Ewok Adventure, and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor don’t count, but at least the latter had Wilford Brimley)....

Memory’s Legion by James S.A. Corey Type: AnthologyPublisher: OrbitRelease date: March 15Den of Geek says: For the first time, all of Corey’s stories set in the world of The Expanse are available in one print volume, along with behind-the-scenes notes from the authors. Publisher’s summary: On Mars, a scientist experiments with a new engine that will one day become the drive that fuels humanity’s journey into the stars. On an asteroid station, a group of prisoners are oblivious to the catastrophe that awaits them....

While Miles Morales retains the incredible writing, fantastic controls, and clever open-world design that made Marvel’s Spider-Man a hit, one of the game’s most surprising draws remains its extensive collection of unlockable suits that pay tribute to Spider-Man‘s long comic book history. Pretty much every suit in the game is worth unlocking and wearing, but we’ve picked the 10 best suits you need to get your hands on as soon as possible....

War might be hell, but war flicks can be pretty great at times! Armed combat and all the other various theaters and forms of battle makes for high-octane drama and gripping backdrops. And that’s pretty much exactly what we are looking for out of our drama films. ‘71 The African Queen An unlikely war movie at first glance, The African Queen is very much the story of two middle-aged people caught up in the chaos of the First World War....

Ever since Breaking Bad’s preantepenultimate episode “To’hajiilee” aired in 2013, fans have been wondering whether Saul Goodman’s lovable bodyguard, Huell Babineaux (Lavell Crawford) got away from the criminal underworld to live a better life. The last time we saw the pick-pocketing mastermind, he was told by Hank Schrader and Steve Gomez (Dean Norris and Steven Michael Quezada) to stay put in a DEA safehouse after interrogating him on the location of Walter White (Bryan Cranston)....

Jefferson Pierce is dead. Or so it seems, as we turn the page on Black Lightning: The Book of Resurrection: Chapter One: Crossroads. Tobias Whale is on the precipice of achieving everything he has worked for. His mayoral win was supposed to secure his seat on the Shadow Board, but that offer was rescinded after his failure to completely immobilize Freeland’s metas. But Tobias is always one step ahead, and he sends an invisible assassin—powered up with meta boosters—to kill the apparent head, then takes his place, dubbing himself King....

Where are the Avengers? For fans of shared universe stories, that question can get very annoying very fast. It makes sense for those new to the concept to wonder about the whereabouts of other characters, but for long-term fans, the answer is simple: someplace else. Too much worrying about what Thor is doing while Doctor Strange fights Scarlet Witch or why Ant-Man never helped Shang-Chi stop the bus rampaging through San Francisco distracts from the main hero’s story....