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Mondo’s King of Movies: The Leonard Maltin Game is the tabletop experience for cinema fans. For forty years, Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide served as the film geek’s Holy Bible, an annually updated softcover brick of a reference book, packed with thoughtful, witty, and occasionally weird capsule reviews of thousands of movies. Those synopses are at the heart of King of Movies: The Leonard Maltin Game, a tabletop casual party game of creative invention and hilarious deception....

It’s funny how things happen in life. A couple weeks ago, I was telling my wife that I would like to start putting together photo books of our daughter on a monthly basis, right from my iPhone, but without spending hours putting them up together. At the time, I told my wife that to my knowledge, there was no such app that would allow me to publish photo books in just a few minutes....

MSI Wind Nettop CS120: Superfrugal Plus DVD Burner MSIhave announced a new, eco-friendly version of their Wind Nettop, the MSI Wind Nettop CS120. The CS120 measures just 11.1 x 9.45 x 2.56 inches but manages to include a slot-load DVD burner, Intel Atom 230 1.6GHz processor, 160GB hard-drive and 1GB of memory (maximum 2GB). There’s also 7.1-channel HD sound output, integrated WiFi and a multiformat card reader, plus six USB 2....

Apple will reportedly add several new colour options to its iPhone range for 2023, with theiPhone 15 Proand Pro Max said to be coming in a burgundy (dark red) colourway. TheiPhone 15and likely 15 Plus will also get new colours, with cyan (light blue) and magenta (pink) variants. Appletraditionally offers its Pro models in a new colour each year, which it swaps. This year, the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max are each available in deep purple, as well as the conventional gold, silver, and space black options....

New York Passes Bill To Prohibit Bitcoin Mining For The Next Two Years - Here’s Why It Matters Senate members in New York have passed a landmarkbillthat puts a stop to new permits granted for mining cryptocurrencies at plants powered by fossil fuels. The Senate’s measure squarely targets proof-of-work authenticated mining, a system for mining cryptocurrencies that is extremely energy-hungry and currently forms the backbone of Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems. Just to be clear, the bill doesn’t affect cryptocurrency transactions carried out in the state....

One Of The Most Useful Google AI Features Is Finally Coming To iPhone The Google Photos app is definitely one of thebest free photo editing appsout there, offering features likeMagic Eraser, Photo Unblur, Portrait Light, and more for free. The app was launched in 2015, and since then it has been the go-to option for many users to store and manage photos. you may imagine the popularity of Google Photos by looking at the recently released usage numbers from Google....

Pixelar E-Reader Review Approve of their business model or not, Amazon have pushed ebook readers into the headlines and the general awareness over the past twelve months. Problem is, not everybody wants to be tied into Amazon’s services, and only the US is catered for with theKindle 2. That leaves a big gap for a standalone ebook reading device, and into that gap steps thePixelar E-Reader. SlashGear has been testing it out....

In the current era, it’s almost easy to forget, but there’s a reason tower PCs were born – not for gaming, but because it just wasn’t possible to build something small and get decent performance. My family’s first computer wasn’t even a tower, really, it was a giant slab that occupied most of the desktop. And this machine was state-of-the-art for 1986 – it had a colossal 8MB (yes, megabytes) of RAM....

It might all come down to taste and subjectivity, but Tarsier Studios know exactly what makes horror an ironically-inviting genre to tackle still, both as creators and consumers. More often than not, the best kind of horror isn’t necessarily the most vulgar or the the most graphic. It’s certainly not one that needs concessive build-up and pay-off every waking moment. Silence, silence, silence, BANG! It’s often the more suggestive of moments that works wonders....

Visual novel publisher MangaGamer have been around for years and are increasingly willing to localize more niche genres as time goes on. In 2015 they published the boys’ love title No, Thank You!!! by Parade. Five years later, they’ve just released another title by the same developer: Room No. 9. It’s a bold choice by MangaGamer because this isn’t a game for everyone. Sure, some people won’t want to play a BL title, but there’s more to it than that....

Games maker Atari today released RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch on the App Store. Not to be confused with Atari’s earlier release RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 Mobile, the$5.99 iOS titleincludes the best features found in the 1999 RollerCoaster Tycoon PC game and RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 for Xbox, which released in 2002. The new RollerCoaster Tycoon mobile experience includes 95 classic park scenarios from PC/Xbox titles. There’s also a built-in park designer, Retina-optimized graphics based on the visual style in Chris Sawyer’s original RollerCoaster Tycoon PC games, three downloadable content packs and much more....

Ryan Reynoldsmay be on a sabbatical at the moment, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been frequently continuing to drop in on his social media accounts. Yesterday the actor posted on his Instagram account in celebration of Deadpool’s 6th anniversary. While fans wait of the R-rated film franchise’s return sometime in the future, Reynolds shared a series of images from the originalDeadpoolmovie, including behind the scenes and on set shots....

Shaun of the DeadandHot FuzzstarSimon Pegghas teased future projects alongside writer/directorEdgar Wright. The pair have teamed up many times over the years, with their collaboration resulting in some of the most beloved comedies of modern times, including The Cornetto Trilogy and the superb series Spaced on the small screen. In an interview withComicbook.com, Pegg revealed that he and Wright have been “talking about stuff,” but thanks to scheduling nothing has come together…yet....