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Friends set up $500K GoFundMe for James Van Der Beek's family after cancer death

Friends set up a $500,000 GoFundMe for James Van Der Beek’s family after the actor died Wednesday following a battle with colorectal cancer that began in August 2023. The fundraiser notes that the costs of his medical care "left [his] family out of funds," despite a

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Rachel Roddy’s recipe for cacio e pepe, the old-fashioned way

A network of caves and tunnels was burrowed into Monte Testaccio, an ancient rubbish‑dump hill made entirely of broken amphorae. Today those spaces house nightclubs, mechanics, restaurants, a theatre, a wholesale butcher and an Apostolic church; some reveal the cross sections of pots, others have smoothed the curves with

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Final Fantasy 14 house recreates Phasmophobia's Tanglewood map

A Final Fantasy 14 player has recreated Phasmophobia's haunted house, 6 Tanglewood Drive, using only in-game furnishings. The screenshots shared on X by @ww_Yuki_www look so close to the co-op horror game that they can be mistaken for actual Phasmophobia images. The build occupies an FF14

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All academy quiz answers in Mario Tennis Fever

In Adventure mode of Mario Tennis Fever you'll need to complete five academy quizzes to progress from Rank E up to Rank B. Each quiz contains three questions and you must pass them to advance. If you get a question wrong you'll have to start the

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Boom time for anti-racist TV: how an £84 bottle of wine triggered change

One afternoon in 1984, Farrukh Dhondy went for lunch and found Jeremy Isaacs had ordered an £84 bottle of wine to persuade him to become Channel 4’s commissioning editor. Dhondy resisted—“For God’s sake, I’m not an office job man,” he said—but a conversation with CLR

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Standardized gaming test challenges players to beat an '80s adventure game

Not to sound like an old coot (though I am) but there's at least one aspect of gaming that used to be a lot harder. If you got stuck on an adventure game puzzle in the 1980s, you couldn't just ask the entire world for help:

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10 Movies From 1994 That Are Now Considered Classics

1994 was an incredibly stacked movie year. Blockbusters, indie breakthroughs, documentaries, and populist crowd-pleasers all seemed to hit their creative stride at the same time; studios were still willing to gamble on distinctive voices, mid-budget dramas could become cultural events, and genre films were allowed to be strange, personal, or

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I played the Starship Troopers demo and accidentally wiped out six teammates

Auroch Digital, the studio behind Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, is developing Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War, and a demo is now available on Steam to try for free. The game adopts a blocky boomer-shooter look and delivers frequent, graphic violence. The level I played felt more open than Boltgun, dropping

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James Van Der Beek's Second Act: Proud Father and Online Family Voice

James Van Der Beek, who died on Wednesday at 48 a little more than a year after announcing he had colorectal cancer, first rose to fame at 20 as the titular heartthrob on the teen drama "Dawson’s Creek." He later played roles including Mox in "Varsity

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The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4 Tops Netflix Charts

Netflix’s legal thriller The Lincoln Lawyer returned with Season 4 and immediately climbed the streaming charts, ranking fourth among the platform’s ten most popular shows on FlixPatrol at the time of writing. The season debuted with 9 million views, a figure Netflix says improves on Season 3, and

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Five surprising moments from Anna Wintour and Chloe Malle

Chloe Malle, who took over as editor of American Vogue in September, sat down with Anna Wintour for their first joint interview ahead of Malle’s first print issue. The conversation centered on how Malle is establishing her identity while her predecessor remains unusually in a supervisory role. They traded

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Kojima nearly discussed Metal Gear Solid FPS with Vince Zampella

At the DICE Summit, industry veterans gathered to pay tribute to Call of Duty and Titanfall co-creator Vince Zampella, who died in December. Hideo Kojima said Zampella offered him support and guidance as he founded Kojima Productions: "He gave me a lot of support and advice," Kojima said.

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The Foo Fighters Song Dave Grohl Wrote After Listening to Fleetwood Mac

The Foo Fighters are best known for arena-sized anthems and high-energy performances, but they once leaned into a softer, more melodic sound after spending time with Fleetwood Mac. That track became "Ain't It the Life," one of the band's most subdued and quietly beautiful

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HGTV cancels 'Rehab Addict' after Nicole Curtis uses racial slur

HGTV has canceled 'Rehab Addict' after leaked footage showed star Nicole Curtis using the N-word while working on a renovation project. On Wednesday RadarOnline published the footage; in it Curtis appears shocked at her own words, asks a man off-camera to "kill that" and says, "

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Diablo 4 adds warlocks, a dark summoner class, in Lord of Hatred

The return of paladins to Diablo 4 grabbed attention, but a Diablo Spotlight video also confirmed a second new class coming with the Lord of Hatred expansion: a dark, brooding summoner called the warlock. Warlocks are new to the series, though a surprise expansion for Diablo 2 introduces an earlier

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How to unlock all classes (collars) in Mewgenics

Mewgenics features 13 classes represented by collars, but you only start with four. Knowing what each class does and how to unlock the others helps you progress in this turn-based cat-breeding roguelike from the creator of The Binding of Isaac. The four starter classes are Fighter (default +2 Strength, +1

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Bel's Fanfare: Chibig's N64-inspired Zelda-like RPG

Spain-based studio Chibig, best known for Mika and the Witch's Mountain, has revealed Bel's Fanfare, a Zelda-like RPG with clear N64-era inspiration that quickly found success on Kickstarter — the campaign reached 600% of its goal in three days and has more than 10 times its target,

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In the Sci-Fi World of ‘Arco’, It’s About ‘Respecting Kids’ Intelligence’

Ugo Bienvenu set out to make “a movie that feels like a hug,” and that impulse is at the center of Arco, an Oscar-nominated animated film opening Thursday in U.S. theaters. The story follows two children from different eras who meet through time travel, moving between 2075, when robots

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Black Myth: Zhong Kui’s Six-Minute Short Film Celebrates Year of the Horse

Game Science released a six-minute short film made entirely in-engine to celebrate Chinese New Year and the Year of the Horse. It is explicitly non-canon and unrelated to the main storyline, so it doesn’t offer a new look at gameplay for the follow-up to Black Myth: Wukong. The clip

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Method dressing: nine actors who stayed in character on the red carpet

“Have you ever heard of a female actor that was method?” Kristen Stewart asked last year, the question suggesting method acting is often framed as a male preserve. A more widely available option is “method dressing”: promoting a film in an outfit inspired by a character. Lately it’s everywhere

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Solasta 2 will add a D&D 5E rule Baldur's Gate 3 dropped

Solasta: Crown of the Magister took a more combat-focused approach to Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition than Baldur's Gate 3 and included tactical options such as the Dodge action, which gives attacks against you disadvantage and grants advantage on Dexterity saving throws. Solasta 2 is introducing single-target leveled

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Danse Macabre: a Covid‑inspired photograph by Lisl Ponger

When Covid began, Lisl Ponger turned her attention from everyday face coverings to masks more broadly, researching masked balls, carnival masks and the many outbreaks of plague in Venice. Her photograph Danse Macabre, inspired by the pandemic, hides small details: paper lamps in the ceiling contain Covid-19 viruses, and at

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10 Greatest R-Rated Westerns of the 21st Century, Ranked

Western cinema has long been shaped by violence, justice, and morality as much as by sweeping visuals and cowboy characters. The mid-20th-century heyday wasn’t known for confronting realism, but in recent decades audiences have gravitated toward visceral authenticity that dismantles fabled American values. The 21st-century Western has become synonymous

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Reese Witherspoon mourns James Van Der Beek as 'Elle' marks his final TV role

Reese Witherspoon, an executive producer on the Legally Blonde prequel series Elle, paid tribute after James Van Der Beek died Wednesday following a battle with colorectal cancer that began in August 2023. She said she was "devastated" and called him "an extraordinary, talented man who also showed

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Jason Isaacs Reunites With 'Death of Stalin' Writer for WWII Dark Comedy

Jason Isaacs is set to join Bad Major, a World War II dark comedy that marks the feature directorial debut of Peter Fellows. Fellows co-wrote The Death of Stalin and previously worked with Armando Iannucci on projects including Veep and Avenue 5. The ensemble also features Josh Gad, Ruth Negga,