Hogwarts Legacy comes out next week. It is, bar none, the biggest video game to ever use the ever-popular Harry Potter license. A Dragon Age-style open-world RPG, made by Warner Bros. Games and Avalanche Software (recently of the scuttled Disney Infinity), it’s kind of a huge deal. The game been sitting at the top of the Steam sales charts even as a pre-order. Even so, the game has become controversial. Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has been a lightning rod of controversy for several years, and while it doesn’t appear that she has any direct involvement in the game, it’s hard to deny that buying it means supporting her financially. Plenty of Harry Potter fans aren’t willing to do that, for reasons that are both well-known and beyond the scope of PCWorld’s coverage. But neither Warner Bros. nor Rowling have an exclusive on the idea of teenage wizards and witches. So if you need to scratch that Harry Potter itch and you don’t want to buy the game (or go see increasingly terrible spin-off movies), I’ve got a humble suggestion: watch a bunch of nerds play Dungeons and Dragons instead. Misfits and Magic, a Kids on Brooms actual play Okay, some qualifications. The bunch of nerds in question are professional actors, comedians, and other masters of improvising in front of a camera. And the game they’re playing isn’t Dungeons and Dragons, though the actual play format is certainly inspired by it. No, in the Misfits and Magic mini-season of long-running... Continue reading at 'PC World'
[ PC World | 2023-02-03 15:30:00 UTC ]
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'Extraordinary Birder' host Christian Cooper brings his memoir 'Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World' to the L.A. Times Book Club. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-08-16 20:59:16 UTC ]
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Apple has a thing for 10th anniversaries: The iPhone X made its debut a decade after the first iPhone arrived. The rumor mill says Apple Watch’s 10th edition justifies a similarly dramatic reworking of its original template. Reports suggest 2025’s Apple Watch X will ditch the slide-in lugs in... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2023-08-15 11:15:12 UTC ]
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A Canadian author says a production company belonging to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex has bought the screen rights for her romantic novel. Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2023-08-08 18:39:04 UTC ]
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For students embarking on their college journeys this fall, there’s no tool more essential than an APA style guide. Now in their seventh editions, the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and Concise Guide to APA Style remain invaluable resources for those tasked with... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Luis Alberto Urrea, author of 'Good Night, Irene,' joins L.A. Times Book Club readers live on July 19. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-07-19 20:38:21 UTC ]
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Curious about manga art styles and the different types of art you'll encounter in the format? Get to know some of the most common styles. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2023-07-07 10:35:00 UTC ]
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If Harry wins he will have to thank legal precedent set by apprentice chimney sweep 300 years agoIf Prince Harry wins his phone-hacking claim against Mirror Group Newspapers he will have to thank a legal precedent set by an apprentice chimney sweep more than 300 years ago.The royal’s case... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-06-30 16:17:33 UTC ]
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Actor Elliot Page joined the Los Angeles Times Book Club to discuss his new memoir, 'Pageboy,' in Hollywood. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-06-15 17:06:58 UTC ]
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Working with the Booker Prize Foundation, Dua Lipa recently visited HMP Downview, a women’s prison in Surrey, to get a firsthand glimpse of Books Unlocked, a program set up by the BPF and the National Literacy to foster a culture of reading for incarcerated people. Lipa, who recently launched a... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-06-02 14:54:54 UTC ]
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On May 24, actor and author LeVar Burton discusses the State of Banned Books with Times readers in Los Angeles. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-05-24 20:15:39 UTC ]
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Author says paparazzi and reporters began to follow him in his car and snoop around his homePrince Harry’s ghostwriter has said he bonded with his subject over the “callousness” of paparazzi and media after the “frenzied mob” around the book Spare led to photographers and journalists invading... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-05-09 03:35:56 UTC ]
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Duke of Sussex has alleged royal family agreed not to sue newspaper publisher in return for an apology and settlementPrince Harry does not blame Queen Elizabeth II for backing an alleged secret phone-hacking deal between the royal family and Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers, the high court has... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-04-26 14:40:32 UTC ]
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If its true that William took a payoff from Murdoch and the royals struck a peace deal, they seem willing to surrender reputations cheaplyPrince Harry has long alleged that the royal family – “the Institution”, as he calls it – is locked in a trap of appeasement with the tabloid media. In their... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-04-25 16:54:24 UTC ]
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Fans of Anthony Doerr’s 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning novel All The Light We Cannot See have something to chew on today, with the release of the first trailer for Netflix’s adaptation, directed by Deadpool and Stranger Things(?!) producer Shawn Levy. Steven Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-04-18 15:16:59 UTC ]
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Last week, Twitter said it would start winding down the legacy verified program on April 1st, but over the weekend, that didn't happen, because (according to The Washington Post) unverifying users is a painstaking manual process. Meanwhile, another report indicated around 10,000 of the... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2023-04-04 11:15:47 UTC ]
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Sci-fi novelist Annalee Newitz will discuss "The Terraformers" March 28 at the L.A. Times Book Club. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-03-28 21:24:50 UTC ]
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Prince Harry's tell-all memoir 'Spare' is getting a parody spoof with 'Spare Us! A Harrody' to be released next month. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-03-23 19:59:45 UTC ]
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The vertical TikTok-style video feed has invaded a lot of the apps we use on a daily basis and now it's officially coming to one more. After announcing a beta test last year, Spotify will begin rolling out a new design for the Home section of its mobile app with a "more visual, dynamic" look.... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2023-03-08 18:33:59 UTC ]
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The portrait is stern, defiant, of bountiful hairline. Shot by Ramona Rosales for the cover of Prince Harry’s memoir Spare, it planted a flag in the golden Californian soil and hung a shark-tooth necklace around the decrepit institution it set out to eviscerate. Tiled in your local Barnes &... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-03-03 15:21:13 UTC ]
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In February the L.A. Times Book Club is reading "The Violin Conspiracy," a bestseller by musician and music teacher Brendan Slocumb. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-02-23 23:01:09 UTC ]
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