When it was released back in 2015, Windows 10 broke records in customer satisfaction, quickly becoming the fastest-growing iteration of Microsoft’s proprietary OS ever. However, the sun is quickly setting for the OS now, with a reveal event for Windows 11 scheduled to begin today.
How To Watch The Windows 11 Reveal Stream
The Windows 11 reveal stream from Microsoft began at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET. Get it, 11 AM? The stream is not on Twitch, YouTube, or any social media platforms, but you can go straight to Microsoft’s website to catch it. We’ve embedded the Microsoft stream below, as well.
What To Expect From The Windows 11 Reveal Stream
Today’s stream is sure to be full of details and features coming in the next iteration of Windows. You can expect to hear a decent amount of technical jargon and see what Windows 11 officially looks like. A release date for the OS could also be announced, and we now know it will be a free upgrade for those who already had Windows 10.
However, not everything we see today will likely be a surprise. Earlier this month, alleged screenshots of Windows 11 leaked online, followed by a leak of the full OS, which could be run on a virtual machine. The leaks showed off a new taskbar with launch icons in its center rather than on the left side, a Widgets icon, and rounded corners for windows.
Windows 10 was seen as a massive improvement over Windows 8 and 8.1 by users and came with a myriad of new features including Xbox integration. That’s not to say that the road hasn’t been rough at some times for the OS, with reports from users as recent as this past March saying that updates for Windows 10 have caused issues.
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Arcade1Up already lets you turn your home into an arcade, but its latest product lets you literally turn your home into an arcade. The Arcade1Up Pac-Man Projectorcade features a full arcade control deck with a dozen Bandai Namco arcade games, as well as a protector to display the gameplay on your wall.
Currently only available at QVC for $400, the Arcade1Up Pac-Man Projectorcade comes with a gaming deck and stand alongside the projector and projector stand, and with an included HDMI cable, it also works without the projector itself if you want to connect it to a TV. With the projector, it lets you display games like Pac-Man and Dig Dug on any wall in your home, giving everyone in the room a clear view of the action.
The following games are included:
Pac-Man
Pac-Mania
Pac-Land
Rally-X
Galaga
Gaplus
Galaga ’88
Dig Dug
Xevious
Rolling Thunder
Dragon Spirit
Mappy
The control deck is removable, and the listing makes mention of room for multiple deck storage on the stand. Presumably, this will allow for additional control decks from other publishers in the future, as Arcade1Up also has products based on Capcom, Sega, Konami, Midway, and Atari.
Arcade1Up revealed a few different new home arcade cabinets during E3 2021, as well, including a “big blue” Street Fighter II, Ms. Pac-Man and Galaga Class of 1981, and The Simpsons Arcade though that one was removed from its website shortly after our own story was posted. Arcade1Up has more than just arcade cabinets in the works. Preorders for the Infinity Game Table, a coffee table loaded with classic board games, go live at Best Buy on July 17. Make sure to check out our Infinity Game Table review.
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All four games are developed by Falcom and will be published by NIS America in the West. Trails from Zero is seemingly launching in Fall 2022, with the rest of the entries coming sometime in 2023. Even though these announcements were leaked via The Epic Games Store, that doesn’t mean they are exclusive to the storefront. After all, Trails of Cold Steel III and IV are on both Epic and Steam.
These games also may come to consoles as well, given that these were first seen on PlayStation platforms in Japan, and NIS America is well known for providing Nintendo Switch ports of its titles. We’ll have to wait for an official announcement on that.
It’s also worth noting that according to the Epic Store pages, only Trails into Reverie will have dual English and Japanese audio options, while the other games will have just Japanese voice acting.
It’s very likely that these four titles were planned for localization announcements later today at Falcom’s 40th anniversary livestream celebration which is coincidentally, hosted by NIS America.
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The first trailer for the Disney+ show Turner and Hooch has been released. The series is a reboot of the 1989 Tom Hanks movie about a cop and his slobbering canine assistant.
The new show is actually a sequel to the original movie, with Josh Peck (Fuller House) playing Scott Turner Jr., a US marshal and the son of Hanks’s now-dead character. It seems that before he died, Turner Sr. rescued another giant French mastiff from a shelter and wanted his son to have it–as one character says, “It’s almost like the original Hooch came back.” Lots of chaotic dog-related hijinks ensure, as Turner tries to control his to his unruly new pet and the pair set out to solve crimes. Check the trailer out below:
Turner and Hooch is a 12-episode show, and it premieres on Disney+ on July 21. It also stars Carra Patterson (Straight Outta Compton), Brandon Jay McLaren (Graceland), Anthony Ruivivar (The Haunting of Hill House), Lyndsy Fonseca (Kick-Ass), Becca Tobin (Glee), and Jeremy Maguire (Modern Family).
The original movie hit theaters in July 1989, and also starred Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, and Reginald VelJohnson. There was an earlier attempt to make a spin-off show, and a pilot was shot with Tom Wilson replacing Hanks as Turner. However, the series wasn’t picked up and the pilot was instead released a made-for-TV movie in 1990.
The Suicide Squad director James Gunn kept Idris Elba’s Bloodsport role under wraps for quite some time.
As reported by ComicBook.com, Gunn recently participated in a Q&A on Twitter where he was asked whether he filmed any alternate scenes, especially character deaths, to prevent story details from being leaked. Gunn said they didn’t shoot any smoke screen scenes, though they did go to great lengths to keep Idris Elba’s role a secret from everyone, including the crew.
“To keep Idris Elba’s character from getting out we called him Vigilante in the script and on his chair back,” Gunn revealed. “We kept it so secret that, we were a week away from finishing shooting and the production designer, Beth Mickle, said, ‘wait, he’s not Vigilante?’ And to make it weirder, DC’s character Vigilante is one of the leads of my Peacemaker show.”
In a follow-up tweet, Gunn also revealed that he maintained the element of surprise with the entire Suicide Squad cast over the course of the shoot. He explained that each actor only had script pages “up until the point their character dies,” meaning that some of the cast members are only just seeing the movie’s ending now while others still haven’t watched it yet.
Konami has surprise-released an online performance test demo for the game that will presumably become PES 2022 – but for now is officially referred to as ‘New Football Game’.
Available on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PS4, the demo will be available until July 8. Detailed on an official FAQ, Konami makes clear that this is primarily a test for the game’s matchmaking and servers, and that the gameplay itself remains unfinished.
IGN understands that this demo has been created in Unreal Engine – which PES will switch to for the first time this year – but Konami says that “gameplay mechanics, balancing, animations and graphics are all under development and will be improved before the official launch.” IGN also understands that in-development versions of the game have already been improved beyond the state of the demo.
The demo only allows online 1v1 games, with Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Juventus, and Barcelona making up the available teams.
Those who play the New Football Game demo and fill out a survey about it will earn 25,000 GP (PES’ virtual currency) for use in PES 2021 Season Update’s MyClub mode.
The latest event announced for WotC’s D&D Live event is the Chaos Carnival table, a live event that will see some of WWE’s superstars enter the world of Dungeons and Dragons. Joining Dungeon Master Aabria Iyengar will be wrestlers Xavier Woods, Ember Moon, MACE, and Tyler Breeze.
The quest these wrestlers will have to undertake “involves high-flying attractions and wildly dangerous stakes,” which DM Iyengar thinks will suit her superstar players well. “Each player at the table lost something precious to them at the Chaos Carnival years ago… can they unravel the secrets below the Big Top before they become the next main attraction?”
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The event will be raising money for Connor’s Cure, a charity chosen by the table’s participants.
The Chaos Carnival table is one of four that will take place at the D&D Live event. WotC has already announced the Lost Odyssey: Last Light Table, which will feature the likes of Jack Black, Kevin Smith, Reggie Watts, Lauren Lapkus, and Jason Mewes, hosted by Kate Welch.
D&D Live will also serve as a promotional event for WotC, involving announcements and new information for both upcoming D&D content, and other WotC properties like Magic: The Gathering. The event will be livestreamed on the newly resurrected G4 network, as well as on Peacock and on the official D&D social channels, taking place on July 16 and 17.
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The biggest draw of A Pirate’s Life, the new expansion content for Sea of Thieves, might be Captain Jack Sparrow and the many other Pirates of the Caribbean characters now a part of the live game’s world. But while it’s nice to delve into the crossover content to see nods to both Disney’s films and its theme park attractions, the story and Easter eggs aren’t the reason you should check out A Pirate’s Life. What the new expansion really excels at is giving new pirates and lone scallawags a new, low-stakes way to engage with Sea of Thieves without the threat of getting riddled with enemy cannonballs and losing hours of progress.
A Pirate’s Life launched as a free expansion to Sea of Thieves this week, and while it makes a few changes to the game at large, it mostly consists of five new “Tall Tales” that specifically concern Pirates of the Caribbean mainstays Jack Sparrow, Davy Jones, Captain Barbosa, and others. These stories take you on a journey to uncover what’s brought Captain Jack to the Sea of Thieves, sending you to some new locations that haven’t been part of the game before.
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These aren’t the only Tall Tales in the game–there are quite a few others that take you on lengthy voyages all over Sea of Thieves–but the story chapters in A Pirate’s Life (or at least the first three, as that’s all I’ve completed so far) are a bit of a different speed than the rest of the game. They represent a pretty solid on-ramp into Rare’s excellent swashbuckling adventure game if you’ve never played it. They’re also fun to take on alone, filling a gap in Sea of Thieves content that’s been there throughout the game’s life.
For new players, A Pirate’s Life is a nice way to get started in Sea of Thieves. You can jump into the new content as soon as you’ve completed the tutorial mission, Maiden Voyage. After a quick story introduction, you’re able to sail your ship straight into a portal that takes you to the Sea of the Damned, a new location for A Pirate’s Life. Once you’re through the portal, you’re alone in the new area (unless you brought a crew, that is), free to explore its story, solve its puzzles, and uncover its secrets.
The Tall Tales of A Pirate’s Life feel like more traditional, linear video game levels than most of the rest of Sea of Thieves, and that’s handy if you’re learning the ropes. The content has you figuring out how to make your way through the Sea of the Damned’s locations, but it won’t really test you. Die in combat or fall too far as you’re climbing a wrecked ship, and you’ll respawn shortly to give it another go.
That gives you a chance to get the feel for Sea of Thieves while also giving you something interesting to explore without the risk of running afoul of other players. Pirates marauding the waves are the central draw of Sea of Thieves, but also its greatest annoyance–because even if you’re just starting out, you’re always at risk of getting run down, cannoned, boarded, and slain by other cutthroats. It can make getting used to the game harrowing. Since you’re alone in the story of A Pirate’s Life, however, you have a chance to get used to the game before going up against other players.
That’s also what makes the new content a great addition for solo pirates. You can play Sea of Thieves alone normally, but it is a fraught life on the high seas. Sailing a sloop on your own is exhilarating, and Rare’s sandbox leads to some great things when you’re alone. You’ve got to constantly scan the horizon for other, stronger ships that might decide you’re a plump target, and if you spot someone, Sea of Thieves quickly becomes a stealth game to avoid detection–or a horror game if your hold is full of treasure and you need to run.
The fact that Sea of Thieves can support so many different experiences is great, but playing it alone is also often frustrating. Spot a galleon while you’re hauling treasure or trying to advance your various in-game rankings, and you can lose a lot of progress. Getting chased around islands can suck up hours as well. With a crew of friends, this unpredictability is the draw of Sea of Thieves, but alone, it can get frustrating to constantly be disadvantaged as a buccaneer. Have enough sloops sunk beneath you, and you might decide the pirate’s life isn’t for you, after all.
So these new Tall Tales help fill a void in Sea of Thieves by making it a little more viable to play on your own. There’s a little bit of high-seas travel involved, but for the most part, you’re off in your own little world as you uncover these stories. Though they include combat with various enemies and creatures, including bosses, they’re not so difficult that you can’t handle them alone. Rare has also worked to make resources plentiful whenever you’re challenged, so it’s hard to get wrecked in a solo fight. Even if you do, though, you can just respawn straight back into the fray and try your luck again.
It’s nice to have content in Sea of Thieves that doesn’t require coordinating with a bunch of friends and clearing a block of time to play, and really, Rare should think about this sort of design more often. Sea of Thieves is a great game, with a lot of compelling ideas and mechanics–but it’s particularly great with other people, and a lot less so when you’re alone. Stuff like A Pirate’s Life can make the game a little more fun for a variety of players, whether they’re just starting out in the game or don’t have access to a crew but would still like to raise a sail and draw a sword.
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Jerry Seinfeld is making a movie about Pop-Tarts for Netflix, according to Deadline. The superstar comic has signed with Netflix to star in, direct, and produce Unfrosted, a movie inspired by a joke he started telling about the rectangular breakfast treat as far back as 2010.
While there was reportedly a quiet bidding war over the project, Seinfeld has signed with Netflix thanks in part to his previous relationship with the streaming giant, which previously produced his Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, along with a pair of his stand-up specials.
The plot of the film is unclear at this point. The joke itself had Seinfeld guiding audiences through his personal discovery of Pop-Tarts.
“How did they know that there would be a need for a frosted, fruit-filled, heated rectangle in the same shape as the box it comes in, and with the same nutrition as the box it comes in?” Seinfeld asks in the bit. The video above has the comedian deconstructing the joke for the New York Times back in 2012.
“Stuck at home watching endless sad faces on TV, I thought this would be a good time to make something based on pure silliness,” Seinfeld said in a statement to Deadline. “So we took my Pop-Tart stand-up bit from my last Netflix special and exploded it into a giant, crazy comedy movie.”
Production on Unfrosted will begin next spring. Seinfeld already has a first draft of a script ready, co-written with Spike Feresten and Barry Marder.
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