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Slipgate Ironworks’ Tempest Rising arrives with a clear mission: revive the high-octane real-time strategy gameplay of the mid-1990s. From its synth-metal soundtrack that echoes Red Alert’s thunderous riffs to its thinly veiled faction parallels, the game wears its inspirations on its sleeve while striving to sharpen those familiar mechanics for today’s audience.

Set in 1997 after a catastrophic third World War, humanity grapples with “Tempest,” a sprawling, flower-like growth that poisons the environment even as it promises nearly limitless energy. Your role is to harness this double-edged resource, forging an army and infrastructure that will tip the global balance of power.

You’ll command one of two rival forces: the technologically advanced Global Defense Force, whose drone-assisted infantry and blueprint-driven construction lend a methodical edge, or the Tempest Dynasty, whose mobile harvest rigs, instant-build structures, and devastating sphere-rolling behemoths favor aggressive expansion. Both sides share the familiar Rts ritual of harvesting resources,...

On today’s General Hospital

General Hospital spoilers reveal a preview clip has been released for Tuesday, February 11, 2025. It shows Danny Morgan (Asher Antonyzyn) exploding over Sam McCall’s (Kelly Monaco) murder.

Emma Drake-Scorpio (Braedyn Bruner) connects with Kai Taylor (Jens Austin Astrup). Plus, Curtis Ashford (Donnell Turner) warns Jordan Ashford (Tanisha Harper) about her risky justice scheme.

Keep reading and let’s talk about what is coming up in today’s episode of the ABC soap opera.

Curtis Ashford’s Fear

The preview clip starts off with Jordan and Curtis. As the two sit and chat over drinks, Curtis tries to extend a warning.

Curtis knows about Jordan’s plan to go after Jenz Sidwell (Carlo Rota). While Jordan used to be a cop, she’s not doing this in an investigative capacity. Jordan is simply using Sidwell’s interest in her to gather intel that will hopefully take him down.

Released in 1964, Dr. Strangelove is still considered a classic comedy, one of the most influential films of all time, and one of Stanley Kubrick's best movies. Filmed during the Cold War, it offered a darkly comic and satirical take on the political conflict and the very real possibility of nuclear war. Exploring how the world could end due to the actions of one unstable individual, it was terrifying in its implications, even as it laughed at them. What many fans of the movie don't know, is that another movie released the very same year that examined the same themes, but from a dark and realistic perspective.

Premiering less than nine months later, Fail Safe began with an electrical malfunction instead of orders from a madman but otherwise followed the same narrative. However, unlike Dr. Strangelove, this film took the idea of nuclear war seriously and delivered a chilling drama.

Stanley Kubrick wasn’t exactly known for being a laugh riot — although he did originally intend Eyes Wide Shut to be a Steve Martin farce. Nevertheless, the legendary filmmaking genius did happen to make one of the greatest comedies of all time: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb starring Peter Sellers, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott and Peter Sellers.

Famously, Dr. Strangelove was originally going to be a very serious drama about the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons, based on the novel Red Alert by Peter George. That is, until Kubrick and his co-writer began cracking jokes during the writing process, at which point it morphed into a “nightmare comedy.”

But despite the fact that it was reworked into a satire starring Inspector Clouseau, it was still viewed as a potentially incendiary film by the American government.

Dr. Strangelove was released in...

Looking back at the true story of the writer and the brilliant film Staying Alive with director and lead player Anant Mahadevan.

Screenwriter Sujit Sen, who died unsung in 2005, was the subject of Anant Mahdevan’s Staying Alive. “It was the story of a journalist, played by me, who has had three heart attacks and is back in hospital where he encounters a gangster, played by Sourabh Shukla, in the next bed. These are incidents that actually happened in Sujit’s life. It’s sad that he’s gone before Staying Alive could be released. As a dear friend, I’d have liked to have it released before his death… Sujit Sen was like a father figure, brilliant but broken by the blitzkrieg of callousness in Bollywood.”

Apparently, Sujit, who wrote Mahesh Bhatt’s best films Arth and Saraansh, never quite survived the break with the filmmaker. Anant shrugs off...

The new Transformers toy line is only just being formally announced, but hype and promotion for the upcoming Transformers: Age of the Primes series is already in full swing. This includes several behind-the-scenes looks, courtesy of a Hasbro toy designer, with one of these spotlights showcasing the first of the Primes.

Easily one of the most anticipated toys from the Transformers: Age of the Primes toy line is Prima Prime, the progenitor of all other Primes, including future Autobot leader Optimus Prime himself. The enigmatic Cybertronian ancestor comes with several accessories, and he seemingly has ties to another character in the line. Now, fans can take a closer look at the toy's features before Prima Prime rolls out onto shelves next year.

Related Transformers Fans Get the Ultimate Nostalgia in Newly Released Concept Art of an Almost Forgotten Series

Nostalgia is strong for a forgotten early 2000s Transformers anime series...

Apc, Hat Trick & Dcd Joins Forces For London Screenings

A trio of distributors will join forces to showcase their latest wares at next year’s London TV Screenings. About Premium Content (Apc), Hat Trick International (Hti) and Dcd Rights will combine to introduce buyers to content at an event on Tuesday, February 25 at the Vue West End in Leicester Square from 4.30pm-7.30pm local time. Apc co-founders Emmanuelle Guilbart and Laurent Boissel and Hti chief Sarah Tong noted how combing efforts would allow time-stretched acquisitions execs access to more programming during an increasingly busy week of international screenings. Dcd Rights and Hat Trick have jointly screened at the Vue for the past two years. Dcd Rights CEO Nicky Davies-Williams said she was “pleased to have Apc join us and Hti for our annual screenings and drinks at the Vue, which has proved to be a must attend event over the past years.

Legendary “Pulp Fiction” producer Lawrence Bender has boarded “Red Alert,” a new Israel drama inspired by real-life events, as exec producer.

Five-part series “Red Alert” is based on the terror attacks of Oct. 7, telling the stories of five citizens who found themselves in unimaginable life-or-death situations as cold-blooded slaughter takes place around them.

“This multicharacter drama blends incredible human stories of bravery, resilience, and defiance – many of which made news headlines around the world in the aftermath of this shocking terror attack – with intense military action,” reads the logline.

Over a thousand people were murdered by Hamas terrorists and a further two hundred were taken hostage to Gaza during the attacks last year.

“Red Alert,” whose title is taken from Israel’s emergency warning signal indicating an imminent threat, was developed in consultation with survivors and victims’ families.

Lior Chefetz (“The Stronghold”) created the series, which he wrote and will also direct.

Quick Links The Division of Both Sides Vary But Share Similar Ideas Generals Represent the Highest Rank Majors are Few in Numbers But Powerful Captains Feature a Wide Variety of Characters Sergeants and Specialists Live on the Battlefield Raider and Private Share the Same Status But are so Different

The world of the Transformers may be one of the most simplistic in the world of fiction. The Autobots' and Decepticons' timeless war against one another has been adapted time and again, with the gimmick of both sides being able to change forms from robot to vehicle being the biggest point of interest for every child and adult. It's a simple idea that has managed to garner billions in movies, TV, comics, toys, and so much more. But with that said, many often forget that while the story is easy to follow, it's still one about the war between two sides...

Gamescom 2024 has been an absolute whirlwind of excitement, and today’s Into the Infinite showcase was no exception.

It was packed with announcements that ranged from exciting updates for Dune Awakening to completely new games being showcased. This event had something for everyone, and it might be a little overwhelming to keep up with. Here’s a quick and easy recap of everything that was announced at the showcase.

Age of Empires Mobile

Age of Empires Mobile is set to bring epic medieval war strategy to your fingertips on October 17. Developed by TiMi Studio Group and World’s Edge, this game will launch on the Apple App Store and Google Play, offering large-scale siege battles that bring hundreds of players together on one screen.

Aloft

Funcom gave us a glimpse of the vast, floating islands of Aloft, an innovative co-op sandbox survival game set to hit Early Access this fall.

It's impossible to picture the 1964 Stanley Kubrick masterpiece Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb as anything but the biting piece of Cold War satire that changed the course of cinema. When Major "King" Kong, (Slim Pickens) rides that atomic bomb named "Hi There!" like a bucking bronco as it drops from the B-52, it's the cherry on top of what may be the most meaningful movie that the great filmmaker ever made. This made it even more fascinating to discover that Kubrick initially had designs on making a serious and grim picture at the very height of the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, based on the very serious and frightful book Red Alert by Peter George. He was poised to follow up his harrowing and heroic prior projects Paths of Glory and Spartacus with a titillating thriller about the out-of-control...

The Bold and the Beautiful spoilers say Deacon Sharpe (Sean Kanan) is a man on a mission and he won’t stop until he finds Sheila Carter (Kimberlin Brown). Deacon’s convinced Sheila’s “death” was a sham and he wants to bring his girlfriend home.

But, Deacon’s racing against the clock. Can he find solid proof of his theory before Dr Finn (Tanner Novlan) and Hope Logan (Annika Noelle) have him committed?

The Bold And The Beautiful spoilers – Lauren Fenmore Tells All

According to B&b spoilers, before this week is over Deacon may stumble upon the information he is looking for. But, will it be enough to convince Sheila’s son and his daughter that she is still very much alive?

In everyone’s defense, Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) definitely killed Somebody that fateful night in her kitchen, and the body in the morgue was a dead ringer for Sheila Carter.

The Bold and the Beautiful spoilers for Thursday, April 18, 2024, reveal that Deacon Sharpe (Sean Kanan) follows a new lead to prove he isn’t crazy.

Coming Up On The Bold And The Beautiful

Meanwhile, John “Finn” Finnegan (Tanner Novlan) tells Steffy Forrester Finnegan (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) his concerns about Deacon. Keep reading to find out what is coming up in the CBS soap opera.

The Bold And The Beautiful Spolers – Sheila Carter’s Sugar-Coated Clue

B&b spoilers for Thursday, April 18 reveal that Deacon can’t prove that he saw ten toes on the body in the crematory.

However, Deacon went through Sheila Carter’s (Kimberlin Brown) emails and text messages. Deacon found what appeared to be a threatening text from Sugar to Sheila.

Now, Deacon doesn’t know who Sugar is or why this person would be threatening Sheila.

The Bold And The Beautiful Spoilers – Deacon Sharpe’s Quest...

EA brings classic games to Steam for retro gamers, offering steep discounts on beloved titles like Command & Conquer and Dungeon Keeper. The Saboteur, a popular open-world game set in WWII, is now accessible on Steam, a win for preservationists and fans of retro gaming. While EA's move to bring older games to Steam is exciting, it's uncertain if more classics will follow, so retro gamers will have to stay tuned.

Retro fans can rejoice as publisher EA has brought several of its most revered games to Steam, making them more accessible to players. Since EA launched its own platform in the form of Origin in 2011, many of the company's games have been missing from Steam, and while they were still available to users, having to split up one's library can become tedious. Fortunately, a handful of revered and influential titles have escaped the confines of Origin and they're going for some really good prices.

Kate Mulgrew was the last cast member on set during the final days of filming Star Trek: Voyager, spending five days doing close-ups and pickups. She felt emotional while sitting in her Captain's chair as it was being dismantled, realizing it was the end of her seven-year journey. Robert Picardo, who played the Doctor, provided support by giving her a hug and inviting her for a drink, highlighting the strong bond of friendship among the cast.

Kate Mulgrew reveals what her last days filming Star Trek: Voyager were like, including the biggest memory Mulgrew took from the experience. Star Trek: Voyager, like Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine before it, ran for seven years, and culminated with the time-traveling finale of Voyager, "Endgame", which saw Mulgrew play both Captain Kathryn Janeway from the present day and a version of Admiral Janeway from the future. Finishing...

On Jan. 29, 1964, a triple premiere — in New York, London and Toronto — launched one of Stanley Kubrick’s signature masterpieces into the chilly Cold War atmosphere: Dr. Strangelove, with the marquee-challenging subtitle Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Kubrick described it as a “nightmare comedy.” Sixty years later, the comedy still works, but the immediacy of the nightmare may be missed.

Shot in Shepperton Studios outside of London from February through November 1963, Dr. Strangelove was conceived and realized in the shadow of a real-life nightmare scenario that no one laughed at: the Cuban Missile Crisis, which unfolded over 13 terrifying days in October 1962.

On Oct. 14, 1962, a U-2 spy plane detected facilities for the launching of nuclear ballistic missiles from Cuba, a Soviet client state since 1959. President John F. Kennedy convened an executive committee of the National Security Council to consider options. The consensus from the Joint Chiefs...

Every year, it's almost inevitable that two movies with a similar premise will go head to head, whether it be a siege on the white house, an asteroid heading towards Earth, or a story about animated bugs fighting fascism. It's bound to keep on happening since it's been going on for so long — with 1964 as the year in which two competing movies told us how close we were to nuclear annihilation.

Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" was released in January, while Sidney Lumet's "Fail Safe" came out in October. Each featured their own idiosyncrasies, but the one thing they did share was the looming nuclear threat bound to manifest itself. Kubrick's film took on a satirist tone with a paranoid Air Force commander sending out B-52 bombers to attack the Soviets, all while a group of disconcerted buffoons argue,...

One night, at a party, some friends and I were discussing Tim Curry when we came to realize just how formative he was to all our childhoods. There's no shortage of options to choose from when it comes to his most memorable work, either. Sure, there are his roles in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "Clue," and they're spectacular, no doubt about it. But my all-time favorite Curry moments are the ones where he goes ridiculously hard for no real reason other than ... well, because he can.

We're talking Curry's rendition of the song "Anything Can Happen On Halloween" from the 1986 TV movie "The Worst Witch," a performance in which the actor somehow makes the lyric "Has anybody seen my tambourine?" sound deeply sensual. Or the way he commits to his "Romanian" accent as the duplicitous treasure-hunter Herkermer Homolka in "Congo." Although, when it comes to spawning memes, few...

CopAt the ripe age of twenty-six—the two were born within days of each other in 1928—James B. Harris and Stanley Kubrick formed Harris-Kubrick Productions. With Kubrick leading the charge behind the camera and Harris acting as the right-hand-man producer, the duo completed three major critical successes: The Killing (1956), Paths of Glory (1957), and Lolita (1962). But where Kubrick’s subsequent work has achieved a supreme, hall-of-fame stature, Harris’s own directorial career—consisting of five excellent movies made across a four-decade span—remains, despite the valiant effort of a few notable English-language critics (Michael Atkinson, Jonathan Rosenbaum), on the relative sidelines. The latest attempt to boost Harris’s reputation: BAMcinématek’s week-long retrospective of Harris’s producing and directing output, selected by “Overdue” co-programmers Nick Pinkerton and Nicolas Rapold.Harris and Kubrick stopped working together amidst a pre-production disagreement during the making of what would become Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb...

Adrienne Barbeau has been cast as Victoria’s mother on Revenge.

The '70s and '80s sex symbol, who rose to fame on the sitcom Maude and has dozens of TV and film roles to her credit, is ”somebody who knows how to use people,” Revenge creator Mike Kelley tells TV Line.

Runs in the family, apparently.

“She taught Victoria what it takes to survive with very little, with your wit and your looks, really," says Kelley of the woman set to appear later this fall, whose role in shaping Madeleine Stowe's character will be evident.

“We will learn how the monster that is Victoria Grayson was put together, and we’ll learn that there’s a lot of damage that went into this little girl that became Victoria Grayson, and that it was at the hands of her mother.”

“So, Emily and Victoria will share a lot...