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When Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon debuts on HBO Max on August 21, viewers will be reintroduced to the Targaryen family. However, this will be a far-different group of Targaryen’s than the two (technically three) members we saw in Game of Thrones.
Game of Thrones fans know Daenerys and Rhaegar Targaryen (we’re leaving out the third member for this discussion), when the family was at their lowest point. “The Mad King” Aerys had been killed by Jaime Lannister, and the Targaryens were hunted down with Rhaegar and Elia being murdered, along with their children Rhaenry and Aegon. So what are the Targaryens like in House of the Dragon?
“They’re at the pinnacle of their power,” Graham McTavish, who plays Ser Harrold Westerling, told GameSpot. “We haven’t seen the Targaryens like this before.” This is much more about the Targaryen family life, ruling from the Iron Throne in King’s Landing.
Luca Le Fae has had it. His work as a writer for Leviathan Games, one of the biggest game developers on the planet, may pay well, but it’s creatively unfulfilling. A fateful encounter with his old acquaintance, Jey Zhang, at a party may just provide Luca with the escape he has been looking for. Jey, a successful music producer, remembers Luca as an incredible songwriter and asks him if he has any samples he could send her. Suddenly the unthinkable, a single, an EP, perhaps even actual stardom, seems within Luca’s grasp, but life has a tendency to get in the way even when you’re ready to take the chance of a lifetime.
We Are OFK can be described as a 3D visual novel or a mildly interactive five-part TV series you just happened to buy on Steam. The first two episodes are available on launch day, with episodes three to five releasing weekly after the game’s initial release. Each one comes with its own opening, which really sells the feeling of catching a new episode of a miniseries each week. With each episode, you follow the story from a different band member’s point of view, from their initial decision to be band-adjacent to taking their first wobbly steps in promoting themselves as artists. Joining Luca on his journey are pianist Itsumi Saito, who works in social media management at Leviathan, and Luca’s housemate Flores, an audio-visual effects artist.
If you’ve ever scrolled through Instagram and thought, “hmmm, this app would be so much better if it was just a little bit more like TikTok,” then oh boy, do I have good news for you.
In a video posted to their Facebook page on July 16, Meta announced a few changes that will continue to push the app toward becoming its biggest competitor, TikTok. The changes include being able to use the “Add Yours” stickers on Reels for Instagram and Facebook; making more insights and data available for Facebook Reels creators; releasing a new way for creators to make money on Facebook Reels; the ability to remix Reels on both platforms; crossposting your Instagram Reels onto Facebook; and making it easier to turn your Facebook memories and stories into Facebook Reels.
We’ve seen plenty of these changes go into effect in one way or another on Meta platforms. Last year, Instagram rolled out “Add Yours” prompt stickers to Stories, which allows users to respond to other users’ Stories by following a prompt; now you can do that for Reels, too. The Stories prompt brought us such (boring) hits as “we’ll plant 1 tree for every pet picture” and “show us your name in Urban Dictionary.” This tracks as a way for Instagram to continue to prioritize Reels, its short-form video feature designed to take over the app.
Meta also announced a new way creators can make money on Facebook Reels called “Stars,” which are virtual items that fans can give to creators to express support — basically like a tip jar for videos. Users can cross-post their Reels from Instagram to Facebook through the app, the same way you can with Stories right now. Double the content. And Meta launched auto-created Facebook Reels compiles from your previously shared Facebook Stories, and a new Facebook Reels insights in Creator Studio which helps creators see which Reels are performing well.
All of these changes come as no surprise to anyone who’s paid any attention to the way Meta — and particularly Instagram — has been morphing over the past few weeks. Recently, the app started testing out a version of Instagram that included a full-screen feed, a pivot to video, and an increase of recommended posts. It looked like TikTok, but bad. It received an avalanche of criticism from some of the platform’s most powerful users and was forced to temporarily walk back a few of the changes. But the pivot to video is inevitable, it seems.
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SUPER PEOPLE’s beta testing phase is drawing to a close, but ahead of the game’s general launch, there’s one last push from developer Wonder People to show the world at large what this new-fangled battle royale is all about before its full launch.
That said, a lot of people will already be familiar with one of Korea’s hottest battle royale experiments: over 4 million people have played the game so far, and every new beta session has seen user numbers spike. But what is it that continues to draw people in – especially in a world where there’s so much competition in the genre? Director Seong-Gon Park from Wonder People explains.
“From the time we first introduced SUPER PEOPLE, our core fun factor was clear,” they explain. “Although it is a battle royale, the fun of building up is clear due to the character and equipment growth factors. You can create your own strategies through super skills, and a variety of battles are produced rather than the same battle pattern. And even if you’re at a disadvantage, chances for reversal are always available.”
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