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SteelSeries’ Arena gaming speaker lineup is discounted during Prime Day 2023, making this a perfect time to upgrade your PC gaming audio setup. The biggest savings are for the giant SteelSeries Arena 9, which offers a 5.1 surround sound experience for just $439 (down from $550). The setup includes five speakers (one center channel, two front channels, and two wireless …

Padma Lakshmi‘s Top Chef replacement has been revealed: it’s season 10 winner Kristen Kish! The 39-year-old chef is no stranger to the show. Like we said, she did win season 10 and she also has popped in for various episodes throughout the past couple of years as a guest judge. Keep reading to find out more… Season 21 will be …

Your gaming rig could always use an upgrade, couldn’t it? Whether it’s a new keyboard, headset, or microphone so you can stream on Twitch, there’s plenty of new gear on sale right now that you can score to up your game. These are our favorite Amazon Prime Day gaming deals, and we’ve added discounts from other retailers such as Target …

“The FTC has not shown it is likely to succeed on its assertion the combined firm will probably pull Call of Duty from Sony PlayStation, or that its ownership of Activision content will substantially lessen competition in the video game library subscription and cloud gaming markets,” Judge Scott Corley wrote in her decision, delivered after a week-long hearing in San …

Okay, I’m a little late with this one. Call it a personal failing on my part, but I seem to deprioritize playing games on subscription services like Netflix and Apple Arcade compared to games I’ve paid money for upfront. As someone who enjoyed developer Snowman’s previous efforts, I made it a point to download Laya’s Horizon (Free) as soon as …

LOS ANGELES — In 2016, two Muslim women were removed from an airplane, ostensibly because their stares made a flight attendant uncomfortable. It was just one of many such incidents that year. As Niala Mohammad, a journalist, wrote of her own experience of being removed from a plane:  Although the incident was humiliating it was also eye-opening. Until it happened …

IFC has a new leader. AMC Networks has named Scott Shooman the head of its Film Group, encompassing IFC Films, RLJE Films, and films for the Shudder streaming service, the company announced Tuesday. Shooman nabs the official, full-time role following serving as interim head since the end of March of this year. He was elevated to the interim role in …

This week’s flooding in Vermont, in which heavy rainfall caused destruction far from rivers or coastlines, is evidence of an especially dangerous climate threat: Catastrophic flooding can increasingly happen anywhere, with almost no warning. And the United States, experts warn, is nowhere close to ready for that threat. The idea that anywhere it can rain, it can flood, is not …

Image: Larian Studios Baldur’s Gate 3 entered early access almost three years ago, so players have had ample time to take its opening hours for a spin. If you’re one of them, you may have even seen the RPG’s first few acts several times at this point. However, if you’re gearing up to play the full game when it launches …

After Sen. Tommy Tuberville said Monday night on CNN that white nationalism is not racist and that “most white people” in the military actually are white nationalists, the hosts of “The View” were stunned on Tuesday morning. For host Sunny Hostin, Tuberville’s words make him nothing more than “an example” of his state’s “very, very low education rate.” Tuberville’s comments …