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Streaming services give us access to thousands of hours of content, with only licensing agreements to act as curation. That's tantalizing for us grown-ups, but it's a far cry from the crafted experiences of specific television channels or a DVD collection. Parental controls are crucial to help make sure our kids--from toddler to teen--are able to watch the shows appropriate, and while Disney+ has lacked them since its launch in 2019, that's no longer the case. Disney+ added parental controls this week, which feature a variety of age ranges, as well as the ability to add a PIN to lock profiles that have access to mature content so that you can still watch the Muppet Show on your profile, but keep control over what your children see. By default, accounts are set to view TV-14 and PG-13 content and below, which encompasses everything currently on Disney+. Age Profiles for the service are as follows: 0+ 6+ 9+ 12+ 14+ 16+ 18+ In addition to creating a PIN, you can also … [Read more...] about Disney Plus Adds Parental Controls, Opening The Door For R-Rated Content

"Alright warrior," Valheim's raven narrator Hugin told me when I first booted up the game. "Odin's counting on you to slay a bunch of horrible creatures then ascend to Valhalla. It's a perilous journey and you'll need to arm yourself properly to defeat the Forsaken. Are you up for the task?" "Sure, sure," I said in reply. "But those small huts over there look kinda cute." If you hadn't yet guessed, I've spent most of my time in Valheim simply building and renovating small cabins. The survival game is split into several biomes, each with its own unique enemies and materials, but it took me at least 15 hours to leave the first - and I've once again found myself constructing tiny homes in the second. Whenever I stumble across ruins I feel obligated to fix them up, like some sort of Viking real estate show. I'm calling it Homes Under Thor's Hammer. I almost began to feel guilty for delaying exploration to satisfy my building obsession, until I realised Valheim actively encourages … [Read more...] about Valheim’s strengths lie in cosiness, co-operation and small huts

Society is in rapid decay. With the crime rate soaring and biochemical dependency in healthy proliferation, you are about to have the time of your life. The city is on the edge of collapse, with law and order beginning to break down completely. People are running wild, half-addled on food additives and semi-legal pharmaceutical pills. A giant corporation controls every aspect of society, from entertainment to organ transplants. Everything is polluted, dirty, unpleasant. Life has never been cheaper. It’s a premise that belongs in a sourcebook for Cyberpunk 2020. Instead, improbably, it’s the way Rockstar chose to introduce GTA 2. Just two years before the series unfolded in three dimensions, expanding its audience in kind, the mainline Grand Theft Auto was a rock ‘n’ roll sci-fi dystopia. GTA 2 belongs to an experimental period in the late ‘90s, when Rockstar believed the series could be basically anything. Earlier the same year, the publisher had released GTA: London 1969, a … [Read more...] about Cyberpunk 2077 is no GTA, but GTA 2 was a cyberpunk game

Another month means another new batch of movies and TV shows are coming to Disney Plus, and we've put them all in a handy list for you. First things first, it's all happening in the MCU this month – March sees the WandaVision finale hit the small screen and answer all our questions about what's really going on in Westview, as well as the first two episodes of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (which will undoubtedly create a lot more questions of its own). Plus, there's a whole bunch of recently added movies and shows courtesy of Star in the UK, including Deadpool 2, Pretty Woman, Lost, and 24. Check out the full list here . If you're looking for more family-friendly fare, try Raya and the Last Dragon, available on Premier Access, Gnomeo & Juliet , or Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children for your next movie night. There's a whole lot more, too, so without further ado: here's everything new on Disney Plus in March 2021, with the three of the biggest … [Read more...] about New on Disney Plus in March 2021: All the new movies and shows

Have you ever had to grow into your gear? The Elder Scrolls Online has. The Elder Scrolls MMO was not a smash success when it debuted on the heels of Skyrim in 2014. Those first months were rough (just ask players to relive those beta and early experiences and look for the trauma in their eyes). But over time, TESO got better, becoming a rich world that tied together many aspects of the Elder Scrolls universe. It took players back to Morrowind, the most beloved Elder Scrolls setting, and mostly pulled it off . As it grew, the MMORPG's popularity also increased. In early 2021, Bethesda's Pete Hines lauded TESO as "the most successful Bethesda game over the last four years." And this past year was its most popular yet. While Steam is only one of the platforms The Elder Scrolls Online is available on, its charts show the game's upward trend . April 2020 had the highest average player count ever, and it's consistently averaging higher than previous years. The developers … [Read more...] about The state of The Elder Scrolls Online in 2021