Despite growing up in Eastern Europe, I was a late bloomer in the STALKER series and ended up here after one too many replays of the Metro trilogy.

The Zone might seem like the perfect place for a roadside picnic, but this place devours new stalkers like a bloodsucker that skipped its last meal.

The People Have Spoken - Now, Politicians Must Listen

Reviews for the game on Steam are currently labeled as “Overwhelmingly Negative.” | Image: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 was released on PC and Xbox yesterday but early players have struggled to load or even finish installing the game. Users have reported a range of issues — including post-installation loads stalling before completion, long login queues, and the game itself crashing — with the $70 flying sim currently tagged as “Overwhelmingly Negative” in customer reviews on Steam. Some players are seeing their downloads freeze at 97 percent, while others were stuck on a login queue page at launch for several hours that says “too many users are trying to connect at the same time.” Microsoft advised players to check the Xbox Support Status page for updates, which doesn’t list any ongoing issues with the game at the time of... Continue reading…

Photo by Jeff Fusco/Getty Images for Comcast Comcast is splitting from its NBCUniversal television arm as the market of cable TV customers shrinks in the age of cord-cutting and TikTok. The US media giant announced plans on Wednesday to spin off the bulk of its cable network channels — including CNBC, MSNBC, Universal Kids, USA Network, E!, Oxygen, Golf Channel, and Syfy — into a separate company. Comcast will retain its reality TV darling Bravo and the Peacock streaming service within its NBC TV business. The new, currently untitled venture (dubbed “SpinCo” as a placeholder) will be led by NBCUniversal chairman Mark Lazarus, with NBCUniversal’s CFO Anand Kini serving as both its financial and operating head. Non-cable services including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, and... Continue reading…

When Israeli soldiers began entering southern Lebanon as part of the IDF's ground offensive, they encountered Hezbollah's massive weapons stockpiles - most of them filled with advanced, recently produced Russian weapons, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Jewish patients coming to the University of California, San Francisco for medical care report hiding their identity, a senior faculty member at the school told the Washington Free Beacon.

Vice President Kamala Harris, who hasn't been seen much in public after losing her election bid to President-elect Donald Trump, left Washington, D.C., Tuesday night with her husband to travel to Hawaii, a move that raised some eyebrows. "She's never been the party leader,"...

OPEC Secretary General Haitham Al Ghais Wednesday told the COP29 climate summit in Baku that crude oil and natural gas were a gift from God, and that global warming talks should focus on cutting emissions not picking energy sources.

America is outgrowing the Democratic Party. That’s not a partisan claim; it’s demographic reality. Blue states are shedding population and will have less representation in Congress and fewer votes…