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Games Want You to Play Forever, But Dispatch Tells You When to Stop

Games Want You to Play Forever, But Dispatch Tells You When to Stop https://ift.tt/PaZV3px Is there a more infamous monkey-paw wish than the collective dream that all our favorite games could last forever? Well, the finger curled, because it seems like all major game publishers in the world only want to make games that go on to infinity. With the rise of live-service games, it's been a struggle to know when to put the controller down, especially when games like Fortnite release seasonal content like The Simpsons season pass that ask you to play long enough to unlock stupid sexy Flanders. Luckily, for us, episodic games, perfectly portioned into bite-sized morsels, have come back to rescue us from the endless grind. In this case, I am talking specifically about Dispatch, the new episodic superhero game from AdHoc Studio. If the name is unfamiliar to you, AdHoc is a new game company founded by former members of Ubisoft, Night School, and perhaps most notably, Telltale Games, who bl...

Madame Web Box Office: How Did The Movie Do In Its First Weekend?

Madame Web Box Office: How Did The Movie Do In Its First Weekend? https://ift.tt/XMSgmIj

The Spider Man spin-off movie Madame Web from Sony Pictures opened on Valentine's Day, and the early box office results were not great. However, the movie is doing slightly better than some expected, bringing in $52 million worldwide for its opening period.

This was an abnormal opening period, as the film opened on Wednesday, February 14, and these numbers cover a six-day period spanning through Monday, February 19 for the Presidents' Day holiday. The movie earned $26 million over six days in the US and, as mentioned, $52 million worldwide over that time span.

The movie was estimated to have cost $80 million to produce (prior to marketing expenses), which means it has not yet broken even. However, Deadline reported that, due to the solid box office results so far, the movie will not "suffer as much as originally feared."

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