Chernobyl

Chernobylite Review Thanks to the lack of Soviet transparency, there was, and still is a great deal of mystery around the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Was the fatality count accurate? What about the subsequent cases of radiation sickness or birth defects or weird natural anomalies? Did the meltdown create a…

U.S. hoping for comeback following slow start to Olympics U.S. hoping for comeback following slow start... 08:03 A South Korean broadcast company has apologized after using stereotypical and offensive images to represent countries during their broadcast of the Olympic games in Tokyo.  Seoul-based MBC broadcasted the opening ceremony on Friday,…

South Korean TV network MBC’s coverage of the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony on Friday went awry when it used what it has now admitted were “inappropriate” photos and captions to refer to countries competing in the games. The broadcaster drew the most ire on Twitter after it showed a photograph…

With Chernobylite's full PC release arriving very soon, studio The Farm 51 has announced that the console versions of the game will also release this year on September 7. The game will be released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, with the PS4 also getting a physical release including a…

Eight months after the April 1986 nuclear accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, workers who entered a corridor beneath the damaged No. 4 reactor discovered a startling phenomenon: black lava that had flowed from the reactor core, as if it had been some sort of human-made volcano.…

Filming on HBO's The Last of Us TV series is currently underway in Canada, and now a few more details about the project have come to light from writer Craig Mazin. He revealed this on a Scriptnotes podcast, also confirming that season 1 has five different directors. Mazin--who previously worked…

They’re Answering Questions About the Game and Their Quest For a Truly Realistic RPG After a brief delay, the upcoming survival horror game Chernobylite is now expected to launch this summer. The final pre-launch patch has been added to the game–all that’s left is for Publisher All In! Games and Chernobylite Developer…

Just like the Soviet Union during the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, from the earliest days of the pandemic when the virus emerged in Wuhan, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has engaged in a concerted campaign to pile lies on top of lies about the virus and its origins.   Read Full Article…

Casting director Robert Sterne offers commentary on the “very special” Emma Corrin and “transformative” Gillian Anderson HBO There are shows that cast with a healthy sense of acting rotation in mind, and then there is “The Crown." In other words, people have been conditioned to not get too attached to…

When one of the largest modern earthquakes struck Japan on March 11, 2011, the nuclear reactors at Fukushima-Daiichi automatically shut down, as designed. The emergency systems, which would have helped maintain the necessary cooling of the core, were destroyed by the subsequent tsunami. Because the reactor could no longer cool…