The series kicks off with a fast-moving romance between Shannon (Emma Laird) and Arran (Benjamin Coyle-Larner), but their families are rivals in the criminal underworld. The initial episodes explore their immediate connection and growing attraction.
Charlotte Regan, the director of ‘Scrapper,’ wrote and created the new series, showcasing her talent for heartfelt storytelling. It beautifully captures the experiences of first love and growing up.
During the recent Insider Gaming Podcast, Tom Henderson and Mike Straw discussed a game previously expected to release this year, but now slated for 2027. This title was one of seven projects delayed following a company restructuring, and was originally announced in 2021. Since then, the game’s director, David Grivel, briefly worked on Battlefield 6 before returning to lead development at Ubisoft Toronto, a studio that has also experienced layoffs.
Imagine this romantic crime story released in the early 2000s, right after the popularity of shows like Twilight, Supernatural, True Blood, and The Vampire Diaries – when vampires and werewolves were everywhere. In that context, the main character, Shannon, would likely have been a vampire, and her love interest, Arran (musician Loyle Carner), maybe even a zombie.
Last year, the Netflix series Adolescence explored issues of violence among young men, including references to the online “manosphere” and “incel” culture. More recently, in March, Louis Theroux’s documentary Inside the Manosphere directly examined this internet subculture.
So, I’ve been checking out some music tracks a user named SYRKOV found hidden in the game files on Twitter. There are ten of them, and they’re not used anywhere right now, which makes me think they’re planned for a future update. A few of them are super high-energy, so I’m guessing they’ll be for a really intense game mode – maybe something where you have to keep a timer going by defeating enemies? Two of the tracks even have this ticking sound that really fits that idea!
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Here is a message from Nioh 3 producer Kohei Shibata on the update:
The incident report, released on April 20 with all the urgency of a Victorian widow’s gossip, revealed that the breach on April 18 targeted KelpDAO’s rsETH token via its LayerZero bridge. The attackers, with the finesse of a burglar in a slapstick comedy, drained 116,500 rsETH-nearly 18% of its supply-by convincing the system to hand over funds like a gentleman falling for a confidence trick.
The Fund blames the ongoing Middle East conflict for this gloom and doom, as if a little old war wasn’t enough to ruin a perfectly good global economy. They reckon without it, we’d all be sipping margaritas at 3.4% growth. But nooo, the region’s latest party trick keeps crashing the GDP parade.