Leaked Mashable documents show how bleak things were before Ziff Davis came to the rescue

Business Insider Mashable was in deep trouble financially before it sold for far below its one-time valuation of $ 250 million, according to documents reviewed by Business Insider. The company was heavily reliant on digital media advertising revenue, the documents show. It also lost $ 4.2 million in the three months through September.  Ziff Davis is […]

The IndieBeat: Obelus’s bleak future riffs off the familiar present

A game about an intergalactic insurance salesman could only go in a few different ways. One is the Douglas Adams route with wackiness in outer space and planetoid construction sites. The other is Springloaded Software‘s Obelus, which is a somewhat grim though cheekily surreal look at what humanity’s future might have in store. It’s a […]

Fall TV Winners & Losers: From Good Doctors (and Places) to a Bleak Today

As your favorite shows head into the holiday break and TV hits the “pause” button, it’s time to call out the fall season’s winners and losers. Among the freshman class, a pair of boy geniuses — young Sheldon Cooper and that very good doctor, Shaun Murphy — have much to celebrate, while ABC’s Ten Days […]

‘Hostiles’ Trailer: Christian Bale Saddles Up For Scott Cooper’s Bleak Western

Christian Bale reunites with Out of the Furnace director Scott Cooper for Hostiles, a grim and gritty existential Western that looks like its striving to become a sweeping epic. Bale plays an Army captain tasked with escorting a dying Cheyenne war chief (Wes Studi) and his family back to tribal lands. Many shots of lonely vistas follow, which […]

Sylvio 2 Disturbs With Ghostly Voices In Bleak Halls

Juliette Waters awakens in an empty apartment complex, surrounded by otherworldly voices whispering in the shadows, in Sylvio 2. With a useful EVP recorder, players will have to capture what they’re hearing in the gloom around them, picking up clues, threats, and other sinister words spoken by the ghosts of the long dead. Players are […]

The Bleak Cyberpunk Future Of Neofeud

Neofeud’s future is not shiny and chrome, it’s a tangled mess of clashing styles. In true cyberpunk fashion, scrapped technology meets body modification and robotics. Consequently, the game’s art style is all over the place and its music is infused with old modem dial-up sounds. It’s such a wonderful, ambitious mess. It’s 2033 and advances […]

‘Happy End’ Review: A Bleak and Twisted Comedy From Michael Haneke [TIFF]

Michael Haneke is not known for light-heartedness. The Austrian filmmaker behind Funny Games, Caché, The White Ribbon, and Amour specializes in challenging, often incredibly bleak dramas where all is not right in the world. So when Haneke’s new film was announced with the title Happy End, most people familiar with the director likely assumed this […]

‘Black Mirror’ season four looks as bleak as ever

Black Mirror is coming back to depress us all, and Netflix has revealed the cast and directors for season four’s episodes. If you thought the last season was perhaps a little too happy-go-lucky, the teaser below might reassure you that showrunner Charlie Booker hasn’t lost sight of what made the Twilight Zone-meets-modern-technology anthology series so […]

Vogtle, Summer nuclear plants face bleak outlook after Westinghouse bankruptcy

Enlarge / In 2013, atomic plant Vogtle was a 2-unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, Georgia, in USA. Each unit has a Westinghouse pressurized water reactor (PWR), with a General Electric turbine and electric generator, producing approximately 2,400 MW of electricity. The cost overruns incurred in making Westinghouse’s AP 1000 reactors […]