GDC Next organizers have announced the first talks for its inaugural 'what's next?' game conference in Los Angeles this November, revealing a 30% event discount limited to the first 500 online registrants. The first talks revealed for GDC Next, illuminating the future-leaning plans for the new event, are Google on the first six months of its Play service, thatgamecompany on its design philosophy & future, Disney on theme park design lessons for game developers, and Adam Orth on reforming toxic online behavior. As evinced in these selections, GDC Next, the spiritual successor to GDC Online, aims to highlight the future of video games, and is taking place alongside the App Developers Con…
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For a long time, Misty Castaneda had terrible credit. Even though she had health insurance, the hair stylist from Colorado owed a hospital around $20,000 for a $200,000 open-heart surgery in 2010 that had been necessary to keep her alive, she says.
Castaneda’s credit was so bad that she stayed in a bad relationship for more than a decade, she says, because she knew that without her husband’s credit score, she wouldn’t be able to rent an apartment, buy a car, or take out a credit card.
So when she recently heard that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) had finalized a rule that would keep medical debt off personal credit reports, she knew she had to advocate …
Read moreIt’s become an HBO tradition for the season finale of one show to be accompanied by clips of future original series. Before The Penguin’s season finale, that trend continued with an advance look at the shows coming to HBO and Max in the last two months of 2024 and all of 2025. The final show in the mix was naturally HBO’s hit video game adaptation, The Last of Us Season 2.
There’s not a lot to see, since the trailer doesn’t linger on The Last of Us for too long. But viewers do get a glimpse at the emotional gulf between Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) over the choices he made the save her life in Season 1. The camera does linger on Joel’s guitar, which he passes on to Ellie in the game. There’s also a quick look at Catherine O’Hara’s character, a ther…
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