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90th Academy Awards Nominations     image credit:  http://www.oscars.org Jimmy Kimmel is back to host the 90th Academy Awards(Oscars) on Sunday March 4th at the Dolby Theater's in Los Angeles.Those who have watched him host last year's Oscar's know what to expect and eagerly await for what he has in store this Oscar's. The Academy of Motion Pictures have announced the nominees for this years Oscar's.They have nominated many of the best films and lots of stunning performances from 2017.This year the Academy has selected a total of nine Best Picture nominees Dunkirk, Darkest Hour and Phantom Thread. So here are the Nominees of the 90th Academy Awards: PICTURE: Call Me By Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk Get Out Lady Bird Phantom Thread The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri DIRECTOR: Christopher Nolan -  Dunkirk Jordan Peele -  Get Out Greta Gerwig -  Lady Bird Paul Thomas Anderson -  Phantom Thread Gui...

10 most anticipated games of 2018 Here we are looking at the 10 most anticipated games of 2018. Monster Hunter : World           January 26 -  PlayStation 4, Xbox One.             Monster Hunter: World  is an  action role-playing game  set in an  open world  environment and played from a  third-person perspective . As with previous games in the series, the player takes the role of a Hunter that is tasked by the "Research Commission" to hunt down and either kill or capture large monsters that roam outside their central base of Astera for them to study.   More God of War         Early 2018 - PlayStation 4.             God of War  (commonly referred to as  God of War 4 [ ) is an upcoming  third-person   action-adventure  video game in development by  Santa Monica Studi...

US Government Shuts Down! (Image credit: www.nafme.org) One of the most powerful government's in the world shut down on Saturday after the president and US Congress failed to reach an agreement for funding federal services. In a twitter post,president Trump blamed the democrat lawmakers.  He said,   "This is the one year anniversary of my presidency and the Democrats wanted to give me a nice present" " Democrats are far more concerned with illegal immigrants than they are with our great military or safety at our dangerous southern border," he said. "They could have easily made a deal but decided to play shutdown politics instead ". Last week, Trump rejected a bipartisan Senate deal that would have accomplished that as well as hand the White House $2.7 billion in new money for immigration enforcement at America's borders. Senate Republicans and Democrats were unable to agree on a stopgap funding measure to continue government...

The Art of level designing for games: Creating levels for games is a very challenging job,a good level can take the game to a whole new level while a bad level might make the game look boring inspite of having great graphics or AI. A good level can make the player come back again and again and can help create a beautiful relationship between the game and the players. Some of the good examples of games having good level designs: Half life GTA V Deus Ex and  Rise of tomb raider. Lets take an example of level design from one of the above games: Rise of tomb raider: Well most of us love tomb raider and have played the games from a long time.The tomb raider franchise has also come a long way till now with lots of improvements over the years. One of the main reasons that Rise of tomb raider has attracted so many player's is because of its dynamic level design and art work. Tomb raider levels are not only huge,but they have many puzzles that are challe...

                                                                       Sea of Thieves -  Closed Beta dates revealed Sea of Thieves is the most anticipated game of 2018 for Xbox one and windows 10.Its being developed by Microsoft's Rare Studios. Since its announcement the game has taken the world by storm and is said to become one of the best exclusives for xbox. Later in 2017, Xbox One X console was launched.One of the main problems of Xbox One is the lack of exclusives available for the console unlike it's rival sony's playstation. Sea of thieves could play a major part in boosting xbox sales.Since  the announcement of sea of thieves,there have been lot's of hype about how the game will turnout,and RARE till now have done a pretty good job,by giving taste in the ...