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It is one thing to have a good soundtrack that fits the narrative and themes of a video game, but many games in 2019 went a step beyond simple thematic cohesion. This list includes ten games from 2019 that made unique stylistic choices, or pushed the boundaries of video game music to great effect. RELATED: 10 Best Video Game Stories of 2019 Some of these games have music that can be listened to on its own, while others are impressive because of how artfully the music sets a given tone....

RELATED: The 10 Worst Xbox One Games Of The Decade (According To Metacritic) The 2010s encapsulate the last couple years of the Xbox 360’s life cycle as well as the Xbox One’s, with many great titles between the two. Here are the very best, according to Metacritic. 10 10. Halo: The Master Chief Collection: Score 85 A story filled with tragedy and redemption, at the time of announcement Halo: The Master Chief Collection seemed like a dream come true for Xbox fans....

RELATED: 10 Villains Who Deserve A Standalone Video Game Many games opt for a single antagonist with whom the hero wages war and although this has delivered some memorable villains, it doesn’t always provide the most believable of stories. After all, there are limits on what one person could realistically achieve - not to mention the ease with which they could be stopped if enough right-minded people were to stand against them....

RELATED: Final Fantasy: The 10 Strongest Weapons In The Series, According To Lore A few of these weapons are actually incredibly powerful, although those that are often have an Achilles’ heel of sorts. Some instead draw their comedic value from their ridiculous appearances, while others look normal but have have no practical uses whatsoever. In a series that so often adopts a serious tone though, they can definitely help to lighten the mood....

Read on to see which one of those shows was the most-watched, and to also see which shows were huge global hits this month. The 10 most-watched TV shows on Netflix in January The Uncanny Counter South Korean Netflix shows do not get much of a breakthrough on U.S. Netflix, but series, like It’s Okay to Not Be Okay, have become huge hits around the world. So it is with The Uncanny Counter, the story of teen demon hunters that has become a global streaming hit....

One such benefit are themes. Microsoft Edge supports a wide range of Microsoft-created themes unique to the browser, and as it runs off Chromium, that means that Microsoft Edge can also make use of Chrome’s theme store as well. Here are 13 of the best Microsoft Edge themes for you to try. 1. Halo If you’re going to go with a theme by Microsoft, why not dive right in with one of Microsoft’s biggest titles?...

Now is the perfect time to buy a new mattress, with top brands like Sleep Number, Casper, and Tuft & Needle discounting their mattresses up to 50%. See some of our favorite Cyber Monday deals you can still get here, on sale now. Casper Wave Hybrid Mattress To buy: Casper Wave Hybrid Mattress $2,171 (was $2,895); amazon.com, casper.com We picked the Casper Wave Hybrid Mattress as our best for back pain when we picked the best mattresses for arthritis....

Thanks to the new update, and an expanded playerbase following the game’s Xbox One release, new life has been breathed into the game. Many players new and old are exploring the infinite universe and finding out just how diverse No Man’s Sky’s ecosystems can become. The planets and creatures of No Man’s Sky were always rather interesting, but the variation seems to be much greater since the NEXT update. The game’s subreddit is teeming with screenshots of crazy discoveries as a result, and here are 15 of the absolute best that have emerged since the big changes....

In recent years, whether California blackouts last summer, energy shortages in Massachusetts winters, or now disruptions in America’s energy capital in Texas, the need to take politics out of our energy policy to focus on affordability, reliability, environmental stewardship and what’s best for public safety are now more important than ever. That begins with ensuring the availability of a variety of energy choices, including foundational fuel sources like natural gas and the infrastructure necessary to move it when energy is needed most....

The overwhelming majority of employees at Houston Methodist have already been vaccinated against the virus, while the hospital has set a June 7 deadline for stragglers to get inoculated or risk losing their jobs. Attorney Jared Woodfill says he is representing a group of 117 employees suing the hospital for “illegally requiring its employees to be injected with an experimental vaccine as a condition of employment,” according to a Friday report from local ABC station KTRK....

The incident occurred in August when Dillon Puente, 22, was pulled over for making a wide right turn in the Riverdance neighborhood of Keller. His father, Marco Puente, began filming his son’s arrest from the opposite sidewalk—before being arrested himself. Dillon Puente was driving to his grandmother’s house to fix the air conditioning in his car on August 15, when he was stopped by Sgt. Blake Shimanek and pulled over, according to an official complaint lodged with the Keller Police Department....

As of Monday, more than nine million Texans had already cast their ballots ahead of the November 3 poll, according to the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida. The turnout to date has already exceeded the entirety of the 2016 vote by 8 percent with early voting surging in all corners of the state, including Democratic strongholds such as Harris County, which includes Houston, and Bexar County....

Smart’s new deal bumps his base salary up to $3 million for the upcoming season and includes a $100,000 raise for each of the following seasons. “We want to send a message,” university president Gregory L. Fenves said. “He is a great coach, an educator, a leader. He’s made such fantastic progress in his first season here. He’s getting national attention. We just want to show him that he’s really important to the University of Texas....

Those were the words Paige Ruiz texted to her mother before she died of COVID-19. Ruiz, 32, of Fort Worth, Texas, tested positive for the virus on July 24, less than a week before her baby was due. Her mother Robin Zinsou said she had been asking her daughter about speaking to her doctor about the vaccine. “And she said, ‘No, Mom. I’m going to wait until after I have the baby,’” Zinsou told WFAA....

After the 2017 SEA Games men’s football competition rested on Saturday to give way to the opening ceremony, it continued on Sunday with action from Group B. In the first match of the day, Indonesia recorded a 1-0 win over Timor-Leste at the Selayang Municipal Council Stadium. The only goal of the match was scored by Marinus Wanewar in the 22nd minute. Timor-Leste vs Indonesia. Photo by Goal / Abi Yazid...

For as long as there have been humans, we’ve been at war with germs. Mark Woolhouse and Eleanor Gaunt of the University of Edinburgh estimate there are about 1400 human pathogens out there, and about 150 of those have epidemic potential. We’ve been fighting the same dozen or so bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses ever since we began aggregating in communities large enough for germs to take hold and multiply....

Kochi – Savithiri Devi, Kerala-based mother of cricketer S. Sreesanth, who was granted bail by a court in Delhi in the IPL spot fixing scandal, thanked all those who prayed for him. “Now everything is in the hands of the court and I thank all who prayed for him,” Devi said here on hearing the news of her son getting bail. Sreesanth and his two Rajasthan Royals teammate were arrested by Delhi Police May 16 from Mumbai and were later booked under the provisions of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) in the IPL spot fixing scandal....

From his origins as a tempestuous teenager on Tatooine, to Jedi Knight and finally tormented Jedi Master, Luke Skywalker has been through several evolutions. Each stage is undoubtedly relatable in some form to fans, owing to the character’s innate desire to help others - whether friend or foe. This trait is the reason why Luke’s latest appearance in the season finale of The Mandalorian is the best interpretation of the character yet....

Details are still scarce for the game. Journey starts with the character waking up in the middle of a desert and making his or her way to a mountain in the distance. That’s it. However, when the game was unveiled at E3, Chen did have some interesting themes in mind for the game to explore. It sounds as though recapturing a sense of wonder through vulnerability and isolation will play heavily into the game....

Season 5 Part 2 of the show was released on Friday, December 3 and fans have been excitedly binge-watching it ever since. But they may have missed a key cameo in the final season, which was featured in Episode 8, titled “Elegance Theory”. The Easter Egg you (probably) missed As well as focusing on the heist itself, the Spanish crime drama’s final season also had flashbacks that explained how Berlin (Pedro Alonso) came to introduce his son Rafael (Patrick Criado) to the world of thievery....