Tag Archives: star-wars

PlayStation VR 2 Hands

The PSVR 2 is light. Surprisingly light. If there’s one thing that immediately hits me when trying on the PlayStation VR 2 – Sony’s upcoming immersive headset for its still hard-to-buy PlayStation 5 – it’s that compared with the popular Meta Quest 2, it feels like barely anything at all. The other big thing I …

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Disney Plus vs. Netflix: How Do They Compare?

Trimming back expenses in light of soaring gas and grocery prices? There’s a good chance your entertainment budget is taking a hit you’re asking yourself if you really need every streaming service out there. Whether you’ve been a longtime Netflix subscriber, have Disney Plus for your kids, or break up and make up with HBO Max, you found a groove with …

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Disney Parks’ MagicBand Plus Brings Star Wars Bounty Hunts to Galaxy’s Edge

Disney’s upgraded MagicBand will let you live like the Mandalorian and go bounty hunting in Galaxy’s Edge in Florida’s Walt Disney World this summer. The MagicBand Plus is a wearable device that connects aspects of the Play Disney Parks and My Disney Experience apps, the park and hotel. The company gave journalists a preview of the interactive Star Wars game …

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6 Disney Plus Tricks for a More Magical Streaming Experience

Disney Plus offers an ever-growing library of classic Disney movies, Pixar shorts, documentaries and the Star Wars and Marvel franchises, as well as introducing us to Baby Yoda and other cultural icons through its marquee original series, The Mandalorian. The streaming service also offers Marvel shows like Loki, WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.  The service’s popularity has continued to grow since launch, with the Walt Disney …

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Disney Plus may raise prices after September, Disney CEO hints

Disney Plus is unlikely to raise prices before October, but after that, a price hike may be in the offing, Disney CEO Bob Chapek hinted Wednesday.  Disney is optimistic it’ll have a higher quantity of new, exclusive programming flowing steadily onto Disney Plus by 2023, which starts in early October on the company’s fiscal calendar. “Then [we’ll] have the flexibility, if we were to …

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This Flexible 3D Printing Material is a Cosplayer’s Dream

Cosplay and 3D printing go hand in hand. At any convention, most of the armor and helmets you see are made from either foam or 3D-printed filament, and a lot of the small delicate work is made on resin 3D printers to keep the details sharp. Most of the time though, 3D-printed armor is rigid and breakable. I have a …

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Disney parks were already facing heat from fans. Then an AWS outage came along

Not even Disney’s vaunted magic could save its Disneyland park app from a widespread Amazon Web Services outage temporarily wrecking the day for its guests this week. But for fans of “the happiest place on Earth,” this was just the latest in a string of problems.  Disney has been increasingly pushing its theme park guests to use their mobile devices to do …

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Apple Arcade review: The best game subscription for casual gamers

Dec 2021 When Apple Arcade launched in 2019, it presented a polished service that held its own next to Apple TV Plus, Apple News Plus and the Apple Card. Since then, Apple Arcade has consistently improved its service and offerings, as well as placing a spotlight on lots of different game developers around the world.  While updating older games and …

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Stream Shang

Disney is offering a one-month subscription to its streaming service Disney Plus for just $2 as part of the company’s Disney Plus Day promotion. This discount comes at a perfect time, too. Disney Plus just added a number of highly anticipated films, including Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Jungle Cruise, and plenty more. Read more: Disney Plus …

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Disney’s pop

After scanning a circular code on a movie poster with my iPhone, a preview button popped up showing a cloud of Eternals characters hovering in the air above my desk. An app download invitation followed that. Disney’s AR tie-in to its new Marvel movie, Eternals, is an iOS-exclusive demo that aims to be for augmented reality-based movie tie-ins what virtual …

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