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When people think of Netflix they dont often associate it with games, but Netflix has been gradually increasing the output of entertainment they add to the Netflix Games app.

At Geeked Week 2022, the streamer previewed what looks like a fantastic slate of upcoming games coming soon to the service. The best part is, there are no ads or microtransactionstwo things that plague a lot of mobile gaming services.

All you need is a Netflix subscription and you can enjoy everything the app has to offer. This July, Netflix is adding at least four new games to the service.

Netflix sent out the July 2022 newsletter and included four new games. Unfortunately, the streamer has not provided exact release dates for any of the games, but it does say each of the four is coming soon, and given their inclusion on the July newsletter we can safely assume all four of the games detailed below will be available in the next month.

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From the devs who brought usHarry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery comes a new Match-3 puzzle game. For those unfamiliar with the term, a Match-3 game invites players to manipulate tiles and identify patterns to make them disappear and clear the board.

The immersive Wild Things: Animal Adventure game features a cast of stunning, 3D animated animals. Players must help these creatures save their homelands. Rescue adorable animals and explore an immersive world as you build your dream habitat in this puzzle adventure game.

Release date: TBA

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The BAFTA award-winning first-person adventure game Before Your Eyes is an emotional story that allows players to control a story and affect an outcome with your real-life blinks. Using an innovative technique, players can fully immerse themselves in a world of memories as they help the character of Benjamin Brynn on his way to the afterlife.

To interact with the Benjamins memories, players will respond to the surroundings and game via an eye-tracking webcam in your mobile phone. The game reads and responds to your eye movement and blinking.

Until now, the game has only been available to play via Microsoft Windows from retailers like Steam and Epic Games. Its pretty exciting that soon many more gamers will get the chance to play.

Release date: TBA

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Do you like playing Mahjong? What about Solitaire? In a game that combines the best of both worlds, Mahjong Solitaire promises to be a fun and rewarding new addition to the Netflix Games app.

Enjoy hundreds of tile-matching puzzles. Equip themes and backgrounds, including Stranger Things ones, to change the games look and feel! Below you can get a peek at what some of the different themes look like, including the Stranger Things setting.

Release date: TBA

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IMMORTALITY. Cr: Netflix.

From the creator of Her Story comes a new explorative narrative game about the lost works of a silver-screen hopeful named Marissa Marcel. Before her disappearance, Marissa made three movies, but none were ever released. Now youll need to explore her lost works to find clues that could unlock the secrets to her vanishing.

Based on the descriptors used to catalog this game, it sounds like IMMORTALITY is a mix of simulation, horror, cinematic and adventure games.

It will be released on Steam on July 26, 2022, so it seems likely that IMMORTALITYwill arrive on Netflix either that same day or the following week.

Release date: TBA

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Junes live-stream bonanza, which took place instead of the usual E3 shenanigans (cancelled once more due to ongoing Covd concerns) has gamers hyped for whats to come.

Here are the five Xbox games were most looking forward to getting our hands on in the coming month.

F1 22

What is it? Very much to Formula 1 what the FIFA games are to football, F1 22s is EAs latest in its annual series of racing games that replicate the sport unlike any others.

As new regulations in real-world races have changed the shape, design and handling profiles of the cars, so too do they in-game, with new car models with updated physics making for a realistic experience.

Tracks have been updated too, with updated course layouts reflecting their real-world counterparts, and the introduction of the Miami International Autodrome for calendar newcomer, the Miami Grand Prix.

Formula 2 racing is also included in the game, which also introduces a new adaptive AI system, which adjusts the pace of computer-controlled cars according to players skill to ensure competitive races every time.

When can I play it? 1 July

Matchpoint Tennis Championships

What is it? Matchpoint might not quite be able to match F1 22s uncanny ability to reproduce a real-world sport, but its virtual representation of tennis is certainly the best weve seen for a long while.

Still, you do get 16 licensed players including some of the biggest racket stars in the world - like Nick Kyrgios and Amanda Anisimova - as well as 26 world famous courts.

You can also create your own player if you want to take yourself to the top of the tennis standings, and Matchpoint is promising a deep career mode featuring a unique merit-based ranking system.

When can I play it? 7 July (also available through Game Pass)

Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series

Updated to run in 60fps and up to 4K resolution with added features such as adjustable difficulty and a two-player cooperative mode, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile and Klonoa 2: Lunateas Veil will be available to a whole new generation of fans.

Players take control of Klonoa, whose primary attack involves grabbing enemies with the Wind Ring, an object that fires a small burst of air forward that inflates and pulls enemies back to him to carry.

From here, youll be able to throw captured foes, or use them to perform a double-jump in midair, allowing you to reach greater heights and bypass obstacles.

When can I play it? 8 July

Endling: Extinction is Forever

What is it? Usually, survival games are not this writers cup of tea. Their open-ended gameplay is no match for a well crafted narrative, and the idea that you WILL succumb to the elements - its just a matter of how long you can stave them off - has always proved much too stress inducing.

But, Endling could change that. With a strong environmental message that sees players take control of the last mother fox on Earth attempting to protect her cubs from a world slowly crumbling to the effects of humanity, its got a rather striking artstyle to boot.

Youll explore areas for supplies with which to defend your babies, feeding them and watching them grow into young foxes with unique personalities and fears, and use the cover of night to stealthily guide your litter towards a safer place.

When day break comes, its time to use the relative safety of the light to improve your shelter and plan your next move.

When can I play it? 19 July

Immortality

What is it? Sam Barlows Her Story is often credited as one of the most uniquely intriguing games in recent years, and saw players sift through live-action video clips of police interviews to piece together the narrative.

Immortality takes a similar approach, but this time youre on the hunt for Marissa Marcel, an unfortunate actress who starred in three films that were never released.

Shes since gone missing, and players will have to scour clips of her unseen films - as well as behind-the-scenes footage of their making - to find clues and hints to people of interest.

It sounds like another reality blurring endeavour from Barlow, and since its coming to Game Pass on day of release, theres no reason for Xbox fans not to check it out.

When can I play it? 26 July (also available through Game Pass)

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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is considered one of the greatest anime of all time. Written by Hiromu Arakawa, the world of Fullmetal Alchemist is fantasy-meets-science fiction, where individuals can learn to use alchemy an ability to change the matter around them with many specializing in specific fields.

The story follows Edward and Alphonse Elric, two talented young alchemists that are seeking a philosophers stone so they may return to their original forms, which were lost when they tried to go beyond the natural bounds of alchemy by attempting to resurrect their dead mother through human transmutation. They are not the only ones seeking the ability to create a stone, but what contrasts the two protagonists with the more villainous characters in the anime, is what they are willing to do, or in their case not do in order to attain this power.

They join the military as State Alchemists and quickly discover that there is something deeply wrong with their country. Through their research, they uncover a government-wide conspiracy and the disturbing truth behind why their country, Amestris, is a land of peace surrounded by war.

The central theme of the story is human nature, looking at humanitys best and worst, but also the gray areas in between. Arakawa writes villains just as well as the protagonists, each one has their own motivation and methods. Many characters are so caught up in their own desires and goals that they are happily willing to sacrifice anyone and everyone to attain them, whereas others simply enjoy sowing fear and destruction.

In a show littered with questionable characters ranging from genocidal megalomaniacs to sadistic thrill seekers these are the top 10 most hated characters.

Cornello only appears in the third episode of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, but he is quite the detestable character who uses peoples desire for hope to con them as a religious man. Some fans believe that his story was better served in the original anime, but Brotherhood glossed over it a little seeing as it had already been done before.

Cornello allowed himself to be used by the homunculi to create civil unrest desiring wealth and power believing he could create an army of religious zealots that would die for him. Manipulating religious belief for your own gain is not uncommon in the real world as well and makes an individual easily hateable.

He is the first of Fathers homunculi children and embodies the nature of Pride. Discovering that sweet little Selim Bradley, son to the King, was actually the oldest and most deadly of the homunculi was a great twist in the story. Pride cares little for his siblings, easily killing and absorbing Gluttony in order to gain his skills. He is narcissistic and self-aggrandizing, exactly what you would expect for the embodiment of the sin pride.

The only real feeling he ever lets on to is that he cares somewhat for his adoptive mother. So perhaps there is a shred of humanity in him somewhere.

As with many of the villainous characters enamored with the offer of immortality, General Raven has a rather Machiavellian approach to life. Originally trusted by Mustang for his kind nature, Raven eventually reveals his true colors and just how far the level of corruption goes when he shows Mustang that all of Central Command is in on the plan to sacrifice millions for the immortality of a few.

He is tricked into revealing his plans to Major General Olivier Armstrong, whom he tries to seduce with the promise of immortality, in a slightly lecherous way as well. He is so desperate to see the plan come to fruition before he dies that he fails to notice he is being used as a pawn by Father.

Many hate Wrath simply because he had us fooled for quite some time. Wrath first appears to the audience as King Bradley, ruler of Amestris and head of the military. At first, he seems genuinely quite pleasant and laid back for a ruler even mischievous at times but we come to realize its all a ruse. The man has a tremendous amount of fury that he struggles to contain as he is actually the vessel for the homunculus wrath.

Unlike the other homunculi, Wrath is still human and separates himself somewhat from the others, even going as far as sympathizing with humanity from time to time. Where fans come to hate him though was when, during Hughes funeral, what at first appeared to be him shaking out of grief for his fallen soldier, turned out to be him shaking in anger as Hughes daughter ruined the silence with her crying.

He is a confusing character but seeing as he seems happy with the plan to sacrifice the nation he is meant to serve, fans have every right to hate him.

This creepy character works behind the scenes enacting Fathers plans. He is seen in the flashbacks to be the one administering Bradley with the liquid philosophers stone to create Wrath, a procedure that had multiple fatal failures before. The doctor is happy to experiment on individuals to further Fathers goals, but also to gain more knowledge for himself, blinded to humanity by his own desire to see his experiments work.

He tries to force Colonel Mustang to open up a gate of truth by slashing Riza Hawkeyes throat in front of him, which would have forced him to use human transmutation. The doctor is happy to use others, including the men he trained, as pawns to sacrifice their lives for his cause but proves to be a coward when its his own life at risk.

Though this character has very little screentime, his actions are enough to cause some major hate to be aimed at him. As the ruler of Xerxes, a prosperous and advanced land, the king seemed to be originally well-liked by his subjects. But as he aged and death drew near he became frantic to avoid his fate, desperate enough to go along with the plan of The Dwarf in the Flask and sacrifice the lives of his entire kingdom in order for himself and his court to gain immortality.

Of course, he didnt exactly get what he bargained for and died alongside his countrymen, to create the first-ever philosophers stone. He was the first in a long line of humans that allowed themselves to be manipulated by the homunculus for their own greed.

Kimblees twisted mind is despicable and his actions are considered more so because he is human and yet acts in such an inhumane way. As a State Alchemist during the Ishval war, Kimblee reveled so much in the destruction that he used his explosive style of alchemy on innocent targets. These acts caused him to be imprisoned after the war ended, though he was later released by the corrupt government when they had a need for him.

Kimblee is an interesting amoral character, happy to observe from the sidelines or get involved with either side, depending on how he feels about it. He genuinely respects those with strong abilities and convictions and will attack anything he believes to show weakness, even taking on Pride from within when the homunculi strays from his ideals.

He delights in causing pain, saying that the screams of tortured souls are but a lullaby to him, and he fully deserves the hate that he gets for his lack of empathy and humanity.

Father was the original Homunculus, created eight centuries prior to the main story in the now lost city of Xerxes. Created through alchemy and using the blood of a slave boy who would become Van Hohenheim they manipulate the desperate King into believing he can reach immortality by sacrificing all of his people, only to betray him and use the sacrifices to create a philosophers stone powerful enough to grant him his own immortal body.

They seek to overthrow God, which requires enormous power, so they create the land of Amestris ruling from the wings, planning wars in specific areas to create a huge alchemical transmutation circle powered by the bloodshed. The transmutation circle would then sacrifice everyone within it in order to grant Father the power to tackle God or Truth as he is known.

His complete disregard for anyones life but his own creating violence and instigating wars over centuries for his own selfish ends marks him as one of the greatest villains in anime history.

Despite not being the big bad of the show, Envy has earned the ire of fans for their truly despicable acts. As one of the seven homunculi, Envy has the ability to transform into anyone. They are responsible for the shocking death of one of the series most beloved characters, Maes Hughes, a family man who loved his wife and daughter beyond all things.

Not only did they kill Hughes, but they took the form of his wife to do so, causing Hughes to pause before striking, making the last thing he saw the image of his wife grinning as she killed him. They then set up Second Lieutenant Maria Ross for the murder of Hughes leading to her execution which she thankfully escaped with the help of Colonel Mustang.

Not to mention it was their actions that were the catalyst for the bloody war in Ishval when they took on the shape of an Amestris soldier and shot dead a young Ishvalan girl. They delight in causing chaos, pain, and suffering, seeing humans as nothing but worms beneath them, though through their tragic and pathetic defeat we come to realize how much they envy humans.

Shou Tucker is not just the most hated character from FMA: Brotherhood, but often tops the list of most hated anime characters. For a character that doesnt even get that much screentime, its an impressive feat, one he has achieved by committing one of the most heinous acts in anime history.

Scared of losing his license having not produced anything of note since his last chimera two years prior Tucker uses his adorable young daughter Nina and the family dog, Alexander, to create a new one. When showing his creation to the Elric brothers, the chimera looks at Edward and says Edward Big Brother, causing a horrified Edward to grasp the truth. Edward surmises that the first chimera was Tuckers missing wife and then attacks the scientist who claims that all science requires sacrifice and that human testing is to be expected when advancing science.

Fans were truly disgusted by the scientists actions, finding him utterly repulsive and pathetic, and have since viewed him as one of the most detestable anime characters of them all.

Watch all these villains in action, as Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is available to stream on multiple platforms, including Netflix, Hulu, and Crunchyroll.

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The self-described spiritual one of the Hargreeves siblings and The Umbrella Academy, Klaus Hargreeves (Robert Sheehan) has several powers and abilities that revolve around death and the void.In The Umbrella Academy season 3, Klaus finally starts to learn more about his abilities with some surprising assistance from an unlikely source.

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In the third season, the new, alternate-timeline version of Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore) opts to assist his son with learning how to control his powers, namely his immortality. The show has strongly hinted at Klaus immortality in previous seasons, but it really delves into it in the latest batch of episodes and confirms, without a doubt, that Klaus is immortal and has died and come back many times already.

But what is the extent of Klaus powers?

Klaus can communicate with the dead. However, when he was a child, Reginald locked him in a crypt with a bunch of ghosts, so he has always been more hesitant to use his abilities due to fearing the undead. The only ghost we have seen him communicate with on a consistent basis is his brother, Ben Hargreeves (Justin H. Min). But Reginald has always suggested that Klaus is unaware of his true potential.

Its not just that he can talk to spirits like a medium, but Klaus is also able to conjure spirits. He did so with Reginald and weve seen him do it with other ghosts in different circumstances, summoning them to help him mid-battle or otherwise. In the second season, Klaus also starts interacting with Ben in a more physical capacity, even allowing Ben to take possession of his body for brief spells.

The third season really digs into Klaus immortality. After Stanley(Javon Wanna Walton) accidentally kills Klaus with a harpoon gun in the White Buffalo Suite, Klaus finds himself in the void where he meets the spirit of his mother. Later, he and Reginald try to figure out how Klaus can die and return to life more quickly, ultimately teaching Klaus how to successfully resurrect himself within just minutes of death. We learn that many of Klaus brushes with death from the past were really him dying and coming back to life.

Klaus increased mastery of his powers is shown at the end of The Umbrella Academy season 3 when he creates a safe place for Luthers spirit(Tom Hopper) and travels to Hotel Oblivionfrom the void to assist his siblings.

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The Games With Gold July 2022 reveal is happening this week and already looks to be overshadowed by the Xbox Game Pass titles confirmed for next month.

In total, there are already five titles confirmed for Microsofts other subscription service, the first arriving on July 1.

And this will be going up against whatever the tech giant has planned for Games with Gold during July 2022.

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Microsoft has not confirmed the exact date for its Games With Gold July 2022 reveal, something will be revealed before Friday, July 1, 2022. This will be the date that the first games are launched, one for Xbox One and one from Xbox 360. This means that Microsoft will need to share its plans sometime over the coming days.

Here are some of the dates used to share Games with Gold by Microsoft over previous months:

Four games will be available to download during July 2022, with most of the biggest games saved for Xbox Game Pass. And while we dont know what titles will be released on Games With Gold next month, we have some news regarding Xbox Game Pass.

Five titles have been revealed as arriving throughout the month, starting with Far Cry 5 on July 1, quickly followed by Last Call BBS on July 5 and Matchpoint Tennis Championships on July 7. The second half of the month will see the arrival of As Dusk Falls on July 19, and Immortality on July 26.

Meanwhile, with Game with Gold, the first two free games will be sourced from Xbox One and Xbox 360, for July 1, followed by a second batch going live on July 16, Some of these games will only be available for two weeks, while others will remain available for a full four weeks. Gamers will also note that PS Plus Premium has now launched and will be offering a much meatier rival to Microsofts GwG and Xbox Game Pass subscription services.

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There is no immortality for newspaper reporters.

One of them, Ben Hecht, addressed this matter in a short poem written long ago: We know each others daydreams / And the hopes that come to grief / For we write each others obits / And theyre Godalmighty brief.

There is no immortality for newspaper reporters, but Deborah Cohen has done a remarkably powerful, enlightening and entertaining job of bringing back to life a quartet of long gone reporters along with dozens of other interesting sorts, in her new book, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War (Random House).

It is a journey, she writes, into the 1920s and 1930s, (when) millions of Americans got their news from a very small number of international reporters. In the interwar years, American foreign correspondents became the kings of the hill. Armed with a peculiarly American obsession with personalities, they sounded an early warning about the rise of the dictators.

She focuses on four of them, each a vessel of immense curiosity and energy.

There was Chicago-born John Gunther, who was a student at the University of Chicago before becoming a reporter for the Chicago Daily News, where he struck his colleagues as a young man going somewhere. Did he ever, taking off for Europe with no job (he had quit the News) and $150 in his pocket but with big ambitions. He would report prolifically and marry another writer named Frances. He would become a bestselling author with what was known as the Inside books, a series that included the bestseller Inside U.S.A in 1947. He basically invented the grief memoir with the heart-wrenching 1949 book about his young sons death, Death Be Not Proud, which is sadly the only one of his many books still in print.

H.R. Knickerbocker, Knick to his friends, was Texas-born and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1931 for his newspaper series on Stalin.

Vincent (Jimmy) Sheean came to the University of Chicago from tiny downstate Pana, Illinois, and was soon reporting from far, far away, from Spain and elsewhere. His 1935 political memoir Personal Historybecame the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcocks 1940 film Foreign Correspondent.

Dorothy Thompson, perhaps the most famous of the gang, was a native New Yorker. As she wrote to a friend in 1921, when she was in her late 20s, I have been a wild cat walking by my wild lone self most of my life since 16. What she did becoming the first female syndicated political columnist and a radio broadcaster, made her so prominent that, as Cohen tells us, On the eve of the Second World War, Time magazine described Thompson and Eleanor Roosevelt as the most influential women in the United States. She was also married for a helter- skelter time to novelist Sinclair Lewis. Her life became the inspiration for the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn 1942 film Woman of the Year.

Cohen informs us of so much, bringing the characters of this era to vivid and raucous life. She makes them all unforgettable, and allows us to understand what made them tick and work as they visited European capitals and traveled to Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Their Midwestern roots were crucial, she says. They understood their readers. They were able to speak to Americans. They were as famous in their time as famous could be and they were also pioneers in new journalism. They were subjective, intimate, emotional, powerful.

They also had active social and drinking lives. They were in and out of each others lives, sharing late nights, talking, sharing beds, Cohen says.

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As she writes, Even when they were far apart, even after they fell out, they kept right on talking and arguing, long after the conversations had ended.

The eight years Cohen devoted to researching and writing this splendid book was time well spent. We encounter in fresh ways such figures as Hitler, Mussolini, Gandhi, Nehru and Stalin. We also meet such now-forgotten people as Polly Adler, the proprietor of Manhattans most famous brothel and a friend of Gunthers: It was difficult to find girls to work because they were all doing war service, she told John. The sexual peculiarities these days! The higher the tensions got in Europe, the stranger the perversions.

So prolific and active were the reporters that they make the most famous writer of the period, a fellow named Hemingway, seem a slacker by comparison.

The maps detailing the travels of these reporters are admirable and dizzying. As Gunther would put it later, We were scavengers, buzzards, out to get the news, no matter whose wings got clipped.

Cohen was born and raised in Louisville and at a tender age flirted with a career as a newspaper reporter. She started and edited a paper in high school but, admitting to being hijacked by archives, earned a degree in history and womens studies at Harvard-Radcliffe and then a masters and doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley. She taught at American University and Brown University before coming to Northwestern in 2010, where she now academically resides, living in the Lakeview neighborhood with her husband and teenage daughter.

I love teaching, first-year students to graduate level, she says.

She is also a writer of palpable power and deep understanding.

After WWII, her quartet, more or less, she says, moved off stage. Their moment was the moment of warning, so once the conflict started, what was there for them to say, I told you so?

In their time they told us more than enough and they came at us in an intimate fashion. Cohen writes with easy authority and a powerful narrative drive. This is a great book about great and flawed people caught up in a world going mad.

She credits the voluminous archives that she pored through for making it possible to capture the texture and the course of (her subjects) thoughts at very close hand My aim as an author has been to follow their own lead as journalists to convey how it felt to lie so exposed to history in the making.

For what its worth, Cohen would have made one hell of a reporter.

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