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Whether it’s music videos, original shorts to accompany their features or direct-to-video accompaniments, Ghibli’s more short-form content is some of the most rewarding, yet tragically overlooked content form anime’s most famous studio. RELATED: A Beginner’s Guide to Studio Ghibli Music Videos Animated by Studio Ghibli Ghibli has directed a number of short films for different Japanese musical group. The most well-known among these is a 1995 short film directed by Hayao Miyazaki for the song “On Your Mark” by the group Chage and Aska....

Promises of visceral action blended with PlatinumGames’ unique world-building prowess, not to mention an enticing narrative revolving around dragons, were all left unfulfilled due to admitted failures from the studio and its publishing partner Microsoft. Like most games that are canceled, the idea of what Scalebound could have been has lingered among fans and those that were involved in the project. Just this month alone, PlatinumGames director Hideki Kamiya expressed a desire for the studio and Microsoft to try again with Scalebound....

Over the past couple days, the videos have taken fans through a National Geographic documentary-style trip down memory lane: talking about the history, behind the scenes facts and global impact that each of the PlayStation consoles had on the gaming industry. Think of these videos as the cliff notes to researching the history of the PlayStation console family. The showcase of games and commercials as well as segments from news channels are all well put together - and anyone who was around for the PlayStation or PlayStation 2 launch will definitely have fond memories come back....

First, Article 1 of the Constitution grants Congress “all legislative powers” and only “legislative powers.” Under our system of separation of powers, the power to prosecute lies exclusively with the executive branch through the justice department. Congress has no authority to refer specific individuals for prosecution. It is beyond the scope of its constitutional authority. Second, Congress is specifically denied the power to pass any “bill of attainder.” Prior to America’s independence, the British parliament enacted such bills that prosecuted named individuals....

On Thursday, the committee returned for its 10th public hearing and its final one before this year’s critical midterm elections. Although the panel may have waited for a ripe political moment to deliver the blow to Trump, the timing of issuing a subpoena this close to a new Congress is likely to render it useless. Sarah Binder, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and political science professor at George Washington University, explained that because the current House of Representatives expires at the end of this Congress—which would technically be January 2, 2023—so do the legislative efforts and investigations of that session....

That’s a message that is beginning to resonate with a growing number of voters under 30. In the past they’ve been far less likely to make it to the polls than their parents or grandparents, and campaigns generally haven’t spent much time or money courting them–even during presidential elections. Except for a brief spike in 1992, youth turnout in national elections has been steadily declining since 18-year-olds were first granted the vote in 1972....

But for some reason, this boy stays in Shepard’s mind throughout the entirety of Mass Effect 3, despite the Commander having witnessed the deaths of their own close crewmates like Ashley or Kaidan. Later on, an omniscient entity appears as this child. Why is the young boy so significant? RELATED: Mass Effect 1: How to Get Best Ending The End of Mass Effect 3 and the Catalyst For those who have finished the Mass Effect trilogy, they’ll know that the shape a certain entity called the Catalyst takes at the infamous end is the boy that Shepard met at the beginning of the game....

Absent from center stage was Henry A. Kissinger, 80, who served Richard Nixon and Ford as national-security adviser and secretary of State. The onetime Harvard government professor has paid careful attention to his place in history, producing thousands of pages of elegantly written and best-selling memoirs about his Nixon-Ford years (most recently “Ending the Vietnam War,” published earlier this year). The latest is his new book, “Crisis,” a fascinating window on two pivotal episodes–the 1973 Yom Kippur War (excerpted on the following pages) and the fall of Saigon in 1975....

In another time, the braggadocio of the man who likes to be called Il Cavaliere (The Knight) might amuse his neighbors. But today’s Italy is no joke. It’s Europe’s fourth largest economy, and one of 11 countries locked into the Continent’s single currency. It’s a vital NATO ally and a member of the G8, which will hold its annual summit in Genoa this July. If Berlusconi’s coalition wins Italian elections on May 13, he’ll be the host....

Game Rant’s Jeff Schille reviews The Gunstringer Twisted Pixel’s The Gunstringer is the latest attempt to move Kinect gaming beyond the confines of the casual market and into the living-rooms of hardcore gamers. But does this amalgam of rail-based shooter and platformer hit its target squarely, or could it use a bit more time at the shooting range? Keep reading for our full review of The Gunstringer. The Gunstringer uses a straightforward tale of revenge as a frame for its surreal journey through the Old West and on to the depths of the Underworld....

The first wave of leaders in the Leader Pass is out right now, and they all bring with them a new set of unique abilities that will surely shake up the game a bit. The first wave is being called the Great Negotiators pack, and it includes three brand-new alternate leaders. Players can now use Abraham Lincoln, Nzinga Mbande, and Saladin to take over the world. Those three are not the only new alternate leaders that players can claim as anyone who connects their 2K Account to their Steam Account can also take Julius Caesar for a spin....

Despite the start of The Flash Season 8 being five episodes, it always felt rushed. That’s likely because there were just so many different storylines the show seemed to want to hit on and so many characters it tried to work into those stories. This time it was Mia Queen, who is now the Green Arrow, but in the future. Then there was Damian Darhk who was an incredibly cool supervillain when he was causing havoc in Legends of Tomorrow....

[HTML1] Not only that, the official Game Awards Twitter account posted another teaser video which mentions Far Cry Primal specifically. In the teaser, Geoof Keighley confirms that fans will be seeing the first ever gameplay for the upcoming Far Cry Primal. Currently, little is known about the game outside of the fact that players will be using primitive weapons such as bows, spears, and other Stone Age tools to survive against extinct animals while stranded in a valley called Oros....

Not everyone got everything they wanted out of the show, however. A number of games and companies were absent from the event. Rumored games like a major Sony remake and a Chrono Cross remaster never showed, and Nintendo was almost entirely absent aside from a brief look at some indies coming to the Switch. Among those was an even more conspicuous absence: Hollow Knight: Silksong, the upcoming Hollow Knight sequel from Team Cherry....

Mary Ziegler supplies it. Ziegler, 33, a matter-of-fact woman who supports her art doing audiovisual production, calls her work at the Herron Test-Site gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y. (through Jan. 10), simply “mechanical sculpture.” Though that’s not as modest as, say, calling a piece by Giacometti (a sculptor she particularly admires) a “skinny metal person,” she does underestimate her stuff. At the gallery, Ziegler is exhibiting two new sculptures: the almost abstract wall piece “Myomortem” and the free-standing “The Way....

Khieu, now 41, has a hard time talking about his role in one of the worst genocides in human history. Standing in a rice field near his home in Kampong Tralach, two hours north of Phnom Penh, the wiry farmer recalls his conflicted feelings as a child soldier: the thrill of joining the Khmer Rouge, the fear of offending his commanders, the shock of returning to a ravaged home. But when the conversation turns to S-21-the nerve center of the Khmer Rouge killing machine-Khieu’s mind goes fuzzy and his voice rises in agitation....

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The offering speaks volumes about the potential power of Chinese investors on the world stage. It’s not the first time Asian retail investors were supposed to reshape the global economy. Back in the 1980s, everyone expected the Japanese to flood the market with their voluminous savings. Yet two decades on, most still park their savings in low-interest bank deposits. In China, however, mutual funds this year surpassed bank deposits as the country’s favorite way to invest....

The statistics are stunning: voters under the age of 30 made up 12 percent of turnout, average for a midterm, but Democratic House candidates won voters under 45 years old by 13 points and voters under 30 by 28 points. Young women were especially in favor of Democratic candidates. Exit polls show 72 percent of women under 30 years old voted for Democrats in House races nationwide. The percentage was higher in certain states, like Pennsylvania....

Kienholz started out as an unremarkable abstract painter. His titles were good: “Leda and the Canadian Honker” is one of modern art’s all-time best. Kienholz’s natural inclination was to load on thick paint, but he couldn’t afford to. Instead Kienholz painted bright colors on pieces of wood and stuck them onto the surface of “George Warshington in Drag” (1957). From there, Kienholz eventually arrived at his first full assemblage in 1959: the haunting “John Doe,” a dummy’s head, dripping black paint, mounted on a stroller....