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If you’re a Valorant player reading this then get ready to have your ego knocked down a few pegs. We all know that competitive online gaming has given birth to many child prodigies and stars over the years. And this 12-year-old kid named thundermeow is the latest one for Riot Games’ first-person shooter.

How can a kid be this good!? Image Credit: Riot Games

This achievement is nothing short of crazy. Radiant is the pinnacle of Valorant’s ranked system, achievable by only an estimated 0.02% of the player base. To reach this rank, players need to have the highest level of skill in terms of aim, strategy, and deep game knowledge. But for thundermeow, it seems these skills came naturally.

Valorant‘s first prodigy may be in the making It’d be the first for this game. | Image Credit: @valorant/YouTube

Thundermeow’s journey to Radiant wasn’t limited to Valorant.

Earlier this month, author Brandon Sanderson released Wind and Truth, the highly-anticipated fifth volume in his magnum opus fantasy series The Stormlight Archive. Sanderson has a reputation for churning out excellent books, but even by his own lofty standards, Wind and Truth is special. The Stormlight Archive is a massive series, Sanderson's own attempt at writing a wildly ambitious, door-stopping fantasy series in the vein of Malazan Book of the Fallen or The Wheel of Time — the latter of which he wrote the final three volumes for after original author Robert Jordan's untimely death in 2007. Sanderson has been open with fans for years now that The Stormlight Archive will be split into two distinct "arcs," with a time jump in the middle to act as a sort of soft reset for the series.

Wind and Truth is the conclusion of the first of those arcs, and is brings lots...

Alix Blair sets out to document her aunt and uncle’s storied relationship. Helen McCloskey and her husband Pete had been together for nearly four decades, enduring the highs and lows that come with long-term commitment. As their niece, Alix had known them from a young age and admired their close bond. She saw in them something inspiring that she hoped to share.

When Alix decided to make a film about her family, she intended to focus on Pete’s diverse career—he was a pioneering politician who spoke out early on issues like Vietnam and Watergate. But as she listened to Helen and Pete reflect on their past together, Alix became fascinated by the intricacies of their marriage. She realized their story had much to teach about navigating life’s challenges through mutual care, understanding, and support.

Using diaries from Helen’s youth, snapshots from across the decades, and...

Crunchyroll has announced the Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu dub details for seven anime series, set to be available for fans to watch in May and June 2024.

Check them out below:

1. Mashle: Magic and Muscles Season 1 Dubs: Tamil & Telugu Release Date & Time: May 17, 2024 at 09:00 a.m. Ist (full batch) Plot: This is a world of magic. This is a world in which magic is casually used by everyone. In a deep, dark forest in this world of magic, there is a boy who is single-mindedly working out. His name is Mash Burnedead, and he has a secret. He can’t use magic. All he wanted was to live a quiet life with his family, but people suddenly start trying to kill him one day and he somehow finds himself enrolled in Magic School. There, he sets his sights on becoming a “Divine Visionary,” the elite of the elite. Will his...

Crunchyroll is announcing a whole new slate of Hindi, Telugu and Tamil dubs coming to the platform between May and June, with dubs for Dr. Stone , Mashle: Magic And Muscles and more coming soon! Read on for the full list of series and release dates. Series follow in alphabetical order. Blue Lock Language : Hindi, Tamil and Telugu Release Date : June 12 at 10:30 a.m. Ist (full batch) Synopsis: Japan’s desire for World Cup glory leads the Japanese Football Association to launch a new rigorous training program to find the national team’s next striker. Three hundred high school players are pitted against each other for the position, but only one will come out on top. Who among them will be the striker to usher in a new era of Japanese soccer? Dr. Stone Season 1 Language : Hindi, Tamil and Telugu Release Date : May 29 at 10:30 a.

Crunchyroll is announcing a whole new slate of Hindi, Telugu and Tamil dubs coming to the platform between May and June, with dubs for Dr. Stone , Mashle: Magic And Muscles and more coming soon! Read on for the full list of series and release dates. Series follow in alphabetical order. Blue Lock Language : Hindi, Tamil and Telugu Release Date : June 12 at 10:30 a.m. Ist (full batch) Synopsis: Japan’s desire for World Cup glory leads the Japanese Football Association to launch a new rigorous training program to find the national team’s next striker. Three hundred high school players are pitted against each other for the position, but only one will come out on top. Who among them will be the striker to usher in a new era of Japanese soccer? Dr. Stone Season 1 Language : Hindi, Tamil and Telugu Release Date : May 29 at 10:30 a.

Green Lantern's new ability, the soul trek, allows him to heal wounds and trauma, making it a powerful tool in his fight against the Radiant Dead infection. The soul trek is not just limited to healing, but has the potential to help Green Lantern overcome any injury, no matter how severe. If successful, the soul trek will be a game-changer for Green Lantern, providing him with the ability to heal and recover from any villain's attack.

Warning! Preview pages ahead for Green Lantern: War Journal #4!A peculiar new ability is going to help Green Lantern overcome the most dangerous situation he's ever been in. John Stewart is racing against the clock to stop an infection from turning him into a member of the zombie-like Radiant Dead, and a trip inward could be the cure for what ails him.

In a preview for Green Lantern: War Journal #4 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Montos,...

Synced stands out in the crowded market of multiplayer shooters with accessible gameplay and a compelling narrative, offering a refreshing treat for cooperative shooter fans. Players can take control of powerful foes called Nanos and use them like brutal sci-fi Pokémon, adding an exciting twist to the gameplay. Synced offers gameplay variation with six customizable playable characters, weapon perks, unlockable power-ups, and the ability to team up with other players for more strategic warfare and exciting missions.

Level Infinite's next free-to-play cooperative shooter Synced features accessible gameplay and a compelling narrative that helps it stand out in a crowded market of multiplayer shooters. Developer NExT Studios has been working on its ambitious design, which puts one to three players into a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by nano-machines and the dangerous creatures they control. However, Synced allows players to take control of their powerful foes and use them like brutal sci-fi Pokémon with super effective results.

The Venture Bros. movie reveals the truth about Hank and Dean's mother, but their search for a loving mother figure ends in disappointment. The Monarch and Rusty Venture are not biological brothers, but clones, and their rivalry continues despite this revelation. The ending of the movie maintains the status quo for the characters, with no significant changes or resolutions, leaving the future of the show uncertain.

Warning: The following contains Spoilers for The Venture Bros: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart.The biggest mysteries of The Venture Bros. series are explained in the long-awaited movie, The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart. The film picks up roughly three days after the events of The Venture Bros. season 7 finale, with a confused Hank Venture on the run and trying to solve the mystery of his mother's identity. The only member of the ensemble concerned with...

Warning: This article contains Spoilers for Foundation season 2.Foundation season 2, episode 2 references Hober Mallow, an important character from the original Foundation book that can change things for Terminus and the Foundation as a whole. Foundation season 2, episode 2, “A Glimpse of Darkness” confirmed how different the show’s version of the Second Crisis will be from the book. Gaal Dornick and Salvor Hardin are learning things from the future, whereas the First Foundation in Terminus has learned about Hober Mallow. As a confrontation with the Empire approaches, Foundation season 2 also sets up the Second Foundation amidst the First Foundation’s religious era.

Foundation season 2, episode 2 showcased how the Foundation has turned its advanced technology into a religion to bring in new planets into what can already be described as a new empire. The Foundation possesses far more technology than other peripheral kingdoms close to Terminus, yet the Scientism strategy helps create...

This Venture Bros. movie review contains no spoilers.

“It’s like a job trying to follow this nonsense.”

How does one say goodbye after 20 years? That’s the lofty task that The Venture Bros. faces with this concluding movie-length finale, Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart, and it does so with nerdy, passionate grace. The Venture Bros. has produced seven seasons, but it made its Adult Swim premiere back in 2003 when the then-fledgling network only had five original programs to its name and superhero parodies were niche, not the new normal. Now, it celebrates its swan song during a time when most people will view this series finale feature film on Max, sandwiched between endless superhero content. The animation industry and television as a whole have greatly transformed since The Venture Bros.’s debut, yet Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart proves that The Venture Bros.

HBO’s latest hit series The Last of Us now officially has a soundtrack for its first season, a massive, 66-song compilation of all the music scoring the post-apocalyptic tale. Check it out below.

After working on the original The Last of Us video game, composer Gustavo Santaolalla returns for the HBO series, joined by fellow artist David Fleming. In an upcoming interview with Consequence, Santaolalla describes his approach to the soundtrack, saying, “The process of adapting, it was more in a way like craftwork than actually a new creation, because the themes were there, those things are there, like the characters, it wasn’t about creating a new job, it wasn’t about finding what is interesting. For example, in seeing how Pascal and Bella, they’re different than the actors that played the voices, but at the same time, they keep the soul of the characters intact.”

While...

Launched last week by ex-Telemundo top exec Marcos Santana, Mas Ros Media, a groundbreaking new venture targeting gaming, esports and sustainability, has unveiled a first title: Banner series “The New Game.”

An eight-part Spanish-language scripted series, “The New Game” is created by Santana himself and Rodrigo Figueroa Reyes, founder and head of FireSports, the No. 2 esports company in Latin America and No. 3 in Spain, in which Mas Ros has taken an equity position.

Billed by Santana as an action drama, “The New Game” turns on upper-middle-class family, father, mother and three children, the elder, Isa, a first-year-university student studying for a medical degree, Ralph, at high-school, who plays half his free time playing a video game; and Federico, just nine, whose hero is Ralph.

The action begins with Ralph’s dad coming home and discovering him in the midst of a big game and ripping the cables out of his computer,...

2021 Cannes Camera d’Or nominee played TIFF last year.

Film Movement has acquired North American rights from Wild Bunch International to Wen Shipei’s 2021 Cannes selection Are You Lonesome Tonight?

The story follows a man who believes he has caused a fatal accident and develops an ambiguous relationship with the dead man’s widow, while a police officer investigates the death.

Years later all three people remain tangled in a web of memories and lies, desperately searching for a truth that refuses to be revealed.

Shipei’s feature directorial debut and Camera d’Or nominee played TIFF last year and...

Slate includes Ari Aster’s Disappointment Blvd., Lukas Dhont’s Close.

Canada’s Sphere Films and A24 have signed a multi-film theatrical output deal that kicks off with TIFF entry Aftersun.

Besides Charlotte Well’s Cannes breakout Aftersun which screens in Contemporary World Cinema, the pact includes Ari Aster’s Disappointment Blvd. starring Joaquin Phoenix.

The deal comes hot on the heels of ambitious Sphere Films’ recent acquisition of MK2|Mile End.

“Sphere Films and A24 share a deep appreciation of innovative storytelling and original filmmaking, which makes this partnership an especially exciting one,” said Charles Tremblay, president of Sphere Films.

Feature is one of three to shoot in Cayman Islands through Productivity Media, Darius Films.

Mimi Steinbauer’s sales, finance, and production outfit Radiant Films International has closed major deals on TIFF sales title and upcoming action-comedy The Retirement Plan starring Nicolas Cage, Ashley Greene and Ron Perlman.

Writer-director Tim Brown’s film follows a woman who appeals to her estranged, retired beach bum father in the Cayman Islands for help when she and her daughter get caught up with criminals.

When the reunited family are tracked down on the island by a crime boss and his lieutenant, it emerges...

Annika Glac (L) and Agnieszka Holland.

As she prepares to shoot Radiant, her third feature, Annika Glac is gaining valuable insights into her craft from Oscar-nominated director Agnieszka Holland.

Thanks to Screen Australia’s Enterprise People program, Glac is in Warsaw shadowing Holland through the entire post production of Charlatan, a 1950s drama set in Prague.

“To be in the presence of such a brilliant film director with vast International experience, an astute eye, and generous spirit has truly been a life-changing and career-catapulting experience,” the Polish/Australian filmmaker tells If.

Holland has given Glac advice on casting Radiant, a biopic on Marie Curie, the Polish-born physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, as well as tips on Polish service companies.

Producer Robyn Kershaw is raising the finance from Polish, French and German partners and plans to start shooting in Krakow, Paris and Australia early next year. The...

Annika Glac and Robyn Kershaw.

Marie Curie, the Polish-born physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, is often portrayed on screen and in books as stuffy, cold and asexual.

That characterisation is unfair and inaccurate, according to Polish/Australian filmmaker Annika Glac, who aims to set the record straight in her biopic Radiant.

The drama will focus on the Nobel Prize winner from the time she won the top prize in chemistry and physics at Sorbonne University through her marriage to Pierre Curie, his death and her subsequent affair with married Frenchman Paul Langevin.

“When I read her letters to Pierre, they were so touching, passionate and beautiful,” Glac tells If. “She had a delicate psychology which you never see in the films and documentaries that were made about her.”

Producer Robyn Kershaw, who met the writer-director through a mutual friend, is raising the finance from Polish, French...

The Emmy Award nominations are fast approaching, and it's time for TV Fanatic to highlight some of the cast and shows that we believe deserve a nod in their respective categories. 

First up, we're looking at the lead actress in a drama series category. 

Last year, Claire Foy took home the win for her work on Netflix's The Crown, but the royal drama is actually out of the running this year because it last aired in December 2017. 

Additionally, five of the six nominees from last year are not even in the running this time around, with Sandra Oh the only potential returnee. 

With that said, it's time to take a look at our seven dream nominees. 

Sandra Oh - Killing Eve

Yes, Sandra was nominated last year, but she continued to flex those acting chops on Killing Eve Season 2.

She's one of the best actresses around and should get...