The start of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S generation felt like a surprisingly old-school return to the console war rhetoric of yesteryear. Fans compared the numbers of teraflops, and both console makers shelled out hundreds of millions to lock down exclusive games for their new devices. New Final Fantasy…
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is designed to test soulslike newbies and veterans alike with its challenging combat and dangerous world. And there’s nothing I can say that’s going to change the fact that you’re probably going to die quite a lot throughout your journey. However, after spending some time with this intriguing…
The industry’s most elusive game, Hollow Knight: Silksong, is not only going to appear at Microsoft’s booth at this year’s massive Gamescom gaming show, but also be playable for the public. Which is by far the strongest sign this game actually exists we’ve had in years.
Superhero movies appear to be back. After Superman opened to a storming box office a couple of weeks back, Fantastic Four: First Steps, by a whisker, has done even better. But damn, it was close.
With the fantastic Star Trek: Strange New Worlds back for season three, the potential for the franchise feels so strong. As opposed to back in January when Section 31 came out, and the potential for the franchise felt desperately weak. That’s Star Trek: as good as its last outing. So where will the forthcoming Starflee…
We’ve hit peak summer and probably the biggest lull in the release calendar we’re going to get until the holiday. That doesn’t mean a lot of great stuff didn’t still come out this week. What it does mean is that we have time to highlight things that might not otherwise have gotten their due.
As a fight with credit card companies over adult games leads to renewed concerns about censorship on Steam and even on indie platforms like itch.io, a recent warning by Nier: Automata director Yoko Taro calling censorship a “security hole that endangers democracy itself” has become relevant again.
An upcoming crossover mission in MindsEye that was set to bring Agent 47 of the Hitman franchise to the game this summer has been delayed until a “later date” as developer Build A Rocket Boy continues to try and salvage what has become the worst-reviewed game of 2025.
VShojo was a Vtuber talent agency repping big names like Ironmouse that just wanted the best for everyone involved but flew too close the sun while trying desperately to raise more funds from investors. At least that’s how the now-shuttered company’s CEO pitched its downfall this week. Fans aren’t buying it, though,…
Pedro Pascal is having a big year. He’s starring in his first Marvel movie as Mister Fantastic in Fantastic Four: First Steps, he reprised his role as Joel in The Last of Us’ second season, and right now, it’s entirely possible you can go to a movie theater and see him in three different films in one day. Public…
Nazis, watch out. Wolfenstein is coming to the small screen with some help from the same people (and the same production company) behind Amazon’s hit live-action adaptation of Fallout.
The Hulk Hogan sex tape lawsuit, financed by a guy who flinches at the prospect of humanity enduring, is not really my story to tell. I was merely an observer at the time. While I’m all too familiar with most of the key twists and turns in the very messy, very public trial that followed, I never worked at Gawker Media…
Fantastic Four: First Steps mostly focuses on its titular group, but Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch, and the Thing aren’t the only heroes introduced in the film. One major player doesn’t get a superhero name, but is a pretty significant one in Marvel’s comics. Franklin Richards, the son of Reed…
Donkey Kong Bananza on Switch 2is a very, very good video game all about smashing stuff up and exploring gorgeous cartoon worlds as Nintendo’s favorite ape. But between all the banana eating, punching, jumping, and singing, there are loading screens featuring some wonderful retro-style artwork that I just adore.
Poor President Trump has had his ickle wickle feelings hurt again, this time by an episode of South Park that reached new heights of government-breaking satire by depicting the current president as a big stupid idiot with a tiny penis. This, implausibly predictably, bothered him so much that the White House released a…
FromSoftware’s strange but successful multiplayer experiment, Elden Ring Nightreign, is finally getting a duos option nearly two months after launch. The highly requested feature will be added in an update arriving next week.
Fantastic Four: First Steps is finally in theaters, bringing the First Family to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now, all roads lead to Avengers: Doomsday, the next big crossover event in Marvel’s uneven but never-ending comic book movie saga. Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr. is returning to the series to play Doctor…
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is now 17 years old and boasts a catalog of 37 movies and counting. With Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts* wrapping up Phase Five in the ongoing superhero saga before Fantastic Four: First Steps finally kicking off Phase Six, we thought we’d take a look back at all the…
Techland’s Dying Light: The Beast was set to release mid next month, August 11. However, in a press release published today, the developer has announced an eleventh hour delay to the zombie-fighting parkour game, moving the release date to September 19. It is “to allow for extra polishing,” including improving the UI,…
H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds is a well that so many creatives have drawn from. From the infamous nation-terrifying Orson Welles radio play of 1938, through Steven Spielberg’s 2005 movie, via 1996's Independence Day, and now to a brand new movie starring Eva Lonoria and Ice Cube, it’s never not being reimagined.…