Mortal Kombat II, the second film in Warner Bros. live-action reboot of the fighting game adaptation, got its first trailer today, and I hope you like Johnny Cage, because it looks like he’s the star of the show this time. That’s not terribly surprising, I suppose, given Cage’s love of the spotlight. If nothing else,…
We’re getting flooded with TV adaptations of popular video game franchises these days, but Assassin’s Creed is a better fit than most. Announced over three years ago, the Netflix show based on the long-running Ubisoft series is finally moving forward, the companies announced today, though the actual release is…
As is being discussed over on Resetera, a LinkedIn post from Naughty Dog co-founder and lead programmer on the original Crash Bandicoot from 1996, Andrew (Andy) Gavin, dives into a critical difference between the original box-bashing bandicoot experience and Vicarious Visions’ 2017 remakes, which many of us who grew…
The OneXSugar Sugar 1 was announced earlier this year and is one of the wildest modern gaming handhelds out of China I’ve ever seen. It has multiple screens and a bunch of swinging arms that make it look like a Transformer that spans multiple generations of portable Nintendo hardware. A crowdfunding campaign goes live…
Part of the original inspiration for Pokémon Go was about getting people out into the real world walking, exploring, and meeting one another as they collect, battle, and raid fictional gyms. But times have changed. There was a whole pandemic. Walking around your neighborhood to endlessly grind for new rewards has lost…
The Pokémon Company announced back in February that Mega Evolutions, the super-powered form changes introduced in Pokémon X and Y, are coming to the Trading Card Game this year. Now, we know these Pokémon are the stars of one of the next card sets launching in September, simply titled Mega Evolution, and we may have…
As a Constant Reader of Stephen King’s works, I also find myself a Constant Viewer of the many new television adaptations of his stories. And boy have I been treated of late, with the incredible Mr. Mercedes, the pleasingly chilling Castle Rock, and HBO’s too-quickly-abandoned The Outsider. Now MGM+ has delivered the…
When the three-year era of Sword & Shield came to an end in January 2023, it went out with a bang. Crown Zenith was a set so great that it spoiled the next year of the hobby, with its stunning pull rates, incredible art, and fan-favorite pocket monsters. For reasons that are impossible to fathom, The Pokémon Company…
The battlefield just got a whole lot bigger. Off The Grid officially launched on Steam today, meaning players of the cyberpunk battle royale game can now compete across devices to be the last avatar standing.
Obsidian’s gorgeous fantasy RPG Avowed just got a new patch, promising the usual list of bug fixes and some new features. The game is also now “Verified” for Steam Deck. What’s it like in a portable form factor? Well, it certainly boots up. It’s certainly playable, hitting a semi-decent 30 FPS that doesn’t necessarily…
Perhaps Pixar has another chance to prove itself with an original movie, before it’s fully relegated to sequels for the rest of time. Next year’s Hoppers has just released its first trailer, and it shows what looks like a delightful talk-to-the-animals movie. But will it be enough to rescue the studio after Elio’s box…
Chess.com is one of the biggest digital chess platforms in the world, with over 100 million members. But as the site has grown and become more popular, it has also attracted naughty players who break the rules and don’t play fair. And these days, according to the site’s Fair Play team, over 100,000 accounts are closed…
Legendary actor John Malkovich was confirmed to star in Fantastic Four: First Steps months ago and even appeared in the film’s first trailer back in February. Now, it sounds like that is the only time we’re going to see him in the MCU, at least for now, because his role as Red Ghost has been cut from the film.
Virtuos, the support team behind big games like The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered and the upcoming Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater remake, is the latest in a sad line of developers releasing a successful project and being rewarded with layoffs. The studio is reportedly cutting about 300 people, news which…
Electronic Arts officially revealed the next entry in its popular soccer franchise, EA Sports FC 26, but did so in a very strange and oddly charming way. The publisher included many of the complaints about last year’s game in the trailer and then directly addressed each one.
A new, massive Summer Sale event is now live on the PlayStation Store, letting you grab some big PlayStation 5 games like Elden Ring, Spider-Man 2, Helldivers 2, and more for less than usual.
Earlier this year, Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft got $1.25 billion from Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent to spin off its most successful gaming franchises into a separate subsidiary. Now we know who’s running this new Ubisoft within Ubisoft: North American studios head Christophe Derennes and CEO Yves Guillemot’s…
Destiny is a game about orbs. It began with a giant orb (The Traveler) hovering over the last city on earth in a post-apocalyptic near future. The main thing you do in the sci-fi MMO is shoot enemies to get loot, which they leave behind in various colored orbs. Most raids involved at least one orb-based mechanic. And…
Jurassic World Rebirth’s opening scene is perhaps its strongest. In a flashback sequence set in an experimental dinosaur breeding facility, a carelessly discarded Snickers wrapper gets sucked into a pressure-sealed door, allowing the film’s mutated Distortus Rex to escape its containment, which is technically the…
After a very long wait, we finally have the first real trailer for the fifth and final season of Netflix’s Stranger Things. And folks, this might be the biggest and most bonkers season of the show yet.