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  • Grant St. Clair
    4:30 am Fri, Jul 24, 2026
    Coyote vs. ACME returns from tax writeoff hell with new trailer From Coyote vs. ACME

    It doesn't happen often, but sometimes, cold corporate tax writeoffs that deny the tireless work of creatives an audience just so some executive can make a down payment on another… Read the rest of the article: Coyote vs. ACME returns from tax writeoff hell with new trailer

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  • Grant St. Clair
    9:47 am Thu, Jul 23, 2026
    Kyle Gordon returns with pitch-perfect satire of "white guy goes to Africa" pop

    I wish there was a better name for weirdly paternalistic "white guy goes to Africa" pop than, well, all that. You know what I mean, though, surely: it was the… Read the rest of the article: Kyle Gordon returns with pitch-perfect satire of "white guy goes to Africa" pop

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  • Grant St. Clair
    9:40 am Thu, Jul 23, 2026
    Trapping a scammer in an endless maze of torment

    I've long maintained that scambaiting is one of the few sources of ethical "content" out there. Online and phone scammers are, after all, criminals who make their living from exploiting… Read the rest of the article: Trapping a scammer in an endless maze of torment

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  • Grant St. Clair
    11:53 am Wed, Jul 22, 2026
    It Ends is a horror movie about a road that ironically doesn't do that It ends. Screengrab via NEON

    Liminal spaces are so hot right now, guys. I hope you're ready for the surge of movies about being trapped in weird, unexplainable places we're going to see in the… Read the rest of the article: It Ends is a horror movie about a road that ironically doesn't do that

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  • Grant St. Clair
    12:14 pm Mon, Jul 20, 2026
    Bethesda provides "studio update" on its franchises Fallout: New Vegas. Image via Obsidian Entertainment

    For the past decade and a half, one question has been at the forefront of gamers' minds: what the absolute hell is Bethesda Game Studios up to? Although no AAA… Read the rest of the article: Bethesda provides "studio update" on its franchises

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  • Grant St. Clair
    1:20 pm Wed, Jul 15, 2026
    JDWare is "WarioWare for the politically disturbed" Honestly, it's a flattering likeness. Screengrab via JD Ware

    Do you remember WarioWare? If any of Nintendo's in-house series can be said to be relatively obscure, these games are: each one is a collection of twitchy, seconds-long "microgames" that… Read the rest of the article: JDWare is "WarioWare for the politically disturbed"

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  • Grant St. Clair
    1:20 pm Wed, Jul 15, 2026
    Leveraging the power of Geoguessr to track down an animal abuser Dog Walk by MarkScottAustinTX / CC BY-SA 2.0 (via Openverse)

    All the collective hours the Internet has put into Geoguessr practice are finally starting to pay off! If anyone ever tells you that being able to pinpoint geographical locations just… Read the rest of the article: Leveraging the power of Geoguessr to track down an animal abuser

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  • Grant St. Clair
    1:19 pm Wed, Jul 15, 2026
    New indie game tasks you and your friends with becoming the most unethical airline pilots on the planet Jet (muratart / shutterstock.com)

    Games like Peak and Big Walk — which is to say, cheap, cutesy co-op experiences geared toward friend groups who like messing with each other — fill an important niche.… Read the rest of the article: New indie game tasks you and your friends with becoming the most unethical airline pilots on the planet

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  • Grant St. Clair
    10:18 am Tue, Jul 14, 2026
    Tom Cruise plays an eccentric billionaire in a doomsday short film Tom Cruise (360b / Shutterstock.com)

    To be honest and vulnerable, the last thing I remember liking Tom Cruise in was that mistakenly uploaded The Mummy trailer with the music and sound effects missing. Before that,… Read the rest of the article: Tom Cruise plays an eccentric billionaire in a doomsday short film

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  • Grant St. Clair
    10:17 am Tue, Jul 14, 2026
    Scrandle turns stadium food into a daily taste test Food (JeniFoto / Shutterstock.com)

    An eternity and a half ago, I wrote about Footy Scran, a growing database of the most appetizing (or not) food served at stadiums across the world. If you're going… Read the rest of the article: Scrandle turns stadium food into a daily taste test

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  • Grant St. Clair
    10:17 am Tue, Jul 14, 2026
    A YouTuber gave Skyrim a full high-speed rail network

    Bethesda's magnum opus The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is one of the most modded, dissected, and reinvented games ever made, if not the most. There's one glaring oversight that none… Read the rest of the article: A YouTuber gave Skyrim a full high-speed rail network

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  • Grant St. Clair
    9:39 am Mon, Jul 13, 2026
    Letting video game NPCs place Amazon orders for you is not a good idea Red Dead Redemption 2

    Gang leader Dutch van der Linde spends much of the runtime of Rockstar's 2018 masterpiece Red Dead Redemption 2 fretting about money. His constant cries of "just one more score"… Read the rest of the article: Letting video game NPCs place Amazon orders for you is not a good idea

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  • Grant St. Clair
    9:32 am Mon, Jul 13, 2026
    Mind reading a mind reader is a dangerous game That wig is a crime. Screengrab via Chris and Jack

    Mind-reading is one of those superpowers that's only good if you're the only person who has it. All it takes is one person to look just a little too aware… Read the rest of the article: Mind reading a mind reader is a dangerous game

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  • Grant St. Clair
    9:26 am Mon, Jul 13, 2026
    David Tennant shares his Criterion Closet picks David Tennant

    Ah, the Criterion Closet, that hallowed battleground where famous cinephiles go to out-taste each other. I've dreamed of walking into those shelved walls to flex my taste on the plebeians… Read the rest of the article: David Tennant shares his Criterion Closet picks

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  • Grant St. Clair
    3:01 pm Wed, Jul 8, 2026
    Max Fosh entered a nine-year-old into a roast battle

    Just when we thought we were safe, Max Fosh returned. The only good YouTube prankster on the Internet (a title I have no authority to bestow) has made a career… Read the rest of the article: Max Fosh entered a nine-year-old into a roast battle

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  • Grant St. Clair
    3:01 pm Wed, Jul 8, 2026
    Dune: Part 3 drops trailer full of fun in the sun

    Denis Villenueve's first two Dune (or DUNC depending on how badly you misread the poster) movies, with love to David Lynch, have been by far the best adaptation of Frank… Read the rest of the article: Dune: Part 3 drops trailer full of fun in the sun

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  • Grant St. Clair
    3:00 pm Wed, Jul 8, 2026
    We might be getting that New Vegas followup, but not in the way anyone expected Fallout: New Vegas. Image via Obsidian Entertainment

    As has been discussed to death both here and on the Internet at large, Fallout: New Vegas is one of the best RPGs ever made. Although it started life as… Read the rest of the article: We might be getting that New Vegas followup, but not in the way anyone expected

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  • Grant St. Clair
    3:00 pm Wed, Jul 8, 2026
    Making Fallout 76 bearable by playing it inside Fallout 4 fallout 76 xbox

    Tale of Two Wastelands might just be the best Fallout mod of all time, and it's pretty inarguably the most influential. On its surface, the idea is simple: Fallout 3… Read the rest of the article: Making Fallout 76 bearable by playing it inside Fallout 4

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  • Grant St. Clair
    9:37 am Wed, Jul 8, 2026
    InfoWars is finally back, but not quite as you remember it Alex Jones Infowars (Vic Hinterlang / Shutterstock.com)

    Satirical newspaper The Onion's acquisition of infamous conspiracy-theorist "news" platform InfoWars has been a long time coming. This is, in large part, thanks to its inherent connection to previous owner… Read the rest of the article: InfoWars is finally back, but not quite as you remember it

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  • Grant St. Clair
    9:35 am Wed, Jul 8, 2026
    Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender lands on streaming July 25th Avatar: The Last Airbender. Image: Netflix

    Wouldn't it be cool if beloved animated show Avatar: The Last Airbender got a sequel? Yes, I know we already have The Legend of Korra, but that jumped forward, like,… Read the rest of the article: Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender lands on streaming July 25th

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