No, I know, shit is terrible right now, and it feels like the world is on fire. If you're already informed and convinced to push back, though, doomscrolling isn't going… Read the rest of the article: Take a mental health break: watch a cute rabbit get surprised with a heap of tomatoes
Say what you will about Double Fine—it's hard to pin them down. They've earned their place in gaming history with the excellent Psychonauts duology, but that hasn't stopped them from… Read the rest of the article: Psychonauts dev's next game is a competitive pottery simulator
Never underestimate the power of a middle-aged British man with time on his hands. I should know; my dad is one. My second-favorite middle-aged British man, who goes by Atomic… Read the rest of the article: The king of scambaiting returns
Ahh, Fable. Long before Todd Howard promised Fallout 3 would have 200 endings, Peter Molyneux promised the most immersive and reactive RPG ever made, where your decisions truly mattered, and… Read the rest of the article: Fable 4 surprisingly not dead, will launch this year
The next game in the venerable Yakuza series releases next month. There's been at least one annually for as long as I can remember, which makes it even more impressive… Read the rest of the article: The next Yakuza game has a demo out now
I know we're going to get through this AI bubble, because I know artificial intelligence is no match for human stupidity. Next time your boomer uncle sends you a viral… Read the rest of the article: Recreating viral AI-generated images in real life with human ingenuity
The much-hyped final reveal at the last Game Awards ceremony being Highguard—a painfully generic-looking hero shooter—was strange and disappointing. That we haven't heard a peep from developer Wildlight since is… Read the rest of the article: Hero shooter Highguard launches soon, devs stay quiet
2015's Life is Strange was really, really good. Our contemporary review from over a decade ago said it better than I could, but I loved every minute of it. The… Read the rest of the article: Life is Strange franchise gets more desperate with Reunion
If there's one thing we love around here, it's painstaking video game analysis no one asked for. I'm only kind of joking! Half the fun of giant "go anywhere, do… Read the rest of the article: Ornithologist takes a deep dive into the birds of Skyrim
Haven't you heard? Battle royales are out, extraction shooters (which are just battle royales with extra steps and persistent loadouts) are so, so in. The future is now, old man.… Read the rest of the article: After plagiarism scandal, Bungie's Marathon gets a release date
My love for turning over rocks in niche corners of the Internet has been well-documented in these hallowed pages. I've wanted to share several Twitter niches but couldn't in good… Read the rest of the article: "Crazy Optical Illusions" are the precise opposite
Unfortunately, Lego's recent realization that its core audience is no longer children but nostalgic thirty-somethings has been utterly disastrous for anyone who's not a nostalgic thirty-something. The past few years… Read the rest of the article: New Pokémon Lego set costs more than a Switch 2 and an actual game
Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Actually, let me rephrase: how many times have you played Far Cry 3 in the last decade? No, I… Read the rest of the article: Far Cry 3 gets next-gen upgrade for PS5
As the United States backslides into fascism, we can at least take solace in getting great content out of it. You may remember comedian Ben Palmer, who occupies the niche… Read the rest of the article: Fake ICE website tricks racist into exposing herself
It may be more appropriate to call this a double, given that it's actually two songs in one. I don't mean to harp on Gorillaz lately, but every single from… Read the rest of the article: The Hardest Thing shows Gorillaz at their best again
In sheer litigiousness, Rockstar Games' parent company Take-Two rivals Nintendo. It was only a matter of time before the recent multiplayer modding trend — converting old singleplayer games into vibrant… Read the rest of the article: Rockstar shuts down Bully Online mod with cease and desist
Another day, another fresh invention of the Torment Nexus from hit sci-fi book Don't Invent The Torment Nexus. The twisted experiments in Fallout vaults were anything but aspirational, but why… Read the rest of the article: Amazon wants to put you (yes, you) in a real-life Fallout vault
Hey, remember that live-action God of War show Amazon announced more than three years ago? No? I didn't either until just now, but it's been chugging along behind the scenes… Read the rest of the article: God of War's Thor actor becomes Kratos for Amazon show
And before you get mad, he's literally written an entire song about his hair's state of distress. What are they putting in the water in Australia? Singlet-wearing king of awkward… Read the rest of the article: Matt Storer makes parodies about wizards and his hair
If it wasn't the ICE recruitment ads that drove you off Spotify, it was probably the deluge of AI slop pushed by the platform. If I have to see another… Read the rest of the article: Bandcamp bans AI-generated music, unlike Spotify's slop-filled playlists
