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  • Grant St. Clair
    9:30 am Wed, Nov 19, 2025
    Daniel Craig's thickest accent yet in new Knives Out trailer A scene from Knives Out

    You can say what you like about Rian Johnson's Knives Out whodunits, but Daniel Craig is clearly having more fun making them than he ever did with Bond. Case in point: the… Read the rest of the article: Daniel Craig's thickest accent yet in new Knives Out trailer

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  • Grant St. Clair
    9:00 am Wed, Nov 19, 2025
    This $250 Nintendo 64 clone plays real cartridges in 4K

    I want to preface this by saying this isn't a sponsored post — I don't do those — but I do think this is cool as hell. While I may generally prefer… Read the rest of the article: This $250 Nintendo 64 clone plays real cartridges in 4K

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  • Grant St. Clair
    8:30 am Wed, Nov 19, 2025
    "Death Stranding" gets animated series with all-new characters Hideo Kojima

    Gaming auteur Hideo Kojima has long described himself by saying "70% of my body is made of movies," which shows in the cinematic approach he's taken to constructing his games since the… Read the rest of the article: "Death Stranding" gets animated series with all-new characters

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  • Grant St. Clair
    7:00 am Wed, Nov 19, 2025
    Bizarre Yahweh energy drink: The blood of Christ in a can

    The elevator pitch for Yahweh energy drink — Christ in a can — sounds like a South Park bit. At first glance, the website appears to be something hastily put together for satire. The… Read the rest of the article: Bizarre Yahweh energy drink: The blood of Christ in a can

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  • Grant St. Clair
    7:30 am Tue, Nov 18, 2025
    Could The Blood of Dawnwalker be an actual good vampire game? The Blood of Dawnwalker. Image via Rebel Wolves

    You'd think being a vampire would be easy to pull off in gaming. You stalk around at night, bite necks, and burn up in sunlight. What could be simpler? Yet the last… Read the rest of the article: Could The Blood of Dawnwalker be an actual good vampire game?

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  • Grant St. Clair
    6:00 am Tue, Nov 18, 2025
    The Game Awards announces 2025 nominees, including Game of the Year Death Stranding 2

    Another year, another Game Awards ceremony that's going to be 60% advertisements by volume. Still, I can't help but get excited every time it rolls around — who doesn't want… Read the rest of the article: The Game Awards announces 2025 nominees, including Game of the Year

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  • Grant St. Clair
    10:30 am Mon, Nov 17, 2025
    The final form of modern country: The Cold Beer Song Africa Studio/Shutterstock.com

    Now, to be fair, there are country songs I love from country artists I love, but I also don't think it'd be totally unreasonable to call the genre a bit samey. As… Read the rest of the article: The final form of modern country: The Cold Beer Song

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  • Grant St. Clair
    10:00 am Mon, Nov 17, 2025
    Agefield High: indie game lets you relive Bully's school chaos while Rockstar ignores it Bully. Image via Rockstar Games

    With Rockstar Games now apparently a single-project studio (and those projects taking nearly a decade each), the odds of their legacy titles that aren't GTA getting any sort of follow-up… Read the rest of the article: Agefield High: indie game lets you relive Bully's school chaos while Rockstar ignores it

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  • Grant St. Clair
    8:00 am Mon, Nov 17, 2025
    AI startup lets you chat with dead relatives for monthly fee HoloAvatar technology (2Wai)

    I know this gets thrown around a lot, but in this case, there was literally a Black Mirror episode about this. With the AI bubble continuing to swell and venture… Read the rest of the article: AI startup lets you chat with dead relatives for monthly fee

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  • Grant St. Clair
    7:45 am Mon, Nov 17, 2025
    Red Dead NPC has better eating habits than most real people Red Dead Redemption 2

    Believe it or not, this isn't an Any Austin thing this time. Game publishers like to throw around the term "living, breathing world" almost as much as they like layoffs.… Read the rest of the article: Red Dead NPC has better eating habits than most real people

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  • Grant St. Clair
    7:30 am Mon, Nov 17, 2025
    Fans bring back Sony's $400 million gaming disaster from the dead Sony's Concord (2023)

    Every so often, I stumble across a project that makes me go, "Yeah, that's really impressive, but why would you spend your limited time on God's earth doing that?" The… Read the rest of the article: Fans bring back Sony's $400 million gaming disaster from the dead

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  • Grant St. Clair
    7:15 am Mon, Nov 17, 2025
    Metroid goes open world and gets a sidekick nobody asked for Samus sporting a glowup in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. Image via Nintendo

    Ah, Metroid, the red-armored stepchild of the Nintendo IP stable. 2021's Metroid Dread was pretty good as an appetite-whetter, but the entry fans have really been waiting for is Metroid… Read the rest of the article: Metroid goes open world and gets a sidekick nobody asked for

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  • Grant St. Clair
    6:30 am Mon, Nov 17, 2025
    Fallout 4's most notorious character is back to break reality again

    This might actually be the best thing to come out of the Fallout 4 anniversary DLC debacle. Sure, your mods were all broken irreparably. Sure, the paid upgrade Bethesda rushed… Read the rest of the article: Fallout 4's most notorious character is back to break reality again

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  • Grant St. Clair
    9:30 am Thu, Nov 13, 2025
    Elden Ring: Nightreign unveils DLC featuring plenty of Dark Souls nostalgia Elden Ring: Nightreign

    As I discussed in my review of Elden Ring: Nightreign, this game breaks many From Software traditions, and not always to its benefit. The combination of a strict time limit, roguelite… Read the rest of the article: Elden Ring: Nightreign unveils DLC featuring plenty of Dark Souls nostalgia

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  • Grant St. Clair
    8:00 am Thu, Nov 13, 2025
    Valve's GameCube-inspired Steam Machine targets console gamers Steam Machine. Image via Valve

    Part PC, part console, all… cube. Apparently, we never left the GameCube era — at least according to Valve, which has announced new hardware in the wake of the immensely… Read the rest of the article: Valve's GameCube-inspired Steam Machine targets console gamers

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  • Grant St. Clair
    6:30 am Thu, Nov 13, 2025
    Brie Larson joins Super Mario Galaxy as cosmic princess Rosalina Mario

    After a weird teaser that saw the series move to space, perhaps a little too fast, full details and a complete cast list for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie have… Read the rest of the article: Brie Larson joins Super Mario Galaxy as cosmic princess Rosalina

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  • Grant St. Clair
    9:00 am Wed, Nov 12, 2025
    Todd Howard says Elder Scrolls 6 is "still a long way off" Elder Scrolls Online. Image courtesy Bethesda Softworks

    More than seven years ago, Bethesda Softworks unveiled the first teaser for The Elder Scrolls 6, its follow-up to one of the most popular games ever made. The orchestral swell, the slow glide over… Read the rest of the article: Todd Howard says Elder Scrolls 6 is "still a long way off"

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  • Grant St. Clair
    7:00 am Wed, Nov 12, 2025
    The secret behind Skyrim's unprecedented 14-year reign Skyrim: Special Edition screenshot

    Over the past year, I've made an occasional habit of celebrating the anniversaries of particularly influential games in a sort of part-retrospective, part-review format. Today — and most other days,… Read the rest of the article: The secret behind Skyrim's unprecedented 14-year reign

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  • Grant St. Clair
    6:00 am Wed, Nov 12, 2025
    Vince Gilligan's new sci-fi show makes happiness terrifying Pluribus

    Here's a headline that's sure to shock: The guy who made Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul knows how to make a good TV show. After months of head-scratching teasers… Read the rest of the article: Vince Gilligan's new sci-fi show makes happiness terrifying

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  • Grant St. Clair
    9:30 am Tue, Nov 11, 2025
    Fans recreate Red Dead 2's missing Mexico in massive free expansion Red Dead Redemption 2

    Red Dead Redemption 2 players thought they'd seen everything the game had to offer, but a dedicated team of fan developers is about to prove them wrong. While Rockstar's western… Read the rest of the article: Fans recreate Red Dead 2's missing Mexico in massive free expansion

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