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

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

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

If I had a nickel for every overly ambitious mod for a Bethesda game, I'd probably be able to afford that ridiculous Fallout 4 anniversary DLC. The ones that actually… Read the rest of the article: Fallout mod lets you explore post-apocalyptic California

The popular perception of Canadians as meek and overly polite isn't entirely wrong, so long as you're being civil back. In my travels of the great white north, however, I've… Read the rest of the article: Poutine Crimes forum on Reddit catalogs horrific violations of Canada's sacred dish

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has confirmed that BioShock 4 is still in development, despite years of troubled production and multiple studio leadership changes. The long-awaited sequel has faced significant development… Read the rest of the article: Take-Two promises BioShock 4 isn't dead

Kill Bill is a stylish and action-packed revenge film that exemplifies Quentin Tarantino's unique filmmaking style, enhanced by its unusual two-film format. Tarantino himself views it as a single movie,… Read the rest of the article: Kill Bill to return to theaters as a single combined movie

Rockstar Games' latest delay of Grand Theft Auto 6 may have deeper roots than technical challenges. According to a verified whistleblower from within the company, the recent firing of 30-40… Read the rest of the article:  Whistleblower: Rockstar fired 40 Grand Theft Auto workers to crush union drive

On the one hand, I understand the immense pressure that Rockstar developers must be under to deliver a follow-up to the second-best-selling game of all time. On the other hand,… Read the rest of the article: Grand Theft Auto 6 delayed again, again

As the old adage goes, one does not simply walk into Mordor… unless one has ten free hours and access to Lord of the Rings Online. Fans have long debated… Read the rest of the article: Enjoy Frodo's walk to Mordor in real time

Here's your feel-good story of the day, if you didn't get enough of those last night: the Content Overseas Distribution Organization, or CODA, has issued a formal request for OpenAI… Read the rest of the article: Copyright holders are finally beginning to push back against OpenAI

It's been more than a year since Instagram's pledge not to push political content on users for the sake of stoking rage and thereby increasing retention. Naturally, nothing has noticeably… Read the rest of the article: How long does it take for Instagram to push you down the alt-right pipeline?

Rockstar's second most noticeable development trend, right behind the inter-game gaps growing ever larger, has to be its push toward realism. Red Dead Redemption 2 was full of survival mechanics,… Read the rest of the article: 1GTA mod forces players into court after hitting pedestrians

I don't think it's controversial to say that the best horror icons are the simple ones. Michael Myers is a big guy with a knife. Jason is a big guy… Read the rest of the article: Why horror icons work best when they're stupidly simple

You probably wouldn't want to catch a flight from Grand Theft Auto V's Los Santos International, and not just because of the violent psychopaths zooming around on hover bikes. Did… Read the rest of the article: Why Grand Theft Auto's airport would never pass real inspections

The most widespread reaction I've seen to Amazon laying off 30,000 people from its gaming division has been "Amazon had a gaming division?" That isn't surprising in itself; none of… Read the rest of the article: Amazon cancels Lord of the Rings MMO for the second time

I would say 2006's Bully was like Grand Theft Auto for kids if we weren't all playing GTA as kids anyway. Even so, this private school sandbox from the days… Read the rest of the article: The renaissance of multiplayer mods continues with Rockstar's Bully

If I told you one of the most harrowing looks at how dangerous LLMs can be to the human psyche came from a YouTube video originally intended as a comedy,… Read the rest of the article: How ChatGPT feeds into and enhances delusion

Who among us isn't a badass in our own mind? Who hasn't watched a Mission: Impossible movie and thought, "I could totally do that"? If you've ever pictured yourself unleashing… Read the rest of the article: The sheer catharsis of beating someone up in your mind

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is widely considered the weakest entry in the long-running series. It's less "cute life simulator" and more "cute endless grind," putting quite a bit of time… Read the rest of the article: Nintendo announces paid Switch 2 upgrade for Animal Crossing — $5 gets you mouse controls and disappointment