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

When people are being annoying about the "infinite potential" of AI-generated video games, it's worth reminding them of the "infinite potential" of blockchain-integrated NFT games and how well that worked… Read the rest of the article: AI-generated video games produce laughable results

Okay, to be fair, I can't dismiss every multiplayer mode haphazardly bolted onto a strong singleplayer game out of hand. There's a reason Naughty Dog is keeping the The Last… Read the rest of the article: Bluepoint Studios was developing a Greek-set God of War multiplayer game before Sony canceled it amid live-service doubts

Look, I get it, we're in a bit of a golden age of cinematic adaptations of video games. Out of all the IP you could possibly revive for a second… Read the rest of the article: Why is Netflix making a Crash Bandicoot series?

No, I don't know how "[X] is a lot of fun" became a proper review series on this site, but I'm rolling with it. 2019's decidedly mid The Outer Worlds… Read the rest of the article: The Outer Worlds 2 fixes everything wrong with the original

You can call power-armored power fantasy Master Chief a lot of things — a sellout chief among them — but "fascist" isn't on that list. I've already touched on the… Read the rest of the article: Microsoft refuses to comment on ICE using Halo imagery to recruit

As a member of the community myself, I'm tickled pink that we've selected Halloween as "the queer holiday." Granted, I'm not totally sure how that happened, but I'm glad we… Read the rest of the article: If you thought the first Scream movie had gay subtext, Matthew Lillard thinks you're right

Hide your utensils. No kitchen is safe. HowToBasic has returned. I have a soft spot for unhinged cooking YouTuber HowToBasic, in large part thanks to his longevity on a platform… Read the rest of the article: How to cook duck with as much collateral damage as possible

A speedrunner just beat Super Mario 64 using one button and no joystick—a challenge so absurd it requires a working understanding of quantum physics to pull off. Welcome to the… Read the rest of the article: Speedrunner beats Mario 64 with one button and quantum physics

It's hard to pin down what "the Xbox brand" is nowadays. Xbox itself certainly seems to be trying to turn people away from engaging with its product, whether intentionally through… Read the rest of the article: Microsoft sends Halo to PlayStation after losing hardware war

Browser games have come a long way since the days of clicking around in Poptropica. It's an interesting proposition; making a game lightweight enough to run entirely in a browser… Read the rest of the article: Messenger is the coolest browser game I've ever played

Writer/director David Chase may not have made anything good since The Sopranos, but, y'know, he made The f*cking Sopranos, so he gets a pash for dat. Not Fade Away was… Read the rest of the article: The Sopranos creator's next project will be about MKUltra

More than a few games have tried to capture the Twin Peaks vibe. That isn't surprising in and of itself — the show is still considered among the best of… Read the rest of the article: Silver Pines looks like the Twin Peaks video game we never got

I've made no secret of how much I love Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, despite its annoyingly cumbersome title. I'd go so far as to call the sprawling medieval Bohemian sandbox… Read the rest of the article: 2025's best RPG is constantly getting bigger

What do you get when you cross Aaron Paul, a bunch of ex-Telltale Games devs, and a cast of legally-distinct superheroes? Dispatch, a surprisingly engrossing, unsurprisingly well-written superhero management simulator.… Read the rest of the article: Superhero management sim Dispatch is a lot of fun

Bethesda. Bethesda never changes. If there was ever any doubt as to who the favorite child is over there, just look at Fallout: New Vegas' meager birthday party compared to… Read the rest of the article: Fallout 4 to get ten-year anniversary DLC, Switch 2 release

No, I don't have a good explanation for this either. Tim Schafer warned us of his twisted mind when he put out the Psychonauts games — both stone-cold classics, by… Read the rest of the article: The next game from the Psychonauts devs sees you playing as a sentient lighthouse

Yeah, okay, I know about that one Futurama game for PS2. Let's be real, though, beyond its surprisingly high-caliber writing it was just sort of an okay platformer. The Simpsons… Read the rest of the article: Futurama is finally getting a decent game, kinda