On the one hand, I'm really glad that virtual band Gorillaz seem to be bouncing back to their former glory almost ten years after returning from a lengthy hiatus. On… Read the rest of the article: New Gorillaz single signals creative comeback for band
In the immortal words of Jenny Nicholson: "How come major film studios keep being like 'Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office… Read the rest of the article: Tron: Ares — Jared Leto's latest flop can't match his previous box office disaster
It does strike me as a little strange that the legendary animated show Avatar: The Last Airbender has yet to get a single good video game despite its twenty-year history… Read the rest of the article: Avatar: The Last Airbender finally gets a fighting game after 20 years
Ah, birds, those most elegant creatures, who have captured human imagination for time untold. Who among us hasn't been awoken by birdsong or imagined what it might be like to… Read the rest of the article: Birds facing forward look ridiculous, and this Reddit forum proves it with photos
A long-running joke among the Breaking Bad fandom is that Hank is the worst detective in the world, continually (perhaps willfully) ignoring clues to Heisenberg's true identity for five seasons… Read the rest of the article: Breaking Bad fan edit imagines a world where no one notices crime
God forbid a Ubisoft game actually says anything. There are quite a few irons in the Assassin's Creed fire at the moment, from the continued monetization of The Ninja One… Read the rest of the article: Leaked plans show Ubisoft backed away from Reconstruction-era game featuring Black protagonist
Okay, sure, no one expected A Minecraft Movie to to be high art. Like everything even vaguely associated with the best-selling game of all time (yes, really, look it up),… Read the rest of the article: Minecraft movie sequel confirmed for 2027 summer release
Nuremberg, the new movie from James Vanderbilt (based on the book: The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai), aims to tackle the dense subject of the eponymous trials that… Read the rest of the article: James Vanderbilt shifts from Spider-Man to Nazi trials in "Nuremberg" (Trailer)
Do you remember the Google Jam Board? No? I didn't think so. It was, in essence, a smart whiteboard of the type that was popular in the mid-2010s, but because… Read the rest of the article: $5,000 Google paperweight becomes giant Half-Life 2 gaming screen
There truly is no predicting what unlikely indie smash hit the larger Internet will latch onto next. Last month, it was bugs doing Dark Souls. The month before that, it… Read the rest of the article: With over a million copies sold, Megabonk joins the ranks of surprise indie hits with its addictive formula
If there's one thing melting Ken doll Elon Musk really does have a true, God-given talent for, it's making promises. Actually fulfilling them is a whole other can of worms,… Read the rest of the article: Elon Musk promises to release a "great" AI-generated video game next year
Have you noticed that every time Xbox has been in the news lately, it's because of intense sticker shock? This is a rare marketing maneuver called 'shooting yourself in the… Read the rest of the article: Xbox's new handheld will run you a cool thousand dollars
With violence in video games somehow a major national talking point again thanks to pearl-clutching boomers, it's good to see modders doing their part to cut down on it. Red… Read the rest of the article: Giving game NPCs memories to make you feel guilty for killing them
Ever since Xbox Game Pass, a deal too good to be true, was announced I've been wondering when the other shoe would drop. That day has finally come. If you're… Read the rest of the article: Microsoft doubles down on Game Pass price hikes
The American left must have a Good Liars signal set up or something, because the comedy duo's ability to appear wherever the dopiest adherents of the MAGA cult are is… Read the rest of the article: The Good Liars vs. anti-vaxxers
So, Peacemaker, huh? Last week's reveal that the seemingly idyllic alternate dimension is, in fact, the Nazi-dominated Earth-X from the comics worked excellently as a narrative gut punch, but it's… Read the rest of the article: Fortnite pulls Peacemaker-themed cosmetic for Nazi association
Finally, Guillermo del Toro is fixing the great cosmic wrong of him never having done a Frankenstein movie before. For a while, it seemed Netflix was doing anything but releasing… Read the rest of the article: Del Toro's Frankenstein gets first full-on trailer dripping with Gothic flair
Grasshopper Manufacture announced a new game that looks weird and quirky? In other worse, water continues to be wet. The studio's oeuvre, dominated by their No More Heroes series, spans… Read the rest of the article: Next original game from No More Heroes developer is beautiful, high-octane mess
The marketing campaign for the recently-announced twelfth edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary is a little… scary. While a dictionary technically can be considered a "large language model", albeit not… Read the rest of the article: Merriam-Webster "announces" new AI as a prank
Metal Gear Solid Delta this is not. With the venerable cyberpunk political thriller series Deus Ex dead in the water, one would think that even a crumb of content would… Read the rest of the article: Deus Ex remaster looks like a dystopian nightmare in all the wrong ways
