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The United States’ tariff circus continued over the weekend, with the U.S. government announcing, via the Customs and Border Protection agency, tariff exclusions for the technology sector that cover devices such as computers and smartphones. But what’s not included in the carve-out is video game consoles, which fall under a trade classification for toys, not technology. To make things even more confusing and uncertain, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday...
The Last of Us is all about big action. Disgusting zombie attacks. Failed protective acts. Successful ones that cost too many lives. But in the season 2 premiere, The Last of Us managed to give us its best scene yet with the smallest of gestures — and, in the process, tell us more about Joel than he ever could. [Ed. note: This post discusses the scene in question, which is...
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The price of a PlayStation 5 is going up again in some territories, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced Sunday on its PlayStation Blog. Sony’s latest price increases went into effect on Monday, and affect customers in Europe, the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand. Sony blamed “a backdrop of a challenging economic environment, including high inflation and fluctuating exchange rates” in a statement attributed to Isabelle Tomatis, vice president of global marketing...
The first episode of Don’t Nod’s narrative adventure, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, ended with a hell of a cliffhanger: a massive discovery of something unknown, possibly malevolent, and a devastating revelation about one of the story’s central figures. As the second episode, or tape, of this player-choice-driven, nostalgia-powered story aims to draw things to their conclusion when Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 2 launches April 15 day one...
David Fincher was a music video director with clips like Madonna's Vogue to his name before he became a feature film director in the 1990s, responsible for movies like Seven, Fight Club, and The Social Network. His new commercial for Xbox and Samsung called Wake Up, co-directed with Romain Chassaing, will probably end up somewhere on the lower end of his filmography.It depicts a society of rats living and working...
What happened to the ghost colony on Tau Ceti IV and the infamous Marathon ship that started it all? Decades after the original Marathon trilogy, the Bungie development team is ready to dive back into the world of Tau Ceti IV in their upcoming team-based extraction shooter, Marathon. The game launches on PS5, Steam, and Xbox Series X|S on September 24.Today we’ll be covering some of the highlights from the...
This weekend Bungie revealed Marathon’s sci-fi-fueled gameplay to the world. The studio, celebrated for its sublime first-person gunplay and ever-expanding gameplay, is venturing into the extraction-shooter genre when the game launches on September 24. The Marathon premise is simple and enticing: load up your Runner with valuable gear, compete with other players to secure more loot, and risk it all trying to extract with all the goods. I had the...
Give your puzzle solving week a perfect start with our hint for today's Wordle. Take a look at it any time you need a bit of a push, it'll definitely help you out. Same goes for our more general tips too. And if all else fails or you're just not in the mood for some serious word-wrestling, the April 14 (1395) answer is here if you need it.One, two, three...
The Last of Us season 2 has finally arrived, and the first episode shows a world that’s just as brutal as we remembered it. There’s already some rageful mourning, power struggles, betrayal, and a new type of infected for Ellie to contend with, and that’s just in the first hour. But episode 1 also has a twist you might not have been expecting: a peaceful town that seems genuinely nice...
The Last of Us seems to introduce a new type of infected — new, at least, to people who have yet to play developer Naughty Dog’s video game. It’s early on in The Last of Us season 2 when Ellie and Dina, on patrol, enter an abandoned grocery store to pick off a couple infected. When Ellie falls through the second-story floor and onto the main level, she quickly realizes...