Are you stressed? I am a little stressed. Woo… things are a little stressful. But when life serves me a week where I feel like I’m on The Pitt, the last thing I personally want to do is vibe. Which means I rarely turn to cozy games for cozy comfort; in times of chaos, I require a challenge to offset the challenges of life. Most of the genre often feels...
Step aside, Oblivion, there’s a new 20-year-old game getting the 4K-remastered treatment. The original Gears of War, first released in 2006, will be re-released as Gears of War: Reloaded on August 26 for PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X. Yes, you read that right: Gears of War is coming to PlayStation. Over the past year, Xbox has started tearing the walls of its exclusivity. In the past year,...
Back in January of this year, a third-party accessory manufacturer was showing off a bunch of accessories for the forthcoming Switch 2 at CES 2025. The problem? No one had officially seen a Switch 2 in the wild. Despite plenty of leaks, Nintendo wouldn’t unveil the console until about a week after CES. Genki would later clarify that all of its designs were based on the leaked specifications of the...
It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped the PlayStation Store download charts last month. April saw a lot of action among the top spots. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered and Forza Horizon 5 broke into the top three for the U.S. and EU PS5 charts, while Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate dominated the PS VR2 charts across the board. Check out the full...
Just like theatrical release windows have condensed from months to mere weeks, so too has the spoiler timeline. Only a few short years ago, a giant like Marvel studio was begging for fans to keep quiet on a post-release Monday about reveals in a movie like Avengers: Endgame. Now, for Thunderbolts*, it’s part of week 2 box-office strategy. [Ed. note: The rest of this story contains major spoilers for Thunderbolts*...
Ever since the first Thunderbolts* trailer came out, sharp-eyed Marvel Cinematic Universe fans have been theorizing about one particular gap between the cast list and the footage released. Black Widow villain Antonia Dreykov, aka Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), appears on the movie’s poster and marketing, but is noticeably absent from other scenes and shots in the promotional material, leading to speculation that her role in the movie is fairly minimal. That...
In what may be the most metal crossover ever, Bethesda has teamed up with Harley Davidson in creating an incredible one of a kind Doom motorcycle. The bike takes its inspiration from next in the hellishly good series, Doom, in this case, Doom: The Dark Ages; A medieval take on the demonic devastation of Earth. While it's a slightly confusing premise, the resulting one-of-a-kind ride is one I'd happily rip...
In a world where we've had Chicken Police and Blacksad: Under the Skin and Duck Detective: The Secret Salami, the idea of playing an anthropomorphic animal who solves noirish crimes has stopped seeming all that strange. So the fact that The Shadow Syndicate has you play a private detective in a version of 1933 Brooklyn where all the people are dogs and cats and birds and frogs isn't that strange....
Get your Wordle week off to the perfect start with our freshly written hint for the May 5 (1416) game. Go on, take a quick look—it'll help give your guesses a bit of guidance without instantly giving everything away. Or save it for later if you like, to untangle a mess of yellow letters. Need something more? You're in luck. Today's answer is just a click away.A single yellow letter...
On Wednesday, the College of Cardinals will be locked in the Sistine Chapel to decide who gets to be the next pope. It's called the Conclave, from the Latin for "with key", and it takes more than a hundred cardinal electors and multiple rounds of voting to decide who gets to be the new pontiff.In the webgame Fantapapa, 75,000 people have cast their own votes in a kind of Catholic...