It's no secret that thanks to capitalism things tend to look a bit boring. Products, especially in the tech space, are generally produced en masse to eek out the most profit. With half the stuff coming from the same few factories, peripherals can wind up looking mighty homogenous. Once again thanks to capitalism, tie-ins with fandom are often one of the few reprieves from this bland landscape. One of the...
If you want to hear PC gamers get really particular, ask them about what switches they prefer in their keyboards. Some will go all in on clacky actuation punchers while others may prefer a lighter, softer approach. Those little pieces of engineering that sit between our fingers and the gaming world can make all the difference in dictating how we experience our fictional on screen universes. One of the best...
We first heard that Ubisoft's Star Wars Outlaws would be getting a pirate-themed expansion as the second story pack in the season pass, following the Lando-themed Wild Card DLC. Now, at Star Wars Celebration Japan, a release date has been announced, along with the trailer above.A Pirate's Fortune will see Kay Vess working with the pirate Hondo Ohnaka, who you may know from The Clone Wars or the Smuggler's Run...
The past decade-plus has seen a lot of familiar names tapped to helm Star Wars movies which have subsequently disappeared into vaporware. Those familiar names have ranged from The Last Jedi and Knives Out writer-director Rian Johnson to Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige to The Lego Movie’s Phil Lord and Christopher Miller to Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. So it’s...
Star Wars Celebration Japan has just begun, and during a panel about the upcoming Mandalorian movie spin-off, director Shawn Levy and actor Ryan Gosling popped up to announce a new Star Wars movie coming in 2027."One of several theatrical projects still in development from Lucasfilm," says starwars.com, "including films by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, James Mangold, Taika Waititi and a new trilogy by Simon Kinberg, Levy's film — Star Wars: Starfighter —...
Yellow letters causing trouble on today's Wordle? Or maybe—nightmare scenario—they're not turning up at all? That's why we're here to help. Take a quick tour of our tips to sharpen your puzzle solving mind, and then use that knowledge to help you make the most of today's hint. Still not working out? No problem. The April 18 (1399) answer is just below.Seeing one letter turn up in the wrong place...
The 0.2.0 update for Path of Exile 2 has not been well-received, to put it lightly. A heavy hand on the nerf hammer has driven away a significant chunk of those players who like action RPGs for the monster-blasting action, revealing a core tension at the heart of Path of Exile 2's design, as Russell Adderson put it.Eleventh Hour Games, the studio behind competing action RPG Last Epoch, accidentally put...
What year is it? The ninja behind early 2000s internet video series Ask a Ninja clearly anticipated the reflexive reaction to his first new video in nine years, leading off with an instant parry. "What year isn't it?" he says within the first three seconds."If you're still believing in time, my friend, I don't know what to tell you. Have you ever heard of the internet? Everything lasts forever on...
Remember back in 2003 when Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King came out, and fans kept circling back to the topic of how every time they thought the movie was over, Jackson added a new epilogue, finale, wrap-up scene, or coda (Even so, some people still didn’t think the movie had enough endings.) Ryan Coogler’s sprawling, gloriously messy 1930s-set vampire movie Sinners does something...
The latest free update to PowerWash Simulator doesn’t take place in the Shrek universe or the Warhammer 40,000 universe. It’s completely home-cooked lore in The Muckingham Files 5 DLC that dropped today. This free bonus job tasks you with cleaning up a dessert parlor in the town the game is set in. The description claims a raccoon got loose in there and smeared ice cream and chocolate all over the...