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Since its Western release on June 24, horse girl gacha racer Umamusume: Pretty Derby has been steadily warping the collective noosphere. Anime girls based on very real race horses have proven a uniquely potent fascination, driving those caught in their psychic gravity well to become amateur chroniclers of Gold Ship's countless crimes while others destroy innocent websites by ordering infinite grass for a retired failhorse.In the last 24 hours, the...
When director Dean DeBlois agreed to make a live-action version of his 2010 DreamWorks Animation hit How to Train Your Dragon (co-directed with Chris Sanders), he faced criticism from the start — including from his own past words. He’d publicly said in the past that he’d skipped watching live-action remakes of animated movies. “I’m not interested in them,” he said during an Annecy International Animation Film Festival event in 2020. “I...
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Poker roguelike Balatro is one of the most engrossing games released in the last generation of video games, and most people who play it end up losing sleep or otherwise disassociating from reality for long periods of time. To wit, the deck-building game was crowned Polygon’s 2024 Game of the Year. Some hands are just hard to pass up, especially when you’ve got a good rotation of Jokers pumping up...
Get over here! DC Comics is putting its heroes in a Mortal Kombat-esque tournament starting fall 2026. The publisher announced Wednesday that a new “slugfest event of the century” kicks off in October with the five-issue limited series DC K.O. Co-created by Joshua Williamson and Scott Snyder, DC K.O. pits 36 heroes a tournament with the fate of the universe on the line. “DC K.O. is a knock-down, drag-out fight...
CD Projekt confirmed today that Cyberpunk 2077's 2.3 update will arrive on July 17 with four new vehicles, an autonomous driving feature (including, finally, self-driving Delamain cabs), upgrades to the photo mode, and—the big one, to me at least—an option to kick Johnny out of the car if he starts to get on your nerves.Cyberpunk 2077's 2.3 update came as a genuine surprise when it was announced in early June,...
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CD Projekt Red revealed Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.3 update is slated to arrive on July 17 and that the patch focuses on vehicles and customizations. Update 2.3 will add three new cars and the first new customizable motorcycle in the game. Each new vehicle can be unlocked by completing quests, which Cyberpunk 2 Associate Game Director Paweł Sasko says will be triggered intuitively and will not count towards 100% completion. A...
Rejoice, for Microsoft has upgraded its Copilot Vision AI assistant with access to your entire desktop in Windows 11. Mercifully, this is an opt-in feature limited to preview builds of Windows 11, not something being rolled out compulsorily via Windows Update, for now. So our AI bot overlords haven't quite taken over the PC.Microsoft announced the move on the official Windows blog. "Now you can choose to share your whole...
Oops, looks like Reddit just went down. Or at least sorta down. A strange tech issue hit the site, which means it could no longer display any content. Not a single thread.The issue appears to affect most regions, as we've experienced it across the UK and US here at PC Gamer. Head to Reddit and you were shown the homepage and your subreddits in a list, but click on anything...
A review of Smurfs, aka ‘Randomized Free-Association of Stuff That Happens in Kids’ Animated Movies’
Here are some things that happen in Smurfs, the 2025 animated movie about those little blue guys called Smurfs. A long montage of character introductions, with the names of each character splashed on the screen: Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Brainy Smurf, Hefty Smurf, Sound Effects Smurf, Baker Smurf, and so on. Some of these characters barely appear again in the movie; many are visually indistinguishable Multiple musical numbers, with the Smurfs...
Netflix teased a very action-heavy final season of Stranger Things with its first teaser trailer. Set in the fall of 1987, more than a year after the events of season 4, the trailer reveals how Hawkins has been transformed by the rifts Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) opened. The town is under military quarantine, with soldiers using controlled burns to try to contain the influence of the Upside Down. That doesn’t...