I recently finally fastened my suspenders, donned a tophat, and went back to Lies of P to actually commit to a proper, honest-to-Asimov playthrough. I had a great time with Round 8 Studio and Neowiz's "puppet bloodborne"—not exceptional, but great.Lies of P did a lot of things I liked, but showed its smaller scope on occasion, which is no crime. Overall, I found it to be a really solid entry...
Marvel Rivals Season 3 is coming up fast, with a new map, new hero, and new rollout structure that’ll include less time between updates. Phoenix makes her debut in the season’s first half, alongside a new map inspired by the symbiote planet, and when Season 3’s second half goes live, you can expect another new hero as well, though NetEase hasn’t officially revealed them yet. Below, we list the Marvel...
The fun thing about videogame patches—and I'm using "fun" in the definitely-ironic sense here—is that sometimes they'll cause new, interesting, and entirely unanticipated problems: Fix this, break that, it's the circle of life. Such is the case with a recent update to Funcom's survival MMO Dune: Awakening, which saw several PvE areas of the Deep Desert to become PvP enabled, resulting in "people suffering an unfortunate amount of lost bases...
This month, carve your legend in the neon-soaked streets of Night City as the mercenary V in the dystopian open-world RPG Cyberpunk 2077, join up to five fellow scientists to repel inter-dimensional horrors deep within an underground research facility in the co-op survival and crafting adventure Abiotic Factor, or wrestle with love and duty as ghost-hunters Antea and Red across 17th-century North America in the story-driven action-RPG Banishers: Ghosts of...
2K Games is back again with another reveal: WNBA star Angel Reese and NBA Hall of Famer Carmelo Anthony are the cover athletes for NBA 2K26‘s special editions. The Chicago Sky forward will grace the cover of NBA 2K26: WNBA Edition, while Melo is featured on the Superstar Edition. Angel Reese is only in her second year in the WNBA, but has quickly made a name for herself; the “Chi-Town...
Every year, for 2K Games’ annual NBA basketball game, a new player is chosen as its cover star. The process for exactly how the athletes are selected isn’t public knowledge, so for the most part, it’s often a guessing game on the fan’s part. But, as the dust settled on NBA 2K26’s grand reveal of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander as this year’s coveted cover star, Zak Armitage, NBA 2K’s SVP and GM,...
While, yes, Warner Bros. and DC Studios’ Superman is all about the super and man elements of the iconic hero, the movie is also about Supes’ bond with his best friend Krypto, the super-powered canine set to make his DC Universe debut. However, Krypto’s first big-screen outing wasn’t without some challenges. In an exclusive excerpt from the forthcoming Superman: The Art and Making of the Film book, visual effects supervisor...
When celebrities, actors, and filmmakers visit Japan, there’s a chance they’ll get a summons from Hideo Kojima, the game director and Metal Gear Solid creator, to come to his studio and have their likenesses scanned and added to his collection. Kojima is never above using his fame in the non-gaming world to meet famous people and post about it, but I always wondered what this process was like from the...
Jurassic Park Rebirth does pretty much what fans of the franchise expect, and seem to want: Director Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Creator) and original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp (Presence) gather up a bunch of characters with varying motivations and throw them into a wilderness setting where they risk getting eaten by dinosaurs. Some die, some survive, but before the final tally is taken, the...
Tim Burton’s YA spin on the Addams family turned out to be a smash hit for Netflix, and Wednesday returns for a second season in August. Set to The Phantom of the Opera overture, the second trailer for season 2 sees the brooding goth Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) returning to Nevermore Academy for the new school year alongside her brother Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez). After saving the school for outcasts from...