These days, practically every technology employs artificial intelligence in one way or another, from the hodgepodge summaries at the top of Google search results to email programs auto-summarizing incoming messages and offering to compose outgoing ones. In Hollywood, machine learning tools and generative AI have been folded together under the same umbrella, causing arguably overstated furor over audio tweaks in the Best Picture nominees The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez, and...
Fun fact: The “Obscur” in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a reference to how obscure all of the game’s menus and systems are. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 casts you as a group of magical Instagram influencers, fronted by British Daredevil, on a mission to let everyone in the world grow old enough to get gray hairs. It’s a turn-based RPG, but it also has real-time parries inspired by Soulslikes, and...
Festival Tokens represent the first real side quest in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. There are three tokens to find, and you can exchange them for three different rewards during the game’s prologue. In this Expedition 33 guide, we’ll walk you through where to find all three Festival Tokens and what you’ll get for turning them in. All Festival Token locations in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 After the Gommage happens, you’ll...
Choosing which of your heroes you want to take into battle in the Gestral Village arena can actually impact your rewards in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. After the boss fight against the mysterious “Stranger” arena combatant, the winning hero will get a special weapon or an upgrade to an existing weapon. In this Expedition 33 guide, we’ll give you a brief walkthrough of the Gestral Village arena walkthrough plus explain...
The break bar in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a huge boon against some of the game’s bigger and tougher foes, as it’ll help you both increase your damage while protecting you from an entire turn’s worth of attacks. It is, however, a bit difficult to understand — partially because of how infrequently enemies live long enough to use it against them. In this Expedition 33 guide, we’ll walk you...
The buzz of excitement is ramping up into a full roar as EA Sports F1 25 gets ready for lights out on May 30. And with it comes a whole paddock of improvements, tweaks, and new features to ensure unfamiliar racers and track veterans alike all feel at home. I recently had an opportunity to talk with the developers at EA Codemasters about the upcoming racing game’s newest gameplay features....
The relatively niche subgenre of Black vampire films was popularized by Blacula in 1972, and to date only has a handful of entries — all of which are much less well known among the general public. To celebrate the release of Ryan Coogler’s new box-office hit Sinners, as well as to see what it adds to this particular collection of monster movies, we’ll run through some lesser-known vampire films that feature...
There’s way too much going on in Until Dawn. Director David F. Sandberg tried to make a faithful-ish adaptation of the popular 2015 video game, a Groundhog Day-style repeating-day movie, a comedy, a drama with something to say about trauma, and a love letter to every horror subgenre ever, all at the same time. But the byproduct of all this ambition is a movie that never quite finds an identity,...
It’s time to settle some Unfinished Business. This standalone game picks up where RoboCop Rogue City left off. Though it’s not required to play (or own) RoboCop Rogue City before getting into Unfinished Business, you’re more than welcome to. Play Video Unfinished Business starts with a group of mercenaries tearing into the Metro West precinct, leaving after stealing components from RoboCop’s medical chair and making off for OCP’s latest project,...
I was convinced Oblivion Remastered would satisfy my childhood nostalgia when, in the middle of its official reveal, Todd Howard declared with a slight grimace that the devs had made sure to preserve its "charm." That is to say, those baffling bits of jank and strange NPC behaviours that still make the original one of the funniest games ever made.But even I'm pleasantly surprised by just how much jank Virtuos...