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Even before the news broke about the unconventional rights-reversion deal Black Panther writer-director Ryan Coogler negotiated with Warner Bros. for his horror movie Sinners, the movie was already one of 2025’s most-discussed releases. Michael B. Jordan’s dual role as twin gangster brothers Smoke and Stack, the movie’s bold themes around racial identity and community, Coogler’s intense approach to creature-feature violence, and a particularly ambitious, gorgeous scene connecting the past and...
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When I first fired up The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, I didn’t expect to get sucked in. I’d never played the original 2006 version, and while all the chatter surrounding the remaster piqued my interest, I didn’t see That One Game With The Horrifying NPC Faces becoming a favorite of mine. It was just something on Game Pass I thought I’d try. I certainly didn’t expect it to challenge...
Don't worry if today's Wordle has left you scratching your head, we've got a wide range of help ready to go. Take a look at our tips—a general refresh is never a bad thing. Faced with a generous helping of yellow letters but no real idea what to do with them? Our clue for the June 12 (1454) game will soon turn that around. And if you're really stuck, or...
A whole decade is a solid run for an RPG ruleset, but the success of Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, released in 2014, was such that replacing it would be an obviously terrible idea. Instead, Wizards of the Coast did something more akin to 4th edition's Essentials line—a refresh that's compatible with the previous rules, but makes changes to address criticisms that have emerged over the rules' lifespan.The 2024 update...
As if Elden Ring character stats weren't confusing enough, FromSoftware further obfuscated their purpose in Elden Ring Nightreign. Each Nightfarer has letter ratings instead of numbers to denote their relative proficiency with each stat, but the real values are hidden. You just have to trust they're going up a meaningful amount each time you level up.Dataminer and YouTuber Zullie the Witch went under the hood to figure out how stats...
From The Flash to Avengers: Endgame to 2002’s The Time Machine, time travel movies often follow characters hoping to prevent a present personal tragedy or larger calamity by tweaking some event in the past. The sweetly funny Our Times, now streaming on Netflix, breaks that mold by sending its characters to the future and focusing on how they make the most of their present — a novel, forward-looking reframing of the...
After an ugly launch that saw its Steam rating crater to "mostly negative," briefly climb to "mixed," and then biff it back to "mostly negative," MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy says it's working "around the clock" on performance improvements, and that the first in a series of planned patches is slated to arrive on PC at the end of this week.The team acknowledged on launch day that the game's...
A day after reaching a tentative agreement with major game companies over "critical AI protections" for voice actors, the SAG-AFTRA union has suspended the strike that's been ongoing since July 2024 and given its members the green light to return to work.That the strike is "suspended" and not ended is meaningful, as the new agreement still has to be ratified by union membership. But the finish line is close enough...
Mecha Break hit some turbulence when its open beta period started earlier this year. The mecha battler's online beta dropped in late February and thousands of Chinese players couldn't access the game due to server issues. Their response was a Steam review bomb.Hundreds of reviews trashed developer Amazing Seasun for not being more prepared for a global launch, bringing the review consensus on Steam to "mostly negative." Amazing Seasun CEO...
Space is the final frontier, and for Supermassive Games, it's also a new one. With Directive 8020, the latest entry in The Dark Pictures anthology, the studio finally takes to the stars. But even as it grapples with a shape-shifting alien and the constant, imposing doom posed by the void of space, Supermassive is finding ways to iterate on how it does horror.Supermassive Games has made a name for itself...