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PS Plus Titles For August Include Destiny 2’s Best Campaign Ever
9.8.2023
Gather ‘round, gamers—more specifically PlayStation Plus subscribers—because a new lineup of games is coming to you this August and unlike last month’s horror-themed offerings, this month’s helpings feature a tonal variety of games, including a turned-based role-playing game hitting the service...
Fallout Creator’s Coming Out Story Hits Harder This Pride Month
2.6.2023
To all of my fellow members of the LGBTQ+ community, happy Pride. Being queer these days is a whirlwind of emotions, some very positive and hopeful, and others not so much. Our history is one of courage and struggle, a struggle that continues today. And in this fight, it’s essential to learn from...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Is Now Accidentally Fighting Furries
26.5.2023
As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis attempts a presidential run, he’s still finding time for his ongoing hobby of angering different communities with his legislation and bad views on people and things. Now, it sounds like he’s got a new community to add to that list: furries.Read more
Linus Is Stepping Down As CEO Of Linus Media Group
19.5.2023
Canadian YouTuber Linus Sebastian, best known to most as the guy behind the insanely popular Linus Tech Tips channel, has announced that he’s stepping down as CEO of the companies he helped create and has been running for the past ten years.Read more
Star Wars' Mantis Is Such A Good Ship
9.5.2023
In Respawn’s Jedi series, one of the constants across both games is the Mantis, a starship that’s kinda yours, but also not yours, but you use it enough that it may as well be. And I think, more than the combat or the jumping or the surprisingly Star Warsy tone of the games, it’s my favourite thing...
Fans Are Embracing Cal’s Mullet In Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
3.5.2023
I still haven’t gotten around to playing Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order or its new (apparently fraught) sequel Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, but the more I see of the game’s extensive fashion and customization options for protagonist Cal Kestis, the more tempted I feel. However, one Jedi rebel hairstyle...
Chaos Ensues After The ‘LeBron James Of Incels’ Gets Laid
26.4.2023
We’re only four months into the calendar year and the incel community, an insular corner of the internet composed of dudes who lack romantic and sexual relationships “despite trying,” has lost one of its strongest soldiers because…well…he’s finally done the deed. Read more
The 4Chan Creepypasta That's Taking Over The World (And You May Not Even Realize It)
4.4.2023
The Backrooms began as an image. Posted on April 21, 2018, a small thumbnail picture appeared on 4chan’s /x/ board showing a yellow room, its walls all in the wrong places, with gold-yellow carpets and fading yellow flock wallpaper. It was at once entirely innocuous, and somewhat unsettling. And...
Four Hours With Star Wars Jedi: Survivor: Everything You Liked, But Bigger And Better
3.4.2023
At first, things weren’t going so well with EA and Star Wars: A decade of exclusivity seemed destined to be known as the Horsemen of the Loot Boxalypse. But in 2019, Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order saved the day just before the fade to credits. The deal between the two is pretty much over...
‘Silly’ The Last of Us Tribute Snuck Its Way Into The HBO Show
14.3.2023
Love is a beautiful thing, especially in the grim world of The Last of Us. So it’s heartwarming to see a loving tribute from the 2013 PlayStation exclusive make its way to Craig Mazin’s HBO drama—especially when it’s an Easter egg a developer admits is “silly.”Read more
Stranger Things Actor Says She's Streaming On Twitch More Due To Industry Sexual Harassment
10.3.2023
Grace Van Dien is a streamer and an actress. You probably know her best as Chrissy Cunningham on Stranger Things, but she’s also starred in movies like What Comes Around and V For Vengeance. Two days ago, she told her Twitch viewers that she “turned down acting projects and decided to stream more”...
An Exploration Of The Ways Our Cities Hate The Young & The Homeless
8.3.2023
“Exclusionary Design”, also known as “Hostile Architecture”, are the names given to the relatively modern concept of “an urban-design strategy that uses elements of the built environment to purposefully guide or restrict behaviour”. Specifically, it targets the homeless and the young.Read more
The Last Of Us Episode 8 Recap: Joel And Ellie's Most Desperate Hour
6.3.2023
With just one episode to go, we’re nearing the end of Joel and Ellie’s long journey together. This week’s entry, “When We Are in Need,” corresponds with the game’s winter section, though the HBO adaptation isn’t using the same seasonal structure of the game, and here in TV land, it’s been winter...
RIP Tom Sizemore, 1961-2023
6.3.2023
Veteran actor Tom Sizemore has died at the age of 61.Read more
Diablo Was On The Catwalk At Milan Fashion Week
28.2.2023
Milan Fashion Week has just wrapped up, and while this is not normally the kind of thing we would be covering on this, a website about anime, reality television and comic books, 2023's show featured a surprise inclusion: Blizzard’s Diablo series.Read more
Internet Says 'Same' After Seeing Joel In The Last Of Us Show Have Panic Attacks
22.2.2023
It ain’t easy traveling across the country with folks who don’t have it all together. With the burden of succumbing to brutal violence himself, witnessing harm against folks who don’t deserve it, and remembering the echoes of normal life, the TV version of Joel is revealing something we all knew...
VRChat Sex Worker Denied Entry To US Over ‘Prostitution’
15.2.2023
An online virtual reality sex worker was left confused and frustrated when, after applying for a United States tourist visa, she said she received a letter explaining she was “permanently ineligible” for admission to the U.S. The reason given was “prostitution.” Read more
YouTuber Logan Paul Slapped With Class-Action Lawsuit Over NFT 'Game'
3.2.2023
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Popular Female Streamers Targeted In Deepfake Pornography Scandal
31.1.2023
Yesterday, Twitch streamer Brandon “Atrioc” Ewing issued a tearful apology during his livestream after he accidentally revealed that he had deepfake pornography of popular female Twitch streamers open on his computer. The video of his apology—in which he claims to have clicked an ad on PornHub...
Guy Gets Saved From Being Fired Over Gaming On The Job In The Best Way
26.1.2023
The union-oriented Twitter account Daily Union Elections asked the world in a recent tweet, “Union folks, what is the best grievance/[Unfair Labor Practice] that you’ve ever won?” And the world responded in kind. As a proud union girl myself, I thought a few stories stood out, but one came up above...