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I'm So Tired Of Crossover 'Skins' Cluttering Up Video Games
21.11.2023
Another day, another big video game crossover. This time it’s Bungie’s online looter shooter, Destiny 2, adding Witcher 3-inspired armor to its digital store. Are you excited? I’m not. In reality, I’m just really tired of every brand mixing together, regardless of whether it makes sense or...
Baldur’s Gate 3, Three Months Later
3.11.2023
It doesn’t feel like it’s been three months since Larian Studios freed Baldur’s Gate 3 from its Early Access shackles and unleashed its huge Dungeons & Dragons epic on the world. In that time, it’s quickly become the highest-reviewed game on Metacritic this year, making it a likely shoo-in for Game...
Life Is Strange ‘Missing’ Poster Seems Awfully Close To Real Murder Victim’s
4.5.2023
28-year-old Sunday Blombergh was a devoted mother from Florida who loved her siblings and, her family said with tenderness, her cell phone. In 2010, her body was found decomposing in the Georgia woods. Earlier that spring, a black-and-white poster created by her family showed Blombergh how she...
Daisy Ridley Returns As Rey In Star Wars Movie Where She Rebuilds Jedi Order
7.4.2023
Daisy Ridley’s role in the Star Wars universe isn’t over. Disney announced that The Force Awakens actress will return as Rey “Skywalker” in a sequel to the most recent Star Wars trilogy as the character seeks to bring back the Jedi Order again. Read more
12 Uses For The New AI Program That Fans Claim Will Change The World Forever
15.3.2023
Amid dozens of controversies about AI technology stealing art and denying the Holocaust, it can be difficult to think of its genuinely cool capabilities—especially when Midjourney is constantly failing to even generate the right number of fingers on a human hand. GPT-4 is the latest version of...
The Full Story Behind That Spinning Cat You're Seeing Everywhere Now
21.2.2023
If you’ve been on Twitter, Steam, Tiktok, or Reddit recently, you may have come across a 3D model of a black-and-white cat. This is Maxwell, and while the cat’s become very popular among modders and gamers over the last few months, its origins date back before 2023. So why is a low-poly model of...
The Last Of Us Fans Are Are Creating Amazing Bill And Frank Fan Art
1.2.2023
Reader, I have a question for you: do you like art of gay old men living their best post-apocalyptic lives? Well, The Last of Us fans have you covered this week, as artists are coming out of the woodwork to draw some amazing art of Bill and Frank from this week’s episode of the HBO adaptation.Read...
New Transformers Series Introduces Its First Nonbinary Robot
14.11.2022
The Transformers franchise, which has always been more than meets the eye, just introduced its first officially nonbinary character, Nightshade. They make their debut toward the end of the first season of the franchise’s latest TV series, Transformers: EarthSpark, which premiered on the Paramount...
The Sims 4 Modding Is About To Become Easier
18.10.2022
Amid fervor for news on The Sims 5 at today’s Sims Summit event, The Sims 4 team announced it would create a new hub for custom content in its current-generation game.Read more
Good News, Undertale Fans: Toby Fox Just Wrote A Sans x Mob Psycho 100 Story
8.9.2022
Legacy media publications can keep their sexiest men and women of the year awards because the world finally has a winner in one of the internet’s most contentious beauty contests: the Tumblr sexyman award. And that winner is Sans from Undertale. Long may he reign.Read more
Spooky Visual Novel Rekindles The Horror Of The Cryptid Legend
13.7.2022
Imagine, your significant other has, yet again, taken it upon themselves to spring a surprise road trip on you without telling you where you’re going. Though you feign a smile at it being a once-in-a-lifetime viewing of the Leonid meteor shower, you’re distracted by the glowing red eyes from...
Gaming’s Latest ‘AI’ Woman Recycles The Usual Sexist Tropes
17.6.2022
When I first saw Ana, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds publisher Krafton’s attempt to put a face on its artificial “virtual human” technology, I was disappointed to see that this supposed Web 3.0 innovation was really just another pretty, pale girl. She’s airbrushed, but still tangible. She’s biting...
Everybody Say Thank You To Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga For Making FinnPoe Canon
5.4.2022
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga did what Disney wouldn’t and finally made the Tumblr-famous FinnPoe ship canon.Read more
Tabletop Simulator’s Steam Reviews Descend Into Culture War Nightmare Factory
11.1.2022
It feels like familiar territory. A community moderator for the video game Tabletop Simulator handed out temporary and permanent bans for talking about queerness in the game’s global text chat and Discord. This upset a portion of the playerbase, who then took to Twitter and Steam reviews to express...
The Pope Listened To Undertale's 'Megalovania' In The Year Of Our Lord 2022
6.1.2022
The Pope is a lot of things: a religious figurehead for the Catholic church, hat aficionado, and an apparent hater of cat owners. But now Papa Francis can add being a listener to game soundtracks to his wheelhouse as well. He’s apparently a big fan of Undertale’s infectiously catchy song...
An Extremely Goofy Performance Of 'Simple And Clean’
3.12.2021
You don’t have to be a Kingdom Hearts fan to experience goosebumps running up your arm when you hear the first infectious notes of Hikaru Utada’s “Simple and Clean.” From its early appearance in commercials to its continued use in the series, “Simple and Clean” is a beloved anthem of Kingdom Hearts...
Meet The Minecraft Players Who Beat The Game Without Leaving Spawn
25.11.2021
Minecraft is nothing less than the best selling video game in history. It’s no mistake that Mojang’s masterpiece has ended up where it is: It is a game of infinite possibilities, where players are free to create whatever they want, with only their own imaginations as a limitation. It turns out that...
Xbox Celebrates 20th Anniversary With A Museum That Might Drag You
23.11.2021
Today, as part of Xbox’s ongoing 20th anniversary celebration, Microsoft released a virtual museum covering the history of the consoles themselves, as well as our own personal, individual history with them. In the browser-centric museum, you can walk the halls, taking in 3D timelines of each...
Somebody Tried To Warn Us About Chris Pratt As Mario In 2020
24.9.2021
I’m still physically recovering from the Mario movie cast announcement, mostly because if you’d given me 100 guesses to try and pick who would play the role of Mario—a short, thicc Italian-American—I would not have picked the ripped dude who is a Guardian of the Galaxy.Read more
NFT Game Steals Artwork, Gets Called Out, Deletes Account
13.9.2021
NFTS (Non-Fungible Tokens) are an environmental disaster and an enormous scam, and perhaps the funniest thing about their persistence is how little effort purveyors of this modern snake oil are putting into it.Read more