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With The Acolyte, Lucasfilm Is Done Staying Silent About Bigoted Reactions To Star Wars
31.5.2024
Lucasfilm has had what can, charitably, be described as a rocky history with how it has handled Star Wars frequently finding itself the target of the ever-evolving reactionary culture war. In fits and starts, the studio has struggled in defending stars and crew from harassment and baseless...
Pickle Rick Is Leaking MultiVersus Characters
30.5.2024
MultiVersus, WB’s free-to-play platform fighter, has only been out for two days and we already have two new characters in the game. But more are coming, as you might expect, and thanks to Pickle Rick (the alter-ego of the titular character from animated series Rick and Morty), we have a good idea...
Every Video Game Showcase Happening During Not-E3 And Summer Game Fest 2024
30.5.2024
What’s dead may never die. E3 may finally be gone for good but its spirit lives on in Summer Game Fest. Hosted by The Game Awards creator Geoff Keighley, the event kicks off in June and promises teases, trailers, and world premieres for the biggest games of tomorrow and beyond. Here’s every gaming...
Minecraft Animated Series Coming To Netflix
30.5.2024
In celebration of Minecraft’s 15th anniversary, Netflix has a new animated series set in its world. This series will be the second adaptation of the hugely popular survival sandbox game known for its blocky textures currently in development, as a movie starring Jack Black is also in the works....
Vitalik Buterin: L2s are ‘cultural extensions’ of Ethereum
30.5.2024
Buterin said Ethereum layer 2s have become “the ultimate playing field for action” from institutional profit-oriented groups and people buying pictures of monkey NFTs
How Gunnar Lovelace Is Trying to ‘Unf*ck’ the World
29.5.2024
The serial entrepreneur and ethical capitalist’s latest effort at civil disobedience is being previewed at Consensus 2024
Fans Can’t Stop Putting Random Pop Culture Characters In Hades 2
28.5.2024
With the release of Hades 2 in Early Access, fans are tearing up the Underworld (and beyond), which already holds so much to discover. In fact, the sequel to Supergiant Games’ seminal 2020 action roguelike is already bigger than the original, despite still being worked on. Among other things,...
Wow, Even Super Nintendo World's Bathrooms Have Great Music
24.5.2024
Going to the bathroom is (hopefully) not a memorable part of your trip to a theme park or resort. However, the bathrooms in Super Nintendo World—with their wonderful, chill music—seem so good that you’ll be excited when nature calls. Read more
Another The Last Of Us Game Actor Is Reprising Their Role In The Show
24.5.2024
HBO’s live-action The Last of Us show is currently shooting its second season in Canada. As production continues, the showrunners have been rolling out cast announcements for the people who will join Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey as Joel and Ellie. This has included the actors playing members...
Crypto icon Kabosu, the Doge meme dog, passes away at 17
24.5.2024
Kabosu, the Shiba Inu who became an internet sensation and the face of Dogecoin, passed away peacefully. The crypto community honors her legacy
Dungeons Of Hinterberg Is A Cozy Fantasy For These Trying Times
23.5.2024
Dungeons of Hinterberg begins in an awfully familiar place: burnout. Luisa, the heroine of this adventure, is actually anything but. She’s a hard-working junior at a law firm who hits the books all day and rots all weekend. By the time she’s en route to the Austrian Alps to vacation, Luisa’s...
Destiny 2 Reveals First Look At Keith David As Commander Zavala
23.5.2024
As Bungie continues to tease out the release of Destiny 2: The Final Shape, it has finally unveiled how Keith David (The Thing, Halo, Mass Effect) will sound when he assumes the mantle of Commander Zavala. Zavala, a key character in the Destiny series, had been played by the beloved actor Lance...
Hades 2 Is An Unbelievable Sequel To One Of The Best Games Ever
23.5.2024
Playing Hades in the throes of the anguish that was 2020 was exactly the balm I needed. It was the rare roguelike that worked for me, marrying a story that toyed with a pantheon and mythos I’d loved since childhood with some of the most white-knuckle combat I’d experienced in a game. Whether...
The Next X-Men Game Should Go Full Persona
22.5.2024
There have been a lot of good X-Men games in the past, hell there’s even enough to make a whole list of them! But there is one thing I’ve always felt these past titles were missing that I think would make for the perfect X-Men game: They should be more like the Persona series.Read more
Norco Dev's New Demo Is A Playable Metal Album
22.5.2024
There’s something uncanny about dancing in video games. It’s a fun activity, but once it’s put in an unexpected context, things start getting weird. The dancing village in Elden Ring is one example of that, but there are also real-world events like the dancing plague of 1518 (a thing you should...
Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day
22.5.2024
Laszlo Hanyecz is famous for spending 10,000 bitcoin on two pizzas. But his involvement with Bitcoin development goes much deeper than food purchases
BoE regulatory 'culture shift' could open door to new tech
22.5.2024
The Bank of England's proactive regulatory shift aims to integrate emerging technologies, highlighted by the introduction of the Digital Securities Sandbox
Your After Hours Guide to the Last Day of Consensus
21.5.2024
Your After Hours Guide to Consensus 2024, Thursday Night
21.5.2024
Your After Hours Guide to Consensus 2024, Wednesday Night
21.5.2024
Events to consider following the first day of the conference