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New Facebook Tech Will Encourage People To Use Their Phones In Movie Theaters
10.4.2025
Blumhouse is teaming up with Facebook parent company Meta to “augment and uplevel” the movie going experience. How? By encouraging people to interact with an AI chatbot while in a theater watching a movie on the big screen. Does this sound like a good idea? Nope! But that hasn’t stopped Hollywood...
Murderbot's Trailer Has Alexander Skarsgård As A Killing Machine With Deadpan Humor
9.4.2025
Apple TV+’s newest sci-fi series just released a trailer that surely was once an Elon Musk wet dream. Based on Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series of books, the show’s trailer features Succession’s Alexander Skarsgård as a humanoid robot programmed to kill before gaining free will by hacking...
Early Steam Deck Prototype Seemingly Sold On Ebay For $2,000
9.4.2025
Here’s something odd. Over on eBay someone seems to have spent $2,000 on a Steam Deck prototype which was being sold on the auction site for $3,000. Read more
Path Of Exiles 2 Dev Reflects After Update Gets Review-Bombed: 'There Were Some Blatant F***-Ups'
9.4.2025
Path Of Exile 2 had an incredible Early Access launch last December, but the honeymoon period is clearly over. Its first major update, Dawn of the Hunt, arrived last week and quickly led to review-bombing on Steam over difficulty spikes that made the game feel, according to some players at least...
Nintendo Confirms Switch 2 Won't Have Achievements, And That Sucks
9.4.2025
I love achievements in video games. I remember playing Call of Duty 2 on Xbox 360 and getting my first one and thinking “Oh this is neat!” And over the last 20 years, I’ve grown to enjoy them more and more as they have become a digital scrapbook documenting my gaming accomplishments across...
Get Seven Great Boomer Shooters For Just $16
9.4.2025
Calling all FPS fans! Humble Bundle is currently selling seven PC boomer shooters for less than $20. And these are some damn fine retro-themed shooters, too. Read more
The Last Of Us Renewed For Season 3 Like We All Expected
9.4.2025
To the surprise of no one living above ground, HBO won’t be done telling the story of The Last of Us Part II by the end of the TV adaptation’s upcoming second season. Today, HBO announced the Emmy-winning, nightmare-inducing, tear-ripping drama has been renewed for a third, and it needed to...
Is Switch 2 In The Clear After Trump's Latest Tariff Roulette Reversal?
9.4.2025
Switch 2 preorders were originally supposed to go live today but were halted by Nintendo in the U.S. and Canada after President Trump’s latest round of tariffs threatened to torpedo its original $450 price. The White House is now suddenly backing off the most extreme import taxes less than a...
9 Things You Might Not Know About The Switch 2
9.4.2025
On April 2, Nintendo revealed a lot about the Switch 2 via a big Direct. And in the days since that event we’ve learned more about the Switch 2 via statements from Nintendo, interviews, and more. For example, did you know that Nintendo confirmed Friend Codes are back, or that the Switch 2 carts...
Spice Up Your Dual-Wield Build With The First Berserker: Khazan's Fallen Guardian Armor Set
9.4.2025
There’s no shortage of excellent armor to find and wear in The First Berserker: Khazan. But if you’ve chosen to go with the Dual Wield weapon option, you may be drawn to the Fallen Guardian Set and its attractive bonuses. Before you can get the blacksmith to make this armor for you, however, you’ll...
The First Berserker: Khazan's Bard Armor Is Perfect For Grinding Experience
9.4.2025
Success in The First Berserker: Khazan comes from a mixture of skill, character stats, and gear. You can’t do a lot about your skill without practice, but you can certainly help improve your loadout with better items, weapons, and armor. That’s where the Bard Set comes in, boosting your experience...
Power Rangers Writer Regrets Casting Black And Asian Actors As Black And Yellow Rangers
9.4.2025
This story originally appeared on The Root, our sister site, on Tuesday, April 8.Read more
Hogwarts Legacy And More Arrive On PS Plus Next Week
9.4.2025
Spring is nearly here! The birds are chirping. The grass is returning. Everywhere you look you see green. It’s so nice to be outside again. Anyway, whatever, let’s stay inside and play free video games like Hogwarts Legacy, Battlefield 1, Blue Prince, and War of the Monsters. Read more
How To Master Mounting In Monster Hunter Wilds
9.4.2025
Out of everything you can do in Monster Hunter Wilds, nothing beats mounting. Grappling onto a large beast as your multiplayer teammates watch on is always a fun time. While the mechanic has been refined from previous games, you’re more or less left to figure out the nuances on your own. Whether...
One Of 2025's Best Game Pass Releases Just Got More Free Content
9.4.2025
Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders is one of my favorite surprises of the year so far. The skiing game is part physics-driven scramble, part relaxing journey through nature, and all a very fun time. It’s been free with a paid Game Pass subscription on Xbox and PC, and just received a new set of slopes...
Xbox's Big Summer Showcase Returns With A Direct Dedicated To Outer Worlds 2
9.4.2025
E3 is long-dead, but Microsoft’s big annual gaming event returns to its normal Sunday slot on June 8, 2025, the company announced today. The summer Xbox Games Showcase is promising surprise reveals and a full second The Outer Worlds 2 Direct livestream afterwards dedicated to the upcoming space...
A Minecraft Movie Review: A Bad Movie Made Worse By Jack Black
8.4.2025
About an hour and a half into WB’s new Minecraft movie, in theaters now, I realized that I was really bored. The movie was happening in front of me on a big screen. I could see Jack Black and others dancing about in CG worlds, but the moment it left the screen and entered my eyeballs, it slipped...
How To Electrify The Battlefield With Marvel Rivals' Thor
8.4.2025
Thor is a dynamic character, adept at both taking and dealing damage in equal measure. A frontline fighter of the Vanguard persuasion, Thor uses Thorforce as a resource, performing ranged attacks, moving around the map with Mjolnir, rebuilding it to deal increased damage, gain Bonus Health,...
2025's Highest-Rated Metacritic Game Is Also A Game Pass And PS Plus Release This Month
8.4.2025
Blue Prince is an ingenious first-person adventure about exploring a house and uncovering its tantalizingly unexpected secrets. It’s already the highest-rated game of 2025 on Metacritic so far, and it also happens to be hitting Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus the day it comes out. Read more
New Predator Movie Features Samurai, WW2 Planes, And Vikings
8.4.2025
On April 8, 20th Century Studios and Disney revealed the first trailer for Predator: Killer of Killers, a new animated anthology film directed by Prey helmer Dan Trachtenberg. And we won’t have to wait long to watch Predators kill different human warriors throughout history as the new movie will...