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Disney Dreamlight Valley's First Big Update Sees Scar Dropping Next Week
13.10.2022
Let me get the easy joke out of the way. Are y’all prepared for the next Disney character making their way to the popular Animal Crossing-like Dreamlight Valley? I hope so, because the evil and wicked lion Scar, the big bad from the 90s classic The Lion King, is arriving in the life sim next week....
Here's What The Super Mario Movie Sounds Like In Actual Italian
7.10.2022
True to his word, Chris Pratt will not be “offending Italians” in his leading role in the Super Mario Bros. movie. In fact, his voiced performance in the official trailer was so lackluster that I can’t help but wonder: What if Mario had been more Italian? It turns out, I didn’t have to wonder...
11 Gruesome Horror Games, Ranked By How Much They Made Us Scream
7.10.2022
Despite being afraid of literally anything and everything on the planet, I love Halloween. Octobers mean dutifully logging a slasher a day in my Letterboxd account, or using my journal to hash out what Friday the 13th would have been if Jason were handsome under the mask (he’s a waterlogged hermit...
The Entire Call Of Duty Community Just Got Punked
3.10.2022
I am now convinced that “female Call of Duty streamer” is the hardest job in the world. Nadia Amine is one of the fastest growing Call of Duty: Warzone streamers on Twitch, and there’s been a ton of controversy on social media about her meteoric rise. If you search her name on YouTube or Tiktok...
Disco Elysium Studio Accused Of Ousting Creators, Dev Says It's 'Bad News' For Sequel
3.10.2022
Some of the core developers behind beloved 2019 indie RPG Disco Elysium, including the author of the novel it’s based on, are no longer working at the studio that created it. The news was revealed in a blog post written by an editor on the game, Martin Luiga, who claims studio leadership at ZA/UM...
It Sure Sounds Like Mark Hamill Is Playing The Joker In MultiVersus
30.9.2022
MultiVersus has been getting tons of new characters, with drunk scientist Rick Sanchez from the time-hopping adult cartoon Rick & Morty being the latest addition to the Warner Bros. crossover fighter. The roster’s expansion won’t stop there, though, as datamining has suggested for some time...
Mamma Mia, Someone's Remaking Super Mario Bros. With A Realistic Chris Pratt
30.9.2022
It feels like it was only yesterday when Shigeru Miyamoto pulled the goomba rug out from under our collective gamer asses with the surprise announcement of the bizarre Hollywood cast of the upcoming Super Mario Bros. movie. While the casting of Chris Pratt in the starring role horrified many,...
Obsidian's Big Survival Game Turns The Smallest Things Into Your Biggest Terrors
29.9.2022
It’s dark out, and I’m scared. I’m hiding behind a small chest and a rock. Around me are a few flimsy walls made of leaves. Outside those walls, I can hear it: a giant, angry spider. I can’t spot it directly, but I can see the massive leaves and tall blades of grass surrounding my tiny shelter...
Your Name Director’s New Anime Has A Girl Romancing A Chair
29.9.2022
While most anime have a muscle-bound hunk or an aloof loner as a protagonist’s romantic partner, the new film from the director of international box-office hit Your Name goes a slightly different route. Suzume, the film’s leading lady, romances a wooden chair. This isn’t an Onion article, that’s...
This New Pokémon-Creating AI Is Producing Hilarious Results
27.9.2022
Art generated by AI is proving a very contentious issue, raising enormous amounts of concern among artists about their potential replacement by machine learning, let alone the ethical questions about whether an algorithm studying thousands of other people’s creations is fair to the original...
Detective Pikachu 2 May Still Exist, Even Be 'Nearing Release'
23.9.2022
It’s been three years since The Pokémon Company announced Detective Pikachu 2 for the Nintendo Switch. And given the complete silence on the project since, you’d be forgiven for having completely forgotten it was ever a thing. However, due to a throwaway line on a developer’s LinkedIn profile,...
MMO For Kids Shuts Down Temporarily After Hacker Fills It With Nasty Swears
20.9.2022
Kid-friendly PC MMO Wizard101 was released back in 2008 and for the past 14 years, it has quietly chugged on, successfully staying afloat while many other games have shut down. But recently, this old MMO found itself thrust into the spotlight after a series of bizarre and expletive-filled in-game...
A Phenomenal Anime Like Made In Abyss Deserves A Better Video Game Than This
20.9.2022
Anime adaptations of video games are entering a renaissance of sorts with the critical success of Netflix’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Arcane, and Castlevania. Unfortunately, if we flip the process around, the same can’t be said for the latest video game adaptation of the dark fantasy anime Made...
Former Suicide Squad Game Writer Turns Down Award Over Sexual Harassment Allegations
20.9.2022
Kim MacAskill, a writer whose career includes work on upcoming Rocksteady game Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, was recently nominated for a lifetime achievement award by the nonprofit organization Women in Games. However, she recently took to Twitter to announce that she cannot in good...
Spider-Man First-Person Mod Is So Stunning It'll Make You Want To Vomit
19.9.2022
Insomniac’s Spider-Man is a revelation when it comes to feeling the power and agility of everyone’s favorite wall crawler as he web-slings across New York City’s skyline. But what if you could actually see the world through Spidey’s eyes as you flew through Times Square? A new mod for the...
Rose & Camellia, A Game About Ladies Slapping Each Other, Is Getting A Switch Port
15.9.2022
I can’t believe I’ve had to reach this far back into the archives for this, but anyone who was reading the site back in 2008 (!) might remember a game called Rose & Camellia, which was kinda like Punch-Out!, only if everyone was straight out of a Jane Austen novel.Read more
Both Judgment Games Are Now Available On PC, You Should Play Them
15.9.2022
It was only last year that the future of the Judgment series was looking extremely dicey, courtesy of a legal battle over star Takuya Kimura’s likeness. Looks like that’s all been cleared up, though, because both games aren’t just coming to the PC, they’re already here.Read more
Welcome To White Castle
14.9.2022
Ken Fairclough is an artist at BioWare who has worked on stuff like Mass Effect, Anthem, Star Citizen and the Alita: Battle Angel movie.Read more
There's A Cool Story Behind Rings Of Power's Intro
13.9.2022
If you’ve been watching The Lord of the Rings: Rings Of Power, you’ll have sat through a few episodes by now, and will have seen the show’s surprisingly sedated intro sequence. If like me you’ve been wondering just what exactly is the deal with all those shapes, and all that bouncing sand, it turns...
Everything Shown At Disney And Marvel's D23 Event
10.9.2022
Although it might’ve felt like it Kinda Funny’s Blessing Adeoye Jr. was talking at 1.75x speed to get through talking about upcoming games and world premieres, there were some titles that weren’t just cinematic trailers. Here’s everything that was shown at Disney and Marvel’s D23 Expo, organized...