• 150 hours in, Horizon Forbidden West player discovers the gnarliest machine attack in the game

    150 hours in, Horizon Forbidden West player discovers the gnarliest machine attack in the game
    If you're planning on jumping back into Horizon Forbidden West for the upcoming DLC, you might have some surprises in store. Players are continuing to discover some downright frightening machine attacks even after hundreds of hours in the game.In a Reddit post titled "150+ hours and I just found out they could lasso you," user philohendron demonstrated their first encounter with a particularly gnarly Leaplasher attack. The kangaroo-like enemy shoots out an energy beam, grabs Aloy with it, draws
  • Blue Beetle: Who is Conrad Carapax?

    Blue Beetle: Who is Conrad Carapax?
    DC's Blue Beetle movie is gearing up for its August release date with an exciting new trailer that shows the broad strokes of Jaime Reyes' origin as the teen superhero. And hidden in the first Blue Beetle trailer is a brief glimpse at the movie's big villain Conrad Carapax (played by Raoul Max Trujillo), albeit as a human and not in his final villainous form.
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    Though Carapax isn't as well known a DC villain as the Joker or Lex Luthor, he's got a long comic history with Blue Bee
  • Arcane season 2 isn't coming in 2023

    Arcane season 2 isn't coming in 2023
    Arcane season 2 isn't coming out this year, says Riot Games CEO Nicolo Laurent."I just watched the third episode of Season 2 before my flight to China, so we're making progress on it," Laurent said (H/T IGN).  "It is not ready yet, and there's two reasons for that. One, you want the quality, you just don't wanna rush, and so that takes time. So that's the good reason."Netflix renewed the League of Legends spin-off for a second season back in 2021, and fans have been waiting ever since witho
  • Holy crap, this sale has great discounts on dozens of the best roguelike and Metroidvania games ever made

    Holy crap, this sale has great discounts on dozens of the best roguelike and Metroidvania games ever made
    In one of the best game sales of the year so far, Humble is offering hefty discounts on dozens of the best roguelikes and best Metroidvania games ever, as well as some stellar platformers, in the aptly named Plat-Rogue-Vania-Like sale. This sale is a celebration of backtracking, double-jumping, and procedurally generating, not to mention terrible names for great genres with no universally agreed-upon meaning. It's got indie classics, some extremely well-hidden gems, and plenty of recent suc
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  • American Horror Story season 12 will star Kim Kardashian and Emma Roberts

    American Horror Story season 12 will star Kim Kardashian and Emma Roberts
    Big news has surfaced about American Horror Story season 12: it's set to star Kim Kardashian alongside returning series veteran Emma Roberts.Revealed in a very, very cryptic teaser shared to Kardashian's Twitter, the 12th season of American Horror Story will debut this summer. There still isn't a title beyond the "AHS12" branding, and we don't know who else will be included in the cast beyond Kardashian and Roberts, but the words "Emma and Kim are delicate" can be heard and seen in the teaser. H
  • Everyone said this new Metroidvania is a "near-perfect mix of Celeste and Hollow Knight," and I see what they meant

    Everyone said this new Metroidvania is a "near-perfect mix of Celeste and Hollow Knight," and I see what they meant
    After a stay in Steam Early Access, Metroidvania platformer Lone Fungus has officially launched, and to glowing comparisons to genre standouts like Hollow Knight and Celeste. This little indie, which was developed solo over at Basti Games, caught my eye for a few reasons. It's pitched as "a handcrafted open-world platformer set in a world built by mushrooms," and that sounds like an adorable take on one of my favorite genres. And while it's not overflowing with reviews – though 94% of
  • You can now play all of Half-Life Alyx without VR thanks to this mod

    You can now play all of Half-Life Alyx without VR thanks to this mod
    A Half-Life Alyx mod that lets you play the game without VR has received its "biggest update yet," opening up the full campaign to folks who can't or simply don't want to wear a headset.Via Mod DB, the Half-Life Alyx "NoVR mod" now lets you play through the entirety of Valve's 2020 VR darling just like it's a normal PC game. The mod has been available for a while, but according to the creators, this is the first time it's been playable from start to finish, complete with working gravity gloves,
  • Ark: Survival Evolved devs respond to backlash over $50 remaster: now it costs $60 and comes with DLC instead of Ark 2

    Ark: Survival Evolved devs respond to backlash over $50 remaster: now it costs $60 and comes with DLC instead of Ark 2
    After considerable backlash to its plans of selling a major Ark: Survival Evolved update that was previously set to be free, developer Studio Wildcard has responded by making the pricey upgrade slightly pricier.Ark is upgrading to Unreal Engine 5, and the developers said in the past that this update would be a free one. Last week, they announced that this upgrade would actually come in the form of Ark: Survival Ascended, a full-on remaster that would only be available to Xbox and PC players as p
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  • Netflix announces Stranger Things animated series

    Netflix announces Stranger Things animated series
    Netflix has announced a Stranger Things animated series to be produced by Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer, creators of the live-action sci-fi show that'll soon be filming its fifth and final season.The Duffer brothers will executive produce the Stranger things animated series under the same Upside Down Pictures banner as the live-action counterpart. They'll be joined by Eric Robles' Flying Bark Productions as well as Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen's 21 Laps production team."We've always dreamed of an anim
  • Jack Black wants Pedro Pascal to voice Wario in The Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel

    Jack Black wants Pedro Pascal to voice Wario in The Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel
    Jack Black thinks Pedro Pascal should voice Wario in the inevitable sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie.“You know, what if there is a more powerful, more evil villain? Then I may need to be turned to help Mario and the rest to defend our universe against some other unseen force of evil," Black, who voices Bowser in the film, told GameSpot. Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Wario. Pedro Pascal is Wario.”Added Black: “It’s not a given that Bowser will return. You
  • Rumored Persona 3 remake and Jet Set Radio reboot sure look real in leaked Sega footage

    Rumored Persona 3 remake and Jet Set Radio reboot sure look real in leaked Sega footage
    A brief bit of leaked footage now circulating the internet shows what appears to be our first glimpse at the long-rumored Persona 3 remake and Jet Set Radio reboot.Your best bet for seeing the footage right now is through Twitter user AVtoGAMEnoYAMI, who posted the clip in full courtesy of an "anonymous user DM." The original source of the footage is impossible to verify right now, as are claims that it originates from an internal Sega meeting held in 2021. The footage shows a montage of games,
  • Nintendo subpoenas Discord in pursuit of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom leaker

    Nintendo subpoenas Discord in pursuit of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom leaker
    Months after the release of leaked images lifted from an unreleased art book for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo has subpoenaed Discord looking to identify the leaker.As TorrentFreak spotted, a lawyer representing Nintendo of America filed a DMCA subpoena on April 7. The notice specifically mentions the leaked art book and calls for Discord to disclose the identity of the user who shared it via the unofficial Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Discord server. The company is calling
  • Star Wars: The Bad Batch to end after season 3

    Star Wars: The Bad Batch to end after season 3
    Clone Force 99 will return for one final mission."The story’s not over… The Bad Batch will be back for a third and final season," announced head writer Jennifer Corbett at Star Wars Celebration 2023. Executive producers Brad Rau and Athena Portillo were also present for the panel.The animated series, created by Dave Filoni, follows a group of elite clones with genetic mutations in the aftermath of the Clone Wars, Order 66, and the rise of the Empire. The first season premiered with
  • After a disappointing update, Genshin Impact pulls out the big guns: a new cat girl

    After a disappointing update, Genshin Impact pulls out the big guns: a new cat girl
    After the disappointing release of Dehya and Mika in update 3.5, Genshin Impact is returning to Inazuma and pulling out the big guns with a new Dendro cat girl named Kirara for update 3.7. Kirara was announced out of nowhere this morning. New playable characters are often teased ahead of time through story missions, cutscenes, or at least lore trailers, but to my embarrassingly extensive Genshin knowledge, we'd never seen a trace of Kirara until now, making her a total surprise.Unlike honor
  • Everything announced at Star Wars Celebration 2023

    Everything announced at Star Wars Celebration 2023
    This year's Star Wars Celebration started with a galactic bang with Lucasfilm's bumper studio panel, which dropped reveal after reveal. There were tons of exclusive looks at upcoming projects, too, including Skeleton Crew and The Acolyte. If that wasn't enough, there was the first Ahsoka trailer and a new Indiana Jones 5 trailer, too. That's a lot to keep up with, so to make things easy for you, we've pulled together all the major announcements and our coverage into one place. For even more

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