DC’s Injustice Picked the Right Fight at the Right Time
Superheroes have been punching each other in their face for decades, and doing that in video games almost as long. Every once in a while, the superhero genre crosses over…
Star Trek: Picard’s Showrunner on How That Big Twist Wouldn’t Affect a Legacy Spinoff
This week’s Star Trek: Picard set up big stakes for what will be the very last episode of the series—and you can’t have big stakes without some big threats and…
James Mangold’s Star Wars Movie Has Infinite Potential
I can’t stop thinking about it. Since the minute it was officially announced that James Mangold would be writing and directing a film about the Dawn of the Jedi, I…
Sul Sul: Study Mixes ChatGPT With ‘The Sims’ to Delightful Effect
At long last, researchers from Stanford University and Google teamed up to answer one of the most pressing questions about AI: Can we make ChatGPT play The Sims? The answer,…
New Jedi Survivor Trailer Puts Cal in the Fight of His Life
Image: Respawn/EA/Lucasfilm This weekend is Star Wars Celebration 2023, and even Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is getting a little bit of love. Respawn’s sequel to its 2019 breakout releases at…
11 Things We Want to See in the Dungeons & Dragons Sequel
Inset of 2014 Monster Manual cover by Raymond Swanland.Image: Wizards of the Coast We got to see a great many classic D&D monsters in Honor Among Thieves, including Owlbears, Displacer…
Activision Blizzard Settles Antitrust Suit Alleging It Imposed Salary Caps on Professional Overwatch and Call of Duty Players
The Department of Justice said Monday that it had reached a settlement with gaming giant Activision Blizzard over a complaint accusing the company of financially penalizing successful Overwatch and Call…
Indiana Jones’ Hunt For the Idol, Ark, and Holy Grail Continues in 3 New Lego Sets
Image: Lego We’ve still got over three months to wait before Harrison Ford returns and is joined by Phoebe Waller-Bridge in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and while…
Amazon Wants to Make Lara Croft Into a Tomb Raider Universe
Image: Crystal Dynamics/Square Enix Yesterday, the news broke that Phoebe Waller-Bridge was creating a TV adaptation for Crystal Dynamics’ long-running Tomb Runner franchise for Prime Video. On its own, that…
A Bug in Grand Theft Auto Online Is Allegedly Being Exploited to Corrupt PC Players’ Accounts
Photo: Sergei Elagin (Shutterstock) Reports indicate that a bug in Grand Theft Auto V Online is putting PC gamers’ gameplay—and even, potentially, hardware—at risk. CC Off English The bug is…