Enlarge / The Battletoads are back. We wish that were better news. reader comments 20 with 14 posters participating, including story author Share this story When Battletoads arrived on the Nintendo Entertainment System in June 1991, it rode on a wave of limited-time momentum in the West. Ninja Turtles fever was still a thing. The ..
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reader comments 55 with 42 posters participating Share this story As we scoot ever-closer to the November launch of the Xbox Series X, Microsoft is highlighting some upcoming changes to its “Xbox Experience” interface. Those improvements will start to roll out to the Xbox One as well in the coming weeks, Microsoft says, before the ..
reader comments 8 with 8 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] John Cusack and Rainn Wilson star in Amazon Prime’s black comedy/conspiracy thriller Utopia. Last month at the virtual San Diego Comic Con, Amazon dropped the first teaser for Utopia, a reboot (adapted by Gone Girl and Sharp Objects author Gillian Flynn) of the controversial ..
Oculus / Aurich Lawson reader comments 156 with 117 posters participating Share this story The next generation of virtual reality headsets remains unclear, but the VR software ecosystem just firmed up an unsurprising—and potentially unwelcome—requirement for a huge swath of users. Starting “this October,” anyone brand-new to the Oculus VR ecosystem will be forced to ..
reader comments 13 with 13 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Video of Quake Arcade Tournament Edition, featuring the “Instaprize!” backpacks. Since its 1996 PC release, id’s seminal shooter Quake has been ported to everything from flip phones and smartphones to game consoles and Web browsers. But even many serious fans of the series ..
reader comments 29 with 23 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Fraternal twin sisters Sterling (Maddie Phillips) and Blair (Anjelica Bette Fellini) join forces with bounty hunter Bowser Simmons (Kadeem Hardison) in the new Netflix series Teenage Bounty Hunters. Twin sisters juggle the demands of high school, their Christian youth group, and raging hormones ..
reader comments 31 with 29 posters participating, including story author Share this story Jamie Foxx plays The Major (whose name we eventually learn is Art), a veteran trying to hunt down the creators of the Power pills. SKIP BOLEN/NETFLIX © 2020 Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Frank, one of the “good” cops of the NOPD who recognizes ..
reader comments 21 with 18 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Sure, you could watch some film on Netflix this weekend… or you can learn all you ever wanted to about the great Subnautica. Directed by Sean Dacanay, edited by Jeremy Smolik. Around Ars, we always knew Subnautica was special. The gaming world has ..
reader comments 46 with 31 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] One last mission: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ended its seven-year run with a two-part finale. Agent Phil Coulson and his plucky team of superheroes battled an alien race of Chronicoms in a high-octane journey through multiple time periods in the seventh and final ..
Aurich Lawson / Getty Images reader comments 15 with 12 posters participating Share this story Yesterday, Epic used Fortnite to essentially wage open war against Apple’s and Google’s mobile app marketplaces. First it added a discounted “Epic Direct Payment” option alongside the standard iOS App Store and Google Play payment options in Fortnite, in direct ..
