reader comments 95 with 54 posters participating Share this story We opted to only share images from the game’s gussied-up trailer that actually resemble what we saw in the hands-off demo. The protagonist V lives in this sprawling apartment complex, which resembles modern-day LA buildings, though with grimy, tech-loaded tweaks like broken biometric scanners on ..
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reader comments 0 with 0 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Elisabeth Moss stars as a fictionalized version of author Shirley Jackson in the new film, Shirley. Author Shirley Jackson might not quite be a household name, but her work has been haunting American psyches for decades. Both Stephen King and Neil Gaiman cite ..
reader comments 65 with 37 posters participating Share this story As you might suspect, Bruce Lee trained hard. Young Bruce lived in Seattle, attending the University of Washington and meeting his future wife when he was training her in martial arts. Bruce Lee Family Archive / ESPN Like the young Michael Jordan shown in The ..
reader comments 120 with 79 posters participating, including story author Share this story Welcome back to Westwood’s classic RTS series in this week’s new Remastered Collection. EA / Petroglyph Let’s start this article with a dive into the game’s full-motion video selection. Some of the original footage is pretty darned grainy, in spite of AI ..
reader comments 111 with 70 posters participating Share this story A major investment group with substantial holdings in Activision stock is speaking out this week against the high compensation for Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick. The move comes ahead of a shareholder vote on executive pay scheduled for June 11. “Over the past four years, ..
reader comments 9 with 9 posters participating Share this story In case you thought climate catastrophe was a new thing for video games, remember Wind Waker kicks off due to the Great Flood, right? In 2011’s Fate of the World—which leveraged genuine scientific research to build its story—players lead the international organization in charge of ..
Wow. It may only be an incomplete prototype, but in a breathtaking span of time, SimRefinery has gone from a seemingly lost legend to a playable, downloadable video game. (That’s its real, full-resolution opening screen, as captured using a DOSBox emulator.) And it’s all thanks to an Ars Technica commenter. archive.org / Maxis / Chevron ..
reader comments 14 with 13 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Major Grom: Plague Doctor is adapted from the Russian comics of the same name. A rogue detective who doesn’t always play by the rules hunts a costumed vigilante serial killer in the first English-language trailer (well, subtitled) for a Russian superhero film called ..
reader comments 12 with 11 posters participating Share this story If you thought the 3-inch-wide Game Gear Micro was going to be the weirdest announcement out of Sega today, think again. Instead, we give that honor to the company’s announcement of a strange and somewhat amorphous concept known as “fog gaming,” which seems set to ..
reader comments 23 with 19 posters participating, including story author Share this story Slay the Spire‘s success story is a remarkable one. As one of thousands of games to land on Steam in 2017, this fusion of roguelite progression and “deckbuilding” mechanics, made by a heretofore unknown development team out of Seattle, managed to become ..
