Enlarge / Buying this innocuous-looking Overwatch loot box could be considered a form of gambling. Thus far, the fight to regulate video game loot boxes has been a piecemeal effort moving forward in very different ways in different jurisdictions. Today, though, an international group of regulators from 15 European regulation bodies and Washington state in ..
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Enlarge (credit: Rich Bowen / Flickr) Science documentaries face a real challenge when it comes to drawing in an audience that isn’t already committed to caring about science. Finding new ways to say “You should really go see this, it’s not just about science” is often a struggle. Science Fair is a rare entry in ..
Enlarge (credit: Asmodee Digital) Scythe is a heavy German-style board game that combines worker placement, area control, resource management, a little combat, and a point salad scoring with a setup so ornate that Alice Waters wanted to put it on her menu (read our original review of the game to see for yourself.) Scythe has been among ..
Enlarge / Chuck (Alyson Hannigan) offers timely advice to summer camp counselor Sam (Fran Kranz) who finds himself dealing with a crazed killer. (credit: Curmudgeon Inc) Last July, Twitter denizens relished a hilarious improvisational thread between fantasy authors Chuck Wendig and Sam Sykes, in which the latter was a summer camp counselor in the midst ..
Enlarge / Better keep paying for your Switch Online subscription if you want that cloud-based save data to remain accessible. (credit: Nintendo) Nintendo Switch game save data stored in the cloud is only available “as long as you have an active Nintendo Switch Online membership.” If you eventually cancel the $20/year subscription, Nintendo is “unable ..
Nintendo After a delay in light of a Japanese earthquake, Nintendo’s latest Direct video presentation finally went live on Thursday evening, and it included confirmations of long-rumored games and ports for the Nintendo Switch—along with a surprise NES controller pack launching next week. Coming September 18, the same day as the new paid Nintendo Switch ..
Enlarge (credit: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images) For over two years now, Pokémon Go‘s in-game Pokéstops and Gyms have been placed in real-world locations derived from Niantic’s previous GPS-based game, Ingress. Now, the developer is slowly rolling out the ability for Pokémon Go players to nominate their own places of interest to be integrated into the game. ..
Enlarge / Late Night With Conan O’Brien‘s very first episode began with a lengthy skit about how much pressure he faced as David Letterman’s replacement. (credit: Team Coco) Exactly 25 years ago today, NBC gave one of its coveted late-night hosting slots to a complete Hollywood unknown, with only a few TV series’ writing credits ..
Enlarge / Conflicted demon Michael (Ted Danson) prepares for his first visit to Earth in The Good Place Season 3. (credit: NBC/Universal) There are still two weeks until NBC’s hit sitcom The Good Place returns for its third season. But Entertainment Weekly snagged a sneak peek at the first scene of the premier episode. And ..
Enlarge (credit: Activision) News about the latest annual Call of Duty video game has mostly revolved around what’s missing: a single-player campaign. Activision is rolling the dice this year on November’s CoD: Black Ops 4 by focusing entirely on online multiplayer, and your opinion on that may range from “wtf Activision” to “I only play multiplayer, ..
