Enlarge (credit: Paramount) Remember when Tom Cruise could do no wrong—on top of the media world, as opposed to the top of Oprah Winfrey’s couch? At his ’80s best, a single Cruise wink-and-smile could melt the hearts of just about any watcher of shameless, crowd-pleasing films like Cocktail and Top Gun. Mission: Impossible – Fallout ..
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Nintendo Despite anecdotal evidence that Nintendo’s cardboard-filled Labo series hasn’t yet sold gangbusters, the Japanese game maker is apparently going full-speed ahead with the weird series. Nintendo took a late-Thursday opportunity to unveil the Labo Vehicle Kit, coming this September to Nintendo Switch. The $69.99 product will include three separate build-your-own steering chassis: the Toy-Con ..
Enlarge (credit: HTC) Taiwanese electronics manufacturer HTC used its position as a VR headset maker to shoot back at the industry’s critics on Thursday. The resulting story HTC tells is an interesting one, both because it makes new claims about VR revenue figures and because any brags from beleaguered HTC about revenue drip with irony ..
SEATTLE—Earlier this year, Microsoft unveiled the new Xbox Adaptive Controller, and our hands-on time made us believe it may truly bridge the accessibility gap for gamers when it launches this September. During the reveal event, however, Xbox head Phil Spencer repeatedly referred to something that wasn’t available for us to test out: the XAC’s box. ..
CBS After a raucous Season 1, CBS dropped a first glimpse into the forthcoming Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery last Friday at San Diego Comic-Con International. The season will begin January 2019. Spoilers ahead. If you continue to read and then complain about spoilers, you’ll be sent to Rura Penthe. Read 35 remaining paragraphs ..
Enlarge (credit: Capcom) Today’s launch of the Mega Man X Legacy Collection series is a biggie in the retro-anthology craze. At its best, Capcom’s “X” fork of Mega Man puts a giant exclamation point at the end of the “action-platformer” genre. Basically, if you crave a brutally tough mix of high-speed jumps, pesky enemies, overcharged weapons, ..
Enlarge / Data from PC Part Picker (credit: Timothy B. Lee, data from PC Part Picker) About a year ago, graphics card prices started to go crazy. Then in early 2018, things got even crazier. The price of a Radeon RX 570—a mid-range graphics card popular for cryptocurrency mining—soared from under $200 in April 2017 ..
The Xbox power button lights up when turned on; otherwise, it’s solid black, not shiny-silver. Last month, we learned that Microsoft is developing a pair of new Xboxes for release in 2020 under the codename Scarlett. One system will be a full console; the other will be a cloud-connected system for streaming games. Today, Brad ..
Enlarge / Though LoveROMs acted quickly to remove all traces of Nintendo-related content at its site, its 404 page still redirects to this Chrono Trigger (SNES) homage. (credit: LoveROMs) Nintendo’s attitude toward ROM releases—either original games’ files or fan-made edits—has often erred on the side of litigiousness. But in most cases, the game producer has ..
Enlarge / The deeper you go, the more alien the Endless Harvest becomes. (credit: Red Hook Games) Darkest Dungeon’s newest DLC isn’t quite like anything else in the game prior. The expansion, called “The Color of Madness,” is a clear homage to an H.P. Lovecraft story—“The Colour Out of Space”—in a game already full of ..
