reader comments 62 Share this story During a major annual tournament for the fighting game Street Fighter V, the series’ creators at Capcom announced the biggest anthology ever for the series—if not for Capcom as a game maker. On Sunday, the developers interrupted their Capcom Cup event to unveil the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, ..
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reader comments 57 Share this story Warning: this post contains some spoilers about the first episode of the new season of The Grand Tour. Some say it’s the greatest car show… in the world. Others say it started well but had a very patchy first season. All I know is that The Grand Tour came ..
Enlarge / Meet Thelma. Medical professionals can’t seem to nail down what’s happening in her brain… reader comments 7 Share this story You might not see a more stunning film in 2017 than Director Joachim Trier’s Thelma, Norway’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. It tonally combines the unbridled happiness of a ..
reader comments 132 Share this story The trailer for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is here, and it looks simultaneously ridiculous and self-important. This trailer is audiences’ first look at the film—very little information about the plot and few images were revealed previously. The gist of the storyline seems to be that Bryce Dallas Howard’s Claire ..
reader comments 57 Share this story The holiday gift-buying season is upon us, and that can mean only one thing: it’s time to buy way too many board games. For this year’s board game buyer’s guide, we went big—close to 10,000 words big. We split the guide into categories for easy reading, with around five solid ..
reader comments 107 Share this story The official Star Wars Twitter account shared one final short trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi yesterday, commemorating “VIII days” until the movie’s premiere. It’s only 30 seconds long, and it’s in that infuriating social video aspect ratio, but the new teaser does include some perplexing new material. ..
Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Sony fighting off the developers and players demanding cross-platform play for their games. reader comments 22 Share this story Amid all the pre-scripted announcements and canned trailers at last night’s Game Awards extravaganza, there were a few unexpected moments to the evening. And while A Way Out director Josef Fares’ ..
Enlarge / In addition to that sweet mixtape, here are just some of the prizes you could win by entering this year’s sweepstakes. reader comments 16 Share this story It’s that special time of year when we give you a chance to do well by doing good. That’s right—it’s time for the 2017 edition of ..
reader comments 59 Share this story This guy got lost on his way to Destiny 2 and ended up in Death Stranding. I did not get a screengrab of this guy stabbing himself repeatedly in the stomach to avoid whatever fate awaits him in the sky. You’re welcome. For the ultimate in fetus carrying accessories, ..
Enlarge / We’d like to imagine AlphaZero playing its chess within a 1980s’ style BBS system. Chris Wilkinson reader comments 0 Share this story We last heard from DeepMind’s dominant gaming AI in October. As opposed to earlier sessions of AlphaGo besting the world’s best Go players after the DeepMind team trained it on observations of said ..
