After recently playing Avowed, I started thinking about how many great video games were also spin-offs of existing series. There are some cases where spin-off titles have become so much more popular than the games they originated from that I didn’t even realize there weren’t the first in the series. I quickly realized a lot […]
I have a wonderfully vague memory of a game my older brothers used to play on the Commodore 64 back in the day. It was a platform game, with pixel heroes and floating gantries and ladders and all that jazz, but there was also a wheelbarrow, and you needed the wheelbarrow to hold all the […]
Adam Sandler‘s 2015 sci-fi comedy movie Pixels will soon have a new streaming home. It will be available on Netflix starting April 11. Pixels was directed by legendary filmmaker Chris Columbus (Home Alone, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone). Sandler stars as Sam Brenner, a former arcade video game champion who unites with other players […]
Over the past four months, Polish game developer CD Projekt Red has hired over 50 new employees to work on The Witcher 4 and other titles. The new entry in the iconic Witcher series is the only project currently in production, but CDPR has boosted the working numbers of almost all its other project departments. […]
Hyundai is yet again pushing the boundaries of electric car design with the wild Insteroid concept. Based on the recently revealed Inster EV it adds muscle car elements and gaming-inspired features. The result is a striking concept that Hyundai claims was designed to ignite an emotional connection with electric vehicles. The Insteroid’s design is as […]
Love Letters What about “The Last of Us,” “It Takes Two,” “Final Fantasy,” or … “Pac-Man”? “Love Letters Logo” When I think about my parents’ divorce, sometimes I hear a song. The “Super Mario Bros.” theme song. Why? It’s the game I played during those complicated years. Anytime I needed to self-soothe, I got out […]
With games like Ghost of Tsushima, and Assassin’s Creed Shadows more recently, being set in various periods across historical Japan, the developers of the games upped the realism by including real-world locations in each of the games. While this has the added benefit of grounding the game and sharing some of Japan’s cultural heritage with […]
Defending champs UConn vs No. 1 seed Florida leads Sunday slate Mackenzie Salmon previews the best games during Sundays slate of games in the round of 32 including the defending champs UConn taking on Florida. Sports Seriously The NCAA men’s basketball tournament comes at you fast. If you blink, you’ll miss the field of 64 […]
The PlayStation Store currently has one of the best video game trilogies on sale for $5.99, thanks to a 90 percent discount. This means rather than pay $60 for the trilogy, PS4 and PS5 users can pay essentially $2 a game and save $54. That said, this PSN deal is only available for a limited […]
There are technological and biological wonders inside the sleek San Gabriel offices of Seamus Blackley, which are evasively named — intentionally so — Pacific Light & Hologram. Best known as the creator of Microsoft’s Xbox video game console, Blackley can’t talk about his latest computer work — he’ll discuss it only under a “Friend-D-A,” a […]