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There’s been a surprisingly strong run of Half-Life total conversions of late, by which I mean there have been two of them. November brought us Diffusion, a massively ambitious sci-fi adventure with some truly eye-popping environment design, especially considering the…
After five years, the PlayStation 5 is getting experimental with color. While we’ve gotten special edition designs and colorful faceplates in the past, this week, Sony announced a new line of “Hyperpop” faceplates that give the PS5 some especially bold…
The Witcher 3 may notionally be about helping Ciri defeat The Wild Hunt, but real heads know CD Projekt’s RPG is really about mending Geralt’s fractured relationship with Yennefer with the help of a stuffed unicorn. Navigating the love triangle…
From there, Deadpool digs up Logan’s body at the same gravesite he was buried in at the end of Logan, revealing Wolverine’s remains in an advanced state of decay, making his skeleton, still covered in near-indestructible adamantium metal, highly visible.
It’s no secret that major studios are struggling to put out successful games. Between increasing development turnarounds, ballooning budgets, cancellations and mass layoffs, the industry is finding it harder to reliably bring projects to conclusion, leading to fewer blockbusters coming…
Hollywood’s action genre owes a massive debt to John Woo. The Face/Off and The Killer director had his breakthrough with 1986’s A Better Tomorrow, whose stylized gun-fu sensibilities subverted expectations associated with Hong Kong’s martial arts-saturated action scene back then.…
Medieval city-builder Manor Lords had a quiet 2025, as its developer adjusted to the game’s enormous success following its release into Steam early access in 2024. Things picked up speed toward the end of the year, however, with a major…
Sundays are for trying to work out what the hell we’re supposed to do when every videogame company above a certain scale has business links to some kind of fearful death machine. And also, for rediscovering the joys of small…
Jennifer Hale knows firsthand how impactful playing video games can be. Over a video call with Polygon, the voice of Commander Shepard recounted a story of one Mass Effect player who first encountered BioWare’s series during physical therapy. “One woman…