What is the most brutal battlefront in Star Wars history—the sands of Geonosis? The harsh icewinds of Hoth? The teddy bear-infused terror of Endor’s forests? The dark nights of Umbara? The answer we’re looking for was delivered 20 years ago in one of the all-time classic Star Wars games: this bridge. This week Lucasfilm and … Read more
Image: Rochlin/FilmMagic (Getty Images) Once upon a time, Gore Verbinski was releasing movies at a reliable cadence, from Mouse Hunt and The Ring to the Pirates of the Carribean trilogy. Things took a turn in the 2010s with a pair of box office bombs: 2013’s The Lone Ranger and 2016’s A Cure for Wellness. He’s … Read more
Even though the Covenant are the other side of Halo’s ongoing conflict, the first season of Paramount+’s TV series largely represented them through a human proxy named Makee. With the upcoming second season, the coalition of alien races is set to become a more prominent threat, and that means they’ll be getting more proper screentime. … Read more
Believe it or not, these are not even the weirdest ways folks have found to play Doom.Gif: YouTube – Sprite_TM / Ancient / SeanHodgins If anybody remembers the old “Can it run Crysis?” meme, the joke has long since fallen flat as more games have long exceeded the specs requirement on that 16-year-old game. On … Read more
Image: Paramount The first season of Halo’s TV adaptation was sometimes interesting, but also kind of a mess. With a new timeline to work with, the show took some sharp divergences, shall we say, and things ended in such a way you weren’t fully sure how we were going to make it to Halo: Combat … Read more
These days, pretty much any video game is ripe to be adapted for a movie or TV show. But that didn’t make it any less odd when it was revealed Netflix was aiming to make a cartoon out of 2013’s Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, a retrofuture parody of 80s action media. That fondly remembered … Read more
Microsoft’s large deal to eat up one of many greatest energy pellets of the online game business acquired a lift from EU regulators. On Monday, the European Fee—the physique overseeing the Microsoft/Activision Blizzard merger—introduced it had permitted the $68.7 billion deal to go ahead, so long as the businesses pinkie swear they’ll throw a aggressive … Read more