Life-size Fallout protectron cosplay that people mistake for screenshots
The strangest compliment a video game cosplay can get is "this isn't cosplay." When a costume is so accurate that viewers hunt for a game interface in the frame, suspect upscaling mods, and flat-out refuse...
Why the theatrical version of The Lord of the Rings works better than the director's cut
Extended cuts are usually seen as a gift to fans, with more scenes, more lore, and more of a beloved world. But the extra minutes can work like a spoiler the director cut into his...
Why the wizard in Baldur's Gate 3 silently watches the barbarian fail a magic check
RPGs love to talk about friendship, trust, and a tight-knit party, but the mechanics sometimes shatter that idyll with a roll of the d20. Picture a hero with the intelligence of a stool trying to...
44 years ago Sony released the world's first CD player, and adjusted for inflation it cost about $3,700
44 years ago, on October 1, 1982, Sony put the world's first consumer CD player on sale. The CDP-101 kicked off the era of digital audio on compact discs, and shoppers in Japan could pick...
Deleted scene from The Return of the King where Aragorn broke the laws of war
Some of the creepiest scenes in a film are the ones most viewers never got to see in theaters. Worse, in just five minutes of screen time, a noble king becomes a war criminal, and...
Manga titles have doubled in length over 15 years, and the words "Isekai" and "Reincarnation" appear in them more and more often
Japanese e-book distributor and publisher BookLive analyzed manga titles, sales, and buying habits over the past 15 years. The study turned up several clear shifts. The average title length for a first volume grew from...
BBC head says he was sent a 50-minute AI-made episode of Doctor Who – and it was "not bad"
BBC boss Matt Brittin has shared his thoughts on AI and revealed that someone sent him an AI-generated episode of Doctor Who. Speaking at the Royal Television Society conference, he rated the result fairly highly....
The events of Songs of the Past for The Witcher 3 take place after Blood and Wine, but you don't have to complete the expansion
CD Projekt RED revealed where the The Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past fits in the timeline and what players need to finish before starting it. The story takes place after the ending of...
The fifth season of Reacher will be based on the most "disgusting" book about the character
Reacher season 5 with Alan Ritchson just got new details. Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher novel series and creator of the franchise, revealed that the new season adapts one of the darkest books...
HBO's Harry Potter series will abandon the iconic Hogwarts theme
HBO Harry Potter series is preparing for major changes, and one of them might hit fans harder than the rest. It concerns dropping the iconic musical theme familiar to millions of viewers from the original...
Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Werwulf trailer
Focus Features has dropped the second trailer for Werwulf – a grim horror flick from director Robert Eggers, known for The Lighthouse and Nosferatu. The film takes viewers to a remote English village in the...
Wet socks and scattered bullets – why the hero of the new Resident Evil adaptation is more honest than Leon
Anyone who has ever played through Resident Evil secretly believes they'd handle a zombie outbreak just as well as Leon Kennedy. Cool-headed reloads, headshots, a snappy one-liner at the end. In reality, most of us...
Former Naughty Dog artist confirmed that Sam was the villain in Amy Hennig's version of Uncharted 4 – the game's first demo ran on PC at 1 FPS
It has been more than 10 years since the release of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, but fans of the series are still trying to piece together what the game might have looked like under...
Creative Assembly didn't have enough UE5 for Alien: Isolation 2, so the studio used its own technology
Developers of Alien: Isolation 2 believe that Unreal Engine 5 alone isn't enough to build a truly convincing horror game. That's why Creative Assembly decided to build its own lighting and audio technology on top...
You can buy yourself an arcade machine with 1200 games for PS1 for your birthday, but without L2 and R2 buttons
Nostalgia sells better than anything new, and the pricier it gets, the less buyers seem to care about details. Sometimes those details get ignored entirely. Take, for example, dropping $1,200 on a PlayStation arcade machine...
Her Story creator Sam Barlow explains why focus groups can harm games amid Wolverine criticism
Immortality and Her Story creator Sam Barlow spoke out about problems with focus testing in movies and games – and how it can end up shaping creative decisions for the worse. The trigger was recent...
First photos from The Hunt for Gollum shows the Shire and possibly Frodo
Warner Bros. released the first set photos from The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum. The reveal lines up with Hobbit Day, celebrated every year on September 22 in honor of Bilbo and...
David and Lucy from Cyberpunk Edgerunners in Fallout, Mass Effect, Persona, Red Dead Redemption and other universes
The suffix "-punk" stopped being a genre marker a long time ago and turned into a universal aesthetic generator: take any technology, add social inequality, and you're done. Dieselpunk, atompunk, solarpunk, shibuyapunk – the list...
The head of a Japanese anime studio said that the era of overwork and $350 salaries is becoming a thing of the past
Motoki Tanaka, known by the alias Tensho, founder and CEO of Bibury Animation Studios, took to X to address people hoping to break into the anime industry. According to him, working conditions and pay have...
Typewriter, green grass, and a shotgun on the wall – why the new Resident Evil movie is still Resident Evil
A game adaptation can follow the source material to the letter and still feel completely dead, or it can skip every recognizable logo and still feel like the truest thing to the series. The debate...
