Players promised to kill the GTA 6 streamer in every possible way over the next 20 years
The NPC streamer from the trunk, shown off in the half-hour GTA 6 demonstration, has spent the past few days turning into the most wanted target among future players of the game. A thread promising...
Hearts of Iron 4 fan got so immersed in the strategy game that he started seeing Hungary in his cat after the First Vienna Award
Long strategy games do something strange to the brain: it stops seeing the world map as just a map. First you memorize the shapes of countries, then the resource provinces, and at some point your...
Zack Snyder can't find a distributor for The Last Photograph due to excessive violence
Zack Snyder's already-completed film The Last Photograph has unexpectedly ended up without a distributor. According to an insider, the director hasn't been able to find a company willing to release the movie, and potential buyers...
In the Alien universe, there is a xenomorph king
The Alien universe leans heavily on insect biology, and insects come in a lot of different flavors. Bees and ants don't have kings, but termites do, and their king lives with the queen for decades...
Assassin's Creed Odyssey became the highest-rated game in the series on Steam thanks to Christopher Nolan's new film
Turns out the best advertising a game could ask for showed up in movie theaters. After the premiere of Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster "The Odyssey," Assassin's Creed Odyssey, the eleventh mainline entry in the series,...
Kit Harington will play Gilderoy Lockhart in the 'Harry Potter' series instead of Nicholas Hoult
Game of Thrones star Kit Harington is returning to HBO for another big fantasy production. The actor will play vain author and Defence Against the Dark Arts professor Gilderoy Lockhart in Season 2 of Harry...
The Odyssey viewer showed what it's like to watch the film in IMAX from the front row
Even though The Odyssey premiered more than a month ago, theaters are still running it hard in IMAX, since for now it's the only movie that can reliably pack seats at that premium price point....
Modern Warfare 4 developers will fix balding Captain Price – players nicknamed him "Lieutenant Receding"
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 developers have promised to fix Captain Price's look, whose haircut became a target for jokes during the beta test. The beta kicked off on August 21, and throughout it,...
"Avengers: Endgame" is preparing to surpass $3 billion at the box office – partly thanks to new color grading
Re-releases stopped being a nostalgic nod to classics a while ago and turned into their own revenue stream. Studios bring films back for anniversaries, for sequels, for basically any excuse, and now they're also tweaking...
In "Spider-Man: New Day" Peter Parker earns $28,080 a year – but he doesn't stay broke
YouTuber Talkin' Bout crunched the numbers on Peter Parker budget from Spider-Man: Brand New Day and came up with a figure of $594 in leftover cash for the year. That sounds pretty rough, especially considering...
Premiere of Lanterns on HBO Max turned out to be more successful than The Penguin and Peacemaker
Lanterns from DC Studios kicked off with strong numbers, beating out other major releases on the platform. Over its first three days on HBO and HBO Max, the series pulled in 9.3 million viewers globally...
Viggo Mortensen paid a hefty legal bill for stunt performers on the set of "The Lord of the Rings"
The gap between a screen hero and the person playing him is usually measured by the size of the PR budget. Sometimes, though, it works the other way around, and an actor turns out to...
The movie Oblivion with Tom Cruise predicted 13 years ago how AI would suck water from Earth
A joke about the 2013 movie Oblivion made the rounds online recently, framed around the idea that thirteen years ago, draining the oceans to power a giant AI was treated as bad news rather than...
The Elder Scrolls 6 will keep Skyrim's famous cheese physics – but Bethesda needs to find a use for it
The Elder Scrolls 6, rumored to carry the subtitle Sentinel, was teased back in 2019, and a release date remains a mystery. One of the few confirmed details concerns the technical foundation – the game...
8 years later, Marvel fans are once again arguing about how Thanos knew Tony Stark's name
A short exchange on Titan from Avengers: Infinity War keeps popping up in discussions eight years after the movie premiered. As you probably remember, Thanos addresses the hero by his last name, Stark asks in...
Ciri defeats a manticore in new The Witcher 4 concept art – this monster was cut from the third game
CD Projekt RED shared a new concept art from the The Witcher 4 universe showing Ciri locked in a deadly battle with a manticore. The piece, framed in an elegant black border, captures the climactic...
Beautiful, expensive, and unbearable – games where you want to skip every cutscene
Game technology keeps improving at breakneck speed, but writing departments don't get the same treatment – if anything, they're usually the first thing studios cut. Developers can render individual skin pores, simulate fabric physics down...
Analyst who worked at EA for nine years doesn't believe in a new Mass Effect release after the deal with Saudi Arabia
This month, EA came under the control of a consortium made up of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, along with investment firms Silver Lake and Affinity Partners. Employees at the publisher are already bracing for...
Gamer created a handy guide for finding all the Barenziah Stones in Skyrim and claims you'll "definitely thank him later"
Some quests are memorable for their story, and some are memorable for making players grab a notebook. "Thank Me Later" falls into the second category: two dozen identical purple stones scattered across Skyrim without a...
Dave Bautista replaces Ryan Hurst as Kratos in the God of War series
Dave Bautista has signed on to play Kratos in Prime Video's fantasy drama God of War. Bautista joined the project after Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television decided to recast the role that was...
