Unless you’re trying to remain entirely unspoiled about God of War: Ragnarok before you play it on November 9th, I highly recommend you check out the game’s latest story trailer. Like most of the game’s promotion material thus far, it’s an enticing preview of what is to come as well as an incredibly well-done piece
Month: September 2022
The following contains spoilers for Resident Alien. Resident Alien season 2 has seen its fair share of game-changing events, from the birth of an alien baby to the revelation that Harry is actually the mysterious being known as Goliath who has journeyed back in time trying to change his own future. But despite several shocking
We are in the middle of a Yakuza renaissance, or at least we would be if the franchise still went by that name. Going forward, we should actually say that we are in the middle of a Like a Dragon renaissance. Yes, Sega has seemingly changed the Western name of one of its fastest-growing global
Warning: this The Handmaid’s Tale review contains spoilers. The vast majority of The Handmaid’s Tale viewers won’t know what it feels like to tear their tormentor to actual shreds (see that corpse prosthetic in the mortuary scene? Those girls really did a number on Fred). Thanks to ‘Morning’ though, we got a pretty good idea. It clearly feels… incredible.
Fans of NBC’s Law & Order franchise are in for a treat this season — Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, and Law & Order: Organized Crime will be joining forces for the series’ first ever crossover event on Sept. 22. This historic three-hour event will serve as the season premiere for all three
While the Assassin’s Creed franchise has consistently been one of Ubisoft’s more lucrative properties since it debuted in 2007, the series has endured quite a few highs and lows throughout the years. Given recent developments, the ghosts of Assassin’s Creed games past could rear their ugly heads again very soon. Over the weekend, Ubisoft held
In House of the Dragon, Matt Smith practically walks away with every scene he’s in. Only Milly Alcock really gives him a run for his money, but even then, they elevate each other’s performances rather than distracting from them. But even so, there is something familiar about Daemon Targaryen. The mirthless laughter. The smile that
Nobody loves to make last-minute announcements as much as Nintendo. While most video game companies like to hype up their reveals and showcases days and weeks in advance in order to drum up interest, Nintendo often elects to go the Beyonce route and just surprise drop the biggest shows of the season. That strange tradition
While we eagerly await the return of The Mandalorian, the season 3 trailer that debuted at D23 this weekend is full of easter eggs and hints as to where this season will take our favorite father and son duo Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and Grogu. One of the more unexpected and intriguing of these easter
It’s difficult to overstate just how hard the Sega Dreamcast flopped in the grand scheme of things. Despite allegedly being the most powerful console on the market at the time of its release, the Sega Dreamcast sold poorly and ended up killing Sega’s console hardware business. However, just because the Dreamcast was a sales failure
Supervillain team-ups have been around almost as long as superheroes themselves. Heck, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law big bad Titania had her start in one of comics’ most famous team-ups Secret Wars, where she and Volcana immediately join forces with Doctor Doom. But after the fourth episode of She-Hulk’s Disney+ series, fans want to see the
This House of the Dragon article contains spoilers for episode 4. The opening moments of House of the Dragon episode 4 “King of the Narrow Sea” feature an unfortunate but necessary bit of Westerosi politicking. In an attempt to humor her father, Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Milly Alcock) has arrived at Storm’s End to hear marriage
SHIELD seemed so cool at first. Well, that’s not strictly true. When Agent Phil Coulson sheepishly arrived in Iron Man, babbling about the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division, he just seemed like one more nerd for Tony Stark to dunk on. But when Nick Fury showed up in Stark’s penthouse to talk about
Coming less than two months after its blowout panel/spectacle at 2022’s San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios’ presentation at parent company Disney’s own D23 Expo was preceded by massive expectations out in fandom and the Twitterverse. The reasoning was that Marvel – even after laying out all of Phase 5 and parts of Phase 6 in
This Lord of the Rings article contains spoilers for The Rings of Power. This week’s episode of Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power introduces Elendil, one of the very few characters in the series who also appears in Peter Jackson’s film trilogy. But if you blink you will miss him. In the battle sequence
During the 16-bit era, it was almost an unwritten rule that you had to have a boss at the end of every level. It was just the formula at the time, especially in an era dominated by side-scrollers. Some developers would take the easy way out and make an enemy with a simple pattern that
This Lord of the Rings article contains spoilers for The Rings of Power. The third episode of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power sees the show begin to stretch its wings narratively speaking, introducing several characters whose names will sound very familiar to Lord of the Rings fans, such as Isildur and
Next month, writers Tom King and Phil Hester are teaming up to bring back one of Gotham City’s oldest protectors. No, not Batman. Heck, I’m not even talking about the original Green Lantern and his cabbie sidekick Doiby Dickles. I mean Slam Bradley, the hard-drinking, hard-talking PI. Originally a lead character in Detective Comics, Bradley
As the nights draw in and autumn arrives, some of the year’s hottest TV shows hit our screens, and drama is no exception. In amongst the new series of cult reality shows like The Great British Bake Off, Strictly Come Dancing, Drag Race UK and I’m a Celebrity, UK TV networks start a fierce competition
It’s no secret that Cyberpunk 2077 launched in a disappointing, broken state in 2020, and CD Projekt RED has spent the last two years playing catch-up to fix a myriad of issues. This work has primarily consisted of patches that cleaned up bugs, made tweaks to gameplay, and added missing features. The just-released Patch 1.6,
May the wind be at our backs! Although that nautical seafaring line sounds like something Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) might have said to the crew of the USS Enterprise 1701-D, the truth is, that line comes from Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) in Star Trek III: The Search For Spock. And now, as Picard
The most important aspect of any open world game is its map. If you can’t make a game a joy to explore, what’s the point of making it so big in the first place? It’s a challenge Nintendo and The Pokémon Company will have to face in the fall. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are poised
This article contains spoilers for RICK AND MORTY season 6 episode 1. Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland’s hit animated sci-fi sitcom Rick and Morty has struggled with a bit of an identity crisis from the outset. Is it a show about the importance of family or a nihilistic treatise on how nothing matters? Is it
The last official Star Fox game, 2016’s Star Fox Zero, was a bit of a misfire due in no small part to it releasing on the Wii U and requiring the GamePad to properly aim at enemies. Fortunately, when Nintendo games fail to live up to expectations — or when the developer itself doesn’t listen
Despite the fact that a teaser trailer has been released, we still don’t know much about Star Wars: Ahsoka, the upcoming Disney+ series from Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau. In fact, we don’t even know when the first season will hit our screens, as official channels still list the show’s premiere as “early 2023.” And
“I can quote it,” Nubia: Queen of the Amazons writer Stephanie Williams says of the first Nubia story ever published. “That’s how much I read it.” First created by Robert Kanigher and Don Heck in the pages of 1973’s Wonder Woman #204, Nubia marked a historic moment for DC Comics at the time. This was
Kids today are their own TV schedulers. They have the power to tailor the world’s colossal programming output to their own tastes at the touch of a button, whenever they want. Back in the 1980s, UK kids had barely four channels to rub together, and the child-centric output was infrequent and heavily rationed. Treats for
The Legend of Zelda primarily revolves around three characters: protagonists Princess Zelda (duh) and Link, as well as the villainous Ganondorf. Or is it Ganon? Ganon is arguably one of the most iconic villains in video game history, which is especially impressive when you consider he was also one of the first. When gamers were
This Lord of the Rings article contains spoilers for The Rings of Power. The first two episodes of The Rings of Power packed in plenty of surprises for anxious Lord of the Rings fans. Not only did we learn what all of that meteor business was about but the show also set up the potential
Enough already with the prequels. From Marvel to Lucasfilm, from House of the Dragon to The Lord of the Rings, from one horror classic to another, Hollywood is fully investing in and doubling down on movies and TV series that show us what happened before the iconic or classic films and series that we already