Sandra Bullock is a highly accomplished and versatile actor who can absolutely nail drama, thrillers, and sci-fi just as well as rom-coms. But we do love a Sandy B rom-com! Her latest, The Lost City, sees her play a romance author who ends up on a jungle adventure with her ditzy cover model, played by Channing Tatum. It’s a very funny, good natured romp that harks back to the romantic blockbusters of the ’80s like Romancing the Stone....
The next chapter in the Mass Effect series—for now known as Mass Effect 4—is on the way from BioWare, with the trailer hinting a return to the Milky Way and potentially even the return of Commander Shepard. The next game wasn’t the only big news from BioWare this past year, with the announcement of the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition promising to remaster the original trilogy for release in 2021. The build-up to the release of the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition has seen a renewed focus on the first three games....
Massive Entertainment released a 1.21 update for open-world shooter The Division 2, aimed to provide a high-quality experience for PS5 and Xbox Series owners. Sadly, things didn’t go as smoothly as planned and somehow the PS5-version ended up broken, with notably decreased overall graphics. Devs are already aware of this and working on a quick fix for current problems, the studio confirmed on Reddit technical thread. The game is capable of detecting its running on PS5 or Xbox Series and applies some changes for its resolution and other graphical options....
This article contains potential spoilers for The Dropout. Fraud: so hot right now. We’ll leave it to the sociologists to determine exactly why, but stories about big time liars are huge right now. The recent trend arguably got started this year with the Netflix series Inventing Anna, which covered one woman’s successful attempts to convince New York society she was a German heiress. Coming up later in March is WeCrashed on Apple TV+, which will follow the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of joint workspace company WeWork....
This The Flash article contains spoilers for Season 7, Episode 5, “Fear Me”. The Flash’s “Fear Me” is an entertaining enough Season 7 installment that gets to play with a long-standing genre trope, that of an outside entity – think demon, alien, magical dust, or, in this case, a metahuman known as Psych who’s able to project nightmare hallucinations onto others – who somehow allows us to explore the deepest fears of our favorite characters (plus, Cecile in The Thinker’s chair was pretty darn cool)....
Capcom’s best-selling video game franchise, Resident Evil, is back with a brand new installment in the series. A sequel to Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Resident Evil Village takes place a few years later and continues to follow the story of Ethan Winters. It also sees the return of Chris Redfield and his ever-changing face, but the trailers indicate he not only kidnaps Ethan’s baby daughter, but shoots a woman (presumably Mia Winters, Ethan’s wife) multiple times....
The Seraphites are among the new factions on The Last of Us: Part II. During the course of the game, players will learn the most about the movement during their campaign with Abby. Currently, the Scars are at war with Abby’s Washington Liberation Front in the race of taking the full reign of Seattle. Here, we’re answering some of the fans’ unanswered questions about the Seraphites and revealing some of the religious cult’s key facts....
Stadia has been pumping out tons of new content over the past few months, and Stadia Pro members even saw two free new games added to the service last week – Outcasters and Submerged. This week, eight titles are coming to Stadia’s storefront for all players to purchase, including the remakes of SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom and Destroy All Humans. Four games are available as of today, while four more are launching on December 9....
Not too long ago, Stranded Deep finally got an official release on console. Though many PS4 and Xbox One users were excited about the launch of the hardcore survival simulator, the PC community has not been quite as thrilled. The reason for this reaction is embroiled in years of history between this game and the PC community on Steam, and has resulted in the once mostly positive reviews being overtaken by a flood of negative reviews from angry PC users....
Bossa Studios has announced today that Surgeon Simulator 2 is prepping for surgery on Steam. After launching last August as an Epic Games Store exclusive, the surgery “simulator” will be finding a new home on Valve’s platform. Set to release “once we get our hand under control,” a new store page is live for you to wishlist and tell your friends about. Henrique Olifiers, Co-CEO of Bossa Studios, said in a press release, “We’re thrilled to share Surgeon Simulator 2 with all of our fans on Steam....
It’s official: Taskmaster’s New Year Treat is back for a third year running in 2023, and the five celebrities taking part have just been announced. Introducing this year’s (post-)Christmas Taskmaster cast: Amelia Demoldenberg, Carol Vorderman, Greg James, Sir Mo Farah and Rebecca Lucy Taylor (aka Self Esteem). Amelia Demoldenberg If you’ve recently been asking yourself ‘Am I well old?’ then your familiarity with comedian and YouTuber Amelia Demoldenberg should give you an answer....
Get ready for Teenage Blob - an upcoming release that has A LOT going on in it. Try to keep up. Touted as “half game, half album,” Teenage Blob is the brainchild of game developer Team Lazerbeam and the band The Superweaks, and is a split collaboration as some kind of weird hybrid video game and musical release. It actually makes more sense than it sounds. You see, back in my day - the 90s - spilt albums were common fare, at least within the punk rock and indie scene....
Officially, “side quests” have been struck down and replaced by “world events” in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. So there are technically no side quests anymore. Thankfully, after playing the game, this revelation turned out to be more of a relabeling and less of a reduction. The new side quests (everyone is still calling them that, so nice try on the rename, Ubisoft) are short and usually accomplished within a minute or two....
Players tired of the swords-and-sorcery of fantasy games or the blaster-toting adventures of sci-fi titles might have a hard time finding a game for their fancy. However, players with a knack for history might appreciate video games that dabble into “what-if?” territory. Moreover, a lot of titles actually add unique twists to historical events that result in crazy and memorable video game stories. Some alternate history concepts in games just end up becoming outright insane....
When you’re the most successful media franchise in the world, you’re more than likely to be a mainstay in meme culture. That’s certainly the case for Pokemon, as they’ve been in the cultural zeitgeist since their beginning in the late 1990s, up till now where memes have taken over the internet. Naturally, when you’re memed for that long, certain memes will stand the test of time better than others. This will be a look at the greatest Pokemon memes of all time: those that took the world by storm when they first came out and have still been recognized today either by hardcore fans or the general public....
They say it’s all about the journey, but a sour ending can impact the view of the experience as a whole. This is especially true for video games. We spend hours completing missions and making hard oral choices, so it is expected that the end wraps everything up in a decent conclusion. While this is the case for some games, others had an ending that just did not hit the mark....
Nier: Automata is remarkably strange in a number of ways. From its philosophically inquisitive robots to the fact it has 27 distinct and equally absurd endings — one of which is triggered by eating a fillet of mackerel — it’s a genuinely singular experience. But there’s one thing about Nier: Automata that I still think about three years later: The fact that, if you want, you can remove your own operating system and die....
Tom Clancy’s The Division Global Events have finally arrived. Global Events in Ubisoft Massive’s third-person shooter offer players new modifiers to change the difficulty, and include classified gear sets to encourage players to dive in. The first Global Event is called Outbreak, and it is now live on the Public Test Server. The Outbreak event will include three classified gear sets, three different weapon skins, and one set of vanity gear....
One helpful player introduces a new interactive map for The Division, detailing every locale, enemy boss, and entrance to the game’s PvP and reward-rich Dark Zone. Anyone who has spent time playing The Division knows that it’s more than a simple cover shooter game, and that half the battle in the Dark Zone is quickly finding what one is looking for. One gamer has taken it upon themselves to make this task easier for others by creating an interactive map of the Dark Zone....
While there’s still a chance that the deal will fall through, it seems incredibly likely that Microsoft will be acquiring ZeniMax Media, along with Bethesda and all of its IP. Of course, this means that the upcoming Elder Scrolls 6 could very likely be console-exclusive to Xbox consoles, which has unsurprisingly upset some PlayStation fans. In a recent interview, Bethesda Game Studios director Todd Howard has commented on the possibility that the highly-anticipated game will be an Xbox exclusive....
