A Spider-Man: Far From Home (opens in new tab) re-release is swinging into cinemas later this month. Reportedly boasting a ‘never-before-seen action sequence,’ the Spidey sequel becomes the second MCU movie this year to get an extended cut after a version of Avengers: Endgame (opens in new tab) (featuring a …
Read More »Metro Exodus: The Two Colonels is a love letter to Metro 2033
Read more (Image credit: 4A) Uncovering the weird and truly horrifying secrets of Metro Exodus (opens in new tab) Metro Exodus: The Two Colonels is everything that Metro Exodus (opens in new tab) wasn’t. It’s a focused crawl through the claustrophobic tunnels of a Metro system. It’s an opportunity to …
Read More »Release Radar: Our pick of the weeks best TV, movies, and games (August 19-25)
1. Prepare yourselves, Gamescom 2019 is here (Image credit: Gamescom) Gamescom is set to bring us some of this year’s biggest news in game titles, consoles, and beyond. There’s the promise of something from PlayStation – is it the PS5 (opens in new tab)? – a Microsoft conference – is …
Read More »Watch Disintegrations first gameplay trailer featuring hoverbikes and snarky robots
Disintegration, the new game from one of the original creators of the Halo franchise (opens in new tab), finally got its gameplay debut at Gamescom, and it’s probably not quite what you were expecting. Though the new trailer developer V1 Interactive shared includes gameplay scenes from a first-person perspective, you’re …
Read More »Fortnite mechs are here to stay, says Epic Games
Epic has released (opens in new tab) a statement explaining why the Fortnite (opens in new tab) mechs (known in-game as B.R.U.T.E. mechs) introduced at the start of Season X aren’t going anywhere. Since their introduction, many players have argued that the mechs are messing up their tried-and-true Fortnite tactics …
Read More »Overwatchs new feature is going to wildly change the way the game is played, and its live today
Update The update has officially gone live, and Sigma is playable! Original Story Ladies, gentlemen, and genetically engineered hamsters, the controversial/necessary/meta-changing Overwatch (opens in new tab) update is officially here. The 2-2-2 role lock and queuing system has already gone live in the Overwatch League, dramatically changing the way professional …
Read More »Borderlands 3 has Ice-T playing a sentient teddy bear, because of course it does
Sometimes, the stars align for casting directors, in the perfect marriage of actor and character that you can’t even tell where reality ends and the fiction begins. Think Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man, Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa, Ice-T as a pink teddy with serious anger issues in Borderlands …
Read More »This Sega Genesis Mini commercial has the 90s tude but isnt so rude
The attitude era of video gaming returns with a new advertisement for Sega Genesis Mini. The ad brings back the “Genesis Does” tagline that Sega jauntily brandished back when it was promoting the original Genesis in the early ’90s. The whole ad is a tribute to Genesis commercials of yore, …
Read More »Show your Cyberpunk 2077 love by putting official metal magnet art on your walls
Cyberpunk 2077 (opens in new tab) has some lovely art, and now you can celebrate it in a properly cyberpunk way: by attaching a magnetized metal plate to your wall. Developer CD Projekt Red just unveiled a new collection of prints available on Displate, an online retailer that specializes in …
Read More »Avengers: Endgame includes an extremely well-hidden time travel Easter egg featuring a 3,000 year time jump
Whatever it takes: the mantra of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in Avengers: Endgame (opens in new tab) and, presumably, those looking to hunt down every last secret that movie has to offer. Remarkably, months after release (and thanks to the new Endgame home release, out today in the US), one eagle-eyed …
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