When Remedy announced Alan Wake II wouldn’t be released as a physical game ahead of its October 2023 release, it was a bummer. Not just because fans wouldn’t get to have something to put on their shelves, but because it was adding to a worrying trend for video games: game publishers are getting comfortable only…
Valorant Is Coming To Consoles And You Can Sign Up For The Beta
Riot Games, the company best known for MOBA League of Legends, is bringing its free-to-play 5v5 hero shooter Valorant to consoles after four years of PC exclusivity. The game melds elements of hero shooters like Overwatch and tactical shooters like Counter-Strike, and it has a robust esports league, but console…
Alan Wake 2’s Night Springs DLC Has American Nightmare Energy
Today, as part of Geoff Keighley’s big Summer Game Fest kickoff festivities, we got our first glimpse of Alan Wake 2’s first DLC expansion, Night Springs. Part of what made Alan Wake 2 itself such an intriguing experience was the way in which it often seemed to be operating on multiple levels of reality and meaning…
Rippling bans former employees who work at competitors like Deel and Workday from its tender offer stock sale
Investor demand has been so strong for shares of hot HR startup Rippling – over $2 billion worth of term sheets, it says – that it is allowing […]
NASA puts $10M down on Mars sample return proposals from Blue Origin, SpaceX and others
It turns out the space industry has a lot of ideas on how to improve NASA’s $11 billion, 15-year plan to collect and return samples from Mars. Seven […]
Street Fighter 6 Season 2 Character Pack Brings Back M. Bison
Street Fighter 6 is done with its first wave of DLC fighters after Akuma. Now, it’s starting its second wave, and there are some major players about to join the roster. Capcom revealed the next four fighters coming to the game during their Summer Game Fest presentation, and M. Bison, the long-time antagonist of the…
Summer Game Fest Host Acknowledges A Record Year For Layoffs
The host of E3 replacement Summer Game Fest, Geoff Keighley, kicked off the showcase’s fourth year by doing what many have called on the veteran industry insider to do for months: use his biggest platform to acknowledge the current state of mass layoffs, cuts, and cancellations at some of gaming’s biggest publishers…
Civilization 7 Announced At Summer Game Fest
After leaking ahead of the show, 2K officially unveiled Civilization VII at Summer Game Fest. We already knew 2K was planning on announcing something big at the show, and thanks to an apparent flub on the publisher’s website earlier today, we knew ahead of time that Civilization VII was likely to show up at the event.…
Lego Horizon Adventures Is Real And Coming Out Next Year
Announced today during Summer Game Fest’s kick-off event, Lego Horizon Adventures combines the colorful bricks of Lego with the robot dinosaurs and open-world action of Horizon. It’s an odd combo but looks cool. And wildly, its coming to Switch as well as PS5 and PC later this year.
‘Winter Spring Summer or Fall’ review: Jenna Ortega’s romance makes us want to scream
“Wednesday” co-stars Jenna Ortega and Percy Hynes White can’t save this simply un-romantic romance film, “Winter Spring Summer or Fall.” Review.