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True Detective Season 5 has two leads and a location. Nicolas Cage and Antonio Banderas will star as the headlining duo. What we know about True Detective Season 5 True Detective has a reputation as one of the best and most influential crime dramas on television. Its influence showed up most recently in DC Studios’...
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres is preparing to introduce the Power To The Players Act, a bill meant to strengthen consumer protections by giving players true ownership of the digital games they buy. If it becomes law, the Federal Trade Commission would be able to write rules that stop companies from pulling games from sale, retiring...
Ghost of Yotei has generated an estimated $407 million in revenue, according to Alinea Analytics. That nearly matches Ghost of Tsushima at a comparable point in its sales, even though the first game sold noticeably more copies. About 5.4 million people have bought Ghost of Yotei, compared with almost 7 million for its predecessor. The...
Variety has published its ranking of the best horror films released this year, with Curry Barker’s “Obsession” taking the top spot. The film arrived in May and has grossed more than $500 million worldwide, against a budget of just $750,000. Its story follows a music store employee (Michael Johnston) who buys a magic wand and...
Few franchises in gaming are as adored as Castlevania, and that holds even after a 13-year drought. The wait ended earlier this week with the release of Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse. Across the decades, the series has delivered a wide range of experiences, all tied together by a deep mythology rooted in vampire legend. With so...
The best twists recontextualize everything that came before them. Damon Lindelof, the mystery-box storyteller behind Lanterns and Watchmen, once named The Sixth Sense as the definitive example. The movie works if Bruce Willis is simply a psychiatrist helping a child who sees dead people, even if the boy is hallucinating those visions. The reveal that...
A Microsoft Store page for Aspyr’s Shrek 2 Remastered went live ahead of schedule, revealing improved graphics, 4K support, and four-player co-op. The listing for Shrek 2 Remastered, developed by Aspyr, appeared early in the Microsoft Store. There has been no official announcement yet. Shrek also made a brief appearance in the trailer for the...
As original hardware gets older, playing classic games on it becomes harder for many reasons. Analogue works to keep retro gaming alive by building modern consoles that can run games decades old. It did this with the Super Nt in 2017 and the Mega Sg in 2019. If you missed those systems the first time,...
Whalefall is now in theaters. Daniel Kraus (Angel Down) wrote the novel it’s based on. He also co-wrote the screenplay with director Brian Duffield (No One Will Save You, Cocaine Bear). The story follows a scuba diver (Austin Abrams) who goes looking for the remains of his father (Josh Brolin) in the Pacific Ocean. During...
Cosplayer Lada Lyumos has transformed into Lady Dimitrescu from Resident Evil Village. The aristocrat and mutant was one of the region’s four lords. For at least seventy years, she held power over a village in an unnamed Eastern European country and was linked to a series of brutal murders. Photographer Margarita “RmeGusta” Larionova has prepared...
