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My personal Game of the Year for 2025 was, as you likely expect, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Its narrative excellence, combined with its distinct French feel and unique visual identity set it apart from its competitors. I can safely say that, in my many years playing games and my slightly fewer years reviewing them, I’ve never seen anything like Sandfall’s turn-based epic. But, as videogame production ramps up exponentially in terms of time and cost, it feels like the products themselves have increased in scope and scale. Most triple-A games offer sprawling open worlds, masterfully directed cutscenes, and soaring, gut-wrenching…
Chris Henmsorth says Thor may very well return after making an appearance in the upcoming MCU movie Avengers: Doomsday.”I was talking to Kevin Feige about it, and he said it’s cool because the audience now expects dramatic turns with the character,” Hemsworth said on the Smartless podcast, explaining that the Russo brothers let him “try different things” with Thor in both Endgame and Doomsday. “And whatever we do next – we’ve got some ideas to do something pretty unique again and hopefully be [different].”A fifth Thor movie has been rumored since the release of 2022’s Thor: Love and Thunder, which…
I wake up at 3AM. Do 50 pull-ups on a halberd wedged in the door frame. Do 50 push-ups on the cold stone floor. A servant hands me my protein mead and a wine frappamachiato. I violently double fist the two beverages. I don’t eat breakfast, because food that isn’t flavourless cup gruel is the enemy of productivity. Then, I’m dressed in my robes for the commute to the throne room. The magic starts. It’s 5AM in Crusader Kings 3 and I’m on my medieval monarch grindset. I pull out Paradox’s latest dev diary. Oh, look at that, they’re working…
I love checking Zillow. It’s one of my favorite hobbies, even though I bought a house last year and won’t finish repaying the bank until I’m near retirement age. I just like flicking through the photos, seeing how people decorate their rooms, and wishing I could afford the footballers’ mansions that occasionally pop up for millions of dollars. Now, I can do that with virtual houses too, as World of Warcraft has teamed up with the property site to show off the homely new additions to Azeroth. World of Warcraft players have been asking for player housing “for close to…
KPop Demon Hunters star Rei Ami says the role of Zoey’s singing voice was the last one to fill, and she was “shocked” that it came down to her.”With Zoey, the only description I got was that this person needs to be able to sing in Korean and English, but they need to be able to rap extremely fast,” Ami explained to Variety. “I got the material, and it was different snippets of the songs. I recorded on a very cheap $40 mic. I don’t know what this movie is going to do, but it’s everything I love in terms…
Remember Hyper Scape? I acknowledge that this might come across as a tad mean, but in this ridiculously fast-paced world we find in, it can genuinely be hard to remember one failed live service game from the next. For a refresher, this was Ubisoft’s attempt at a battle royale game back in 2020, though it didn’t pan out as it was shut down only a couple of years later. Well, anyway, it’s back! Sort of, not quite, but it might soon, or actually probably eventually, will be thanks to the efforts of a group of people hoping to revive…
What is the meaning of Reanimal’s ending? The ending to Reanimal’s story is largely up to interpretation, but there is fun to be had trawling through all the theories out there. The story toys with many themes, but it does revolve around the girl and the nightmarish creature we finally see at the end of the game: the sheep. There’s also a secret ending you can unlock by interacting with all five coffins found throughout the game. Here’s what to expect from both endings, though only read on if you’re happy to know what happens at the end of Reanimal,…
The whole reason The Witcher 2 goes off in a decidedly more political direction is because someone high up at developer CD Projekt Red wanted the first Witcher to have one more final ending cutscene and chose to have one made without much involvement from the studio’s narrative team, according to original lead story designer Artur Ganszyniec.Ganszyniec recently wrapped up his first playthrough of the original Witcher in about 20 years on YouTube, a 26-video series that yielded all sorts of interesting development insights, and the latest video sheds new light on how the game’s final cutscene came to be.We…
I think that with a game like Crimson Desert, you’d be well within your right to have an eyebrow pre-raised considering its online, sort of free-to-play (depending on where you live) predecessor Black Desert Online regarding the like of microtransactions. I know I certainly have! At a glance Crimson Desert certainly looks like it could fall into similar pitfalls if only based on vibes alone. However! Developer Pearl Abyss would quite like you to know that, in that regard at least, you have nothing to worry about. Speaking on the Dropped Frames show (ta, Okami13_), marketing director at…
Want to know about the new Overwatch skins? Blizzard has been dabbling with limited-time collaborations over the past few years, introducing skins, highlight intros, and more, partnering up with some of the biggest brands out there. From famous anime and manga series to the world of Hello Kitty and Friends, you never quite know what the developer’s next big collaboration will be. These limited-time collaborations in Overwatch only ever appear for a few weeks before disappearing, sometimes for several months at a time, and in most cases, they’re yet to show up a second time in the free PC game.…