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There’s a new Marvel show out now. At first glance, Wonder Man might seem like a strange choice for the next step of the MCU. The character doesn’t have the sort of name recognition that previous series have relied on. He’s not an Avenger like Hawkeye or Wanda Maximoff. It doesn’t include a fan-favorite lead like Bucky Barnes, Sam Wilson, or Daredevil. Hell, there’s precious little in the way of actual superheroics in it. Instead, it’s a low-key comedy about two failed actors trying to make it in Hollywood.It’s also my favorite Marvel project since at least Spider-Man: No Way…
The Fallout solo RPG knows that, sometimes, you just want to veer off the beaten track. Hey, it says. What’s that over there? Because the budget is “the entirety of your imagination,” it can be the start of a buckwild adventure – or maybe your chance to explore a part of this post-apocalyptic world nobody’s ever seen. It’s the kind of creativity that makes D&D and other tabletop RPGs great, with none of the scheduling snafus.Fallout: Wasteland Wanderer is a solo RPG designed by Modiphius, the team behind more than a few tabletop RPGs and wargames (including a Fallout skirmisher…
World of Warcraft developer Blizzard has issued a moratorium on its Anniversary realms’ gig economies. It’ll continue to ban GDKP raids, in which players bid gold on loot and split the subsequent pot of gold among each other, and other business ventures it deems “non-traditional.” But WoW Classic entrepreneurs are furious. Do you know the cost of a mount these days?The comments section for a January 27 post on the Blizzard forums is hot with frustration now that community manager Linxy has explained Blizzard’s current stance on “in-game advertising, in part to bring our policies regarding non-traditional services (including ‘boosting’)…
Project: Gorgon, the old-school fantasy MMO that launched in Steam Early access back in 2018, finally has its big 1.0 update.As someone who cut his teeth on Ultima Online and EverQuest way back in the day, I’ve had a passing interest in Project: Gorgon for years. The game was conceived by husband-and-wife duo Eric Heimburg and Sandra Power, former lead developers on legacy MMOs like Asheron’s Call and EverQuest 1 and 2, but Power sadly passed away in 2025 following a three-year battle with cancer. Seeing Heimburg carry the torch and launch this ambitious and highly unique MMO into 1.0…
As Amazon makes a further 16,000 company-wide layoffs following 14,000 job cuts in October, Amazon Game Studios has reportedly lost its studio head, Christoph Hartmann.Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reports that Hartmann, previously head of 2K, “is leaving the company.”You may also remember Hartmann as the studio head who said, in 2024, the year after Baldur’s Gate 3 won a zillion game of the year awards and the year before Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 did the same, that games “don’t really have acting.” He made this claim in the middle of a video game actor strike over AI protections. You may like…
It’s harder to re-animate a dead game than Frankenstein, fans of BioWare’s defunct looter shooter Anthem are learning.They were able to resuscitate the, by most accounts, middling 7-year-old game long enough to post a proof-of-concept server test on YouTube last week – but it sounds like their progress has been paused right around there. The fans behind the server project have just discussed some of the challenges they’ve been facing in a new interview with Ars Technica, and they ask you not to expect too much.Project administrator Laurie, who helped establish a team of devs on The Fort’s Forge Discord,…
Prime Video’s live action Fallout streaming series has spent some time in New Vegas, the setting of the sixth game in the venerable post-apocalyptic sci-fi franchise. New Vegas has a multitude of possible endings, just one of which has been enshrined in the canon of the show.Despite locking in a specific ending path as part of Fallout season 2, co-showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet assures fans that the show isn’t intended to overwrite New Vegas’ other endings or serve as a definitive ending for the game.”It did seem to us like a version of himself powered by cold fusion would be sort…
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain has shared his memory of an average day making the original Fallout at Interplay Entertainment, revealing that he worked 70+ hour weeks simply because he and his team loved making the game that much.In a video shared to his official YouTube channel, Cain described a typical day as one where he woke up around 6am, fed his needy cat, and then went to work and arrived between 7 and 8am. He said he would bring the cinnamon bread he’d prepped in his bread machine the night before to the office with him, where it would inevitably…
Dispatch, the highly acclaimed episodic superhero narrative game from the group of Telltale alums at AdHoc, has landed on Switch a few months after hitting PlayStation and PC, but Nintendo’s version is decidedly more kid-friendly.Dispatch is a game with a lot of sexually explicit content, including scenes with partially nude and fully nude characters. Nothing, nothing at all, is censored, unless you decide to switch off the nudity toggle in settings, and then you won’t see any naked people or hear naked people sex sounds. All middle fingers will also be censored.Two problems as this relates to the newly released…
Fresh from the trenches of the Divinity generative AI debate, Larian CEO Swen Vincke has taken to the Twitterverse with some moderately spicy thoughts on video game critics and reviewers. Broadly, he feels that we need to work harder to be “critical” without being “hurtful”. He also suggests that the industry could do with a Metacritic-style system for evaluating and scoring reviewers, to “encourage a bit more restraint”, so that “sensitive” creatives don’t “lose their idealism and love of players.” Picture me over here, huffing and snorting like a bull eyeing the red-trousered bottom of an atypically fleshy…