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It’s Ruth’s world and we’re all just living in it. Or, at least, that’s what McDonald’s is telling us. The … Continue reading "Captain America Can’t Get Top Billing In His Own New Movie" Continue reading from original source...

Medieval Iceland awaits Senua in Hellblade 2. The new launch trailer for the sequel showcases the striking vistas that will be explored in the game, as well as bloody battles with swords and even a tornado ripping across the land. The video--seen below--features "Animal Soul" by Norwegian songwriter Aurora, giving the launch trailer the vibes of a music video. The song also does a good job conveying the horrors and beauty players will likely encounter in Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2. We see...

Monster trucks, the apex predators of motorsport, have left an untold path of destruction over the decades. Now, the unstoppable brutes have added a fresh victim to their list as not even Fortnite's famed battle bus could withstand the crushing force of a 1,500-horsepower monster truck. During a recent Monster Jam event held at the Los Angeles SoFi stadium, a replica of the Battle Bus met its end when it was torn apart. This might just be the worst thing to happen to the Fortnite Battle Bus...

With Grand Theft Auto VI's release coming up in late 2025, some are wondering if Take-Two might charge more than $70 for the game's standard edition. After all, Take-Two was among the first major companies to up the price of its topline games from $60 to $70, and now some believe Take-Two could charge even more for the next GTA game. CEO Strauss Zelnick was recently asked for his thoughts about "pricing dynamics" for the GTA franchise and its entire portfolio. Zelnick did not comment...

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge The annual refreshes of Android and iOS are always worth looking out for, and in the wake of Google I/O 2024, we now have the second beta release of Android 15, so it’s a good opportunity to round up everything coming to the OS this year. If you want to get involved in the beta testing — bearing in mind that these betas will have bugs and issues — head here to see if your device is eligible. Google Pixel owners can sign up, and a select number of...

GameSpot parent company Fandom has released its fourth annual Inside Gaming report, and one of the key takeaways is that personal expression within games is increasingly important to players. The Inside Gaming report is based on data from Fandom's 350 million monthly unique visitors, 45 million pages of content, and 250,000 wikis. The report found that the main reason people play games is to unwind and relieve stress (54%), but a close second was "creation, imagination, and self-expression"...

Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios has announced the opening of its newest studio. Located in Poland, the company's seventh studio worldwide--Larian Studios Warsaw--will assist in the development of the company's upcoming unannounced games. "With two very ambitious RPGs now starting development, what better way to see our visions realized than by growing the team and opening a seventh studio in the heart of Poland's lively gaming scene!" the company wrote on social media. The new...

Image: Apple You won’t need to travel too far into the future to see Apple TV Plus’ next adventure series. The streamer just announced that Time Bandits, an adaptation of the 1981 Terry Gilliam film of the same name, will premiere on July 24th. The TV version of the story will span 10 episodes and, according to Apple, is about “an unpredictable journey through time and space with a ragtag group of thieves and their newest recruit: an 11-year-old history buff named Kevin.” The show has...

20 May 2024Peace and Security At least 810,000 people have fled Rafah in just two weeks, UN humanitarians said on Monday, amid reports of ongoing Israeli military operations in the southern city and in the north of Gaza. “Every time families are displaced their lives are at serious risk. People are forced to leave everything behind looking for safety. But there’s no safe zone,” the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said in a post on X. Accompanying the alert, images showed...

Transistor is celebrating its 10-year anniversary today, May 20, 2024. Below, we recall how its vision of the future was more prescient than we'd realized at first glance. In 2014, a singer having her voice captured and digitized against her will was a novel sci-fi conceit. Ten years later, it sounds eerily familiar. With the ever-increasing presence of AI and deep fakes, as well as digital homogenization all around us, Transistor's tale of payback against the Camerata doubles back as a...