Friends, humans, rapidly-evolving robots, the time has finally come: Westworld Season 2 is here. After nearly 17 months, HBO’s futuristic thriller about a theme park where the rich can live out their Wild West fantasies with android “hosts” finally returns on Sunday. At the end of the first season, it seemed as though some of […]
It's common to describe videogames in terms of verbs: what will its sticks and buttons and other inputs let you do? In Minit, a new game published by Devolver Digital, only two options exist. You can use the object you're currently holding, and you can die. And if you don't press the die button, it'll […]
First off: Bad news, Expanded Universe fans—that Mara Jade cameo in Episode IX looks less likely now that her creator, Timothy Zahn, has seemingly dashed hopes that she'll show up in the movie, saying that he's had no heads-up that Lucasfilm plans to use the character. Of course, there's always the possibility that he's playing […]
Al Alcorn knew he was being wooed. Nolan Bushnell, the tall, brash, young engineer from Alcorn’s work-study days at Ampex, had shown up at Alcorn’s Sunnyvale office. Bushnell was driving a new blue station wagon. “It’s a company car,” he said with feigned nonchalance. He offered to drive Alcorn, recently hired as an associate engineer […]
In the canon of Westworld, the Ghost Nation does not play by the rules. They sometimes vanish into thin air. Their minds are impervious to Maeve's (Thandie Newton) takeover attempts and Ashley Stubbs' (Luke Hemsworth) voice commands. They collect human captives for unknown reasons. They are totally mysterious, living on Westworld's margins and never emerging […]
Two days before the opening ceremony got underway in Pyeongchang, Sasha Hostyn made Olympics competitive history. She didn’t come from behind in a last-minute qualifying event, though, or pull off a new trick in a practice run—she used a zergling horde to upset the heavy favorite. In Gangneum, a seaside city 15 miles away from […]
When the Overwatch League playoffs kick off tonight, fans will be tuning in to see which team will proceed to take on the league's top seeds, the New York Excelsior and Los Angeles Valiant. But while the diehards have been keeping up with the league's regular season via streaming site Twitch, they'll have some new […]
The most important news of last week was, of course, that The Good Place writer, and Twitter master, Megan Amram got one step closer to her dream of winning an Emmy. It was that or the massive protests against President Donald Trump when he arrived in the UK, complete with the massive Trump Baby balloon […]
The best lightsaber fight in the entire Star Wars canon doesn’t happen in a movie. Hear me out, friends, hear me out. It’s in the 20th episode of the third season of the cartoon Star Wars: Rebels. Short version: the Sith-trained Darth Maul (you know the one, face like a hockey fan) confronts the Jedi […]
With 2018 just weeks away, there's no shortage of games we're most excited about. A mixture of big budget games and potential sleeper hits, our gaming calendar for the new year is looking jam-packed already—even if those pesky release dates haven't quite been ironed out yet. Dragon Ball Fighter Z (January 26) Revealed at E3 […]