Judging by their habits on the Netflix show, you’d think the Stranger Things kids only had time for Dungeons & Dragons, bike-riding, saving their town from a Demogorgon, and feeding their peculiar Eggo obsessions. Turns out, that’s not the case at all. In the real world—aka Upside Down-free 2017—their down-time activities are decidedly more conventional: […]
"Not everything that happens in your life is good," Robin Hunicke says. "But everything that happens is a part of your story." We're sitting in a small apartment across the street from the LA Convention Center the week of E3 2017, talking about her new game, Luna. It's quiet and heartfelt, which should come as […]
Mark Zuckerberg didn’t waste much time when he walked onstage at the San Jose Convention Center on Wednesday morning to deliver the first keynote address at Oculus Connect, the virtual-reality company’s developer conference. "The future is built by the people who believe it can be better," he said, announcing that he and his team "want […]
(Spoiler alert: This story contains major plot points and spoilers regarding the second season of Netflix's Stranger Things.) If you’re like us—and if you’re reading this site, you probably are—you spent every minute this weekend that you weren’t working on your Halloween costume or playing Super Mario Odyssey binge-watching the latest installment of Stranger Things. […]
Hey, buddy. How you doin’? Are your social feeds holding up? Last week was a crazy one. Between Wonder Woman thinkpieces and the strangest political spectacle in some time, life came at everyone a little faster than normal over the last few days. So if some things slipped through your particular mental cracks that's totally […]
Well, as we hoped would happen, Game of Thrones celebrated the coming of winter by bringing some serious heat. At nearly 80 minutes, “The Dragon and the Wolf” was the series’ longest to date, and it packed in what it could from the very beginning. Most of that was revelation rather than spectacle, but by […]
Two years later, it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what was so enjoyable about the first Deadpool movie. Was it the action? The fourth-wall-breaking? The swearing? The cocaine and masturbation jokes? Well … yes. A hard-R bloodbath that gleefully polluted the pristine sea of squeaky-clean superhero movies, Deadpool went on to make more than $783 million […]
You can't know how tightly bound a dystopia is until you try to escape; you can't know how much has been taken from you until you realize you can't get it back. If losing your job seemed bad, just wait for the gunshots and government-enforced fertility centers. Related Stories As The Handmaid's Tale has rolled […]
I just made a meal for an adorable rabbit. However, I failed to account for all its food allergies and pretty soon the bunny vomits. Then, I think, it dies. Disoriented, I click my way out of the scene—one of 20 or so "pages" that make up the body of the game I'm playing—and stumble […]
We need to change the way we talk about videogame studios. But even more than that, we need to change the way we talk about them when they close. In the past year, according to PC Gamer, 10 major game studios have closed, each employing anywhere from a dozen employees to hundreds. From Capcom Vancouver, […]