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Videogame movies have tried ignoring their source material, and they’ve tried legitimising their source material via being as dour as possible, but it’s rare that they’ve just embraced the inherent absurdity of videogames. Enter: the Dynasty Warriors movie, which looks joyfully like the Dynasty Warriors games.

Following the failure of Amazon’s Crucible and ahead of the launch of New World, it is confirmed that the company’s Lord of the Rings MMO has officially been canceled. The online fantasy take was first announced back in 2019, and news about the latest Lord of the Rings take was mum. Now, it’s off the table

RPS fell hard for Devil Daggers, naming it our game of the year back when, but one of the most common criticisms from the “not for me” crowd was that it lacks a sense of progress. Try Boomberang X, then. It’s a first-person arena shooter with escalating waves of greebly enemies and a focus on

Fortnite fans rejoiced when Epic not only announced that Aloy of Horizon Zero Dawn fame would be joining the game, but would also team up with Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft in a special mode. The straightforwardly named “Team Up! Aloy & Lara Limited Time Mode”, was supposed to go live today but some technical setbacks

Social struggles media simulator Emily Is Away <3 has officially launched some more teen drama for you to live through. Like the previous Emily Is Away games, it ferries you back to the days of social media past. It’s Facebook circa 2008 this time, where you’ll navigate the trials and tribulations of your senior year

Lego launched its Super Mario line of sets in 2020, delivering fun kits including Whomp, Toad, King Boo, Bowser, and more. While the full line features a wide range of characters from the Mushroom Kingdom and beyond, Mario’s ever-present brother is conspicuously absent. However, a recent firmware update for the Lego Super Mario figure seems

There are quite a few gaming adaptations in the works, including a show based on a hit franchise from Naughty Dog. While we are still quite a bit away from a trailer, we do have another face that is joining the fray. HBO’s The Last of Us TV series has revealed another new cast member,

Remasters, reboots, spiritual successors and the like have always been a part of gaming, but it does feel as if we’ve entered into a new era of remasters. Or at least, I can point to Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, Diablo 2: Resurrected and Total War: Rome Remastered and say, “three’s a trend.” There’s a new

Crows Crows Crows, the folks working on The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, have revived their ridiculous browser MMO replacement for the Game Developers Conference and it’s just as surreal as before. Oh, is it your first time at CDC? Don’t worry, it’s just like every other conference. You walk around trying to make small talk

Nintendo’s Indie World showcase may have only ran for 20 minutes, but the House of Mario packed it a ton of announcements within that time. We saw the reveals of Oxenfree II and OllieOllie World, got a new trailer for TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge, learned that Konami has a new action game in the works, and were surprised to hear that the critically

YouTubers Life first made its debut back in 2016 and was met with positive feedback for its in-depth simulation of what it is like to be a content creator. The title was well-received, and because of that, YouTubers Life 2 is on the way and aims to take the impressively detailed inside look at what

Subnautica: Below Zero has been in early access for over two years, and the underwater survival sim follow-up is approaching its final release date next month on May 14th. To mark that looming date, developers Unknown Worlds have released a cinematic trailer which gives a brief introduction to some of the creatures that will terrify

What does it take to get your questions answered during the White House press briefing? Less than I’d have imagined, apparently, thanks in part to Covid-19 protocols. A player in a Roblox political roleplay group managed to invent a journalist persona for themselves that was good enough to fool their supposed colleagues and have their

Another cast member has been announced for Eli Roth’s Borderlands movie, with actress Janina Gavankar. Unlike some of the other casting news we’ve learned about over the past several months, Gavankar’s role will be for a completely new character.  The latest casting reveal comes courtesy of Deadline Hollywood, and the actress couldn’t wait to share the good

If you’ve been following the auto chess craze, you know that Teamfight Tactics has carved itself a fairly powerful presence in the world of the auto battlers. Today, Teamfight Tactics not only detailed the upcoming Reckoning set mechanics, but also a whole new way to play called Hyper Roll. Hyper Roll makes some bold changes

The perfect cosplay doesn’t exis… Last year, the Internet fell hard for the most epic friendship ever: Animal Crossing’s Isabelle and Doom’s Doomguy. The duo is surprisingly wholesome, so much so that even id Software itself lent itself to the joke. Now, one cosplayer is bringing the pair front and center once more, though this

Most cooking games have you following a specific recipe and being judged on your accuracy. Soup Pot aims for something else. Announced during the recent ID@Xbox stream, it’s a cooking game in which you can follow the recipe, sure, or you can mess around and experiment.

Yahoo! Answers announced this past week that it was closing down. This is bad news to those who used the question-and-answer website to learn about the world, but doubly bad news for the much larger population of people who liked to laugh at the dumb questions and dumber answers posted there. To mourn the site’s

Today’s Hasbro Pulse Fan Fest began with the announcement of a new Fortnite action figures line, and concluded with a handful of reveals for Star Wars’ Vintage Collection and Black Series lines. Disney Plus’ The Mandalorian remains a strong focus for Hasbro, but various video games also grabbed the spotlight for a number of figure

DayZ creator Dean Hall has been off with his company RocketWerkz working on their new extraterrestrial crafting survival game Icarus. They’ve now popped up to give a closer look at what your first drop onto the alien planet might be like. Their first livestream sure makes Icarus look like a prettier version of survival games