Industrial Light & Magic animation supervisor Hal Hickel says that impossibly sweet scene in The Mandalorian and Grogu where Rotta and Grogu play together on the beach meant a lot to director Jon Favreau (and me, personally). “That was maybe the most important scene to Jon. It’s the heart of the whole movie for him,” […]
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The Witcher 4 is in production – or, more specifically, “full-scale production,” as developer CD Projekt Red put it back in 2024. The studio has offered the public only a few small, tantalizing glimpses at the upcoming RPG, but it’s passing new internal development milestones all the time. Those kinds of things are just too […]
2019Nintendo’s surprise update for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on Switch 2 turned out to be a wrecking ball for the game’s existing world records, implementing a sweeping speed increase that makes everyone – regardless of kart and racer – faster by a substantial measure. As highlighted in a viral video being shared across social media […]
2019The themed popcorn trend continues, but this time around it’s a bit more practical. Regal and has unveiled a special popcorn bucket to celebrate the release of Resident Evil… and you can put your organs, or, uh, water bottle, in it. The upcoming movie follows a medical courier named Bryan who is in the process […]
2019If I can do justice to the hour I spent playing Afterworld, you’ll see why it’s the most exciting reveal of Gamescom 2026. Even if you don’t like grand strategy games, which this is, Afterworld may be the first one you fall for. It’s designed to be the “most approachable” game from developer Paradox Interactive […]
2019If you aren’t much of a fan of limited-edition tech that leans hard into nostalgia, then the new Designed for XBOX Cozy Collection might be more your style. Landing on the back of the Xbox 25th Anniversary Collection, this new accessory set trades the transparent green tech for earth tones and images of adorable pixelated […]
2019From hosting the best Skyrim mods to some of the wildest fan overhauls for The Witcher 3, Nexus Mods is well known as the go-to spot for modding any and every PC game – and, now, it’s also the parent company of SteamDB. In case you’re not familiar with the latter, SteamDB came to life […]
2019StarCraft sequel rumors are blazing after a report claims that South Korean-Japanese publisher Nexon is close to acquiring development rights for the sci-fi onslaught from IP holder Blizzard. South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo reports (according to machine translation) that, as of September 2, Nexon and Blizzard are on the knife’s edge of finalizing their […]
2019Banjo-Kazooie composer Grant Kirkhope says he’d still love to work on the series, but pitches for its return have been turned down over the years. Banjo-Kazooie is probably the game series with the biggest being dead to huge fanbase ratio (that or Mother). It’s coming up on two decades since Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, which […]
2019In 2011, Iello and Richard Garfield released King of Tokyo, a kaiju-centric game in which players wrestled for control of Tokyo. The heart of the game used a Yahtzee-like mechanic, in which players repeatedly rolled a set of six dice. Different symbols translated to different results, ranging from gaining resources, dealing damage to other monsters, […]
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