The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has a brand new character — invented just for the Amazon show — who is something of a surprise: an “orc with an arc.” J.R.R. Tolkien’s works depicted the orcs as monsters, singular in their desire to destroy the world of […]
Month: July 2026
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Has a Non-Canon ‘Orc With an Arc’ Who Turns Against Sauron and Even Writes Poetry
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has a brand new character — invented just for the Amazon show — who is something of a surprise: an “orc with an arc.” J.R.R. Tolkien’s works depicted the orcs as monsters, singular in their desire to destroy the world of […]
Stellar Blade: Blood Rain Dev Shift Up Releases Entirely AI-Generated K-Pop Music Video Starring Evie and Pretty Much Everyone Hates It
Stellar Blade: Blood Rain developer Shift Up has sparked a backlash for releasing an entirely AI-generated music video starring protagonist Evie. “Wanna be in LOVE” Feat. Evie | Stellar Blade: BLOODRAIN was published to South Korean developer Shift Up’s YouTube channel on July 31, as a K-pop twist on the […]
Stellar Blade: Blood Rain Dev Shift Up Releases Entirely AI-Generated K-Pop Music Video Starring Evie and Pretty Much Everyone Hates It
Stellar Blade: Blood Rain developer Shift Up has sparked a backlash for releasing an entirely AI-generated music video starring protagonist Evie. “Wanna be in LOVE” Feat. Evie | Stellar Blade: BLOODRAIN was published to South Korean developer Shift Up’s YouTube channel on July 31, as a K-pop twist on the […]
Batman: Caped Crusader’s Best Episode Shows a Path Forward for the Series
This article contains spoilers for Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2, which is streaming Prime Video now. Prime Video’s Batman: Caped Crusader, the latest animated iteration of The Dark Knight, has been a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, you have the legendary Bruce Timm essentially revisiting one […]
LinkedIn Adds 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button to Combat Low-Quality Content
Social media sites are overrun with AI slop, churned out ad nauseum by increasingly ubiquitous AI tools that happen to have the lovely side effect of driving up the price of gaming hardware. At least one site has had enough, and it’s… LinkedIn, of all places. LinkedIn has become practically […]
Nvidia Graphics Cards Are About to Get Even More Expensive
Nvidia graphics cards aren't exactly known for being affordable right now, but it looks like Team Green's GPUs are about to get another price increase, thanks to the ongoing memory crisis. According to a post on Taiwan's Economic Daily News, Samsung, which makes the memory chips Nvidia uses in its […]
The RAM Crisis Is Getting So Bad, AMD Is Bringing Back 4GB Graphics Cards
It's no secret that memory prices have exploded in the last year, and it's causing everything using the stuff to go up in price. But now, seemingly to combat the rising prices and give people an option they can actually afford, AMD has launched a new graphics card, the Radeon […]
The Elder Scrolls Online Content Delayed to 2027 Following Xbox Layoffs
The Elder Scrolls Online is undergoing some setbacks as a result of Xbox's recent reset and associated layoffs. There has been a lot of speculation over the future of ESO for about a month now, and the team behind the game has stepped forward to clear the air. In a […]
Valve Says Steam Machine Reservations Will Be Filled by End of 2026
The Steam Machine has been out for about a month, but despite the eye-watering price, the console-PC hybrid has quite an extensive reservation list. And now Valve has come out with a blog post, saying anyone currently with a reservation list email will be able to buy the Steam Machine […]