Month: September 2026

HBO has revealed a trio of key roles for the second season of its lavish Harry Potter series: Dobby, Ginny Weasley and Tom Riddle, better known as a young Lord Voldemort. 17-year-old British actor, presenter and comedian Lenny Rush will star as Dobby the House-elf, who is introduced in Harry […]

HBO has revealed a trio of key roles for the second season of its lavish Harry Potter series: Dobby, Ginny Weasley and Tom Riddle, better known as a young Lord Voldemort. 17-year-old British actor, presenter and comedian Lenny Rush will star as Dobby the House-elf, who is introduced in Harry […]

Donald Trump’s White House has launched Arcade.Gov, a site with mini-games where you catch and deport immigrants, or use Tetris blocks to build a border wall. The site’s mini-games riff on existing ideas, such as Flappy Bill, an obvious parody of Flappy Bird, which asks players to keep the bill […]

Donald Trump’s White House has launched Arcade.Gov, a site with mini-games where you catch and deport immigrants, or use Tetris blocks to build a border wall. The site’s mini-games riff on existing ideas, such as Flappy Bill, an obvious parody of Flappy Bird, which asks players to keep the bill […]

There are very few publishers who can claim to have had quite as prosperous a decade as Capcom. The company’s 10 best-selling games all launched within the past 10 years, a chain of good fortune that began with 2017’s Resident Evil 7. Capcom’s reimagining of gaming’s most important survival horror […]

Key Preview Takeaways: You don’t build with individual bricks; instead, you assemble your city with pre-fabricated buildings however you see fit.It’s cozy and chill, but not entirely so, as your citizens will still present you problems that need solving.There are plenty of deeper gameplay systems to dig into if you […]

Key Preview Takeaways: You don’t build with individual bricks; instead, you assemble your city with pre-fabricated buildings however you see fit.It’s cozy and chill, but not entirely so, as your citizens will still present you problems that need solving.There are plenty of deeper gameplay systems to dig into if you […]

Your first impression of Exodus was probably, “Oh, this looks like Mass Effect.” And narrative director Drew Karpyshyn, who was a narrative lead on BioWare’s legendary space opera RPG series, told me, “It’s a perfectly fine way to wrap your head around it.” He’d love for Exodus to be regarded […]

Key Preview Takeaways: Exodus’s space-opera vibes immediately reminded me of Mass Effect, and that seems to be on purpose.Its Paladin/Immortal morality system reflects the Paragon/Renegade system, but it’s going for something deeper than just good/evil and is centered around preserving humanity.Combat feels like an evolution of Mass Effect, sharing many […]

As a big fan of Mass Effect and its various romanceable companions, I wanted to put the record straight on the ins and outs of Exodus’ sex scenes. After all, Exodus looks and feels a lot like Mass Effect. It’s even developed by some of the brains behind BioWare’s much-loved […]