Its rare for LEGO to go on sale. One, because it's so popular; why reduce the price on something that people will pay for? Two, because the company retires its sets before they lose their popularity; there's always the shiny new set to hype and charge full price for. So […]
Year: 2026
After Another Console Price Hike, I Wouldn't Wait Around to Get a Switch 2
Sony just announced some hefty price increases on the PS Portal and PS5 consoles. The most extreme? The PS5 Pro getting hiked from $750 to $900, putting us daringly close to the world of $1000 consoles. The increase is being attributed to “continued pressures in the global economic landscape," and […]
How Resident Evil’s Remake Turned Spencer Mansion Into Survival Horror’s Final Exam
Auteurs rarely redo their own work, and when they do, it’s usually to take advantage of bigger budgets and newer tech. Michael Mann upgraded his TV movie LA Takedown into the star-studded Heat, while Ozu and Hitchcock remade their silent films as talkies. Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami had no […]
How Resident Evil’s Spencer Mansion Taught Us To Survive Horror
Resident Evil’s Spencer Mansion is a life-or-death slash course in scarcity that wrote a genre’s rulebook in blood and ink ribbons. It’s a clockwork crucible made of stairways and statues that demands mastery to unlock, and its interior was scratched into our cerebellums from the second S.T.A.R.S. slammed shut the […]
The Speedrun Spiral at the Heart of Resident Evil’s Spencer Mansion
1996 was a red-letter year for the art of speedrunning. Four years after Doom sparked the scene and months before Quake turned it into a global community, Resident Evil arrived to reward dedicated players for a different kind of virtuosity, one that valued planning, routing, and a deep understanding of […]
Pragmata Contains a Stage That's a 'Fake New York Generated by AI,' but It's Entirely Made by Humans
It seems like every few weeks, we're finding out about another developer using generative AI to create assets for their games, or at least strongly considering it. So I'm pretty intrigued at the latest interview from the dev team behind Pragmata, wherein they said they're hand-crafting one of the levels […]
The Iniu 10,000mAh 45W Power Bank Drops to Just $10 During the Amazon Spring Sale
Extend the battery life on your Nintendo Switch 2, Steam Deck, or Apple iPhone 17 for a rock bottom price. As part of the big Spring Sale going on right now, Amazon is offering the flashy Iniu 10,000mAh 45W Power Bank in red for just $10.19 after you clip the […]
'I Don't Really Want to Do That Again' – Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion Doesn't Want to Keep Rehashing the Same Type of Roles
Neil Newbon's performance as Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3 is among the most memorable in the game, and that's saying a lot given how many amazing actors are in there cooking. And Newbon's rightfully proud of the good work he did as Astarion – but, inspired by David Bowie, he's […]
Score Up to 50% Off Narwal Robot Vacuums During Amazon's Spring Sale
Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is in full bloom, and for those looking to do a bit of spring cleaning, there are some epic deals on Narwal Robotics vacuums. That means you can leave the robots to do most of the hard work. Right now, Narwal is offering up to 50% […]
For All Mankind Season 5 Premiere Review – “First Light”
The first episode of For All Mankind Season 5, “First Light,” is now streaming on Apple TV. Beware: Spoilers ahead! Another season of For All Mankind begins, and another 10 or so years into the future we go. Breezing through the fallout of the Goldilocks asteroid heist at the end […]