Year: 2026
The Mummy 4: John Hannah to Return as Jonathan, Brother of Rachel Weisz's Character Evelyn
John Hannah will reprise his role as Jonathan Carnahan, the unscrupulous brother of Rachel Weisz’s character Evelyn O'Connell, in The Mummy 4. Hannah appeared in the first three Mummy movies, although Maria Bello subbed for Weisz in the last entry, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (but that film […]
50 Deals Under $50 in Amazon's Spring Sale (Most Are Actually Under $20)
Amazon's Big Spring Sale is well under way, with several more days to go before it ends on March 31. There are plenty of outstanding discounts to be found, but the best deals that I've seen so far are on budget-friendly products under $50. I put together this list of […]
The Buy 2, Get 1 Free Vinyl Is Back for Amazon’s 2026 Spring Sale – Here's Our Top Picks
Some of the best savings during Amazon’s Big Spring Sale come from its ‘Get 3 for the Price of 2’ promotion on a whole bunch of physical media. Books, Blu-rays, and something I’m particularly excited about, vinyls, are all a part of this deal. Which means you’ll essentially get one […]
I'm Tracking Down the Best LEGO Deals in Amazon's Spring Sale
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 […]
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 […]