It’s now confirmed: a fresh Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase presentation will air this week, featuring updates on Switch and Switch 2 games from third-party publishers. Nintendo announced the broadcast on social media today, and confirmed the show will last 25 minutes. Be sure to tune in tomorrow, Thursday July 31 […]
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The Naked Gun Review
The Naked Gun opens in theaters Friday, August 1. The Naked Gun is stupid. I say this with all my heart and in every sense of the word: The 2025 update of the classic police-movie spoofs starring Leslie Nielsen is idiotic, asinine, and downright preposterous. And its parade of slapstick, […]
How Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Was Transformed Into a Festival Feature Film
If you’ve put down your controller this year to go touch a very particular patch of grass, you might have noticed that something strange is going on at the world’s major film festivals. It started in May, when a film adaptation of virally-successful Japanese indie game Exit 8 premiered at […]
How Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Was Transformed Into a Festival Feature Film
If you’ve put down your controller this year to go touch a very particular patch of grass, you might have noticed that something strange is going on at the world’s major film festivals. It started in May, when a film adaptation of virally-successful Japanese indie game Exit 8 premiered at […]
Games Workshop Says Its Contract With Amazon Prevents It From Revealing Any Details on the Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe — but Shares Promising-Sounding Update on Scope and Scale
Work on the Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe continues, Games Workshop has said in its latest financial report, but don’t expect any significant news any time soon — it’ll be “several years” before anything comes of it. That’s the brief message the UK company issued to investors as part of its […]
Games Workshop Says Its Contract With Amazon Prevents It From Revealing Any Details on the Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe — but Shares Promising-Sounding Update on Scope and Scale
Work on the Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe continues, Games Workshop has said in its latest financial report, but don’t expect any significant news any time soon — it’ll be “several years” before anything comes of it. That’s the brief message the UK company issued to investors as part of its […]
Pokémon TCG Pocket Suddenly Pulls Card Design Embroiled in Plagiarism Controversy, as Company Admits ‘Production Issue’ and Launches Wider Investigation
The Pokémon Company has dramatically pulled the design of a new Pokémon TCG Pocket trading card, amid a firestorm of controversy over its apparent origins. Fans had said the card, Ho-Oh EX from the game’s Wisdom of Sea and Sky expansion, was based on plagiarised fan art — and in […]
Pokémon TCG Pocket Suddenly Pulls Card Design Embroiled in Plagiarism Controversy, as Company Admits ‘Production Issue’ and Launches Wider Investigation
The Pokémon Company has dramatically pulled the design of a new Pokémon TCG Pocket trading card, amid a firestorm of controversy over its apparent origins. Fans had said the card, Ho-Oh EX from the game’s Wisdom of Sea and Sky expansion, was based on plagiarised fan art — and in […]
Nintendo U-Turns on Mario Kart World Change That Forced More Open-World Driving, as It Increases Chance of Lap-Type Races
Nintendo has updated Switch 2 launch title Mario Kart World with a fresh patch that pulls a notable U-turn on a recent, controversial change. Last month, Nintendo upset Mario Kart fans by nerfing the game’s Random course selection option when playing in VS mode — something many players were deliberately […]
Nintendo U-Turns on Mario Kart World Change That Forced More Open-World Driving, as It Increases Chance of Lap-Type Races
Nintendo has updated Switch 2 launch title Mario Kart World with a fresh patch that pulls a notable U-turn on a recent, controversial change. Last month, Nintendo upset Mario Kart fans by nerfing the game’s Random course selection option when playing in VS mode — something many players were deliberately […]