2025

The scramble to turn every videogame into a movie is now in full swing, and another film adaptation has just been announced: this time it’s Riders Republic, Ubisoft’s 2021 open world extreme sports sandbox. The game didn’t have much of a plot beyond competing in biking, skiing, snowboarding, and wingsuiting races and competitions, so if…

Though it takes place in the same setting as Control, it could not be any clearer in Remedy’s new co-op shooter that you are no Jesse Faden. Forget telekinetic superpowers and shape-shifting weaponry—this time you’re just an expendable grunt, sent out to do jobs so dangerous that your objectives are more likely to kill you…

As the world looks ahead to the fast approaching June 5 release date for the Switch 2, I can’t help but look back. Beyond my Animal Crossing Switch (and, uh, my Animal Crossing 3DS XL), I perhaps spend too much time still considering Nintendo’s fetching purple lunch box. Yes, it’s true—I’m one of those wearying…

At time of writing, the Oblivion remaster has generated enough money to buy France. Across the world, the gears of business churn inevitably: someone at Microsoft emails someone at Bethesda to ask, a little forcefully, which classic game they’ll be making a quadrillion dollars on next. The answer is almost certainly Fallout 3, and who…

Let me start off this review with something that became immediately obvious when I pulled this laptop from the box: The MSI Raider 18 HX AI is a hefty boi. A chungus. A honking, chonking, slab of a gaming laptop. In a world where laptops like the Razer Blade 16 and the Asus ROG Zephyrus…