Director Paul WS Anderson says you can blame Metal Gear Solid for the Monster Hunter movie, because juxtaposing machine guns and monsters is simply ‘great imagery’

I hold the dubious honour of holding what is probably the most positive opinion of the Monster Hunter movie on planet Earth. I thought it was great! Spiders exploding out of a guy’s chest and then eating him: what’s not to like? Plenty, according to everyone else, with the film sitting at around a 40%…

Read More

One of the studios NetEase killed earlier this year is back from the dead as an ‘independent production company,’ but its original boss is nowhere to be seen

One of America’s greatest poets once said, “Everything dies, baby, that’s a fact. But maybe everything that does someday comes back.” I don’t know if that’s true for everything, but it is true for T-Minus Zero, the game studio founded in 2023 that just two years later fell victim to NetEase’s brutal cutbacks. “Earlier this…

Read More

World of Warcraft director says it’s not getting easier in Midnight because it’s coming to consoles: ‘There’s no reason for us to hide anything about this’

World of Warcraft’s next expansion has sweeping changes that make all of its classes easier to pick up and play. Blizzard has repeatedly said it wants to make the game more approachable, but some players have speculated that it’s all being done so the MMO can be played on a console with a controller. The…

Read More

The Séance of Blake Manor review

It’s never a good thing when a creepy shadow-woman bursts into a murder of crows during a thunderstorm, is it? Need to know What is it? An entertaining mystery with a supernatural twist. Release date: Oct 27th, 2025 Expect to pay: £17 / $20 Developer: Spooky Doorway Publisher: Raw Fury Reviewed on: Intel i9-13900HX, RTX…

Read More

Lord of the Rings Online player accurately recreates Frodo’s journey to Mount Doom in 10-hour YouTube video: ‘When I saw how perfectly the game followed Tolkien’s imagination, I decided to do it properly’

Sean Bean once famously said that “one does not simply walk into Mordor,” and hoo boy was he ever wrong on that one. Demonstrating his utter wrongness yet again is the Emulated Vintage Gaming YouTube channel, which recently posted a 10 hour long video of a lore-accurate recreation of Frodo’s epic journey from Bag End…

Read More

‘The return of baby driver’: The Dwarf Fortress Siege Update briefly reintroduced an old bug where dwarf babies pilot their moms like mech suits until they die of dehydration because babies don’t know what drinking is

On Monday, Dwarf Fortress received its eagerly awaited Siege Update, which revamps Fortress mode sieges by giving invading forces all sorts of dastardly new tools and behaviors to circumvent, demolish, and overrun the player’s fortifications. Dwarves, meanwhile, received new toys to stem the tide of besieging goblins, like autocrossbow turret emplacements and metal-fortified walls. Overnight,…

Read More