Watch 9 Minutes of Ghost In the Shell

Watch 9 Minutes of Ghost In the Shell

As a filmmaker with an intense interest in visual storytelling I have long had great respect for Ghost In The Shell and the anime feature that it inspired. That film is a milestone in the history of modern cinema given the way it blends a quintessentially Japanese milieu with popular science-fiction tropes. It set the…

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Doom: The Dark Ages’ latest update overhauls its customisable arena mode, and id Software wants to add the best player-made slaughter-fests as selectable presets

Doom: The Dark Ages received a whole new mode back in August—the wave-based “Ripatorium” that allows players to build their own demonic encounters. But it seems id Software has had a rethink about the Ripatorium, as The Dark Ages’ latest update substantially overhauls how it works. While update 2.3 is mainly Ripatorium focussed, it’s worth…

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There’s a turn-based tactics game about the eternal war between tea and coffee, and you can get it for free: ‘We’ve made enough money from the game’

The idea is cute—there are 12 Tea Princesses who, despite their differences, must band together to protect their realms from an invasion by the Coffee Empire. The execution is surprisingly strategic, with more than 40 Tea Minions who can be brewed by mixing ingredients, each with different stats. “Units brewed with raspberries tend to trigger…

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Satisfactory 1.1 will have autoconnecting blueprints, vertical splitters, branching hypertube networks, controllers, photo mode, and more

Coffee Stain Studios has announced some contents of the upcoming 1.1 update for Satisfactory, the first update for the popular and genre-defining sandbox factory game since its quite successful 1.0 release last year. It’s a doozy, combining a ton of quality-of-life and design features that players have been modding in on their own since Satisfactory…

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