Nowadays, Teen Titans’ rise can feel a bit inevitable. After all, it came on the heels of anime access in the U.S. moving from VHS tapes at your local comic or video stores to the mainstream. The Sci-Fi Channel’s Saturday Anime block introduced an entire generation to masterpieces like Akira,...
Game Pass adding the best Resident Evil, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla in January
Game Pass subscribers have a hearty January ahead of them, with two big games coming to Microsoft’s game subscription service: Capcom’s eminently replayable Resident Evil 2 remake and Ubisoft’s massive, open-world adventure Assassin’s Creed Valhalla join the lineup this month. Resident Evil 2 was released in 2019, and it exemplifies...
Everything we know about OD, Hideo Kojima’s Xbox horror game
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima is a very busy guy. Since parting ways with Metal Gear publisher Konami and establishing Kojima Productions as an independent studio in 2015, Kojima has released Death Stranding in partnership with Sony, and announced three more titles: Death Stranding 2, action-espionage game Physint (also...
Genshin Impact’s Natlan trailer has fans divided
Genshin Impact’s next big adventure in Natlan is almost here, but it’s not as cheery as its rainbow-painted landscapes might suggest. On Friday, developer Hoyoverse released a teaser trailer showing 11 characters that will be joining the game as part of the Natlan storyline, including one major figure: the possible...
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond artist opens up about redesigning Samus’ HUD
After five years of relative quiet, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond finally showed up again during this summer’s Nintendo Direct. The gorgeous trailer set the tone with moody music, hostile new settings, and plenty of Space Pirates for intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran to blast into oblivion. In a post on...
What time does EA Sports College Football 25 release?
College football is back in video games for the first time in nearly a decade with the upcoming release of EA Sports College Football 25. And while the game will arrive in a week, the specific release time is a little complicated, and there’s even a sneaky way that superfans...
There is an objectively correct amount of Minions, and this is not it
There’s one particular Minion gag in Despicable Me 4 that I can’t stop thinking about. It’s so simple, but every time I remember it, I chuckle. Basically, one of Gru’s Minions gets stuck in a vending machine, and he can’t figure out how to get out. For the entire movie....
Palworld is getting its first new Pal and raid battle
Palworld developer Pocketpair has announced the first new Pal to come to the game since its release in January. It’s named Bellanoir, and this fearsome creature is coming to the game as part of the game’s first-ever raid battle. The developers do not have a release date for the update...
How 2024 became the year of open-world survival crafting games
The first big video game hit of 2024 was Palworld, a game everybody thought would be “Pokémon with guns” but turned out to be an open-world crafting game where you capture monsters — called “Pals” — and put them to work on your base, creating resources and tending to various...
Who are Space Marine 2’s new Chaos antagonists, the Thousand Sons?
When Space Marine 2 was first announced, its debut trailer led players to believe the biggest enemy to fight would be the hungry hordes of Tyranids swarming the Imperium. They’re still a major threat, but the latest gameplay trailer revealed the game’s other antagonist: the Thousand Sons, servants of the...