Destiny 2 developer Bungie is scaling back on directly communicating with fans on social media and websites like Reddit, citing an increase in harassment and “real threats towards our people and our studio.” Bungie’s community manager said he and his family have experienced “serious harassment” in recent months. On Tuesday,...
The best iPhone controller now comes in a PS5-branded version
The Backbone One — PlayStation Edition is a new, PlayStation-branded controller built to work with iPhones, Backbone and Sony announced on Thursday. The new controller is built to look like the PlayStation 5’s DualSense controller, and even has its classic, translucent face buttons. The Backbone One — PlayStation Edition is...
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s new DLC includes a twist: a brand-new track
The next batch of courses for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s Booster Course Pass is coming to the Nintendo Switch game on Aug. 4, with remasters of classic Mario Kart tracks spanning from the original Super Mario Kart to mobile game Mario Kart Tour. But wave 2 of the Booster Course...
Prey director Dan Trachtenberg walks us through the Predator’s scary new look
One of the most exciting things about Prey, the latest film in the Predator franchise, is the way that it finally delivers on one of the few bits of backstory we have about the alien race of hunters. The film, coming straight to Hulu on Aug. 5, reveals that they’ve...
Xbox Games with Gold retreads two Xbox 360 titles for August
Four more games are available for Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass subscribers in August and, as if to confirm that the Xbox 360 portion of the program is simply out of ammo, two of them were Games with Gold selections already, in 2014 and 2020. The two reheats...
Genshin Impact’s latest Sumeru teaser reveals a bunch of new characters
Genshin Impact developer Hoyoverse released a preview video that showed new information about its upcoming Sumeru region on Thursday. There’s a lot crammed into the roughly three-minute long video but highlights include new lore information on Sumeru, teases of six characters, and more information on enemies we’ll encounter in its...
Citizen Sleeper’s first DLC recontextualizes the RPG’s tough decisions
If you loved Citizen Sleeper, the text-heavy sci-fi RPG, then the game’s new free DLC, Episode One: Flux, will be a welcome addition; it adds tough new story decisions while also deepening the well of wonderful world-building and vivid characters. But it’s also a great excuse to start this melancholic...
This year’s Comic-Con was unavoidably different, but SDCC is still SDCC
For comic book — and, in recent years, film and TV — fans around the world, San Diego Comic-Con marks the ultimate pop culture pilgrimage, something akin to a celebration smashed into a trade show that also happens to be the industry’s biggest gift shop. As studios announce their immense...
Nier: Automata’s mysterious church revealed to be work of modders
The mystery of Nier: Automata’s hidden church has been solved. Or rather, the people behind it have fessed up to creating the mod that made it possible — and to trolling the community with a monthlong reveal of their work. On Thursday, the Reddit account sadfutago, which first posted about...
Call of Duty’s new floofy dog skin tainted by plagiarism accusation
Activision’s latest update for Call of Duty: Warzone will bring the Terminator — both Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 and Robert Patrick’s T-1000 — to the battle royale-style shooter. Also coming to season 4 of Warzone is everyone’s favorite giant floofy dog breed, the Samoyed, thanks to a new skin for Call...