Recently, the Entertainment Software Association announced that they have decided to completely cancel E3 2022. While some suspected the ESA may still hold E3 as a digital event in 2022 (as they did in 2021), the organization has since made it clear that there will not be an E3 event this year in any form. That means no physical show floor to demo upcoming titles, and no digital Nintendo Direct-like stream to display the latest game trailers and announcements....

We’ll obviously be focusing on the last one of those today, though it is worth noting that your choice of character class in FromSoftware’s previous games that offered them usually ended up dictating the “pace” of the rest of the experience. Well, that appears to be the case with Elden Ring. While your choice of character class won’t be the final word about what kind of character you end up playing in this game, it is going to lay the foundation for this title’s role-playing possibilities....

“[Elden Ring] is the perfect title for those who have been interested in our games in the past but who have been put off by concerns about the games being too difficult,” Kitao says in response to a question about FromSoftware’s reputation. While that may anger some FromSoftware fans who dread the day that the studio will “cave in” to demands to add an “Easy Mode” to their games, Kitao goes on to explain that Elden Ring‘s more welcoming nature has more to do with the various ways that you can approach the game rather than a decision to make the title strictly easier than previous FromSoftware titles....

Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams Season 1, Episode 1 If you’re a glassy-eyed wreck suffering from equal parts PTSD and survivor guilt, don’t rely on your own subconscious to conjure you up a relaxing psychic holiday. You may as well book a world cruise through Boko Haram instead of Thomas Cook. However unwise, that’s what traumatised cop Sarah (Anna Paquin) does in the opening segment of “Real Life,” written by Ronald D....

The film, an adaptation of the first book in a novel series by Nancy Springer, was picked up by Netflix back in April, and was the center of a lawsuit from the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle over changes to the Sherlock Holmes character that allegedly go beyond the franchise’s public domain conditions. Yet, that seems to have done nothing to deter momentum for the film, which has just released its first teaser trailer and—with Holmesian flair—set a release date....

Not the ones so clever they can understand over 50 words and dial the emergency services when you get a concussion, but the ones a step cleverer than that – the dogs who know that true happiness lies in being as dumb as a sack of hammers and of no use as anything other than a warm-bellied draught excluder. So spare a thought for the guide dogs, police sniffer dogs and avalanche rescue dogs, those poor chumps....

Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 15 Well, here we are, just a week away from the end of another season of Fear the Walking Dead. The funny thing about “USS Pennsylvania” is that it plays more like a season finale, rather than the penultimate episode. You have to wonder what can possibly happen next, now that Teddy’s deadly endgame has (mostly) been set in motion. Not that Fear hasn’t flirted with nuclear annihilation before—but this time certainly seems like it’s for keeps....

Few Fear the Walking Dead fans will have forgotten Nick Clark’s shocking death in season 4 but even that twist may pale in comparison to the season 6 midseason premiere’s most tragic moment. In fact, “The Door” may be the show’s darkest episode to date. John Dorie is at the end of his rope at the start of the episode. Unable to stop the execution of Janis, who was framed for Cameron’s murder by Virginia earlier in the season and then fed to a group of hungry walkers, and then forced to leave Lawton without his beloved June, John feels he has nothing left to live for....

The Path to Glory promo adds new cards to packs that get boosts based on each player’s real-world performance in the World Cup. In essence, the better a Path to Glory player’s squad does in the cup — from qualifying from the Group Stage to taking the trophy home for their nation — the better the card will get, making these players better on the virtual pitch. Upgrades based on real-world progress are as follows:...

While the traditional tournament mode is pretty straightforward, including a World Cup Live match type that allows you to play past or current fixtures as the real-world cup progresses, Path to Glory requires a little more explanation for those new to FUT. Here’s what you need to know about Path to Glory, including the Team 2 cards released by EA Sports ahead of the start of Qatar 2022: FIFA 23 FUT Path to Glory Players The Path to Glory promo adds new cards to packs that get boosts based on each player’s real-world performance in the tournament....

Despite existing for only four movies, Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ MonsterVerse has become one of the densest and most colorful cinematic universes. It may not be as long (or smoothly executed) as Marvel Studios’ MCU, or as high-minded as WB’s own superhero stable, the DCEU, but the MonsterVerse has successfully crafted an interconnected world where Titans rule over all. The best we humans can do is make peace with that hard truth....

We’ve taken stock of the major geek events of the last 15 years to take stock of how far we have come. The Birth of the MCU (2008) When Iron Man was released on May 2, 2008, few would have imagined that a movie about a (at the time) second-tier Marvel Comics character would become ground zero for the most successful multimedia franchise of all time. Over a decade later, what has come to be known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe now spans 28 feature films (so far), multiple TV shows, and a level of pop culture saturation and box-office dominance beyond most studio executives’ wildest dreams....

1.1 In The Beginning… Miracles do happen, if only you wait long enough. Good Omens, a comic fantasy novel co-written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, was published 30 years ago. After three decades and multiple thwarted attempts to adapt it for the screen, the TV version is finally here, and it buzzes with the book’s playful humour and British personality. Pratchett’s presence is felt in more ways than one....

“I would love to direct Catwoman,” Berry told Jake Hamilton on Jake’s Takes. “If I can get a hold of that now, knowing what I know, having had this experience and reimagine that world the way I reimagined this story. Bruised was written for a white, Irish Catholic like 25-year-old girl, and I got to reimagine it. I wish I could go back and reimagine Catwoman and redo that, have a redo on that....

It’s impossible to deny the significance and popularity of battle royale games in recent years, but we’re getting to this point where the cries for something different just keep getting a little louder. The problem is that some of the genre’s biggest names (such as Call of Duty and Battlefield) are struggling to find out what that alternative looks like in the modern age while intriguing indie experiences (like the Halo-esque Splitgate) just don’t have the resources to compete and really push their vision as quickly or as far as Triple-A titles can....

Throughout the day, Hideo Kojima has been tweeting and retweeting memories of the Metal Gear Solid franchise (specifically Phantom Pain). While that’s hardly unusual in the grand scheme of things, it is slightly unusual to see Kojima be this open about his MGS memories given both the circumstances of his departure from Konami and some current reports regarding the immediate future of the MGS franchise. This tweet, in particular, has been getting a lot of attention....

The unique bit of ugliness about Home Sweet Home Alone’s cynicism, however, is that it’s not even nostalgia done particularly well. Disney rolls out the red carpet when they’re mining their own vaults for animated classics to remake, or when capitalizing on a $4 billion investment in Lucasfilm. But Home Sweet Home Alone plays like an afterthought that was penciled onto a spreadsheet somewhere—a project which will begin with the Fox fanfare like it’s the grave robber who chuckles about the tomb he’s raiding, but then has the pure ineptitude or quiet embarrassment to not also shoehorn in John Williams’ majestic Home Alone score at the top of the movie....

House of the Dragon, HBO’s new highly anticipated prequel series set before the events of Game of Thrones, seeks to change that. The show will wind the clocks back to events that occurred about 200 years before Ned Stark ever traveled to King’s Landing, and it’ll find a far grander and more decadent period than anything we saw from the hobbled kingdoms under the reigns of Robert and Joffrey Baratheon....

The Grishaverse books series on which Netflix’s Shadow and Bone is based are wildly popular, which means many viewers heading into a binge-watch of the epic fantasy series already know some of the biggest plot twists coming their way. But not all viewers. It might not be hard to guess that a character who can manipulate shadow is a bad guy, but Ben Barnes is so god damn charming that some may be surprised by the mid-season reveal that General Kirigan, aka the Darkling, is actually the Black Heretic....

Were Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) an item in the original Jurassic Park movie from 1993? Fans still debate the issue almost 30 years later. While the characters never embrace with more than a hug over the course of that Steven Spielberg classic, and refer to each other as almost anything other than friends or colleagues, it was long assumed by most who viewed the movie in ’93 that they were a couple....