New World mixes the “alternate-history Age of Exploration” with Aeternum’s emphasis on dark fantasy, horror, magic, and mythology. Players will face off with the monsters that live on Aeternum as part of the game’s PvE component. “New World is also a sanitized re-enactment of the European colonization of the Americas and elsewhere,” Polygon reported after participating in a hands-on preview in 2019. “It’s a manifestation of the great white fantasy of virgin territory and new beginnings....

Several days ago, French YouTuber j0nathan posted a video of what he claimed to be leaked information on the next Assassin’s Creed game. His findings (translated here by Twitter user Rebs Gaming) painted a promising picture. According to j0nathan, the upcoming entry is currently known as Assassin’s Creed Mirage and will release sometime between April and June of 2023 (barring any additional delays, of course). While we knew (or strongly suspected) some of that information already, the arguably highlight of this apparent leak is the information related to the next Assassin’s Creed game’s rumored setting....

Nightbooks doesn’t waste time throwing its protagonist, kid writer Alex (Winslow Fegley, in giant spectacles), into a scary situation. The movie begins with Alex in distress, driven from the safety of his Brooklyn apartment by his own overwhelming emotions. We won’t learn why Alex is so upset until the film’s climax, one of a few mysteries at the heart of Nightbooks that will keep viewers emotionally engaged through the terrors that follow....

NVIDIA is known for innovation, whether it be through its powerful RTX series GPUs or by spearheading ray-tracing as the next frontier of gaming graphics. This year, NVIDIA is taking yet another major leap forward by introducing the thinnest and most portable gaming laptops powered by RTX GPUs on the market. These new laptops are not only dramatically less bulky than the gaming laptops of old but are also proper desktop replacements with the powerful top-of-the-line graphics you’ve come to expect from a high-end rig....

Outlander Season 2, Episode 13 I’ve written before about Outlander‘s ability to be more than one show — the bold, gloriously reckless way in which it flits from genre to genre without so much as a commercial break. Sometimes, it’s a romantic fantasy. Sometimes, it’s a historic war drama. Sometimes, it’s a relatively straight time travel drama. In those most glorious episodes, it is all three. “Dragonfly in Amber” was one such episode....

Throughout the entirety of Ozark, Marty and Wendy Byrde (Jason Bateman and Laura Linney) have repeatedly found themselves in unfathomable danger, only to escape it by throwing someone else under the bus. Their indirect death count is impossibly high, with most of the people who oppose them ending up in the grave. Ruth Langmore (Julia Garner), perhaps the biggest victim of the Byrde family’s wrath, realizes this and continually calls them a poison to everyone they touch....

Peacemaker Episodes 1, 2, and 3 Peacemaker, the HBO Max spinoff of James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, reminds viewers of it cinematic origins right from the start. Before even one new minute of the new TV series has aired, Peacemaker takes some time out for a “previously on” segment, bringing the show up to date with the events of the 2021 movie featuring DC Comics characters. Ruthless government suit Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) introduces Christopher Smith a....

Mass Outbreak is a fairly new term for the Pokémon franchise, but it’s really just an evolution (pun intended) of similar ideas we’ve seen in previous Pokémon titles. While the game doesn’t really make a big deal out of these events, it turns out that they’re a very big deal if you’re one of the many Arceus players looking to add as many shiny Pokémon to your collection as possible....

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are poised to be the first entries in the franchise with a truly open world map. Although the franchise’s previous title, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, had all the makings of an open world, it was ultimately cordoned off into sections. The features and modes that make up this new generation of Pokémon games were previewed in the latest game trailer, which you can watch below, as well as a blog post published on the Pokémon website....

In case you missed it, the Xbox team recently sent out a tweet that simply read “Beating the game on the lowest difficulty is still beating the game.” While that tweet proved to be controversial enough with those who strongly disagree with that seemingly simple sentiment (more on that in a bit), things really got interesting when Psychonauts 2 developer Double Fine decided to weigh in on the topic. Interestingly, that happened to be the first time Double Fine mentioned that Psychonauts 2 will include an invincibility toggle....

Of course, there’s not long to go now before we finally get to see the much-anticipated culmination of the Infinity Saga, as Marvel chief Kevin Feige is now calling it. Now Avengers: Endgame has brought Phase Three to its climax, we’ve been revisiting the entire series, looking back at the legacy, best bits and shared-universe connections of each film. And with our Ant-Man recap, we’ve now reached the second checkpoint on our epic journey: the end of Phase Two....

Once HBO Max’s Raised by Wolves introduced a seeming immaculate conception for its necromancer android Mother (Amanda Collin), there was no doubt that the season finale would revolve around her giving birth. However, it is anything but the miracle that the humans and androids alike have hoped for, and only further complicates the question of how this ragtag pack will continue to survive on an increasingly deadly planet. The series concludes its first season with a lot of unanswered questions, including some new ones posed in this episode alone....

Over its 27-year history, British police procedural The Bill aired 2,425 episodes, just five of which were Christmas specials. They represent 0.0020% of the total output, and 100% of the episodes where Reg Hollis plays the back end of a pantomime cow. That makes each one a rare truffle for this little piggy to sniff out and stack in order of greatness. Let’s get sniffing. 5. Twanky (1997) The plot: PC Polly Page is having a mare directing the annual Sun Hill Christmas panto: Aladdin, from a script by Tosh....

After all, Rift Apart is not only one of the biggest releases in what could prove to be a year of delays; it’s the latest entry in a key PlayStation franchise developed exclusively for PS5. There are many fans who hope that Rift Apart may just be the PS5 game that properly showcases the power and potential of the next-gen console at a time when incredible circumstances may be preventing other developers from fully utilizing the latest generation of gaming technology....

It’s been three decades since the story of crime lord Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) came to a bitter and lonely end in The Godfather Part III, with an aged Michael collapsing and dying alone in the courtyard of a Sicilian villa, his passing witnessed only by a small dog and seemingly no one left around him to care. Michael’s passing also signaled the somewhat underwhelming end to one of cinema’s greatest sagas, in which two undisputed masterpieces were followed by a troubled third chapter that did not live up to its predecessors....

After its season 5 premiere, Rick and Morty is now 11 episodes into its impressive 70-episode order at Adult Swim. Even back in 2018, when the deal was announced and the show was at its creative apex, 70 episodes sure seemed like an ambitious undertaking. Rick and Morty is set in a world of infinite universes, but do infinite universes really mean infinite compelling storytelling opportunities? Many of Rick and Morty’s animated peers have enjoyed (or in some cases endured) lengthy episodic runs....

Rick and Morty Season 5 Episode 7 If there’s one thing characterizes season five of Rick and Morty, it’s that everything happens so much, all the time. It’s tough to pinpoint exactly how this makes it different from prior seasons. After all, early in the series’ life, co-creator Justin Roiland said the goal with a Rick and Morty plot was to take a premise another show would’ve made a whole episode out of and instead just make that the first act, using the remaining acts to pile insanity atop insanity....

Rick and Morty Season 5 Finale It’s been a while, so let’s first recap the consistent problems with season five of Rick and Morty. Problem one is that characterization feels like it’s either pushed aside in favor of crazy, silly sci-fi nonsense or lost in a muddle of convoluted sci-fi nonsense. Problem two is that episodes are so overloaded with plot and dialogue delivered at such breakneck speed that there’s either no time for jokes or, packed in with everything else going on in these overstuffed episodes, they just don’t land....

Rick and Morty Season 6 Episode 5 One of the simplest, stupidest, and worst Rick and Morty episodes ever was last season’s Rickdependence Spray, which concerned itself with matters of Morty’s sperm turning giant and sentient. The humor was almost all of the gross-out variety and, well before the time everything coup de grâced with Morty’s sperm and one of his sister’s eggs producing an incest baby, it had hit a point of diminishing returns....

I performed in a Friday night cast 72 times from when I was 15 to when I was 17. I started as Dr. Frank N. Furter and when I was replaced by a woman in lingerie, as opposed to a guy in drag, I played Janet for a while. The original Janet wouldn’t kiss the woman playing Frank, whose name was Leslie. I had no problem. She looked better in the corset than I ever would....