Having injected fresh life into MMOs with its combat-heavy Black Desert, Pearl Abyss is a studio full of ambition. Crimson Desert, its upcoming gritty fantasy adventure is taking its genre further, blending single-player and multiplayer together within a glorious open world. DokeV [doh-keh-vee], while another multiplayer open-world adventure, is something …
Read More »How Steven Soderbergh made No Sudden Move – as told by Brendan Fraser, Don Cheadle, and more
Like Netflix’s Malcolm and Marie, Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth, and Doug Liman’s Locked Down, Steven Soderbergh’s latest crime caper, No Sudden Move, will forever hold a unique place in cinematic history – it was filmed entirely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cameras started rolling on the period thriller in September …
Read More »Archie Comics doubling down on “humor, heart, and horror” in 2022 and beyond
Archie Comics is in the midst of celebrating 80 years in business, and although Archie and the Riverdale are known at times as throwbacks, they’re keeping with the times both in comics and television – and according to its new top editor, they’re using the company’s classic fundamentals “Humor, Heart, …
Read More »For Phoenix Point on console, X-COM creator Julian Gollop says he “quite shamelessly copied” the Firaxis games he inspired
Julian Gollop spent his youth playing chess, backgammon, and popular tabletop board games Dungeons and Dragons, Avalon Hill and SPI. He learned to code while at school, started making video games at 18, and founded development studio Mythos Games a year later, alongside his brother and father. In 1994, having …
Read More »Venom 2: Andy Serkis talks unfinished post-credits and the Venom moment that made him want to direct a sequel
Andy Serkis remains one of Hollywood’s pioneering magic-makers, creating CGI characters that have become icons of cinema. No wonder, then, that the filmmaker was top of Tom Hardy’s list to install as director of Venom 2. Delayed multiple times because of the coronavirus pandemic, Venom 2 – titled Venom: Let …
Read More »Operation Mincemeat trailer breakdown: director John Madden on making a different kind of World War 2 movie
“In stories of war, there is that which is seen and that which is hidden,” Johnny Flynn’s Ian Fleming says in the trailer for Operation Mincemeat, and this is certainly a movie that deals with the latter. Set in 1943 when things were make or break for the Allies fighting …
Read More »Ghost Recon Frontline borrows from battle royale with an authentic tactical military twist
Ghost Recon Frontline is not a battle royale game. Sure, it shares similar traits – up to 102 players, split into teams of three, are dropped into the same contained, multi-biome map wherein they’ll fight to the death – but it is not a battle royale game. That’s according to …
Read More »The padawans visit Maz Kanata in Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures #9
The young Jedi padawans of Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures have grown up a bit in the past year, and now they’re being sent off on a mission that will introduce them to one of the most beloved new faces in Star Wars canon: Maz Kanata. But as the …
Read More »Guy Pearce talks Zone 414, unmade L.A. Confidential sequel, and Mare of Easttown season 2
Guy Pearce has run the gauntlet of Hollywood roles. He’s been a leading man for Christopher Nolan in Memento, appeared as the conniving Aldrich Killian in Iron Man 3, and has an IMDB page filled with a murderer’s row of charmers, recluses, kings, and kingmakers. For Zone 414, the sci-fi …
Read More »What does your outfit say about the way you play GTA Online? A lot, apparently
I found them one night, deep down a TikTok rabbit hole. A collection of videos edited in the same style as the “fit” clips where influencers show off their hottest fashions set to the latest viral song – except these videos took place entirely in GTA Online. The main account …
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