[ad_1] Japanese Rural Life Adventure is what it says on the tin — it’s a 16-bit-style farming sim that takes place in the countryside, and it’s...
[ad_1] We’re living in the middle of a bounty of Middle-earth media. Last year’s wretched Gollum game, 2026’s apparent Gollum duology, The Rings of Power’s elven...
[ad_1] Before sitting down to play three hours of the Silent Hill 2 remake at a recent Konami-led press event in London, we were shown a...
[ad_1] Gourdlets is like the retirement stage of building sims. The game tells you via a text tutorial at the beginning that any town you make...
[ad_1] Sometimes, turning a linear game into an open world just makes sense. Whether it’s Elden Ring or Breath of the Wild, plenty of franchises have...
[ad_1] Ben, Steve Ahlman, and Matt James discuss the biggest news from this week’s Nintendo Direct (including a Legend of Zelda with playable Zelda and proof...
[ad_1] At first “Dot and Bubble,” the latest episode of Doctor Who, seems to be borrowing from Black Mirror’s bag of tricks. It’s set on Finetime,...
[ad_1] Infection Free Zone, now in Steam Early Access, has a basic premise: Zombies have taken over the world, driving humanity into underground bunkers to wait...
[ad_1] There is a moment that looms large over everything else in the pilot of Apple TV’s post-Civil War drama, Manhunt, a conversation that will haunt...
[ad_1] It’s become increasingly clear that the Halo TV show has a villain problem. This may seem impossible for a series that’s supposed to be about...
[ad_1] Ninja Kamui doesn’t waste any time getting from zero to 100. Within five minutes of its first episode, a bespectacled salaryman is ambushed by a...
[ad_1] This week’s episode of True Detective: Night Country opens with a clever bit of sound editing, as the signature white noise of HBO’s logo blends...
[ad_1] It seems relatively routine — some “hillbillies” scuffling in the waiting room of a hospital, calling Danvers (Jodie Foster) away from an interrogation. Navarro (Kali...
[ad_1] The central mystery in True Detective: Night Country seems easy when the credits roll on episode 1. It’s not that viewers already have the answer,...
[ad_1] This breakdown of the documentary A Disturbance in the Force was originally published when the movie debuted at the 2023 SXSW Conference. It has been...
[ad_1] True Detective is the rare show that was much more exciting and complicated after seven episodes than it is after three seasons. What started out...
[ad_1] I love city-building sims during every step of play — from laying down the foundations to planning a city grid, upgrading the complexity of buildings,...
[ad_1] “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.” That’s the tagline of Warhammer 40,000, one of the most over-the-top and brutal...
[ad_1] The hero of BBC’s long-running sci-fi series Doctor Who is, famously, not a real medical doctor, but they have been a bit ill. What should...
[ad_1] The rise of franchise-first pop culture has made what was previously a genre stumbling block into everyone’s problem: Exposition. Specifically, the stuff we call “lore.”...