It’s been three months since Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 launched, and I still can’t stop thinking about and playing it. Clair Obscur’s story is excellent, and developer Sandfall Interactive crafted a combat system that is tremendously layered, with its party members’ abilities easily synergizing, and also tremendously challenging, at times. More than a few times […]

Mortal Kombat II, the sequel to Simon McQuoid’s 2021 film starring Lewis Tan, is slated to arrive later this October, and the newest teaser trailer, featuring Karl Urban’s Johnny Cage, is our first taste of what fans can expect. As expected, the trailer puts Cage’s action-movie moves and persona on display. He’s pushing his sunglasses […]

“Malkovich, Malkovich. Malkovich? Malkovich!” is what no one will be saying at Marvel Studios’ premiere of the upcoming Fantastic Four: First Steps. Director Matt Shakman confirmed to Variety on Wednesday that the legendary character actor, who was slated to appear as the cosmonaut supervillain Red Ghost, has been cut from the completed movie. The slight […]

When director Dean DeBlois agreed to make a live-action version of his 2010 DreamWorks Animation hit How to Train Your Dragon (co-directed with Chris Sanders), he faced criticism from the start — including from his own past words. He’d publicly said in the past that he’d skipped watching live-action remakes of animated movies. “I’m not interested […]

Poker roguelike Balatro is one of the most engrossing games released in the last generation of video games, and most people who play it end up losing sleep or otherwise disassociating from reality for long periods of time. To wit, the deck-building game was crowned Polygon’s 2024 Game of the Year. Some hands are just […]